Oh Crap Steel returning fire!

[kwatters]

I found this over the weekend and wondered if the guy hit a rock or what, you could hear the steel hit and bullet return. Very lucky guy

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ABGIJwiGBc]YouTube - Guy hit in head with .50 caliber ricochet[/ame]

 

[Fishersjohn48]

Every time I see this it makes me want to buy a powder blue jumpsuit.

 

[42769vette]

ive seen this before, this video is alot of the reason i bought bobcat steel when looking for targets.

 

[Prometheus]

and that's why you don't fire FMJ's at steel.

 

[downzero]

and that's why you don't fire FMJ's at steel.

It really has nothing to do with that and more to do with distance.

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

This video freaks me out everytime. When I tested Bobcat Steel's target with the 50, this is all that I thought about.

 

[451_Detonics]

When you have divots formed in mild steel and a bullet hits the divot it going to go somewhere and that is normally back towards the shooter. I have seen this happen time and time again when people shoot mild steel. With AR-500 like the targets from Bobcat this is not a problem.

 

[ghitch75]

FMJ'S in everything i throwed at AR-500 have never chased after me.....i even shot 7.62 x 39 and 8 x 57 steel cores just to see....no dents and no returns(launched from behind 24" shag bark hickory on the safe side) ....just paint missin'...

 

[mjones]

at least he hit the target

 

[slow1911s]

It really has nothing to do with that and more to do with distance.

+1. My club decided, after much time, effort, and research that a 50 cal at 100 yds or less was a catastrophe waiting to happen.

 

[Suprtek]

Best part:

spectator one: That got you right in the side of the head!

spectator two: Where'd it hit?

shooter: RIGHT IN THE SIDE OF MY HEAD!

 

[downzero]

+1. My club decided, after much time, effort, and research that a 50 cal at 100 yds or less was a catastrophe waiting to happen.

I've never shot any rifle at steel unless it was 100 yards or more, and that was only a .223.

I have no idea what the safe distance for a 50 bmg is, but it's got to be a long way, I'd imagine. Perhaps 500+

 

[wolfman]

If you had seen the hood and roof of the shell of my truck at the Glock Match this weekend, you would have a new respect for lead hitting steel. My pickup was parked on the E side of tac bay 1, even with the shooting line, and about 25 ft up range of the plate rack. The side wall of the bay is about 20 ft tall, and the roof is steel plate hung so it deflects as much as possible back down into the bay. I estimate there was close to a pound of lead fragments, (equal to 30 or 35 230gr bullets) had enough energy after hitting the steel plates, to travel up high enough to travel about 30 ft sideways and still clear a 20 ft wall.

 

[ZbornacSVT]

Non-hardened steel will do that!

 

[42769vette]

I've never shot any rifle at steel unless it was 100 yards or more, and that was only a .223.

I have no idea what the safe distance for a 50 bmg is, but it's got to be a long way, I'd imagine. Perhaps 500+

whiskeytangofoxtrot shot bobcat steel at 100 yrs with the mighty 50 and it preformed flawlessly. ill try and find the thread

 

[loony1]

look at how many views its had.

 

[42769vette]

for all the nay sayers that think a 50 cant be used on GOOD steel at 100yds

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...2-zbornacsvt_s_ar500_steel_target_review.html

 

[smitty12b]

and that's why you don't fire FMJ's at steel.

FMJ is all I shoot at steel and have never had that happen.

 

[ZbornacSVT]

The target WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot shot was the plate I had on display at the last 1500 for those of you that made it.

 

[trigger_happy57]

this guy is still prolly peeing his pants