Shock-wave revisited?

I know with pistol and rifle bullets and their small diameters, respectively, this is a pipe-dream. However, in Latvia is a company that makes shotgun slugs claiming to have done tests, etc. and determining that the heart is stopped at the second the projectile hits the animal due to the shock-wave. I know this sounds bogus as all get-out, but they have pictures of these animals showing them dead where they were hit and the entrance hole has all sorts of organs from gut to lung-tissue blown out of it by what must be pneumatic or hydraulic pressure.

Could it be that when something this large hits an organ it does cause some of this effect and with a solid hit may indeed have an impact on the circulatory system? The tests they have done seem to indicate so, but of course I am not going to say it is so just because a manufacturer says so.

Here is a link, be forwarned, it is slightly graphic in the manner I described above, so may not want to open it at work/whatever. The wording is a bit “odd” and sounds snake-oil esque, but it is clear that being based in Latvia, their English is not up to the level that an English-speaking company’s might be, so I think some slack should be cut as they may not understand hyperbole or these words may be different in their language and the translation may not have carried over. Just a thought as to why they would say “Massively enormous” when describing ballistics instead of using it like the rest of us would when drunk at a bar.

http://www.ddupleks.lv/EN/ddupleks_products/show/Rossa32
http://www.ddupleks.lv/EN/articles/show/product-design

Two small corrections before I find the time to add some info I’ve gained over the last two years of reading credible WB literature.

  1. Latvia
  2. Temporary Cavitation

As far as I know, from the diagrams I have seen on FirearmsTactical, courtesy of COL. Martin L. Fackler, there is a sonic wave which travels faster in tissue than the TC, but no such thing as a shock wave.

However, if this helps, I believe the effect of a large TC impining upon the CNS/spine of an animal is somewhere on the forum at Tactical Forums. Also, the thread ‘TC re-visited’ here on M4C is quite informative.

Cheers,
Dave

Looks like an interesting idea, but I would like to see calibrated gelatin and FBI Protocol results including both expansion and penetration. I am not trying to say it must pass these tests, I would just like to see the results for what I would consider valuable data…

I’d like to test the Dupo 28 and Rossa 32…