That was pretty neat. Love that camera!

Fascinating, as Spock would say. I would not have expected the .50 AE to do more damage than the .454 Casull. Someone needs to loan these guys a Smith .460 with all copper bullet.

Really neat super high speed resolution shots!
Would love to see a rifle caliber video, especially a 50 BMG!

Yeah, now that would be impressive!

Watching those bullet impact videos always mesmerizes me.
Fascinating!

Very impressisve video!

I shoot several pistols and rifles at steel plates at our range almost every week.

I obviously can't see the details that the 250k fps camera shows, but I regularly find the "lead dimes and nickles" on the ground beneath the steel plate and I can see the dust and holes in the ground below and on the sides of the plate made from the bullet fragments hitting there.

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Originally posted by Uncle Grinch:
Really neat super high speed resolution shots!
Would love to see a rifle caliber video, especially a 50 BMG!

You asked... they listened:

Rifle impacts at 250k fps

I am years late replying to this thread. I am not sure why they wasted time using low velocity rounds other than for entertainment. As I think we all know, it takes a very hard projectile, very high velocity, or both to penetrate armor plate.

Get a 220 Swift or something similar pushing one of the discontinued first gen Barnes .224" solid copper bullets at a >= 4,000 fps impact velocity and see what happens to that AR-500. I would imagine the bullet would melt and burn through.

The low velocity approach would be a .458 Lott with one of those discontinued Speer .458" Tungsten Core 500 grain solids at 2,250 or 2,300 fps. Maybe even a .458 WM at 2,150 fps would do it? I imagine it would be a sub-caliber hole where the bullet stopped and the tungsten continued and penetrated.

One thing is for sure after seeing the high speed footage, people betting their ass on plain AR-500 for body armor without some sort of anti-spalling lining are going to be very hurt or worse with just about anything over a 22 LR.

Cool, Thanks.