| Author | Message | ||
     Blake |
If I could name this amazing video montage, I'd call it Ode to Feinstein. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3-iDDqnlng&sns=em Note: They use bare 20% gelatin versus the official FBI 10% mix with four layers of denim. They are shooting at around 40,000 frames per second, if my recollection is accurate. | ||
| Chauly |
I'd like to know what the next-to-last round was. It looked like a duplex slug of some kind... | ||
| Blake |
Me too. If you search their channel, you might find it. I've never seen that before. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Cool video. I'm assuming the middle one was 50 BMG fired at fairly close range (you could see the sheet behind rocked by the shock wave). Note to self, don't get shot with 50 BMG. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Generally speaking, getting shot is a bad thing. A coworker of mine was in Viet operating a tank. He told me that he shot a guy with .50 and they had to pick him up in three chunks. Of course, he used a few rounds. He told me that two weeks from the end of his tour, he was asleep in his cozy tank and a guy set fire to its tail end. RPG or molotov or whatever. He had no choice but to bail out before the munitions cooked off. He spent the remaining two weeks of his tour with no rifle or SHOES. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJycZ7iP2M 308 Winchester Federal 150gr Fusion JSP... First understand that most rifle bullet construction for the last century has been "cup and core". A "cup" of copper alloy is stamped out. A wire of lead is fed in and the pointy end compressed, ( whole thing is usually "swaged" compressed to final size & shape ) leaving a soft lead tip exposed ( Soft Point/SP ) or if the lead wire is cut off shorter, a hollow point/HP. Simple, fast, easy to build automated machines to make. ( late 19th century tech, at best ) For FMJ bullets the cup is filled from behind by a lead wire. More modern hunting bullets are often "bonded" in some way, the bullet heated so it solders together, ( Speer Trophy Bonded ) or the jacket swaged to form a locking ring ( Hornady Interlock ) Or some other method, every one takes more steps, more time and more expense, so bonded bullets are more expensive. The advantage these bonded bullets have is toughness. The lead core won't slide out, the bullet won't fragment as easily, and expanding bullets can open to maximum diameter ( based on media & construction ) while retaining the most weight and penetrating the furthest. Often, properly chosen premium bullets will break both shoulders, destroy the heart & lungs and still exit, or be found under the hide on the far side, having done maximum damage, and the most humane kill. ( the goal of every hunter ) Frankly, if you are hunting, the cost of the bullet is so tiny that you might as well use the most expensive, and it's smartest to use the most accurate, ( for YOUR gun, so you have to test ) with the best terminal results, no matter the cost. Enter the Federal Fusion. By electroplating a core, the jacket is bonded, very uniform in thickness, and can be engineered for expansion at the desired velocity without swaging steps or other fancy processes. Cheaper than bonded bullets as well, and work just as good. Impressive engineering. I'd love a look at the process to see how they maintain uniformity. | ||
| Aesquire |
10 minutes of sloooooow destruction. |
