when deciding whether to carry the new hornady critical defense ammo, i decided to implement the wetpack method outlined in this section. the only problem i had was finding enough newspaper to provide sufficient resistance, as nobody apparently saves them back at my parent's house. between what i scrounged from my dad and grandmother, it made about 6 inches thick after soaking in a 5 gallon bucket of water for a couple of hours. i placed this in a box, backed by 2 layers of inch thick roof decking board of some evergreen consistency, probably spruce.
here's the setup from the front:
and the side:
and a measurement of depth with my hand:
i shot 5 rounds at the box, in the pattern shown here:
all 5 went through the paper and impacted the front board, as shown here. none fully penetrated it:
and finally, here are the resulting bullets. the one in the middle took a lower trajectory and contacted the bench that the box was sitting on, but the rest are beautiful. also included are 4 of the plastic inserts from the original bullets:
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here's the setup from the front:
and the side:
and a measurement of depth with my hand:
i shot 5 rounds at the box, in the pattern shown here:
all 5 went through the paper and impacted the front board, as shown here. none fully penetrated it:
and finally, here are the resulting bullets. the one in the middle took a lower trajectory and contacted the bench that the box was sitting on, but the rest are beautiful. also included are 4 of the plastic inserts from the original bullets:
enjoy