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To: SgtHooper

I forget where I heard this:

Down range, a .50cal BMG will rip the skin right off your face if it passes with 12-15” of your head.

Anyone know if that’s true?


10 posted on 01/09/2019 12:10:51 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill
>Down range, a .50cal BMG will rip the skin right off your face if it passes with 12-15” of your head. Anyone know if that’s true?

Maybe if you're that close to the muzzle. But otherwise, no.

14 posted on 01/09/2019 12:31:34 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: carriage_hill

Mythbusters covered claims of this sort once, but they’re SJW’s, so here’s a link to demolition ranch covering this topic:

https://youtu.be/YrHpe5Z93wM


16 posted on 01/09/2019 12:36:21 PM PST by j. earl carter
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To: carriage_hill

It’s BS


20 posted on 01/09/2019 1:04:57 PM PST by Rannug (When you're dead, you're dead. Until then fight with everything you have.)
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To: carriage_hill

Not true at all.


35 posted on 01/09/2019 3:13:27 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the media are all cats.)
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To: carriage_hill

Guy on youtube shot bullets through a house of cards and it didn’t even knock them over.


36 posted on 01/09/2019 3:14:54 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the media are all cats.)
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