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earlyagain
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Shooting through brush.

This is interesting.

Im not critiquing. I like this guys videos. Especially when he gets rained on.
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Im not advocating shooting through brush. Im am advocating the satisfaction of curiosity.
Sometimes setting up targets in the woods for recreational shooting can involve trying to avoid potential deflection from brush. I've always just assumed anything from grass to twigs would effect bullet flight. Regardless of bullet size, weight, or shape.
It looks to me like bullet shape and length could be the biggest factors. But Ive never conducted any experiments. Ive been so successful at avoiding brush, I also lack any experience with it. It is easy to imagine circumstances where sighting through a scope or intense focus on a distant target could cause a failure to see brush in the line of fire. So I think its worth examining. Thoughts or experience????

Im not critiquing. I like this guys videos. Especially when he gets rained on.

Im not advocating shooting through brush. Im am advocating the satisfaction of curiosity.
Sometimes setting up targets in the woods for recreational shooting can involve trying to avoid potential deflection from brush. I've always just assumed anything from grass to twigs would effect bullet flight. Regardless of bullet size, weight, or shape.
It looks to me like bullet shape and length could be the biggest factors. But Ive never conducted any experiments. Ive been so successful at avoiding brush, I also lack any experience with it. It is easy to imagine circumstances where sighting through a scope or intense focus on a distant target could cause a failure to see brush in the line of fire. So I think its worth examining. Thoughts or experience????
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https://www.theboxotruth.com/the-box-o-truth-40-deflected-bullets-and-the-box-o-truth/
Instead, this guy shot through a random assemblage of twigs.
We don't know which bullets hit any twigs at all, what size they were, or what angle they were hit at. Did his deviated .223 hit a single pine needle? Did it take a veritable log to deflect his .45-70? Or was it vice versa?
Seven minutes of video to tell us "Newtonian physics may be involved".
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
Maybes he's just all wet?
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
I don't care about soggy sam's pine tree pour down. Other than entertainment and observation.
In a hunting situation.....don't try to shoot through things. Your life's not at stake.
Mike
N454casull
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
Just for clarification. My interest is mostly academic with some focus on target shooting. I wouldn't chance a shot on game through brush, and have intentionally passed up shots where such conditions existed.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain