Black tip 30.06 vs 1" steel

[adamsredlines]

I have a 1/2" mild steel plate I could go against and do a shot with hunting stuff to compare.

 

[swampratt]

You know what I found does not dent very easy is old grader blades.
If you have some of those laying around.

 

[WoodsCraft]

You know what I found does not dent very easy is old grader blades.
If you have some of those laying around.

I have a chunk of grader blade , that's hardened steel I have shot it with quite a variety of calibers and all it does is make shiny spots for the most part.

 

[JEVapa]

You know what I found does not dent very easy is old grader blades.
If you have some of those laying around.

They're made like tank armor so that makes sense.

 

[madokie]

i wouldnt shoot hardened steel with that stuff.or anything at close range.. sometimes the hardened core penetrator bounces back ,right to the shooter,, people have been killed that way,,

 

[JEVapa]

i wouldnt shoot hardened steel with that stuff.or anything at close range.. sometimes the hardened core penetrator bounces back ,right to the shooter,, people have been killed that way,,

I would, all day. Target position/orientation is how you mitigate it. Tungsten penetrators usually stick, steel penetrators almost always usually disintegrate. 100m minimum, but 200 is better.

 

[madokie]

someones LIFE is worth more than "usually"...last thing we need is another "news" artice on how someone at a shooting range got killed by shooting AP ammo..

 

[JEVapa]

someones LIFE is worth more than "usually"...last thing we need is another "news" artice on how someone at a shooting range got killed by shooting AP ammo..

lol ok, guess you missed the part about target orientation and 100m and sht.

 

[KurtM]

By no means saying steel penetrators don't disintegrate, but when I was teaching at various ranges where green tip 556 ammo was issued we would find literally pounds and pounds of those little steel penetrators everywhere after shooting steel for a couple days. I've seen literally millions of them at Guernsey and Irwin. Now those are not a steel core, and I get that, but they are going fairly fast and you would think that they would disintegrate.
Orientation is very much the key, and some of you would down right cringe at how close some of the steel is being shot on some ranges, but they have about a 25-30° down angle.

 

[JEVapa]

I've seen literally millions of them at Guernsey and Irwin.

I have found that this

Directly correlates to this

Orientation is very much the key,

I should add distance to target as well.