Recent content by beavermatic

Someone brought up that the exiting 5.7x28mm round left such a huge exit wound not from tumbling and yaw, but from fragmentation. Thats what I originally thought... but the .22 HP should have left a similuar expansion pattern where it stopped in the cardboard. It did not, it was only slighlty...

dr rob: forgot to mention this as well: there is the 5 minutes at the end with the footage and pics from the shoot, however how it was originally intended was slightly different. once we got out there, theres was ALOT to do and look at. instead of listening to 20 minutes of topic review...

@ dr. rob: I just added annotations at beginning of speech for those who wish to just skip right to the shooting videos and pics. They'll link right to end 5 minutes of that. In future videos, though, I'll do exactly that... mix footage/pics with review. @ apple: Yes, we did shoot a...

what was intersting (and yes, mythbusters tested phonebooks), was that the .223 trajectory was falling considerably as it exited... that was one of the questionable rifles... it did "pass" per se... but how much power and drop it lost and succumbed to passing through that cardboard... hmm, makes...

Did a youtube video to debunk a myth about "cardboard kevlar" - what some beleive to be as using several layers of thick cardboard to stop bullet penetration. Moderator note: video is NSFW VIDEO LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itx85XxSZY0 Yeah. I thought it was crazy too...