Show 80 fl el by JIM RHO TEM ballistic discovery modern ballistics scientists aided ti ultra high speed photography have disproved the age old belief of the average hunter and expert alike that maximum shock occurs at the instant of a bullets impact by photographing bullets as they struck blocks of gelatin resembling a ai imal tissue in consistency and again after they passed through am ammunition m experts have no now pro proved ved that shock reaches its peak not on impact but only after the bullet has cleared its target this important impo ilant discovery was the lucky byproduct by product of a simple experiment men t to show how the relative shocking os power powe r of f solid point and hollow point 22 caliber bullets these pictures accompany this article in the experiment still photographs were made at three million th of a second first before the 7 these two photographs made at three millionths of a second of locks blocks L of gelatin show the relative shocking power of solid point and hollow point 22 caliber bullets the greater shocking power Is exerted liy by the 37 graan bullet with a hollow point upper photo the lesser ith a 40 grain solid point bullet bullets struck the specially prepared gelatin blocks then immediately after the bullets had penetrated and finally after they were approximately a foot distant because hollow point bullets mushroom on impact the pictures of the hollow point bullet reveals the relatively greater shocking power shown in the photographs which appear herewith it was only when ballistic lans ians in tri the research laboratories of the western cartridge company division of olin industries inc studied zed their pictures that they reail realized the full significance of their chance discovery to make their photographs the ballistic ians used an ordinary press camera and a photo light which produces a flash of three mil liontos of a second duration the bullet broke a fine wire in its path this actuated the light the ile ammunition used was a supera 22 caliber long rifle 40 grain solid lubricated bullet with a velocity of 1375 1 feet per second and a super X 22 caliber long rifle 37 grain hollow point bullet with a velocity of 1400 1 feet per second |