CCI Velocitor Penetration Test

CCI Velocitor Penetration test through 3/16ths of an inch of fiber board, a six inch full water jug, and into a water filled coffee can. The round was fired through an eighteen inch barrel rifle. The shot was from approximately 30 feet.

The manufacturer lists a velocity of 1435 feet per second. For the 40 grains Velocitor, this results in a muzzle energy of 182.9 foot pounds. Our recovered bullet is .42 inches long (about the size of a .40 caliber round) and weighed in at 38 grains of recovered weight. Since the bullet tumbled once it encountered the fiber board, it completely ruptured the water jug and had enough energy to continue through a heavy gauge metal coffee can. After traveling through seven more inches of water, it impacted the far side of the can to almost penetrated out of the can.

This was a full thirteen inches of penetration through the various materials. The bullet was certainly spinning thousands of times per second as it traveled through these barriers. In human flesh such as a liver or heart, the wound would be instantly devastating. With proper shot placement, the CCI Velocitor fired through a rifle barrel would make an excellent home defense round.

Some of the sites that perform ballistic tests are listed below and may be skeptical of this claim. They are not taking into account human anatomy, or the fact that spinning hot metal will cut and rip as it travels through organs. Once the bullet travel is upset by encountering bone, the spinning will cut like a spinning knife through flesh until it is stopped by loss of energy or another hard object such as another bone. The "final diameter" of the bullet has little to do with what the bullet damage would be after tumbling. Firing into ballistic gel is like firing into muscle, not soft organs after bullet upset and deformation by bone.

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