What Can Ballistics Gel Teach Us About Shotgun Ammo?

Opinions are divided about whether or not ballistics gel is valuable for judging the effectiveness of shotgun ammunition for hunting ducks, turkeys, geese, pheasants or anything else. Some say that ballistics gel penetration is the conclusive test of performance. Others say gel has no value because it cannot assess the ability of shotgun pellets to quickly dispatch a living organism with skin, feathers, bones, tissue, blood and organs. People quote secondhand data and myths about gel like it is law, but few know what gel really is, what it truly measures, what it can teach us, and how it is made, remelted, and recycled for use again and again. Support the channel on Patreon:   / thenewhuntersguide   And yes, I cut my ballistics gel with a sword, why? Because it is very difficult to cut and no knife or saw can do a good job. Alot of work goes into doing ammo tests with ballistics gel. There are various costs and hours and hours that go in behind the scenes to prep for every field experiment with different waterfowl ammo. In this video I talk about what we can learn from ballistics gel testing and what we cannot. Ballistics energy and penetration does matter. #waterfowlhunting #turkeyhunting #duckhunting