{"id":1056,"date":"2016-03-21T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2016\/03\/21\/hydraulic-tests\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:26:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:26:28","slug":"hydraulic-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"Hydraulic Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9627,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/politicsandguns.com\\\/episode-347-how-cold&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.politicsandguns.com\\\/episode-347-how-cold&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nMatt at LFD Research has a series of &#8220;high energy&#8221; research projects up on YouTube. In the one below, he looks at the hydraulic energy transfer of different weights of .223\/5.56 bullets.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I was a bit surprised by the destructive potential of 40 grain bullets. I can see why they are good for varmint hunting. It does make me wonder what a gelatin test would show insofar as penetration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicsandguns.com\/episode-347-how-cold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt has been a guest<\/a> on The Polite Society Podcast in the past to talk about his research. I think this type of home-grown amateur research is interesting because it is something that we can all do.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1S9kK_EzwIQ\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt at LFD Research has a series of &#8220;high energy&#8221; research projects up on YouTube. In the one below,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1952,1434,1953],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amateurs","tag-lfd-research","tag-research-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10656,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/10656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}