This was tested with a Henry Lever Action Rifle and a S&W M&P 22. The purpose of the test was that there are some people do use a 22 long rifle for home defense. If they missed their target and hit the drywall in their home. Posted on 09/13/2016 6:16:51 AM PDT by w1n1
This was tested with a Henry Lever Action Rifle and a S&W M&P 22. The purpose of the test was that there are some people do use a 22 long rifle for home defense. If they missed their target and hit the drywall in their home.
The video was demonstrated by 22Plinkster and discovered most of the .22 rounds went through 9 drywall and some into the tenth drywall, its very impressive for a 22 round. See the test here.
“How much cranial-bone is required to stop a 0.22LR fired from a handgun?”
I’ve killed quite a few deer with them. Close up head shots... of course I’ve wrestled a few that were not quite dead and got the crap kicked out of me.
Funniest one was a big doe that I threw in the back of my old 1983 Plymouth Horizon hatchback. The back seat was down so I could fit it in. I wrapped a plastic grocery bag around the head so the blood would not get on the interior carpet.
A couple of miles down the road I heard a snorting sound and looked in the rear view mirror to see the plastic grocery bag banging against the ceiling as the doe was trying to stand up, but the ceiling was too low.
I finished it off with a tire iron..... that was close enough. Thought I would need to change my pants after that one.
A 4” wall faced with sheetrock is not bullet proof. But, fill it with crusher-run stone and it will stop 50BMG.
Even drystacking concrete cap block in the wall cavity will stop all handgun rounds, and most rifle rounds.
Fema has free building plans on the web on how to harden walls to withstand “flying debris”. Cheap and effective, stops bullets, too.
:: a gas powered bb gun ::
That is what I hold when answering any unsolicited “visitor” trying to sell me things at my front door.
DAISY makes a “look-alike” 1911 frame pellet-gun with CO2 charged propellant. With proper handling, it can be quite intimidating.
Are you perhaps, in Michigan?
I grew up there and it was [to my recollection] the only State that allowed pistol hunting of deer.
I have grand-recollections of stalking down deer with a hand-gun in the swamps of SoMichigan.
Carcanos in Woolworths in VT 1962
for INDOOR home defense get a Circuit Judge
It fires both 410 shotgun AND .45 cal bullet.
So you have the best of al worlds
410 indoors will kill you dead without taking out a structial support or going through too many layers
You’re lucky that deer didn’t bite you on the neck and then corner you in a phone booth.
Well nuts! I had been planning on making selling bulletproof vests constructed out of drywall; guess I need to reassess and go with drywalls.
Patrick McManus, is that you? Sounds like one of his stories!
Did you call a Bambalance from a M*F*ing phone booth?
Have you been in any movies? I think I saw this one! :)
I once did a similar test with a .38 special. It was a non-jacketed lead bullet shot from a S&W .357 revolver. It embedded in the 18th layer of drywall, if I recall correctly.
I just got 500 rounds of CCI Stingers yesterday from Midway.
I’m on their notification list, so I pulled off the road when I got the email and did the order. When I checked back 17 minutes later, they were sold out.
Wrench posted above that 4” of crusher run in a drywall cavity will stop .50 BMG rounds. Since that is obviously true...would you consider making custom fit Plaster of Paris vests stuffed with 4” of crusher run? Might need wheels.
I’ll consider doing a prototype but the shipping cost might scare off the customers.
Also, is this Chinese or American drywall?
I was thinking 3-4 but I also envisioned them being against each other vs. spaced apart. I’m willing to bet that would be the case.
This actually happened in late 1983 on Rt 15 North of Williamsport, PA. Pisser was that the car had recently been purchased new.. That’s why I was so careful to put the bag on the deer’s head to catch the blood dripping.
I’ve tamed down now... but was quite the character when young!!!
I used to drive Rt 118 every day from Hughsville PA to Dallas PA through Ricket’s Glen State Park. I always picked up the fresh road killed deer, sometimes multiples per trip.
The PA Game Commission regional office was right at the end of Rt 118 in Dallas so I would stop and get permits. Got to the point they didn’t want to see me any more and just gave me a permanent permit.
Now I’m happy just to take pictures of deer... Growing up it was survival.
Pennsylvania also allowed pistol hunting, but only center fire cartridges so no 22’s..... legally that is....
Another funny thing we used to do was shoot arrows out of muzzle loaders. It started one day when one of us shot the ram rod through the target. After that we would just use a triple patch with no ball and shove a wooden arrow down the barrel with just the razor broadhead sticking out.
Problem was that the fletching smelled like rotten eggs afterward.
The arrows really flew straight as the barrel stopped the whip common when the arrow bends just after release.
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