Power of a .22LR

[Gramps]

Chuck - I have one or two Houston phone books you experiment with. Hmmm I have some nice thick specification books too...

 

[Sugar Land]

Cool Gramps. Try to remember next time we meet up. People underestimate the power of that little .22lr

 

[AaronP220]

There's like 12 phone books in my front hall closet.

I think. You know you're welcome to them.

 

[Sugar Land]

Hell yes. Bring them by next time. I would like to know what it will take to stop that .22lr. Remember we used 5 or 6 thick paperbacks with the 500 mag. and it blew through all of them.

 

[AaronP220]

To this day she asks me where her books are.

 

[RetArmySgt]

Im going to build a few of the boxes that i mentioned earlier and see how well they work.

 

[Das Jared]

I've used yellow pages for up to 30-40 hits. If more, use more books

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[Armybrat]

double post.

 

[Armybrat]

As a high school lad 50 years ago, I fired a Remington Kleanbore standard velocity .22 LR from my Ruger Single Six (5 1/2" bbl) through the City of Austin phone book leaning up against the baseboard in my bedroom. Of course Mom & Dad weren't at home. lol

It lodged somewhere inside the baseboard and may still be there.

Pretty loud too, especially with no ear protection.

Still have my 1959 Ruger:

 

[Sugar Land]

Portable Bullet Box: Hunting : Walmart.com

This looks kinda nice for $60.

 

[General Zod]

As a high school lad 50 years ago, I fired a Remington Kleanbore standard velocity .22 LR from my Ruger Single Six (5 1/2" bbl) through the City of Austin phone book leaning up against the baseboard in my bedroom. Of course Mom & Dad weren't at home. lol

It lodged somewhere inside the baseboad and may still be there.

Pretty loud too, especially with no ear protection.

Still have my 1959 Ruger:

I'm betting it wasn't duct-taped...see, that's the secret.







Don't tell anyone. OK?

 

[AaronP220]

Sorry. HAD to do this...

Mall Rats Zod - YouTube

 

[AndyMitty]

I shoot into thick pieces of stump/firewood that are too big for the fireplace. Probably close to 500 rounds of .22 lodged in the stump that's sitting out there now. Works extremely well and doesn't harm any living tress.

 

[General Zod]

Sorry. HAD to do this...

Mall Rats Zod - YouTube

Snoochie boochies.

 

[Gilgondorin]

Does anyone have any experience with trying to stop a standard .22lr? I am wondering how many inches of phonebook will it take to stop it. Opinions welcome.

Try using two 550 page books, both soaked through and through in water and stacked in front of each other. They won't be much good after the 8th or 9th shot, but you should be able to recover some fragments even in just the first book alone.

I remember when i was younger my dad and uncle built a stop for my .22. It was a box made out of 1x2's and ply wood with 5 or those carpet squares hung it in with a few inches between each one and the open areas had straw and newspaper in them. It was something about the open area between the carpet squares that made it work. I dont know the theory behind it but somehow the air gap helps to slow the round.

My theory, and is subject to cause laughter, is that the projectile expends a certain amount of momentum into the first piece, travels across the air gap, and then sheds more momentum.
If there wasn't an air gap the momentum would be shed into what is essentially a single object versus several objects.

Your dad probably didn't know it at the time, but basically what he did was create a target that harnessed the superior protective qualities of composite materials.

Basically.... He used layers. Armored vehicles are defended in the same way against RPG rockets and high-caliber anti-tank weapons. M-1 Abrams armor is composed of layers of plate steel, ceramics, glass, plastics, or air, that fragment on impact when hit by a rocket. Theoretically, composite armor could absorb a shaped-charge explosion with 6" of layers that 12" of solid AND slanted plate/block steel couldn't stop. The result is that you end up with this:

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Instead of this:

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Essentially, the carpet and newspaper are doing the same thing on a much smaller scale with .22 bullets instead of explosives. It's an idea I haven't heard of before, but I'll definitely have to try that sometime when I'm out shooting with a friend of mine!

 

[Dawico]

I was going to recommend soaking the books also. Make all those thin pages just a little heavier.

 

[Sugar Land]

These are some very good points. The two 550 page books will be the next try. As posted before one 500 page book is not enough. I am guessing 2 or 3 more will do the trick.

 

[RetArmySgt]

...Your dad probably didn't know it at the time, but basically what he did was create a target that harnessed the superior protective qualities of composite materials.

...

He was an intelligent man and knew the theories behind what he was doing but when he tried to explain it to me I was 5 years old and hadn't thought about it since then until this thread came up. This was in the late 80s and he built it so that i could still shoot my rifle when i wasnt out at my aunts house in Wimberly.

 

[Tejano Scott]

Threads like this are one of the reasons I think Chuck and Aaron are two of the coolest people I know.

 

[scap99]

Threads like this are one of the reasons I think Chuck and Aaron are two of the coolest people I know.

I can't see it, spatially.