Going Ballistic

Shooting is fun.

Check out some of my scout soda sniping work. Marines - I know you are pretty impressed, and you know where to find me.

These were just with a pellet gun. The first time I really got my hands on a gun was a few months ago. It was a 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun. After a couple of shots, I got over the noise and intimidation (somewhat) and excitement set in.

Power, a little edge of fear (because I know just enough at this point to literally be dangerous), and excitement can make for a fun mixture and that is what shooting does for me.

Have you ever shot a Glock underwater in a swimming pool at 10 o'clock on a Sunday night with the pool light on to see how far the bullet will go? Me neither, but I bet it averaged about 3 feet over 4 shots.

I recently made some ballistics gel though and shot in to that. Crime labs use ballistics gel to simulate human tissue. It is basically some seriously dense gelatin. I found a recipe online that made a pretty decent version of it. It was a cool little experiment. The molds were pretty small and the pellets mostly went through it. However, a few stayed in and left little arcs of trajectory in there that resembled vapor trails that airplanes leave in the sky sometimes. Mucho cool I tell ya!


TGIM!
D.