Time Warp

[TX1911fan]

There is a new show on Discovery called Time Warp where they take super slow motion video of stuff and then replay it. Very cool. They did a body armor segment, which was incredibly interesting to watch, especially what happens when a round hits ceramic plates. Basically the round disintegrates, protecting the center mass of the person, but shrapnel from the round and the plate goes everywhere.

Anyway, they kept saying the guy was shooting a "306." Is there such a round? I couldn't tell if they meant 30.06 or 308, but they said 306 several times. Maybe I don't know as much as I thought I did, but I've never heard of a 306 round.

I just saw another episode on skeet shooting. Very cool to watch the spread. They shot bird shot through a full choke at what looked like 20 yards, and it was basically just a mass of shot, very little spread. It took out only two balloons out of a whole bunch. Those who say that birdshot is not an effective HD round need to watch that. That mass of birdshot will punch a nice size hole in anyone.

 

[BlacklabelOP]

love that show... Have about 5 episodes waiting to be watched right now...

 

[Bartkowski]

It is a neat show to watch, but I get sick of the dumbed down explainations. Some of the explainations are so infantile that I have to turn the TV off.

 

[dagger dog]

TX,

Go to the Barnes bullet web site and watch the video of the grape being shot with one of their 36 gr. Varmint Grenade bullets.

 

[JackOfAllTradesMasterAtNone]

Those who say that birdshot is not an effective HD round need to watch that. That mass of birdshot will punch a nice size hole in anyone.

Well, maybe not a nice sized hole, but it'll mess ya up. I was hunting Grouse when I surprised a Coyote at 10yds. 12ga, (2 3/4"), #7 shot. Took him in the side of the neck. Din't blow him open, but sure ended the day as he knew it!

-Steve

 

[JackOfAllTradesMasterAtNone]

Oh, the 10yds thing isn't a fluke. Deer hunting this season, my son and I took Yotes at 15 and 20yds. We were still hunting from the ground. Not calling.

This time I had a witness!

-Steve

 

[YZR]

I agree with Bartkowski. Dumbing down to the lowest common denominator is a little too much and some of the subjects are BORING! The show has great potential but rarely lives up to it.

 

[highorder]

As far as the "306" thing, they just don't know what they are talking about.

Did you also notice they were slobbering all over DragonSkin, even though it has been debunked and discarded as the "new messiah" of armor?

 

[Pulse]

there is a german company that produces ultra slow-motion cameras.
they found out that the best way to promote there product is in fact to do stuff with firearms, so they made quite a few videos.

searched youtube and found some:

complilation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0VjdI_S_HM
.22lr(?) goes boom..literally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltF8iYNGovY
obviously not a 7.62.x39, non the less impressiv: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bSoRIG4PnM

i love all that slowmotion stuff, makes even the most ordinary thing to look most impressiv.

 

[ShadyScott999]

anyone remember the story by Capstick when he walked up on a lioness with only a double barrel loaded with birdshot? He said he gave her both barrels at once and she stopped as is she had been hit by Skylab.

 

[highorder]

Skylab! Thats funny. I will guess your age at 49, or 20.

 

[ShadyScott999]

40 next month. Just re-read all of Capsticks books in the last couple months though.

 

[Maelstrom]

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgn7MUp6UxA&feature=related

This bullet on steel video is awesome. The lead basically turns into liquid.