Show I I By 8 JIM RHODY Ballistic Discovery Discover Modem Modern ballistics b scientists aided bj by b ultra high hip speed photography have bave disproved the old ace belief belle of the average hunter and expert alike that maximum shock hode occurs at the Instant of a bullets bullet's Impact Im ct By Dy photographing photo bullets as they the struck truck blocks of gelatin resembling animal tissue In consistency and again alam after they passed p through ammunition experts have now proved that shock reaches Its Us peak ak not on impact but only after the bullet has haa cleared Its target tarlet This Important discovery was the lucky product by-product of a simple experiment experiment experiment ment to show the relative shocking hocking power of solid point solid and hollow hollow- point 22 caliber bullets These pic pic- pictures pictures tures tunes accompany this article In the experiment still photo photo- photographs photographs photographs graphs were made at three million mIWon- millionth th tbS of a second first before the o a w- w These two photographs made at three millionths of a second of blocks of gelatin show the relative shocking power of solid-point solid and hollow bollow point 22 caliber bullets ballets The greater shocking power Is exerted by bythe bythe bythe the graIn 37 bullet with a hol hol- hollow hollow low point upper photo the the lesser with a 40 grain solid soUd point bullet bullets struck the specially pre pre- prepared prepared pared gelatin blocks then immediately ImmedIately lately after the bullets had pene pene- penetrated penetrated penetrated and finally after they were approximately a foot toot distant Because hollow point bullets mushroom on impact the pictures of the point hollow-point bullet reveals the relatively greater shocking power shown in the photographs which appear herewith It was only when in Inthe Inthe the he research laboratories of the Western Cartridge company divi divI- division divIsion sion of Olin Industries Inc studied their heir pictures that they realized the full tull significance of their chance discovery To make their photographs the used an ordinary press camera and a which produces a flash lash of three mil mil- millionths millionths of a second duration The bullet jullet broke a fine wire in its path This actuated the light The am am- ammunition ammunition ammunition used was a Super X X 22 caliber long rifle rille grain 40 solid solid- point joint lubricated bullet with a velocity velocIty ity ty of 1375 feet teet per second and a X Super-X 22 caliber long rifle 37 grain hollow point bullet with a velocity of 1400 feet per second A A A |