I remember as a teenager pinching my mum's jelly cubes from the cupboard to shoot into. ASI Commando, firing .22 pellets backwards which mushroomed nicely in the cubes. That's a lot denser than any diluted gelatine.
Anyone know if there's a recognised recipie/ratio for a home made ballistic gel ??
I made some up, but .25 sub-12 @ 25yds went straight through a 10cm thick block so probably not thick/strong enough.
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I remember as a teenager pinching my mum's jelly cubes from the cupboard to shoot into. ASI Commando, firing .22 pellets backwards which mushroomed nicely in the cubes. That's a lot denser than any diluted gelatine.
10cm is not much at all - even for sub 12. Probably too little for sub 6.
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There was something on utube.
It was a .22 pellet comparison but also the contributors wife
showing how to make the gel.
Cannot remember the channel,it might have been AAA???
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Mrs. AAR cooks up some gel used for pellet testing in this one, right at the start of the vid https://youtu.be/AudT0EhDolI
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Thanks for the links chaps, I'd watched the AAR one & made my gel to the same ratio as Mrs AAR 160g ltr, I only had 144g so used 900cc's.
That's about 17% by weight, & in Styers link it states 10% by weight is "standard for ballistic test labs"
I guess I just need bigger blocks, better order more gellitine
If I remember right, testing should be a steel bb at 600 fps (10 pumps on a Crossman 760) to get 95mm penetration. Something like that.
Is this any good to you?
How to make ballistic gel (for target shooting)
Will need: measuring cup, Gelatine, water, two containers
Two packs of gelatine (white powdery substance in small sachet, unflavoured)
pour into one container,
add 3/4 cup of water to measuring jug
pour the water into the gelatine
slowly and carefully stir the gelatine, try to keep air bubbles from forming
put the gelatine solution into the fridge for 3 or 4 hours after this timethe gelatine should feel more solid (soft but not hard set)
Fill bowl with hot water, place gelatine container in hot water to melt the gel (takes about 10 minutes)
While waiting spray some cooking spray (oil) onto your second container, spray all the inside.
Gel should now be melted and aliquid with no large chunks of hardened gel
slowly pour the molten gel into the second container, try to avoid forming any air bubbles
Put the mixture back into the fridge, this time for at least 12 hours
After it has cooled the ballistic gel is ready for testing, simply knock it out of the container.
Bob
From what I remember from work a 20% solution was used for testing.