Ammo penetration testing

[Civil Guard]

What you always wanted to know... But were unable to test yourself!

www.theboxotruth.com

[jonosk]

A very funny website with some education value.

[Ubar]

A very funny website with limited education value.

fixed ;)

The tests on there are so un-scientific to be of any real value in real life scenarios

some funny ideas though to be fair

[Sloppy Joe2]

What you always wanted to know... But were unable to test yourself!

www.theboxotruth.comhaha you said penetration.

[T3ngu]

haha you said penetration.

Haha, penetration.

That always gets a laugh.

But almost seriously that Savange No4 Mk1 was in good nick.

Im interested in that some of the 303 british rounds were flattened. I have been shooting at "stuff" for years and thats the first time I have seen that. Perhaps a throw back to the FMJ, although I sure the 6.5x55 we had didn't flatten when it hit stuff, actually it used to pass through trees.




Lessons learned:
1. As expected, the Greek solid lead filled bullet stayed together pretty well.

2. The bullets with the light weight front cores bent or broke apart, as designed. The action to the Waterbox was violent.

3. All of the bullets deviated from the straight flight path upon hitting the water jugs. We lost a couple of them out the top of the box and had to re-shoot because they left the Waterbox.

4. It is easy to see why this ammunition had a reputation as excellent anti-personnel ammo. Anyone that says that getting shot with Ball ammo is like getting stabbed with an ice-pick has never shot much of this stuff.

5. Shooting stuff is fun. http://www.theboxotruth.com/images/smile_wink.gif

Thanks to FreeWilly for the ammo, and thanks to Tman for the photo help.http://www.theboxotruth.com/images/smile.gif



The conclusions were none too surprising.