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I have a Serbu .50 on order
I'll test and report back
I think being hit with a .50BMG wouldn't just knock you on your butt...but it would probably still kill you (breaking your neck, shattering ribs into your lungs and heart, etc.) even if it didn't penetrate. 50BMG is way too much bullet to be stopped by any type of personally worn armor...
If hit with a 50BMG the body armor will likely assist in turning you into a red misty paist.
Silver Hand
I highly doubt that any "red misty paist" of a humans torso would result.
Here is a link to what a .50 cal. bullet does to armor:
50 BMG vs bullet proof vest - YouTube
The armor does slow down and disperse the energy, but the bullet, or fragments still goes through, all the way to the back side of the vest, and I guess that the chunks of ceramic going through a body would make the wound worse, I still think that any "red misty paist" is immprobable..
Note that the vest isn't shredded, and there is one hole in the lining of the back of the vest.
Extrordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
It is neither here nor there if I have or have not killed someone.
Show me some extraordinary evidence that the .50 Cal. BMG bullet will turn someone into a "red misty paist...
And, show me some evidence that someone wearing a vest was ever shot with a .50 cal. BMG bullet.
Tell me how many people YOU personally have seen shot with a .50 Cal. BMG bullet while wearing a vest.
Rick4070 - My question to you was direct!
I don't think you have ever watched a bullet pass through living tissue or have been close enough to the aftermath to comment on this subject.
Does about 20 deer, several elk, and numerous other critters being shot with calibers ranging from .22 LR to .338 Win. Mag. over the last 50 years count, not counting probably over a hundred deer and elk shot by others ???
Because if that was your question, yes, I have indeed seen the results of bullets passing through living tissue, many, many times.
In deer sized animals, I have never seen any one of them disintegrate, even with a 225 gr. .338 bullet throught the chest cavity.
Just a somewhat larger exit wound compared to the entrance wound.
Even a coyote doesn't come apart when hit with a larger caliber bullet, however, a .22-250 shooting hollow points does do considerable damage...
Of course, smaller animals like rock chucks, rabbits, crows, etc. will come apart when using high velocity frangible bullets, but that is not what the topic is.
People think the .50 BMG is some sort of magic caliber that will rip flesh of when merely passing by, will "gain energy" the further down range it gets, and will make people literally come apart when hit, probably due to that "Afghanistan Sniper" video that was on Youtube, that in reality was a pirated copy of a Rocky Mountain Varmint Hunters video: "Varmint Safari II," where rock chucks being shot with a .243 A.I. were coming apart.
There were a lot of people snookered by that video, until the true video was shown to have the same terrain, rocks trees, etc.
50 bmg vs. deer.mpeg - YouTube
Silver Hand
Funny thing, Silver Hand, YOU post a video of a deer being shot with a .50 Cal., and when you are asked what load was used, you don't have a clue.
I post another video from the same site showing that the deer shot with a .50 Cal. wasn't blown apart, and you won't even look at it.
As for my imagination, well, being as YOU can come up with NO evidence as to a .50 BMG blowing people apart, how does MY imagination even enter into it???
I am asking for proof of something extraordinary, it is not on my shoulders to prove it won't happen, it is on your shoulders to prove it CAN, and so far you have not shown me anything to back up the bull that a .50 Cal. BMG bullet will rip skin off by merely passing close by, or to blow someone into pieces.
Like I said, come up with some REAL evidence of a military .50 cal. projectile blowing someone into a "red misty paist," and I'll be more than happy to look at it.
As for the number of my "kills," yes, over the last 50 years, I've taken a number of critters, not near as many as some who really do a lot of hunting, but being as I killed my first deer at 11, and hunted pretty much every year since, I guess I've put a bit of meat in the freezer.
You know, as far as military applications go, that there are several different 50 caliber rounds right? Comparing any hunting round to what is available in 50 BMG chambering's is laughable at best.
As I mentioned in an earlier post -
357 magnum @ muzzle = ( in ft. lbs. ) 585
7.62 @ 500 yards = 904
50 BMG @ 1000 yards = 4068
Man is this guy spread out.
Silver Hand
I must have missed something now we are talking about superman bullets?
Silver Hand