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Maybe this has been asked before, but I've never seen anything like this discussed here or elsewhere.
When watching gel test terminal ballistics videos (who doesn't spend their Saturday evenings doing that?) it's pretty common to see the flash of compressed air igniting in a block of ballistics gel.
Do you guys think that would actually happen in a chest cavity of a cervid? Obviously in gel blocks, the entrance/exit holes are sealed enough to trap air an compress it to the point of rapid heating, but I wonder if that would ever happen in game animals.
if it DID happen, that's another variable to add to the trauma caused by bullets passing through vitals, but I doubt it has ever been able to be studied.
Of course this is just extra minutiae added to the milliseconds of time that it takes a bullet to traverse a chest cavity, but after watching it happen enough times in gel test videos I couldn't help but think of it in a hunting scenario.
What do you guys think? Especially curious as to @Formidilosus thoughts on this phenomenon.
ETA--I guess what had me wondering about it is the explosion inside the cavity; is it substantial enough and would it make a larger PWC, or just part of the TWC?
When watching gel test terminal ballistics videos (who doesn't spend their Saturday evenings doing that?) it's pretty common to see the flash of compressed air igniting in a block of ballistics gel.
Do you guys think that would actually happen in a chest cavity of a cervid? Obviously in gel blocks, the entrance/exit holes are sealed enough to trap air an compress it to the point of rapid heating, but I wonder if that would ever happen in game animals.
if it DID happen, that's another variable to add to the trauma caused by bullets passing through vitals, but I doubt it has ever been able to be studied.
Of course this is just extra minutiae added to the milliseconds of time that it takes a bullet to traverse a chest cavity, but after watching it happen enough times in gel test videos I couldn't help but think of it in a hunting scenario.
What do you guys think? Especially curious as to @Formidilosus thoughts on this phenomenon.
ETA--I guess what had me wondering about it is the explosion inside the cavity; is it substantial enough and would it make a larger PWC, or just part of the TWC?
