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Posted: 12/29/2019 11:30:54 AM EDT

Here’s the scenario: With a 16” 5.56 AR and ordinary 55-62gr FMJ somehow you’re in a scenario where you fire at a bad guy from five feet away. Except instead of shooting center mass, the bad guy is either laying down or jumping over you. Bullet enters at the target’s taint and travels parallel to the spine avoiding most bones. In other words the bullet is traveling the longest path through a man’s torso.

How far will it go?

What would it take to punch through the skull on the other side?

Posted: 12/28/2019 9:57:18 PM EDT

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It'll spin so hard it'll come out his left foot.

Posted: 12/28/2019 10:00:06 PM EDT

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Ask in GD

Posted: 12/28/2019 10:01:50 PM EDT

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about the same as ballistic gel... its set up for similar consistency as human flesh...

Posted: 12/28/2019 10:03:31 PM EDT

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Christ.

Posted: 12/28/2019 10:06:13 PM EDT

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And a Tech Forum at that.

Posted: 12/28/2019 10:11:36 PM EDT

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And a Tech Forum at that.

"Taint" and "penetrate" all in one thread. Hard pass.

Posted: 12/28/2019 10:22:52 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/28/2019 11:23:02 PM EDT

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62 grain probably 20", 55 grain 18" is my guess. Important question tho, collateral damage is a real thing

Posted: 12/28/2019 11:23:23 PM EDT

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Except humans have a whole lotta bones whereas ballistic gel doesn't.

Posted: 12/28/2019 11:26:28 PM EDT

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This is so far from a Tech question, I would not know which section to put it in.

Posted: 12/28/2019 11:32:17 PM EDT

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Muscle tissue, your guts, lungs etc are much less dense. My guess is at best it would exit the upper torso as I doubt it would keep a straight path. XM855 would go deeper than M193 as it doesn't tumble near as quickly, but neither I don't think have much chance of making it the full length mostly due to the chang of path once it tumbles.

Posted: 12/28/2019 11:34:42 PM EDT

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Taint, penetrate, and hard all in one post....

Posted: 12/28/2019 11:47:01 PM EDT

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Dear Penthouse...

Posted: 12/28/2019 11:57:30 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/28/2019 11:58:47 PM EDT

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It belongs in GD!

In after the move.

Posted: 12/29/2019 12:01:25 AM EDT

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GD

Posted: 12/29/2019 12:02:21 AM EDT

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Posted: 12/29/2019 12:42:37 AM EDT

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Texas heart shot on a man?

Posted: 12/29/2019 11:18:26 AM EDT

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If that bullet is messing with his taint, I'd say it make it all the way to 3rd base.

Posted: 12/29/2019 11:33:25 AM EDT

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Here’s the scenario: With a 16” 5.56 AR and ordinary 55-62gr FMJ somehow you’re in a scenario where you fire at a bad guy from five feet away. Except instead of shooting center mass, the bad guy is either laying down or jumping over you. Bullet enters at the target’s taint and travels parallel to the spine avoiding most bones. In other words the bullet is traveling the longest path through a man’s torso.How far will it go?
What would it take to punch through the skull on the other side?

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projectile --> velocity --> density --> destabilization --> yaw --> cannelure --> fragmentation --> laceration/cavitation.

you should look these words up.

Posted: 12/29/2019 11:35:28 AM EDT

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The second wall, you penetrate the second wall.

Posted: 12/29/2019 11:43:22 AM EDT

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Acrobats been fucking with you again, OP? You're wise to take precautions, they can be a rough crowd.

Posted: 12/29/2019 11:44:47 AM EDT

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Came to post this.

So basically, I second the penetration of a second wall penetration post into this second wall penetrating post.

Posted: 12/29/2019 11:47:01 AM EDT

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Ask Deadpool. I think he took one in the taint.

Posted: 12/29/2019 11:48:27 AM EDT

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You’ve been playing a bunch of CoD, haven’t you?

Posted: 12/29/2019 11:48:29 AM EDT

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Lol. And it’s his second post. Whose using their burner account?

Posted: 12/29/2019 12:02:52 PM EDT

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Had a doe do a quick turn on me and ended up shooting it from to back very near the area in question. It bounced off the spine and lodged under the hide a few inches forward of the hear/lungs. It may have went straight through if it didnt bounce off the spine but it severed the spinal cord and dropped it straight down. Fwiw.

Posted: 12/29/2019 12:18:12 PM EDT

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Damn. Helluva second post from a 15er.

Posted: 12/29/2019 12:20:53 PM EDT

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Taint never gonna reach the skull.

Bullet yaw and all that.

Posted: 12/29/2019 12:21:32 PM EDT

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She said eight and half inches.....

Posted: 12/29/2019 12:29:41 PM EDT

[#31]

Just the tip.........I promise

Posted: 12/29/2019 12:32:03 PM EDT

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Christmas break poster.

Posted: 12/29/2019 12:41:54 PM EDT

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2 posts in 4 years...ok.

Posted: 12/29/2019 12:44:42 PM EDT

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#TaintShot

Posted: 12/29/2019 12:49:14 PM EDT

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I love how guys in the tech forums get a taste of GD and recoil in horror and disgust.

Posted: 12/29/2019 12:54:25 PM EDT

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2015 with 2 posts and this is the second.

Posted: 12/29/2019 12:58:38 PM EDT

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Wow, recently banned or just decided to burn an old troll account?

Posted: 12/29/2019 1:01:03 PM EDT

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To the third wall.

Posted: 12/29/2019 1:03:35 PM EDT

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Bullet enters taint, and exists left nipple. Every single time.

Posted: 12/29/2019 1:04:50 PM EDT

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+1

It will travel ~ 16", but will likely fragment and only a portion of the bullet will reach that distance.

So it will likely stop somewhere in the upper abdominal cavity (average adult male), depending on the size of the person.

Posted: 12/29/2019 1:05:37 PM EDT

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Lol

Posted: 12/29/2019 1:10:38 PM EDT

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8.7 inches

Duh

Posted: 12/29/2019 1:13:00 PM EDT

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I don't know, but since this is in GD: a 7mm Remington Magnum on the same axis will puff up a fat ass marauding beagle
in a millisecond and leave the face hanging off the other end

Posted: 12/29/2019 1:14:59 PM EDT

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All the way through.

Posted: 12/29/2019 1:17:57 PM EDT

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I came for this.

And, Phrasing...

Posted: 12/29/2019 1:19:26 PM EDT

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about 12" is my guess.

Posted: 12/29/2019 1:25:41 PM EDT

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We actually had something pretty close to this happen when I was in Iraq in 2003-2004. One of our platoons got in a firefight, and one of the opposition got shot right up the asshole. 1 in a million shot for sure. Not sure how far it went, but needless to say, the guy didn’t survive.