Will a .50 Cal Stop A Running Engine?

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 5/11/2017 | J Hines

[w1n1]

FullMag Youtuber Ford truck usage has taken its toll, the cylinder has gone out. It would cost more to have it fix then to just go out and buy a new truck. Rather than tear up the vehicle piece by piece, they’ve decided to try out a theory with a 50 cal Barrett. Can a .50 cal stop a running engine?

FullMag utilizes the armor piercing, incendiary round for a good cause. Shooting through the block is relatively anticlimactic, since it will only leak oil. So let's try to place a couple rounds through the valves and see if we can get some fire coming out. See the 50 cal against an engine block here.

[mad_as_he$$]

Maybe, but only if you shoot and hit it - then still a chance it keeps going.

[Red Badger]

In reality the truck will probably not run as normal.

A Chevy would................

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Well, now they’ve done it. I’ll never enjoy another movie again.

[Obadiah]

Will a .50 Cal Stop A Running Engine?

Yes. Just one headshot to the driver and the vehicle with the running engine stops - guaranteed.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

I was just thinking that in the movie “The Accountant” the truck is stopped with 1 shot from a .50 cal, and I just assumed that it was plausible.

[Tijeras_Slim]

lol

[dangerdoc]

Yes, if you hit the right spot.

A random shot will likely eventually stop the engine due to fluid leakage. A shot hitting the crank shaft or timing belt will stop it cold.

[Red Badger]

I was wondering if anyone would get that.....................B^)

[Ahithophel]

Yes. Just one headshot to the driver and the vehicle with the running engine stops - guaranteed.

The question posed is whether a .50 cal will stop a Running Engine, not whether it will stop Vehicle with a running engine. A stopped vehicle can still have a running engine.

[Big Red Badger]

I got it!

Ford Guy.

[Ahithophel]

I was just thinking that in the movie “The Accountant” the truck is stopped with 1 shot from a .50 cal, and I just assumed that it was plausible.

If it happens in a movie, just assume that it's plausible - excellent analysis.

[NTHockey]

I witnessed a helicopter crash on board USS Princeton in 1961. Night operations, pilot of an HR2S (twin engines, clam shell doors) got vertigo and hit the island with the rotor blades. A piece of the aluminum blades went THROUGH the engine block of an APU, exited and destroyed the steel handle. Never did find the piece of blade.

[crz]

Well, 20 MMs didnt stop some P47s engines in WW2.

Depends if they are hit properly I guess.

[Delta 21]

It works better if the eight .50 cal Ma-Duece machine guns are mounted on a P-51 Mustang.

[central_va]

FullMag Youtuber Ford truck usage has taken its toll, the cylinder has gone out. It would cost more to have it fix then to just go out and buy a new truck.

What does it mean when a cylinder goes out? That truck had life left in it. Used trucks are always valuable.

[al_c]

Well, now they’ve done it. I’ll never enjoy another movie again.

You mean to tell me that a .22 pistol shot to an engine won't make a car blow to smithereens? I'm shocked.

[cpdiii]

In reality the truck will probably not run as normal. A Chevy would...

The normal mode of a chevy is not running. How can you tell the difference :)

[2001convSVT]

Is there a difference.

[Red Badger]

Only in the amount of oil that is leaked.................