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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK9tQcK1I0k
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So since I still don't have any sound, what was the final answer?...How many plates did it penetrate?...:dunno:...Ben
:boom: 1,797
Very interesting--thank you!
Recovering bullets is something I always try to do---just to see what I can learn. I don't always succeed and even less often find what I expected to find :shrug:
I recently mentioned that I have never recovered a bullet from my 7 mm Rem Mag. Twice I thought I had succeed, the first was on a caribou that I hit in the right front shoulder at about 200 yards. I managed to roll him over and didn't see an exit wound---that got revised when I started to skin him out. The bullet had hit the shoulder blade on the left front leg. The bone was shattered, but it had turned the direction of the, bullet which went back through the body and exited just in front of the left rear leg. The other was on a bull moose that I hit low in the chest (I was far below him). There was no exit wound (the entry wound was not easy to find either). It turned out the bullet went up and into the spine where it apparently blew up---so maybe you could call that a recovery--but nothing to see.
I have seen some interesting ones that I have recovered--two of the most interesting: A Nosler partition 308 from a wild boar. It failed to perform as intended. The jacket opened up completely and no lead was retained. The second, a 220 gr Sierra from a 35 Rem. I was forced to take a "Texas heart shot" on a white tail buck. He went about 50 yards and dropped. The bullet bulged out the hide on his chest---it had traveled completely through the animal---from you know where.
The bullet was a classic mushroom---I think for two main reasons--low velocity and it never hit a bone.
That was fun. I do not want to be on the business end of one of those.
“Paper plate ‘Ghetto rig’” = totally politically incorrect to the ‘nth degree!
The guy said there were other paper plate tests they had done on other rounds that we could compare to the penetration of the .50 BMG round, but I could not catch were to get such results. I would be interested to see a comparison to the 1797 penetration of the big boy. Anyone?
Why he chose to shoot twice and compromise the test with the second shot penetrating partially down the void of the first is a mystery though, although it looks like the bullet retrieved was the first shot.
You can find more paper plate tests mixed in with his other videos. Aim Here
I agree, the test was no longer valid after he fired the 2nd round. It was still fun, though!
Did anyone else notice the bushes waving around behind him from the muzzle blast?
I noticed.
I think this is the round in a Barrett that was widely reported at the time to have been fired THROUGH vehicles to kill agents in the start of the siege at Waco.
Since we all seemed to enjoy the paper plate test, here is another BMG .50 penetration test. This time they are firing into reams of copy machine paper using armor piercing ammo. It, too, didn't turn out like the shooter expected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSRVw_fGrQQ
How many earmuffs does it take??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ABGIJwiGBc