What happens when a bullet hits a steel plate

[rooster]

Saw this on Reddit and wanted to share
https://www.reddit.com/r/tacticalge...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

what kind of coating do I need to stir that copper from shooting into my neck?

/s

 

[Bigtanker]

Here is 10 minutes of this wonderful sight.


[video=youtube_share;QfDoQwIAaXg]http://youtu.be/QfDoQwIAaXg[/video]

 

[BGDave]

BRB..................................I'll be in my bunk.

 

[GIJEW]

You're thinking about steel plate as in body armor? There are coatings like truck-bed-liners that are supposed to contain fragments. YMMV depending on angle of impact. UHMWPE or ceramic plates will do better

 

[lovemywoods]

I authored this posting several years ago, but the information is still pertinent.

The best way to keep the jacket or internal bullet parts from coming back toward the shooter is to use undamaged hardened steel targets.

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...ion-patterns-off-steel-targets-pic-heavy.html

 

[darkkevin]

A few years ago porter county sheriff's dept. had my company rhino lining plates for their dept. I went shooting with them one day so they could show me how well it did or didn't work and what we could do to improve upon it. The rhino lining did a great job of trapping the shrapnel and preventing it from escaping and hurting the person wearing it.

 

[Drail]

The only safe way to shoot steel is to maintain complete control of where fragments will go. You must angle the steel so projectiles glance off and can only go into a side berm or down into the ground front of the target. Angle of incidence equal angle of reflection - just like a pool table. Don't use steel at very short ranges. My club ran steel matches for years and after a match you could walk out to the targets and find almost all of the bullets laying on the ground in front of the targets. If you shoot jacketed stuff DO NOT use heavily cratered plates. If they're smooth and flat they are OK but craters can turn a piece of lead or copper inside out and throw it straight back at you. Believe it. On a swinging plate don't keep shooting them while they're swinging. Wait for them to stop. I've seen swingers bat bullets back to the face of the person who just fired it. Saw a guy hit right between the eyes with a 240 gr. cast .44 slug. He fired, the barrel lifted up in recoil and the slug came straight back under the gun to his face. It's better to have any plate fixed or falling backwards onto the deck. Swingers can be dangerous if shot while they're moving. ALWAYS think about where the slugs will go. EVERYBODY must have eye protection. Shooting steel is probably the most you can have with a gun.

 

[M1CARBINE]

I RO at KCR, and atleast 1 person is het with splatter every year

 

[Methane Herder]

Depends on the round......


MH

 

[Trevelayan]

Depends on the round......
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MH

Behold the true power of .22 ratshot

 

[Pepi]

You'll shoot your eye out kid