The following was posted on the MissouriCarry.com forums in Aug, 2009.
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Most who know me know I’m an inventor, and as my world turns, I either invent on demand (on request for a given industry) or abstract (something just comes to mind).
I have a new bullet design and the results have been most impressive.
In its simplest explanation, it’s an enhanced hollow point-based design, and can be easily integrated into current product lines. However, the result of this new product, which I’ve dubbed “HYPERCAV”, creates an expansion rate and reliability of expansion on an order of two times over current bullet shapes.
Interestingly enough, this new product is a result of both entities…of sorts.
Some of you will recall many years ago, my first posts on the MC forums where I mentioned I got shot with a .357 XXXXXXX XXXXXXX, fired from a 2”snub nose.
The bullet struck my upper thigh, passed at a 45 degree angle, grazed the bone and made a clean exit. I found the bullet later, completely intact.
Now obviously, I was rather fortunate that the bullet didn’t expand in my case, however, that did not have anything to do with what that bullet was designed to do. Theoretically, it should have taken half my leg off.
As such, I wrote you guys to give a “product performance report”, and I also wrote a nasty note to XXXXXXX, telling them their High-dollar, high-performance defense round wasn’t worth a flip, and wanted my money back for the box of shells I bought. (BTW: XXXXXXX never did respond)
Nevertheless, I’ve thought about that a lot over the years (looking at the scars are a good reminder), and wondered what exactly went wrong with that bullet. Queries with you guys, research through countless websites, studies of ballistics, etc. have all led to “inconclusive” results. Some say it was the short barrel (velocity), some suggest the slug didn’t hit enough flesh, and so on.
Now anyone who sees the scars, and the still visible path the bullet actually took through my leg would be hard pressed to say the bullet didn’t pass through enough “meat” to do its thing. I’ve shot watermelons, water jugs and the like and had bullets expand just fine.
Long story short, I’ve had lots of time to think about this and all the dynamic physics involved.
As a result, I’ve had this “epiphany”, and have been working on this new slug design that utilizes aerodynamic, hydrodynamic and compression characteristics (I have a strong background in these areas).
The result is a very small design change in the Hollow-Point slug design that is very reliable, and does not change basic bullet-flight criteria at all (i.e. velocity, range, accuracy, etc..)
It does however, create a bullet that is absolutely vicious in its expansion on impact.
This new bullet design addresses a fundamental flaw inherent to ALL HOLLOW-POINT BULLET DESIGNS.
I’ve done the calculations (my calculus by hand sucks, by the way) and designs on AUTOCad Inventor, and verified those with Solidworks. Ran simulations on same. I’ve also made a few prototypes (crudely, I might add) and tested them. To date, I have every reason to suggest that this new round will be reliable, safe, devastatingly effective, and simple/cost-effective to integrate with current hollow-point slug designs with minimal effort.
This has the potential to change every hollowpoint in the world. It corrects a serious design flaw in every hollowpoint ever designed. Impressive.
-Isaiah Kellogg
Aerospace Engineering
MO. Univ. Science & Technology
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