Thanks for uploading! My opinion: The other projectile as well, a steel-core or other armor-piercing projectile should have been used! This is the only way he could have realistically shown the difference between the two types! The soft lead shot of the 338 was deformed and transformed into a projectile with a much larger surface area as it passed through the material! The 338 thus suffered a significant disadvantage! :)
I'm mighty impressed with the .338 Lapua in the direct comparison with the .50 Browning Machinegun (BMG) Here is part of my takeaway, and this purely has to do with physics. For the .50 BMG you used a more solid backrest for the paper plates. The effect of this is that the more solid backrest provides an almost equal but opposite force, leading to more of the incomeing energy being spent penetrateing paperplates. As seen in the .338 Lapua footage, the remaining paperplates and the books acted as a shockabsorber, negateing some of the incomeing energy by disperseing it through same way motion of mass. But there is no denying that "mass in motion times speed" beats everything. The .50 projectile was almost twice the weight of the .338 projectile in this test. The .50 BMG round simply ripped off the copper jacket and continued on as a steel sabott. The .338 round was turned into a modern piece of art. All the energy it took to create that piece of art was dumped more quicly due to the artistic process. If you shot a bear chargeing you, the 338. Lapua would dump more of it's energy through from the head to the tail. If you shot it with the 50. BMG, the bear would dump a steel turd at very high speed. In both cases though, the bear would be dead. For the boys, please do a test with the same setup of plates and books with a 9.3x62. It's gona clearly show how good the .338 Lapua really is.
Penetration of the 338 is really more than I'd ever need, and it's a lot cheaper (ok, somewhat cheaper) than the .50. I gotta say, I didn't expect TWICE the penetration though.
Thanks for another great video. It would be a more comparable test if you could have used bullets of the same construction. If you had used a jacketed lead core 50 caliber bullet, it probably would not have penatrated as many plates due to the deformation of the bullet. Be an interesting experiment.
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I really prefer these paper plate videos over the water jug videos. I think they show the difference in calibers and bullet types. I do think a hard cast 338 bullet would have been a better comparison to the 50 BMG round used.
Apart from the bullet types being different as already mentioned a heap of times, could the plates being taped together (more compressed) compared to the 50 BMG where the plates were not taped have made a difference as well ?
Well now this is a interesting video and a very interesting comparison. I know that the 50 BMG is a more powerful round but The bullet is a steel core and it did not mushroom out. On the 338 the mushroomed bullet slowed its penetration way down.
Well, I do believe all the other viewers have covered the bullet construction differences so no need to go there. But another issue is with the target itself. With the 50BMG you had a stabile retainer/backer so the plates didn't move back. That keeps them from absorbing energy and allows the projectile to penetrate further. With the Lapua you just had a couple books that moved quite easily. You would be simply dumbfounded at how much penetration can be nullified by the target absorbing just 10 pounds of energy by moving with the impact. Just have a look at both impacts in slow motion and you will see what I mean.
Great video! Do you think because the plates were "bound" with tape that made a difference? I'm not a conspicacy theorist, but I did notice, and yes, the 50 BMG is bigger and all of that. I say we need a do over. (I'd really like to see it done again hehehehehe)
4600 foot pounds vs 14,000 foot pounds oh,oh hand raised... i think i know the answer. Love the 50... I have run an Armalite myself. still love the paper plate challenges 👍
Come on Who Tee Who, ya gotta do apples to apples. Of course a full metal jacket is going to penetrate deeper than an expanding round, I knew that when I was 12.
Have you given the 300 blackout a chance to go through the paper plates yet? Just asking because not only is it fast but it goes through anything including armor. Or maybe you can ask Scott to borrow something not to big or crazy just something else, 1 that will destroy it all from the power transfer and one that will just go right through everything on the table including the books and the table. Just an idea because I know you guys together even once would be a great video. Thank 4 the time.
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But it isn't "Like for Like". The 338 was a soft expandable bullet, whilst the 50. cal was a steel cored bullet. Should've fired a solid copper 338 or armor piercing projectile so that they were similar bullets.
