Bullet vs quarter/dime

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:30 am

Just a couple random pictures from this weekend.

.223 55 grain softpoint (through the dime) and FMJ (through the quarter).

Stuck them to a piece of duct tape and hung them against cardboard. The bullet goes through so fast that they stay in place (and do not go flying off the tape).

Accutron · Post by **Accutron** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:46 am

Nice pics! Here's one of mine...

Four 1 oz. 12ga slugs through a Fortran manual (exit side). Certainly not as elegant as yours...a bit on the opposite end of the spectrum.

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:14 am

Reminds me of this episode of "Mythbusters" on the Discovery channel, where they try to see if certain things are "bulletproof" or just myth. So they shot at a variety of objects. Objects include a metal lighter, a deck of cards, a bible, and other "bulletproof" objects.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:20 am

You're going to jail for defacing currency, man! Like, DUDE! I'm calling the FBI on you.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:13 pm

IlMrm wrote:Reminds me of this episode of "Mythbusters" on the Discovery channel, where they try to see if certain things are "bulletproof" or just myth. So they shot at a variety of objects. Objects include a metal lighter, a deck of cards, a bible, and other "bulletproof" objects.

It all started with that actually. We had a big box of ceiling tiles and wanted to see how many tiles would be penetrated with various calibres. Since those didn't stop anything, we switched to other things.

We were also shooting 2x4's and 2x6's (pine) on end (length-wise) to see if we could slice them all the way down with the grain. 2x6's explode. 2x4's slowly slice apart.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:02 pm

Yeah, like how you see people in movies hiding behind trees and stuff while being fired at.
My dad was telling me how when he and his brother played around with guns in the States, if you fired a tracer at a tree trunk, you could see the bullet going out through the other side of the tree.

Accutron · Post by **Accutron** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:27 pm

Let's merge this thread and the 50 Cent one...find out if he's really bulletproof

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:50 am

Depends on the size of the tree, hardness, calibre, load size, and type of bullet (fmj/hollow/etc).