Saturday, January 1, 2005

Shooting Industry Magazine Jan05

Shooting Industry Magazine Jan05
by Lisa Parsons-Wraith




The Ballistic Cube from Just Shoot Me Products jumps and
wiggles even after thousands of rounds have gone through it.



The Ballistic Polymer Torso Unit has been dubbed the
“Safest Target in the World” by its creator Jeff Kruse.



Shooters are forever looking for a way to spice up their target practice, and there is a new product out called the Ballistic Cube that will do just that. Just Shoot Me Products and its parent company, Ballistic Technology, are the brainchild of Jeff Kruse. A metallurgist by trade, Kruse spent 25 year (on and off) tinkering with the idea of the Ballistic Cube. When the Marine Corps wanted a target with unpredictable movement to help train its snipers, Kruse took a polymer material, added other chemicals and elements, formed it all into a military spec 4-inch cube and, voila, a resilient target that reacts violently when shot was born. When I asked Kruse what makes the Cube move, he got a little technical, “The unpredictable movement is formulated by the velocity and size of projectiles in conjunction with a high speed solidification process of a slurry of chemicals and elements that when combined provide an amazing resilience of elongation, yield and tensile qualities.” Basically, “it is an elemental reaction,” he finished.

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