Boolits and steel

[Airman Basic]

Existential query perhaps, but what happens to boolits when they hit steel targets? We just got a bunch of steel, plate racks, poppers, etc., and I can't find any boolit remains other than the strikes on the targets. Do they just disintegrate?

[Sasquatch-1]

The smaller bullets are hard to find. The larger bullets will sometimes turn into small disk. Do not look directly below the target, look a few feet away. At the range I belong to some of the bullets have bounced a good fifty yards away from the plates.

[bhn22]

They fragment into mostly small pieces. Jacketed bullets do it too. Somewhere on the net is a picture of a steel silhouette being hit by a bullet. The bullets fragmenting at the nose, and the base is still driving forward. It's pretty cool!

[Echd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg

[canyon-ghost]

A 22 caliber at 100 yards turns into a little flake of lead. The ones that bounce off the targets up close, they're squished and deformed. Of course, people miss and there are a lot of bullets left in the berms.

Silhouette shooting, hunter's pistol, etc. 85542

[Artful]

Boolit's more like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgn7MUp6UxA

[220swiftfn]

Existential query perhaps, but what happens to boolits when they hit steel targets? We just got a bunch of steel, plate racks, poppers, etc., and I can't find any boolit remains other than the strikes on the targets. Do they just disintegrate?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg

This is a mix of just about everything, jacketed, cast impacting steel, armor steel, glass, etc. recorded at a million frames per second.......


Edit...... That's what I get for not reading thru the post before replying!!!!


Dan

[pearcetopher]

Once I was shooting my 629 240 grain at 1500fps cast boolit and one of the steel target instructors asked me to shoot his target.

Needless to say it knocked over the steel place and punched a big dent in the center of his target rendering it useless. The whole firing line stopped in awe and I chuckled slowly to myself. Best day ever!
Existential query perhaps, but what happens to boolits when they hit steel targets? We just got a bunch of steel, plate racks, poppers, etc., and I can't find any boolit remains other than the strikes on the targets. Do they just disintegrate?

[Sasquatch-1]

We are using 500ar armor plate at the range I belong to. I have fired rounds loaded with 24 grns of 296 with a 240 grn jacketed bullet and done NO damage to the targets. Now we do have a larger rocker (?) target that is spring loaded. The guys with their 45 acps make the target rock back on the springs. I can make the entire frame work rock back off the ground.

[prs]

If steel plate is set-up properly, the bullet fragments land close to the underside of the targets. Hard cast boolits at low gamer velocity are down right spooky if the targets are set ridged and plumb. The tops need to tilt outward and there should be some give to the hanging method.

prs

[RED333]

Depends on the kind of steel.
Ya aint finding these, 7mm and .308
http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac165/redintn/Left%20handed%207mm%20mag/backstop75thick2.jpg (http://s896.photobucket.com/user/redintn/media/Left%20handed%207mm%20mag/backstop75thick2.jpg.html)
http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac165/redintn/Left%20handed%207mm%20mag/backstop75thick.jpg (http://s896.photobucket.com/user/redintn/media/Left%20handed%207mm%20mag/backstop75thick.jpg.html)

[bhn22]

I must... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7W-5QE3jzw :bigsmyl2::bigsmyl2:


Once I was shooting my 629 240 grain at 1500fps cast boolit and one of the steel target instructors asked me to shoot his target.

Needless to say it knocked over the steel place and punched a big dent in the center of his target rendering it useless. The whole firing line stopped in awe and I chuckled slowly to myself. Best day ever!

[fredj338]

IME, harder alloy bullets will fragment, softer lead bullets will flatten & fall below the steel someplace.

[jaysouth]

At a club that I once belonged to, we had railroad tie plates suspended from a pipe. At 30 yards, a .45 or 9mm cast bullet would create a puff of grey smoke as it hit the plate. We once laid cardboard on the ground under the targets. After a couple of rounds, the cardboard looked like it had been hit by grenade shrapnel.

Tie plates are probably cast iron and not suitable for rifle bullets.

[w30wcf]

Depends on the kind of steel.
Ya aint finding these, 7mm and .308
http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac165/redintn/Left%20handed%207mm%20mag/backstop75thick2.jpg (http://s896.photobucket.com/user/redintn/media/Left%20handed%207mm%20mag/backstop75thick2.jpg.html)
http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac165/redintn/Left%20handed%207mm%20mag/backstop75thick.jpg (http://s896.photobucket.com/user/redintn/media/Left%20handed%207mm%20mag/backstop75thick.jpg.html)

DEFINTELY DON'T SHOOT AT THOSE PLATES UP CLOSE OR YOU WILL BE EATING BULLET FRAGMENTS......NOT EVEN WITH LOWER VELOCITY LEAD BULLETS.....IF ONE HITS ONE OF THOSE DEPRESSIONS....LOOK OUT....IT WILL BE HEADING BACK IN YOUR DIRECTION

w30wcf

[pdawg_shooter]

I fired a 430gr cast from WWs out of a .458 Win mag into a 1/2 steel plate. Made a nice round hole about 3/4" clear through.