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Steel core round vs 1" steel

I used to use a inch thick mild steel plate as a target because I have plenty of pieces "laying around" only bad thing is the craters are so bad that it will start to ricochet if you are not careful, I only use ar500 now.

Walter
 
I used to use a inch thick mild steel plate as a target because I have plenty of pieces "laying around" only bad thing is the craters are so bad that it will start to ricochet if you are not careful, I only use ar500 now.

Walter

Thanks for the heads up buddy
 
Probably would have more penetration if it was held solid instead of able to fly off. Thats a lot of penetration tho regardless.
 
I shot some 3/4" hot rolled C1018 (mild steel) with SS109 (5.56 62 gr steel core) @ 100 yards and the results were similar at 3/4 scale; the round did not penetrate but left a substantial crater about 2/3 of the way through.

Hard to believe a little .224 diameter bullet could do that.

I like how you setup the videocamera.

Joe
 
Wow thats real cool I love seeing those effects, on your other video with brown bear ammo you shot at 400 yards at that steel plate leaves a pretty good size dent, be cool to see what those silver tip rounds would do at 400 yards against that steel plate I bet it would slice through it. Is that stuff hardened steel core or tungsten.
 
Wow thats real cool I love seeing those effects, on your other video with brown bear ammo you shot at 400 yards at that steel plate leaves a pretty good size dent, be cool to see what those silver tip rounds would do at 400 yards against that steel plate I bet it would slice through it. Is that stuff hardened steel core or tungsten.

Thanks for watching buddy! These were I believe Bulgarian surplus rounds with regular steel core. I don't think these were the AP tungsten core rounds.