What can be obtained easily that would best reflect the damage done by a shotgun impact on a human torso?
I am doing a ballistics presentation on 6 different shells ranging from target load to buckshot, I will fire them each throught the same shotgun at a target and I need to find a target that can reflect the diffrence in damage done by each. I had origionally planned on using modeling clay but now a week from the project due date the person that was going to supply me with the needed torso sized block (150lbs worth) no longer carries it. Does anyone have an idea of something that I can use for 8 different tests and costs less than total? I have roughly 3 days to aquire it if I am to do the testing in time for the presentation. I have looked into plywood but each impact would be just one big-*ss hole, I need each individual pellet to be reflected. Does anyone have any ideas?
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November 21st, 2009 at 9:37 am
Here are some suggestions:
Sand bags (or better, wet sand bags)
Cement Bags
Cardboard Deer Targets (or really any sort of large piece of flat cardboard would work)
November 21st, 2009 at 9:37 am
a pig carcus
November 21st, 2009 at 9:37 am
A truck innertube filled with wet dirt?
November 21st, 2009 at 9:37 am
call over your buddy, give him a beer and find out for yourself.
November 21st, 2009 at 9:37 am
maybe you could get some clay from a pottery place
November 21st, 2009 at 9:37 am
If you fire the shotgun at close range, then probably there won’t be any differences. But if you take some steps back, and use something like 6 big size jello cubes (one per shell), you might have a chance.
November 21st, 2009 at 9:37 am
eight of your teachers you don’t like. later you give yourself up or end the experiment by trying to see how many police bullets you can hold before dropping dead.
November 21st, 2009 at 9:37 am
I wonder if styrofoam would show the impact of each pellet? I am thinking of that stuff that is in a block like in a flower shop where they stick stems into it – looks like the stuff collapses just where the force is applied.
November 21st, 2009 at 9:37 am
i was originally going to say "plywood" or maybe particle-board, but then i read the rest of your request.
maybe paraffin wax? i know it can be sold in large, rectangular slabs (about 2 foot by 1 foot by 2 inches thick) to change the characteristics of radiation in physics labs. i don’t know if there would be too much melting from absorbing the energy of the impact, though. the link below provides prices for various quantities of paraffin in various grades. my guess is you’d just need the lowest quality one.
the other thought i had was to wait for dick cheney to provide you with 7 more test subjects, but that would (probably) take longer than 3 days.
November 21st, 2009 at 9:37 am
sorry i don’t know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!