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Bullet penetration through house structure, a test.

JasonMPDJasonMPD Posts: 6,583 Senior Member
This pretty much puts a lot of over-penetration wives tales to rest.

https://youtu.be/PbdmQ5IN2j0




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  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,370 Senior Member
    How so?
    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  • JayhawkerJayhawker Posts: 18,356 Senior Member
    I know that a .223 FMJ can penetrate at least 6 mobile homes....and a load of 12 gauge #6 birdshot will go through a mobile home and a half....
    Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"
  • JasonMPDJasonMPD Posts: 6,583 Senior Member
    Zee wrote: »
    How so?


    The "it'll keep going through four houses" crowd.


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  • RocketmanRocketman Posts: 1,118 Senior Member
    They didn't use a shotgun with various ammo.
  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,370 Senior Member
    JasonMPD wrote: »
    The "it'll keep going through four houses" crowd.


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    I don't think anyone here ever really believed that one.
    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  • breamfisherbreamfisher Posts: 14,103 Senior Member
    Zee wrote: »
    I don't think anyone here ever really believed that one.
    It's only possible if you have an .88 Magnum...
    Meh.
  • JasonMPDJasonMPD Posts: 6,583 Senior Member
    Zee wrote: »
    I don't think anyone here ever really believed that one.


    Maybe or maybe not. I offered up the video more for its entertainment and somewhat educational value.

    I hear the claim bullets penetrate an entire neighborhood of houses from people at the gun range or gun stores at least three or four times a year.


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  • JasonMPDJasonMPD Posts: 6,583 Senior Member
    It's only possible if you have an .88 Magnum...


    But you will only do it once. It's hard to shoot a gun with no hands.


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  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,370 Senior Member
    It's only possible if you have an .88 Magnum...

    Only with depleted uranium rounds.
    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  • NNNN Posts: 25,235 Senior Member
    :uhm: I thought all the over- penetration issues were about collateral damage in the next room----this video
    proves collateral damage l can happen in the next two rooms.
  • roadkingroadking Posts: 3,056 Senior Member
    It's only possible if you have an .88 Magnum...

    "It goes thru schools. It goes thru trees...and the kid behind the tree".

    "My mother hung me from a hook once...ONCE"...

    Fun movie.
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  • JasonMPDJasonMPD Posts: 6,583 Senior Member
    NN wrote: »
    :uhm: I thought all the over- penetration issues were about collateral damage in the next room----this video
    proves collateral damage l can happen in the next two rooms.

    Yes.

    That wasn't assumed otherwise. The purpose of the video, I think, is to show there is a large unlikelihood the bullet will leave the house.


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  • earlyearly Posts: 4,950 Senior Member
    No engine block? :jester:
    My thoughts are generally clear. My typing, not so much.
  • beanfieldbeanfield Posts: 88 Member
    Keyholing poodle shooters, or why my AR stays in the safe.

    Worried about over penetration? Try this.

    https://youtu.be/oBa90uECEkw
  • KSU FirefighterKSU Firefighter Posts: 3,249 Senior Member
    Instead of going to all that trouble, just use a cut shell.
    The fire service needs a "culture of extinguishment not safety" Ray McCormack FDNY
  • beanfieldbeanfield Posts: 88 Member
    A cut shell acts more like a slug, doesn't explode on impact like a wax slug and nor do they feed as well through a pump gun. Making wax slugs really isn't that much trouble at all and cheap trap loads become quite devastating.
  • therewolftherewolf Posts: 90 Member
    While you can generalize, each situation is different.

    That shot you expect to go through a wall, for instance,

    can deflect off a stud, and go through the floor, instead.
  • KSU FirefighterKSU Firefighter Posts: 3,249 Senior Member
    I'll stick to buckshot and slugs.
    The fire service needs a "culture of extinguishment not safety" Ray McCormack FDNY
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