Why we use paper targets!

[Outbackmanyep]

Don't use iron or steel for target practice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6eFWJnyDbI

[AdrianF]

Ouch!!!

Adrian

[Omaroo]

To think that you can legally buy and use a 50-cal in the US. LOL!

[Nesti]

100 bucks says the metal plate is welded in place. You really should hinge them to fall backward, ergo the term, 'Falling Plate Shoot'. It absorbs half of the kinetic energy.

See the bullet hit the ground just in from of him to the left? Then it kicks up to clock him in the ear-muff.

That's funny!

[multiweb]

Wow... he can thank his lucky star! :eyepop:
Got sidetracked and started watching some other silly stuff about guns on youtube with my boy and we clicked on a headline saying “why women shouldn’t fire a gun”. Too hard to resist ;) so we clicked on a couple of videos, watched and laughed our a** off. You know now Google advertise on youtube at the bottom of your screen while you’re watching the video. Check what popped out while we were watching this chick firing an assault rifle. Weird hey?... not really :lol:

[Outbackmanyep]

Yes there certainly is a few more funny ones on there, gotta watch that recoil!

[Nesti]

Difference in time from muzzle noise to metal plate noise is around 0.4sec. But, the bullet is moving at about twice the speed of sound, so 1/3rd there and 2/3rds back. 0.4/3 =0.133 sec from muzzle to target.

Muzzle velocity on a 50Cal is around 850m/sec, but speed tapers off rapidly, call it around 750m/sec average. 750 x 0.133 = 99.75m from muzzle to target. Safe to say that they’re on a 100m range.

I make it about 1.2sec from plate noise to ‘first graze’ (hits just in front of him). Sound travels around 330m/sec, so 1.2 + (100/330) = 1.5sec flight time of ricochet. Add another 20% for curved trajectory (must be quite flat) and that’s (100/1.5)+20% = 80m/sec (288kph), or 1/10th the muzzle velocity from the rifle or 20% to 25% of the Desert Eagle hand gun (also 50 Cal).

That’s a close call.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_M82
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_BMG

[White Rabbit]

Waaaayyyy to much time on your hands lol. ;)

[taminga16]

"Am I Bleeding?" A better question may have been "Why am I not Dead?"

Greg.

For those who can't equate 50 cal. The bullets are large enough to use a splugs in caravan sinks!

[troypiggo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRgYtp3HfvY&NR=1

Oh, love the guy's shirt, and totally knowing what is going to happen to the girl's forehead...

[AstralTraveller]

This site is full of useful info. ;) Next time I go caravaning I'll know what to take. :P

[multiweb]

A 50 Cal to clean blocked drains? :)

[renormalised]

Shows you what happens when you let fools get firearms licenses.

[renormalised]

It'll unblock your drains in no time flat:P:D:D

[Outbackmanyep]

To add to that 50 Cal = 0.5" dia. :thumbsup:

[Nesti]

LOL, yeah..."GET SOME!!!".

[snowyskiesau]

Slightly off topic.
See what happens to bullets and their targets in this 1,000,000 frame per sec video (http://gizmodo.com/5378302/watch-ten-minutes-of-glorious-bullet-impacts-at-1000000-fps).
No gory bits. :)

[Nesti]

Very nice!

Amazing how inertia is so expressed when things are in slow motion, ie. BB hitting bullet, bullet barely flinches.

[Ric]

Good to see Bubba and the boys learning all about gun safety.

the slow motion video was fascinating to watch.

Cheers