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WOD the thing to keep in mind is I think you have to ask yourself ultimately where you have to defer to a better source for testing. I won't try to do my own MRI at home, I have to go to a professional for that. The same goes for home ballistics, at least to me. I can do all the tests in the world with wet phone books, or half full milk jugs, or whatever other scheme I dream up. Looking at hard test data for ballistic gelatin though far beats out anything I can mock up at home. So yes when the FBI says I need a foot of penetration from hard data gathered from people getting shot I'll believe them no matter how many watermelons I've blown up. When someone does a comparion with ballistic gelatin, I'll probably take their results over someone shooting through corn cobs unless their methodology seems wrong. It just seems foolish to ignore the results of a better testing method just because you don't have the means to replicate their testing setup.
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