.50 BMG Rifle Target Penetration Test with Milk Jugs

[BlackVetteNightmare]

Shit I only use 165 grain power point rounds for my 30-06 and I'm going straight through steel between 1/2 and 3/4 inches thick.

[halo56822]

a ptrd laughs at this video.

[redman12143]

338 lapua goes through 5 . so wont the 300 mag . what loads wer you using?

[asvestomixZ]

this maybe was only 4 but if you see the energy was enormous and the water just exploded,

[aaron8862006]

@asvestomixZ - true that.

[asvestomixZ]

@aaron8862006 Imagine what would happened to your blood and your veins if you get a bullet like this in your feet

[aaron8862006]

@asvestomixZ - Well, everything would be ripped out of your legs and turned into jelly, no doubt.

[My2ndAmendmentRights]

Good shooting Tex!!

[KurNorock]

If you are wondering why it didn't just zip through all of the jugs, it is because water has a knack for redirecting high speed projectiles. It looks like the the bullets simply curved down into the dirt.

[TheRunefan]

@KurNorock agree

[gunnymorello]

only 4.... dude i should take my .308 out, id clean up the log behind them too

[TheRunefan]

@gunnymorello yah because 308 is better and stronger than 50 bmg i know 308 is a great round but doesnt compare with 50 cal.

[gunnymorello]

@TheRunefan not my point~

.308 150 grain Power-Point Plus bullet MV of 2480 fps with 2049 ft. lbs. of ME.

.50 660 grain FMJ bullet MV 2,800 fps with 11,500 ft. lbs of ME...

yea.... if it was me id have something a little more impressive than 4 milk containers lined up to shoot at.

[TheRunefan]

@gunnymorello yah because 308 is better and stronger than 50 bmg not i know 308 is a great round but doesnt compare with 50 cal.

[Airsoftslave]

hahaha cool video .. aint that the background sound of the video from barnes bullets ? ?:D

[ytacc0]

would have prefer to watch the milk explode fromt he side than from the front.

[jwd1995]

well i done the same test with a 22lr bleive it or not and it went throught 4 gallon milk jugs reason same thing darkwolf said

[redeyesthe20th]

but it didn't make them explode =p!

[MrParsons76]

Loved it!

[jezus92191]

not impressed my 12 gage could do better than that the 50 can shoot through a concrete wall but has trouble with some milk jugs

[darkwolf919]

It works under the same concept of kevlar, with it's multiple layers, designed to slow down bullets. Larger bullets will be slowed down quicker, whereas, I bet, if you shot a .223 round at the same jugs, it would go further. My uncle's a cop and the often complain that the thugs are switching to .22 LRs as they can penetrate their vests.

[kyismaster]

if a .50 barret hit a armored vest, it would go through anyways. you'd have to have like a tank just to stop it, just to add on...

[deadtofall666]

@kyismaster it doesnt take a 50 caliber to go through a bullet proof vest most hunting rounds will go through any vest on the market, bullet proof vests are only typically good for stopping shrapnel, hand gun fire and shotgun

[PigHunter375]

Considering the almost magical qualities applied to the .50 BMG, I can't say I was too impressed.

[pigman50]

I was expecting more myself too.

[disturbedone5009]

You aren't taking into account the properties of water that make it so good at stopping high speed projectiles. A human being jumping into water from a high enough distance will feel the same thing as hitting a brick wall.

[bobmsr]

i did that with my 7mm mag manyyears ago and at 100 yards we still got splashed with water , totally destroyed the milk jug, awesome transfer of kinetic energy ,neighbors didn't come out of their houses to snoop either i wonder why

[Jubeikibakami2006]

That was my only explanation since water is incompressible. Most of the bullet's energy was dissipated during the initial contact with water, where as energy from the slower .500 Mag bullet dissipated over a longer distance, which makes sense. The steel core looked intact due to the softness of water-had the core hit something hard like steel, the core would have disintegrated along with the target.

[PPPatrickWWW]

exactally. the 50 BMG is going so fast that it basically explodes, while the 50 S&W stays intact..

[M5NSX]

You are wrong. The steel penetrator looks the same after going thru 1.5 inch pieces of steel. I know I have did it many times. It is hardened tungsten and does not disintegrate at all.

[Jubeikibakami2006]

Well, if you said tungsten and is hardened, that itself explains your situation. I understand about material hardness.

[bobbytimberlake]

How do you harden tungsten? It's already ridiculously hard in its natural state, in fact so much so that its brittleness is an issue.

It's usually combined with steel to toughen it, giving you an alloy LESS hard than pure tungsten, but much tougher (and harder but less tough than steel--the two properties are a tradeoff).

[Jubeikibakami2006]

That's interesting... I was expecting it to go all the way through all 7 jugs. I have seen other guy testing .500 S&W Magnum(which is the most powerful handgun yet no where near .50 BMG)on 7 water jugs & it went through 7 jugs. The round was 3,817 ft-lbs compared to 13,000 ft-lbs for 50BMG.

[Skidiwili]

It's not actually too surprising. With the way water behaves when something hits it with high velocity, they might as well been firing at solid concrete.

I remember seeing them testing this in Mythbusters. They fired .50 into a swimming pool and the bullet literally disintegrated upon impact to the water.

[cheki0000]

Yeah I caught that episode too. Very interesting stuff.

[SamuraiFi]

Yes, the slower 9mm traveled farther in the water than any of the other rounds.

[jezus92191]

its a little late for this but it dident disintegrate he found the steel core

[1341usmc]

steel core? should i even ask?

[sumbuddy82]

NO.