International Wound Ballistics Association

[Humpy70]

The IWBA was started by Col Martin Fackler MD who established the Army Wound Ballistics Lab Presidio, California in the 80s and his work caused the complete revaluation of how wounds were viewed by the entire government. The Journals were written and distributed about 3 times a year and they were all scanned for public dissemination.

I was a Member and Marty Fackler died about three years ago and I miss his emails. His work was so appreciated that when the NATO Handbook of Emergency War Surgery was written Fackler wrote the chapter on MISSILE CAUSED WOUNDS.

Go here and download all of them. Had you been a member to accrue all these you would have paid dues for ten years and you would have spent $600.00 saving them up.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...3pWYVVJeGlGaFE

I suggest you download above and also put it on a thumb drive. If you read them all it should answer about everything you ever needed to know and didn't know what to ask about bullet wounds.

[308sako]

Thank you

[T2C]

Good stuff Humpy. Thank you.

[vicious_cb]

I read these all about a year or 2 ago. The most astonishing thing is that nothing has really changed in terminal ballistics since these have been published and 98% of people are completely oblivious, relying on marketing and internet hearsay. I mean people still argue till they are red in the face that 55gr Vmax is an adequate choice for HD/Duty use.

[Humpy70]

yep and did you notice there are no ads from ammo companies in them? The members paid for the printing as Fackler did not want to be funded by manufacturers.

[Uni-Vibe]

OP: can you supply these in a format I can open? When I download, there are no programs I can use to open them. Including acrobat pdf reader.

[Diamondback]

OP: can you supply these in a format I can open? When I download, there are no programs I can use to open them. Including acrobat pdf reader.

Google Drive downloads them as a Zip file, which needs an extractor like Winzip, WinRAR or 7-Zip. (Windows will open ZIP files, but won't open PDF's from a ZIP archive--you need to extract them first.) Once extracted they should open fine with Acrobat.

[shadowrider]

Mucho Gracias!