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Boss had a box full of these stupid little Stanley Cup coasters hanging around for too long and told me to get rid of them. They are basically what you get if you saw a hockey puck into three slices, and since I am always on the lookout for fresh targets for plinking, I tapped seven of them together and found them to be quite tough reaction targets for the .22. It got me thinking about trying penetration tests with what ammo I had to hand.
So, I lined up the targets at 25 metres, loaded five different rounds into the trusty Marlin 7000, and tried some science.
First up, standard Winchester 555s.
Penetrated two coasters and sat there burning the third one. Nice mushrooming. Sorry for the potato-quality, didn't have the right setting on.
Next, Dynapoints- my current go-to ammo.
Also two coasters penned, basically the same effect as the 555s. Cleaner mushrooming effect, though.
Mini-Mags! Surely they went right through, right?
Nope.
Penned two and that's it. Noticeable difference though was that the mushroom effect was very pronounced, the edge of it curling back well below what would have been the base of the bullet.
Velocitors up next. You'll note I hadn't paid attention to the sudden increase in velocity these things have over the others and shot quite high.
Penetrated two and nearly all the way through the third! This bullet was -moving-.
One very squashed bullet.
Lastly, the CCI Segmented, or as they are known now- Quik-Shoks.
I'm not going to lie- I was hoping for violent detonation of this thing on impact.
You can see where the three pieces would have separated in a softer target, but here it was just another bullet. Only went through two coasters, despite being the same weight and velocity as the Velocitors.
And that's that. I had been hoping for some more interesting results from this, but all I really discovered was that these little homemade reactive targets do a good job of holding onto the lead.
Next time, I'll see what a .22 Kilbourn-Hornet, a .44 Magnum, and a Mosin-Nagant will do to them!
So, I lined up the targets at 25 metres, loaded five different rounds into the trusty Marlin 7000, and tried some science.
First up, standard Winchester 555s.
Penetrated two coasters and sat there burning the third one. Nice mushrooming. Sorry for the potato-quality, didn't have the right setting on.
Next, Dynapoints- my current go-to ammo.
Also two coasters penned, basically the same effect as the 555s. Cleaner mushrooming effect, though.
Mini-Mags! Surely they went right through, right?
Nope.
Penned two and that's it. Noticeable difference though was that the mushroom effect was very pronounced, the edge of it curling back well below what would have been the base of the bullet.
Velocitors up next. You'll note I hadn't paid attention to the sudden increase in velocity these things have over the others and shot quite high.
Penetrated two and nearly all the way through the third! This bullet was -moving-.
One very squashed bullet.
Lastly, the CCI Segmented, or as they are known now- Quik-Shoks.
I'm not going to lie- I was hoping for violent detonation of this thing on impact.
You can see where the three pieces would have separated in a softer target, but here it was just another bullet. Only went through two coasters, despite being the same weight and velocity as the Velocitors.
And that's that. I had been hoping for some more interesting results from this, but all I really discovered was that these little homemade reactive targets do a good job of holding onto the lead.
Next time, I'll see what a .22 Kilbourn-Hornet, a .44 Magnum, and a Mosin-Nagant will do to them!
