How does the Bullet Test Tube compare to animal tissue?
The short answer is we do not know and it really does not matter. The long answer is that it is a scientific impossibility to duplicate animal tissue. This is easy to understand when you consider the variety of different tissues a bullet must pass thru as it penetrates an animal such as hide, cartilage, bone, fat, muscle and soft organs. And, when you consider the differences in tissue from animal to animal. A claim that any bullet testing material replicates animal tissue is misleading and ultimately unsubstantiated. That said, the expansion material inside the Bullet Test Tube and Xtenders does offer a reliable and consistent means for comparing bullets by exposing them to similar stresses and resistances that they will encounter inside animals. Bullets recovered from animals bear a remarkable resemblance to bullets recovered from the Bullet Test Tube. More-so than we have found with any other bullet testing media. The Bullet Test Tube and Xtenders were not designed to test animal ti
