BloodNGuts
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Interesting video. Ballistic gel would have been better for testing imo.
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Shooting through car door for self defense
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Ballistic Therapy
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What if the window was rolled down ?
Doc
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Ballistic Therapy said:
Shoot through the open window?
OMart
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Different situation but, I had a neighbor when I lived in an apartment complex that fired a round of .40SW through his front door and into the passenger side door of my Toyota Echo. It did penetrate the metal but not the door panel. These were cheaply built apartments but they did have tough as hell doors.
Suck My Glock
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There was a famous gun video in the 80's where they tested shooting various calibers through cars to see what would occur. These were 70's used cars, so they had heavier construction that today. But what they discovered was that the interior construction of a car door was not consistent. You might hit the door in a spot where there was just two panels of sheet metal to penetrate, and even a .380 would punch through that. But impact in the same door just an inch or two to the left or right or up or down, and the bullet might hit a reinforcing cross-member or the window mechanism, and stop even a .45 or magnum. Whether a common handgun round would penetrate was a roll of the dice.
I'm sure that to some degree that is still possible, although I think some of these current car doors are less substantial than a 1975 Chevy Impala.
I'm sure that to some degree that is still possible, although I think some of these current car doors are less substantial than a 1975 Chevy Impala.
Ballistic Therapy
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Doc said:
I was talking about his little test.
Shoot through the door with the window down and see how it works.
Pretty sure Paul Harrel has a video shooting up an Isuzu Rodeo, what would just go right through. I think the premise was that cars are not great protection.
cool arrow
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now hold on just a minute...people hide behind car doors all the time on TV and never get hit...
samnev
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cool arrow said:
And their weapons never recoil or run out of ammo.
cool arrow said:
Yea!! all you have to do is scrunch down in the seat below the window and you can drive through a barrage of bullets delivered by 30 cartel bad guys firing full auto .. I seen it too damnit!! :mrgreen:
The radiator never gets a hole either .. amazing! next time the guy should try the radiator .. prediction .. no penetration
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