500 yard bullet impact

Clobbersauras said:
I've shot at a double walled stainless steel pan at 200 yards with standard velocity ammo. I was shocked to see how much energy it imparted into that little pan.....
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Curious about how much energy your partner may have imparted up the side of your head when she saw the pot! LOL :eek:
 
Rugerman said:
Interesting exercise and nice shooting. Out of curiosity, not questioning the validity of your thread in any way, where did the bullets end up? Did they hit and fall straight down, bounce back a substantial distance or ricochet all over. Did you use a trap of any kind or were they easy to locate?
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Anywhere from six inches to a foot in front of the target, I think at the downward angle of flight they are all reflected down
 
bolbmw said:
at 500 yards the average 40gr with a muzzle velocity of 1070 fps will have dropped 596 inches and will still be traveling at 570 feet/s. it will be carrying about 29 ft lbs of force.

this will vary depending on altitude, perhaps greatly. this is at sealevel
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Are you sure about the 596 inches? That's just a hair under 50 ft of drop.
 
ea187 said:
Are you sure about the 596 inches? That's just a hair under 50 ft of drop.
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That's what my ballistics calculator says - and it has been dead on for everything else. I have no reason to doubt it. Other calculators and peoples ballistics charts agree.

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I have no problem believing that. If you shot airguns you know that even at 400fps pellets will flatten almost as much when shot at steel. Soft lead bullet will flatten like that even at 500-750fps and I'm sure .22LR still has that velocity at 500yards. Keep in mind .22 can travel about 1500 yards.
 
Desertfrog, a marine living in California and a hell of a shot; took his Savage 22 and a dressed turkey into the high desert and did some testing. The results would probably surprise most people. He wrote an article/report on the experience, google it. People always underestimate the mighty 22 rimfire. Nice shooting by the way, I'm glad to see I'm not the only "crazy" person around here.:D
 
bolbmw said:
That's what my ballistics calculator says - and it has been dead on for everything else. I have no reason to doubt it. Other calculators and peoples ballistics charts agree.

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Then the OP must have been aiming straight up at the treetops to hit his target.
 
I was getting 35-40 feet of drop when I was shooting standard high velocity 22lr at 540 yards. And I can tell you that if you get extremely lucky and happen to hit a gopher at that range it will still zip right through them! :D Did this once, pure luck and 15 shots later!
 
ea187 said:
Then the OP must have been aiming straight up at the treetops to hit his target.
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That is correct sir. Aim at the top of a 40-50 ft tree to hit the base at 500 yards.

An analogy would be....

Guys who hit home runs have to actually hit the ball into the air to get it to just clear a 10 ft fence in the outfield.


Have you ever seen the scope set up on really long range rifles??? Like one-two mile guns? The rings are almost 6 inches high at the rear and 4 inches at the front, and the scope is nowhere near parallel with the barrel in fact it points towards he muzzle and has to be lifted very high off the receiver so the muzzle does not interfere with the sight picture. scope points down, muzzle points up, waaaay up..... Long range shooting is more like long range Lobbing.
 
the americian military conciders anything that penatrates 1\2 inch pine to be leathal and the test i saw (i belive it was guns and ammo tv) they did it out too 440 yards, the longest target they had. awesome post by the way and great shots, would not belived it if you didnt show it.
adam
 
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