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A crime scene investigation class from Horry Georgetown Technical College took a field trip to the Conway Police Department shooting range Monday to learn a few things about blood spatter.

The blood looked disturbingly real, though it came from a bottle.

The human-like heads being targeted were equally fake, though filled with materials that mimic flesh and bone.

The instructor for the class explained that different distances, firearms and calibers can each tell a unique story with their blood spray patterns.

"We want to see how far forward spatter was projected, based on the type of firearm, type of round, and then wanted to show the different stages, how far back the back spatter might be found," said Jeffrey Scott, a professor in HGTC's criminal justice program.

Weapons used in the lesson included a shotgun, an assault rifle and a pistol.

Though the demonstration used fake blood and sponges in place of the actual stuff of life, Scott says the idea was to make the lesson as close to a real-world crime investigation as possible.

"That's as close to realistic as we can get. We want to make it dynamic so (the students) can understand that these rounds can produce this type of trauma," said Scott.

The CSI students didn't seem the slightest bit fazed by the gruesome demonstrations.

In fact, they appear anxious to study the real thing.

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