J.D. Culp
04-24-2008, 08:35 AM
I had the chance to test the polyshok round and was very impressed with it. Their website is poorly designed in my mind, so I'll quickly list some of the highlights. They do have a lot of info on their site, it just takes a while to find it all.
Polyshok is a fin stabilized 12 ga round accurate out to at least 100 yds. It is basically a plastic wading cup filled with lead powder and topped off with a specially shaped plastic cap designed to initiate expansion upon impact.
The round transfers darn near 100% of it's energy into the target, leaving nothing to exit out the back and continue into another person or through a wall and into your kid's crib in the next room. If you set two watermelons or 1 gallon water jugs three feet apart and shoot the first one, the one directly behind it will not be damaged (except to get wet and maybe roll a few inches from the blast). They have been used to kill moose and a 300 lb bear with one shot and no exit wound.
The recoil is less than a 12 ga slug. It will punch through steel that buckshot bounces off of. It has been used as a breaching round in reinforced exterior doors to defeat deadbolts. I have put polyshok rounds several inches deep into dried and cured oak logs.
As with any ammo round, it's not the solution to every situation, but for what it was designed to do, it is the best I have seen.
The picture below contains two series of three consecutive frames each from video we took during testing. The elapsed time between each frame is equal. The polyshok round imparts much more of it's energy into the target, and leaves the target in small pieces instead of larger chunks - with nothing left to hit a person behind the target.
Does anyone else have any experience with this, or similar rounds?
http://www.polyshok.com
http://www.GodIsSemperFidelis.com/TSA/watermelons_compared.jpg
Polyshok is a fin stabilized 12 ga round accurate out to at least 100 yds. It is basically a plastic wading cup filled with lead powder and topped off with a specially shaped plastic cap designed to initiate expansion upon impact.
The round transfers darn near 100% of it's energy into the target, leaving nothing to exit out the back and continue into another person or through a wall and into your kid's crib in the next room. If you set two watermelons or 1 gallon water jugs three feet apart and shoot the first one, the one directly behind it will not be damaged (except to get wet and maybe roll a few inches from the blast). They have been used to kill moose and a 300 lb bear with one shot and no exit wound.
The recoil is less than a 12 ga slug. It will punch through steel that buckshot bounces off of. It has been used as a breaching round in reinforced exterior doors to defeat deadbolts. I have put polyshok rounds several inches deep into dried and cured oak logs.
As with any ammo round, it's not the solution to every situation, but for what it was designed to do, it is the best I have seen.
The picture below contains two series of three consecutive frames each from video we took during testing. The elapsed time between each frame is equal. The polyshok round imparts much more of it's energy into the target, and leaves the target in small pieces instead of larger chunks - with nothing left to hit a person behind the target.
Does anyone else have any experience with this, or similar rounds?
http://www.polyshok.com
http://www.GodIsSemperFidelis.com/TSA/watermelons_compared.jpg