I decided to play with high speed photography tonight...And with my Tokarev. So why not combine the two? Off to the range!
Here's some pics taken within one second, showing the result of a hit from 7.62x25mm on a 2 litre bottle full of water.
The bottle exhibits a clean hole on entry and a slit on exit where pressure cracked the bottle in a straight, clean seam.
That means the military 85 grain steel cased ball does not expand, nor dump energy into the target the way a deadlier hollow point will.
But look at that spray! And in the last picture, you can see how much water is "bleeding" out of the bottle as it falls, becaus of gravity alone.
Nope, the pistol round of a Russian soldier in the "Great Patriotic War" wasn't as deadly as the hollow point, larger caliber rounds our police and we as civilians use today...But nothing to laugh at! And that's from a pistol, not an SMG. If Fritz caught that round in major blood vessels, he was down for the count. A well aimed shot would be all she wrote. Chalk one up for the Motherland.
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