Federal 3in 000 vs car door

[Kevinq6]

This is a 3in load from 10 feet, and 20% gelatin. The buckshot barely goes 10in into the gel. That surprises me as I thought it would penetrate a little deeper. Of course, the strength of a car door will vary. But it's a good reference.

I remember an expert saying Brennekke slugs are for windshields and car doors (I think it was Evan Marshal).

I was thinking of switching my trunk gun load to 15 pellet 00 buck but after watching this I think I will keep it at 000.

 

[Klint Beastwood]

yeah but did you see that energy dump? you can see the displacement from the hydrostatic shock....not here to say it's better or worst, but didnt look like horrible results...also wonder if the car door was alloy or steel...going with probably aluminum.

 

[Kevinq6]

yeah but did you see that energy dump? you can see the displacement from the hydrostatic shock....not here to say it's better or worst, but didnt look like horrible results...also wonder if the car door was alloy or steel...going with probably aluminum.

Definitely not horrible results, and I think you'd be very unhappy if placed where the block was.

I was thinking about this story where a homeowner used his AR15 from his yard to stop a drive-by shooting. I was thinking, hell maybe pumping 7 or 8 rounds of 000 into the car would have been effective as well. Would be a lot of projectiles. Hmm...

 

[Gordon]

most slugs work very well thru cars ! I took vehicle stop classes from Louis Awerbuck and Scotty Reitz , the slugs rule, but 7.62x39, which I used in one class was real good too ! Buck shot is iffy, nobody used 000 tho , but I would not trust it myself. Even 000 is just a bunch of 1851 Colt Navy .36 balls at trans sonic velocity.

 

[GRIZ22]

Sidebeams, window mechanisms, air bags,and glass if the window is down offer a lot of resistance to try and make any buckshot do reliabe damage. The door skin, whether it's steel or aluminum, is the easy part. Not many cars or trucks out there that don't have steel doors.

 

[RMc]

Use bigger buckshot! Enter Dixie TriBall into your search engine. 3 x .60" @ 1100 fps.

 

[FL-NC]

Sidebeams, window mechanisms, air bags,and glass if the window is down offer a lot of resistance to try and make any buckshot do reliabe damage. The door skin, whether it's steel or aluminum, is the easy part. Not many cars or trucks out there that don't have steel doors.

This is the best assessment, and applies to all projectiles that civilians would have common access to. I have had to engage more than a few soft skin vehicles with bad guys in them (or at least been a party to such engagements) and this is why we liberally used automatic weapons fire to insure full neutralization.

 

[If1HitU]

I wished I could hear the sound in the video.