S&W 500, cool little find

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sandmansans

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Thought I'd share with you all this neat little find I made this weekend. I took my s&w500 to my buddy's farm and we decided to do a series of tests in what the gun could penetrate/destroy. One of the tests was seeing if it would penetrate through a large round hay bale, 9mm did not make it through. No surprise that the 500 did make it through, but what was surprising was finding the projectile INTACT! I thought that was pretty cool, apart from a few scratches it looks like it could be cleaned and loaded again. I think that it was a perfect combination of the dense hay slowing it down enough and the dirt being a medium-dense clay, that again allowed it to slow without deforming.

Take a look and see.


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Yea, and after all of that, I had a weed deflect a bullet form mine and cause me to miss a deer. The deer was 65 to 70 yards. out and I had a good rest and missed. Could not see how I missed until I seen a Horse weed that I had hit, yet it will go through a big round bale. :confused:
 
Catfish said:
Yea, and after all of that, I had a weed deflect a bullet form mine and cause me to miss a deer. The deer was 65 to 70 yards. out and I had a good rest and missed. Could not see how I missed until I seen a Horse weed that I had hit, yet it will go through a big round bale. :confused:
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Lol haha that's hilarious., even more so considering those bails weigh near 800lbs, very dense and compact. I think your post and mine highlight how complex and variable ballistics truly are. What load were you using? I've tried a wide variety and I keep going back to the standard corbon 440. They punch through stuff and fly straight.
 
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Lol haha that's hilarious., even more so considering those bails weigh near 800lbs, very dense and compact. I think your post and mine highlight how complex and variable ballistics truly are. What load were you using? I've tried a wide variety and I keep going back to the standard corbon 440. They punch through stuff and fly straight.
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Also punched a nice home through some steel reinforced concrete plate. The stuff they use to make fireplaces with. Pretty dense material. I'll take a picture tomorrow. Here is a picture of a birch tree my friend hit with the vaporizer hollow points. Damn near split the tree. It wasn't a dead center hit and you can see in the picture where it stayed lodged. Birch is a pretty dense wood and id guestimate it was 4-6 inches in diameter

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sandmansans said:
Also punched a nice home through some steel reinforced concrete plate. The stuff they use to make fireplaces with. Pretty dense material. I'll take a picture tomorrow. Here is a picture of a birch tree my friend hit with the vaporizer hollow points. Damn near split the tree. It wasn't a dead center hit and you can see in the picture where it stayed lodged. Birch is a pretty dense wood and id guestimate it was 4-6 inches in diameter

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I'm waiting for the 9mm fanbois to say that if you put enough pluses around it (++++9mm++++), Georg's cartridge will exceed the .50.
 
Dain Bramage said:
I'm waiting for the 9mm fanbois to say that if you put enough pluses around it (++++9mm++++), Georg's cartridge will exceed the .50.
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Lol oh god, I know exactly what you mean. I think they can all be grouped as the semi auto fanboys, as I've heard the most belligerent tard babble In comparing semi auto rounds to magnum revolver loads.

Lol my favorite is the 9mm outgunning .357 and 10mm being the same as 44 mag lol

For the record I like 9mm very much, my favorite plinking round....before anyone goes and accuses me of being biased.
 
I like 9mm too. Have an AR in that caliber that my daughter just loves to shoot.

The OP firing a 9mm in the bale prior to the .500 Mag just gave me an inspiration to be snotty.
 
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Here are the pics of the concrete.

The crater on the right is from a 425 grain hollow point from mattsbullets, named the vaporizer. Despite not going through all the way, it left a nasty crater and and left serious damage to the rear
The one on the left is from a 440 grain hsm bear load round. Punched clean through it and did considerable damage on the second plate behind it.

Again these are very dense concrete and are steel reinforced.

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This is the back of that slab.

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This is the second slab that was behind the first. Its cracked all over the place.
 
i've found .45 acp bullets of mine at the back stop...and a few 300gr .45-70 bullets, collected a .22 short in a tin can lol one hole and a dimple on the other side
 
They show up now. Makes for a much more interesting post. Surprised how clean the holes through that concrete appear. The reinforcing fiber really worked.
 
Hope y'all don't mind me buttin' in, but another anecdotal story.

True whether believable or not.

Back in my younger days, I would cast all my handgun bullets very hard. I thought that was better. I have learned a lot since then.

Anywho, I loaded some stout loads in my 44 SBH with H110. I was fond of recovering bullets and now have quite a collection of all sorts of them.

I could not recover any of these and I was bewildered. At that time and before the beavers moved in and chewed all the willows down that were growing around the tank, I picked out an 18" diameter specimen to do some recovery work on.

I hit the willow dead center about a foot above the ground and went to work. I always use a long screw driver to locate the bullets and started inserting it into the hole. Low and behold, before I realized what was going on, the screw driver was sticking out the other side. Damn bullet fully penetrated the tree and I never recovered any of them.
 
johnwilliamson062 said:
They show up now. Makes for a much more interesting post. Surprised how clean the holes through that concrete appear. The reinforcing fiber really worked.
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Yea that's what really got me too! I still have a few slabs of it left, I look forwards to doing more testing with it.
Dufus said:
Hope y'all don't mind me buttin' in, but another anecdotal story.

True whether believable or not.

Back in my younger days, I would cast all my handgun bullets very hard. I thought that was better. I have learned a lot since then.

Anywho, I loaded some stout loads in my 44 SBH with H110. I was fond of recovering bullets and now have quite a collection of all sorts of them.

I could not recover any of these and I was bewildered. At that time and before the beavers moved in and chewed all the willows down that were growing around the tank, I picked out an 18" diameter specimen to do some recovery work on.

I hit the willow dead center about a foot above the ground and went to work. I always use a long screw driver to locate the bullets and started inserting it into the hole. Low and behold, before I realized what was going on, the screw driver was sticking out the other side. Damn bullet fully penetrated the tree and I never recovered any of them.
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Don't mind at all! That's the purpose of this thread. Besides who doesn't enjoy a nice story of a large caliber bullet doing serious damage!!


I will try your screwdriver trick. There was another one that I shot into the bale that also want through, but it was a 700 grain bullet. I would have loved to find that one intact!
 
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