SteelCore
03-05-2007, 02:46 PM
I dunno where range reports will go, so here's a short one from about two weeks ago.
I went out to shoot at my buddy's just to put some rounds downrange, and to sight a scope I put on my Yugo SKS...well, it was crappy weather, so I forewent the sighting on the SKS (although my spotter said at 50yd it was shooting about 3inches high and the same left) so I got out the M-44 Mosin. My buddy announces he has this big chunk of steel he wants to shoot. It is some old mill table thing or something, the front is gridded off in 1/4 inch increments, and the thing is about 9inches by 12 inches, and is 1.5" thick.
Well, all the .30 cals I have will shoot thru 1/2" to 3/4" of mild steel, so I say OK< put it on the berm at an angle, and I'll shoot it. I lit it up with the M-44 from 50yds, shot it with bulgy 147gr lead core FMJ. it took a chunk out of the facing of the thing to a depth of 3/8ths of an inch, and the crater was about 1 inch in diameter. OK, same but with the 172gr. Czech mild steelcore. This has the same outcome as the lead core, and I hit right next to it, so it was easy to compare. the difference is that the SC round causes a split in the plate (since the plate was cast).
Shot it with a burst from the SKS, and those tiny bullets hardly did 1/4" of damage, and the crater was about 3/4" in diameter (easy to masure--remember the face of the plate is gredded off)..I did hit the corner, which broke off and disappeared.
Next up (we usually just shoot paper at his berm, but he was in a weird mood) was an old, out of charge fire extiguisher he had. Surprisingly, the 762x54R bullet in either grain weight would go in, but leave a bulge at the back...turns out that the tanks are pretty thick, and that the powdery yello stuff really stops a bullet--remmeber this if you have to defend against a hi-caliber rifle, i guess :)..once the stuff kinda became 'dust in the wind,' then it was easy enough to poke a hole right thru both sides of the tank. That one layer fo steel and the powder provided all the stopping power necessary.
I went out to shoot at my buddy's just to put some rounds downrange, and to sight a scope I put on my Yugo SKS...well, it was crappy weather, so I forewent the sighting on the SKS (although my spotter said at 50yd it was shooting about 3inches high and the same left) so I got out the M-44 Mosin. My buddy announces he has this big chunk of steel he wants to shoot. It is some old mill table thing or something, the front is gridded off in 1/4 inch increments, and the thing is about 9inches by 12 inches, and is 1.5" thick.
Well, all the .30 cals I have will shoot thru 1/2" to 3/4" of mild steel, so I say OK< put it on the berm at an angle, and I'll shoot it. I lit it up with the M-44 from 50yds, shot it with bulgy 147gr lead core FMJ. it took a chunk out of the facing of the thing to a depth of 3/8ths of an inch, and the crater was about 1 inch in diameter. OK, same but with the 172gr. Czech mild steelcore. This has the same outcome as the lead core, and I hit right next to it, so it was easy to compare. the difference is that the SC round causes a split in the plate (since the plate was cast).
Shot it with a burst from the SKS, and those tiny bullets hardly did 1/4" of damage, and the crater was about 3/4" in diameter (easy to masure--remember the face of the plate is gredded off)..I did hit the corner, which broke off and disappeared.
Next up (we usually just shoot paper at his berm, but he was in a weird mood) was an old, out of charge fire extiguisher he had. Surprisingly, the 762x54R bullet in either grain weight would go in, but leave a bulge at the back...turns out that the tanks are pretty thick, and that the powdery yello stuff really stops a bullet--remmeber this if you have to defend against a hi-caliber rifle, i guess :)..once the stuff kinda became 'dust in the wind,' then it was easy enough to poke a hole right thru both sides of the tank. That one layer fo steel and the powder provided all the stopping power necessary.