Balistic gel.

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Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:57 am

Well I made some balistic style gel to shoot into and it was great fun.All i did was use cooking gelatine and mixed it at a ratio of 1:9 gelatine to water.

Enjoy the pics.

The small black balls are shot gun pellets out of a 6" piece of 15mm pipe shot form the Thumper pneuamtic cannon and the marbles were shot at 50 and 100 PSI the 100 PIS went straigth through the gel and out the other side.
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Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:06 am

Noice. Ive made a couple of batches over the past few days. Seems like the 1:9 - 1:10 ratio is the best ratio which I have found out. I tried 1:20, and overnight in the freezer it was about the consistency of thick motor oil. With the 1:10 ratio I was shooting threw 2" slabs of it with one pump of my BB gun and a pellet as the ammo. Did find a couple of BB's laying around and those wont penertrate the whole entire peice. Still cool no doubt.
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Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:53 am

WOW! Were you using my valve??? :lol:
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Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:44 am

I havent tried the 1:10 ratio but ti would save a little gel in the long run.I guess you could use that 1:20 mixture if you boiled some of the water off.But you can probably aford to just buy more.

And yes this stuff is cool,definitly going to be used on all my small bore cannons.

Actualy I used your valve to shoot the shot gun pellets and man do alot of them bounce back,got a few in my eyes but no damage.
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Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:04 pm

have you calibrated it?
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Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:39 pm

is this the same formula as mythbusters? (no, right?)
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Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:09 pm

Sweet I have always wondered how to make it but never looked it up. I want to make a person out of it.
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Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:09 pm

Well lets see, if ripped someone's flesh off and packed into a mansausage, would it shoot well?

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Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:28 pm

No mythbusters ballistics gel is more complicated and requires chemicals that arent usually household.

And this stuff doesnt sound too accurate if pimp is a pellet through two inches of it with one pump. Still sounds like alotta fun to mess around with though. Enough that im gunna buy some cooking gelatine next chance i get :P
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Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:28 pm

its supposed to have a 590fps bb gun go in like 3 and a half inches or something
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Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:04 pm

i dont think one pump will be 590 fps
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Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:24 pm

I know your just supposed to make a bb gun that fires 590fps go through 3.5"
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Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:59 pm

i'm going to make a chlorine tablet bucket (about 10-15 gallons) of this stuff, then shoot it with a slug, and a potato to see what happens. I will post videos. I think I can get the potato to penetrate.
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Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:37 pm

Is it the same consistency as flesh?
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Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:15 am

BLB-What do you mean by calibrated?

Pyro-Its not the same as reall balistic gel it has alot of different addetives(sp) to make it the density of human flesh.

abcdefg-actualy i shot a huge chunk out of my Mr.Wilson piston gun and it just was blown into little pieces in the barrel as it doesnt slide very well so it was ripped apart by the barrel walls.

Benny-Nah not the same,well it might be but i am assuming it is not.
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