The
Box O' Truth #13 - The Water Box O' Truth
Part 2 - Page 4
It
penetrated 3 jugs and ended up in the 4th.
We
had only 5 gallons of water left, so we
tried a last round of .40 S&W Hydrashock.
It penetrated all 5 jugs, and blew a nice
.40 caliber hole in the back of the Waterbox
O' Truth.
From the looks of the hole, Tman said that
it didn't expand at all.
I
wasn't sure if I could draw any conclusions,
but Tman assured me that as an Engineer,
he could draw "a family of curves"
from one data point.
Lessons learned:
Today was full of surprises.
1. The .22 LR penetrated and expanded more
than I would have guessed.
2. The Hydrashock rounds, both the 9mm and
the .40 S&W seemed to fail to expand some
of the time. This was disappointing.
3. The Golden Saber .45 ACP sure looks like
a great round before you shoot it. But the
core and jacket failed to stay together.
4. The Glaser .38 Special blew up the first
jug, but did not have much penetration. This
is a concern to many folks that believe defense
rounds need to penetrate into the vitals of
a bad guy to work well. Penetration was very
limited.
5. Some folks are critical of Corbon ammo,
but what we shot today worked as advertised.
6. And, to keep everybody happy, Shooting
stuff is Fun.
Looks like we still have more testing to do.
Thanks to GaryM, and Dragracer_Art for the
ammo, and to Tman for the photography.
