Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: Fiocchi 9x19mm EMB ammunition....

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Fiocchi 9x19mm EMB ammunition....

Bulkammo.com sent me some interesting stuff to test and review. It's the Fiocchi 9mm EMB round, with a 92 grain mono-block bullet skipping along at roughly 1300 fps.

This morning I cooked up some home made ballistic gel substitute from a mixture of corn starch and corn meal. I wanted thick, but I also wanted to avoid the whole 'non-newtonian' fluid issue.

The round fired into the gel, and captured in a water bath, expanded as shown. The photo above that is the same bullet fired through sheet metal corresponding to a car door, and then penatrating 12 thicknesses of mixed sheet rock and ceiling tile.

I'll be dissecting some of the ammunition and slicing the bullets in two with a diamond saw to see how they are built, and testing for velocity and accuracy over the next week or two. When I have enough info, I'll write it up for the other blog.

Fascinating stuff.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: How far did it penetrate when fired into the gel? I've been looking all over for an actual gel test of this round.; January 27, 2011 at 10:47 PM
Carteach said...: You really don't want to take my amateur playings into account when you make decisions regarding this ammo. My gel was home made, in a half gallon milk jug. The EMB exploded the milk jug of gel, and then traveled further on through the side of a plastic bucket full of water, where it stopped.; January 28, 2011 at 6:20 AM

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