9mm FMJ won't "pop" a balloon.

[Pietro Beretta]

After reading this entire thread all I can say is, I want my 10 minutes back!

No Crap!

This kind of reminds me when I was watching Mail Call on the history channel. R. Lee Ermey shot a watermelon with a M1A ParaTrooper carbine with folding stock. It took him 4 or 5 shots to get the melon to fall apart at close range.

About 3 weeks ago my friend, brother, and I went shooting. My friend had this idea to buy a couple of watermelons and see what different rounds would do to it. We bought 3 medium-large sized watermelons, they literally blew into piecies when shot with a .357Mag, nothing left literally. We each got a turn blowing up the rest of the melons.

Looking at those results: .357Mag>30-06

Looking at these baloon results .45>9mm (but then everyone could have told us that )

 

[varoadking]

I have personally witnessed a 115 gr WWB FMJ fail to penetrate through an empty one quart oil jug at a range of about 30 feet when shot out of a Beretta M92.

The technical term for that is "A miss."

 

[Amadeus]

Thanks, everyone for your responses. I realize this was a somewhat silly thread. But it stemmed from what I feel was simple curiosity. My question was answered with Double Naught Spy's very detailed response about tensile cohesion.

I think we can all let this one end before it deteriorates any more. Thanks.

 

[Bart Noir]

Nope, more deterioration coming...

Double Naught Spy, that brings back the oftern taught self defense method: 2 to the chest, one to the scrotum. But dang-it, will a shooter hesitate a fateful amount, trying to decide "left or right, left or right, which will it be"?

Bart Noir