Bullets and Ice Blocks

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evan1293

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I haven't been able to experimentally determine this for myself yet and Im hoping somebody out there has done this....Can anyone tell me roughly how many inches of ice a pistol cartridge will penetrate? Any cartridge would do for my purposes...if you've tried it with any caliber, let me know what you found...hollowpoints, fmjs..doesn't matter. Just trying to get a rough idea.

thanks!
 
I dont know about penitration but I do know food coloring put in ice cubes make excellent targets in the winner.

They melt, and no fuse and mess to clean up.
 
Penetrate? Or destroy?

I don't think you can get a pistol cartridge to penetrate ice. It simply shatters.

And it won't be based on depth but total mass.
 
Ice just shatters. Unless you want to mix up your own pykrete (the stuff made up of ~15% sawdust+water that was the proposed material for ice ships in WWII). Apparently a Webley .45 round fired by Lord Mountbatton ricocheted off it, and rifle bullets could be stopped by it.
 
I have fired 200 gr Speer flying ashtrays (.45 ACP) into a small pond that was frozen solid. They only penetrated about 2 1/2 inches and were easy to dig out. There was almost no expansion of the bullet. Bullet just started to open and then it stopped "cold." I still have them I think.
 
I'm a lazyass, and I left the pool up this winter. It froze about 10" thick, so I took a 4lb hammer and a big chisel and broke out some big blocks to shoot. They did indeed explode on impact... all different calibers.

That idea with the sawdust+water, though, sounds like fun! Maybe I'll dump the dustbag from my tablesaw into the pool at the end of this summer...:D
 
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