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Posted: 2/13/2005 3:41:23 PM EDT
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Not that I doubted the 5.45's tumbling characteristics, it's just that seeing its wake of destruction instead of reading about it puts a whole new spin on things. These pics are of an old oven that needed to be put down. All of these shots were taken from approx. 50 yards. This is the bottom of the oven which was used as the point of entrance for the test.  This picture is of the bottom portion of the interior of the oven. You can see that the bullets were traveling completely sideways at this point.  This picture is showing the top of the oven, with the cover removed. The other entrance holes are from a 22LR.  Here are a couple misc. pictures of "bullet" shaped holes. Some of the other holes are from a 9mm.   On a somewhat interesting side note we shot the sides of the oven with some Wolf .223 (55gr FMJ) and it exhibited some very good fragmentation characteristics. You can actually see some of what I'm talking about on the last picture. Whether it would do the same in tissue is an unknown but the fact that the 5.45 wasn't doing it makes me wonder. Nothing beats real world testing. |
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