Posted: 11/11/2014 4:10:47 PM EDT
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I've read the book that they are referencing, Sniper on the Eastern Front. Fascinating to see them test the ammo mentioned and used in the book. |
| Pretty nasty stuff. I wonder how the test would have been affected by shooting through a couple layers of fabric simulating the uniform of the poor bastard shot with it. Or perhaps they could have gone Mythbusters style and used a pig carcass. Regardless, still an interesting educational video. Thanks for sharing OP! |
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What a waste, using that tiny block of ballistic soap... Yep. Having done a little of this kind of stuff, I knew as soon as I saw it that they didn't have enough depth. I would have loved to see that stuff shot into actual properly prepared, calibrated, and refrigerated ballistics gelatin. Would have been fascinating. |
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Pretty nasty stuff. I wonder how the test would have been affected by shooting through a couple layers of fabric simulating the uniform of the poor bastard shot with it. Or perhaps they could have gone Mythbusters style and used a pig carcass. Regardless, still an interesting educational video. Thanks for sharing OP! For that to work you would probably have to use a sedated pig. |
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Pretty nasty stuff. I wonder how the test would have been affected by shooting through a couple layers of fabric simulating the uniform of the poor bastard shot with it. Or perhaps they could have gone Mythbusters style and used a pig carcass. Regardless, still an interesting educational video. Thanks for sharing OP! For that to work you would probably have to use a sedated pig. Either way, shooting a pig would have been another waste of ammo. Shoot properly prepared ballistics gelatin so that we could compare it to other ammo. That would be a "controlled" and informative test. |
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I wonder what kind of explosive they used in them. It seemed pretty potent stuff since the bullets have so little internal volume and much of that had to be taken up by the detonator mechanism. Maybe something similar to our Comp-B of that time? Apparently just a tetryl booster and some WP in the B-Patrone. https://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=3&f=16&t=554902 |
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Soap. That you shoot. And don't learn much, because it wasn't properly prepared ballistics gelatin. Quoted:
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WTF is Ballistic Soap? Soap. That you shoot. And don't learn much, because it wasn't properly prepared ballistics gelatin. 
While I think the test was stupid, just because its not in wide use in North America doesn't mean its not standardized. |
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WTF is Ballistic Soap? Soap. That you shoot. And don't learn much, because it wasn't properly prepared ballistics gelatin.
While I think the test was stupid, just because its not in wide use in North America doesn't mean its not standardized. Those guys were shooting in Russia? |
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Those guys were shooting in Russia? Quoted:
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WTF is Ballistic Soap? Soap. That you shoot. And don't learn much, because it wasn't properly prepared ballistics gelatin.
While I think the test was stupid, just because its not in wide use in North America doesn't mean its not standardized. Those guys were shooting in Russia? Those guy were shooting American ammo? |
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Soap. That you shoot. And don't learn much, because it wasn't properly prepared ballistics gelatin. Quoted:
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WTF is Ballistic Soap? Soap. That you shoot. And don't learn much, because it wasn't properly prepared ballistics gelatin. and much too small for a test block.. |
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I got my hands on a bit of .303 explosive years ago and shot it. Wish I had done more interesting tests with it, but it was cool stuff to shoot. I once found a single round of .303 tracer and inflammatory ammo in some mixed stuff I bought. It has three small holes in the front of the bullet. Some guys here identified it as rounds made to use in aircraft machine guns to set enemy aircraft fuel tanks on fire. I had never even heard of such. |
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I once found a single round of .303 tracer and inflammatory ammo in some mixed stuff I bought. It has three small holes in the front of the bullet. Some guys here identified it as rounds made to use in aircraft machine guns to set enemy aircraft fuel tanks on fire. I had never even heard of such. Quoted:
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I got my hands on a bit of .303 explosive years ago and shot it. Wish I had done more interesting tests with it, but it was cool stuff to shoot. I once found a single round of .303 tracer and inflammatory ammo in some mixed stuff I bought. It has three small holes in the front of the bullet. Some guys here identified it as rounds made to use in aircraft machine guns to set enemy aircraft fuel tanks on fire. I had never even heard of such. I haven't heard of an "anti-fuel tank" round, but I do seem to remember reading about anti-airship incindiary rounds.... Sounds like what you're desecibing. |
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1000 rounds please! Back when cans of Yugoslavian 8x57 were widely available a few people received a case of reloaded German B-Patrones. That would be a heck of a surprise. Ordering Yugo 8mm at a nickel a round and getting German "spotting rounds" in Yugo brass. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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WTF is Ballistic Soap? Soap. That you shoot. And don't learn much, because it wasn't properly prepared ballistics gelatin.
While I think the test was stupid, just because its not in wide use in North America doesn't mean its not standardized. Those guys were shooting in Russia? You must have missed all of the Arctic Cactus in the background. |
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Quoted: I haven't heard of an "anti-fuel tank" round, but I do seem to remember reading about anti-airship incindiary rounds.... Sounds like what you're desecibing. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I got my hands on a bit of .303 explosive years ago and shot it. Wish I had done more interesting tests with it, but it was cool stuff to shoot. I once found a single round of .303 tracer and inflammatory ammo in some mixed stuff I bought. It has three small holes in the front of the bullet. Some guys here identified it as rounds made to use in aircraft machine guns to set enemy aircraft fuel tanks on fire. I had never even heard of such. I haven't heard of an "anti-fuel tank" round, but I do seem to remember reading about anti-airship incindiary rounds.... Sounds like what you're desecibing. There were a good deal of explosive/incendiary .303 rounds developed and issued during WWI and WWII - balloon busting was also a motive of the incendiary .303 rounds. |
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In my cartridge collection I have a few different explosive rounds. I keep them in padded clear plastic tubes so they don't get bounced or hit by other rounds.
Some of my tracers and other exploding rounds have swelled by the moisture in the air and cracked the cases so I try to keep the ones I have in great shape. |
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Crappy website, video wouldn't work in Firefox or Internet Explorer, finally got it to work on Google Chrome, play 2-3 seconds, load 5-6-8 seconds, play 2-3 seconds, what a pain in the ASS! I don't know what they did on that video that was different, other stories on the same page the video worked just fine. |
| I was just reading about this today (Blood Red Snow) and was wondering if they were really explosive. Interesting video. |