Could you survive three AR15 rounds to the chest?
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No. Next question.
Given their weight, velocity, and kinetic energy displacement when it hits something, and considering what all that does to a human body, I would give it a resounding “no.”
Are you looking for volunteers ?
From the first Ar-15, 1 in 14 twist, no. one will do the job.
Later 1 in 12 twist, no.
Late 1 in 9 twist, good question. Europeans got the bad idea that a fragmenting bullet was bad.
One thing I never understood about the ban on soft nose Dum-Dum bullets, in the military you can burn the enemy, blow him to pieces, hack him to pieces, run over him with a tank tread, but you can’t shoot him with a soft nosed bullet as it is “inhumane”.
From what I’ve been hearing, the 5.56 wasn’t designed to kill. It was designed to wound.
That way, it would make the enemy forces have to use personnel to extract the wounded from the field -meaning less people available for the fight.
It does not make a clean cut. So, no, you are not likely to live. That is unless the enemy is a lousy shot.
Smithsonian video concludes...so it just wasn’t Hollywood fiction. Ya think?? LOL...what idiots.
This wasn't a movie. Shot 3 times at close range. Once in the front shoulder and twice in the back by 2 different shooters. He didnt make it.
Gel shows the wound but a human has bones, hard and soft tissue and dense organs so the actual path of a projectile is inexplicably hard to predict.
Secondly I thought the 5.56 'tumble' has been proven a myth?
I hope so.
I’ve seen a guy survive one 50 cal round to the chest and survive, so I guess anything is possible.
Having shot about everything four and two legged in North America(with many different caliber weapons) I will say that anything is possible when it come to bullet results.
Three rounds of anything to the chest is going to mess you up, if not outright kill you where you stand.
Depending on placement, not likely. However, it would be great to get the “tumbling” part of the description removed from parlance.
The 5.56 round, with a few exceptions and twist rate considered, is pretty stable in flight. Considering that class of cartridge is primarily dedicated to blowing up wood-chucks, prairie-dogs, coyotes, and other vermin out to 300 yards. That kind of accuracy does not come from a round tumbling, but from spinning with a high degree of concentricity and manufacturing uniformity.
The description of explosive wounds come from the round’s tendency to deflect once it encounters something strong enough to deflect the nose. The 55 Gr slug has a balance point close to the rear third of the slug...Bigger relative lever to deflect the point. When the point is deflected, more surface area of the slug presents along the path of the projectile causing a larger more jagged wound channel/exit.
While it may be possible to live through three non-deflected hits which didn’t rupture the heart, circulatory, or breathing systems (still a considerable amount of hydrostatic shock from those rounds), it is doubtful.
Don’t stand in front of trigger happy riflemen?
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