One thing every RU-vidr should learn from this guy is getting straight to the point and don't talk 20 minutes trying to sound like an expert, we want work and results, no talks, good on u Edwin
The amount of force that 50 cal round has is just unbelievable, if that sandbag was not there we can bet that piece of metal would have flown back a couple of inches considering how heavy it is for its size.
I am a retired locomotive engineer and company officer of the now defunct Southern Pacific railroad. In the first segment when looking at the rail you see the number 1925. That is the year this rail was made. You also see hash marks. These give the month of the manufacture, 1 hash mark thru 12. Rail is further classified by weight of a three foot section. As shown, in 1925 we are talking about 80lbs rail of average grade steel. Today the date and the hash marks remain. But, main line rail, especially so in curvature, is made of carbon steel and 139lbs and up. The shooter mentioned a possible ricochet. If using today’s rail he would have had all of the ricochet. But if you want to reach out and touch someone the weapons shown would definitely do the trick.
To the gentleman that said it was 110 pounds you are correct . That's a 5 and a half in base with the head of a 90 pound rail . And the the southern pacific engineer rail is now made head hardend from the Nippon steel company. The rail will have an hh stamped on it . And the largest and heaviest rail made was 141 pounds . Every 3 ft is the weight of the rail stamped on it so if you have that piece he was shooting at it looked like 16 inches so it probably weighed 55 pounds
Robert Miller my father gave me a piece of railroad tie much similar to that one use . I would never ruined it like that . I use it at work it's part of my tools lol . I love that chunk of railroad tie . I tell the snap on tool guy all the time ..
Rails are made of steel and usually have additives in the alloy such as manganese to increase strength and wearability. Nice that your section had the "1925" roll date. Rail weights are "per yard"; that is 130-pound rail weighs 130 pounds per three-foot section. Interesting to see what .50 BMG can do to solid rail. No wonder .50 on target could shred airplane engines or flame an aircraft. John Moses Browning was quite an inventor.
@@DistanceNsVeterans Now that’s it’s been riddled with bullets, probably not, but if it was intact, absolutely. The US still has rails that go back centuries still in service. Look hard enough and you’ll find active tracks that were laid in the early 1900s and even the mid to late 1800s. Ties have been replaced over time, but the rails are still there. Tell you what, they sure built those things to last…
Collin Hennessy I've been machining subway railroad switch and they where made out of maganese steel, like cone crusher (getting harder with time and impact). It was nothing close to uniformity, sometime quite "easy" to machine and other times it was super hard. What this one is made of...?
I was working on Railway Tracks. I think the metal used to make a railroad track, would be steel. That's a flat bottomed rail. There's also Bull Head rails, a slightly lighter rail used with different railway sleeper technology. My gosh! You shot right through it! Incredible power!
@@zackschindler8334 Cool! Really? I never knew they had flat bottomed rail back then. Are you sure, that is the date, the rail was manufactured? I thought that type of rail came in in the 70s perhaps. It's a type of rail association with very heavy concrete sleepers. Or yes. I suppose they might well have used flat bottomed rail back then maybe with a different style of connection between rail and sleeper. Thinking about it, maybe. Yes. They did have that innovation in the past.
@@MrRobertFarr There's sections of abandoned tracks from a train line built in 1875. The bottom of the rails are flat. They sit on steel plates spiked into the ties. I know its flat we were looking just weeks ago because people want pieces to make anvils. We found the track with metal detecting through an old 1800's ghost town area. The whole forest had burned down including the village. The only way we found the location was the fireplaces still standing. Well somewhat standing after 150 years of ice through the winters
Like Jeffrey said, it is manganese austenitic steel. Only 1.2% carbon. The surface work hardens as trains run over it, so the top of the rail is the hardest part after it is used.
And there is US steel. The best steel in the world, made from fresh ore and not from scrap like from other places that have no iron ore. Re-cooked steel has not the same properties .
@@carlosgaray9384 theres a youtuber here who had a .50cal rifle blow up in his face and slashed his main artery in his neck. He survived by sticking his thumb in it
I just love this channel! There's so much garbage in youtube these days. Between all of them this is the one that really makes me feel good.. Two guys, coolly testing different rounds on different kinds of objects.. And especially I liked that crazy video where edwin managed to throw a grenade on a frozen lake between the mountains! 😂💪 Hope this channel grows more and more...
Wow, that's dated to 1925. It looks like 100lbs rail (100lbs per yard) so it was from a mainline. It saw steam engines and WWII. I'm a total train nerd as you can tell lol. Please put this up Edwin, its a piece of history :) (and no I didnt mind you shooting it, was very interesting!)
Here in MarylAnd,an hr from Philly and Baltimore. We are surrounded by rich farmers. Those people would pay 100-150$ for that rail just to use as a fancy boot scraper. I would have shot a modern one. It's cool now that it has a bullet stuck in it. I wouldn't pull it out.
Finally someone tries to punch through something that is commonly known to be extremely strong. Also, I love the way you did everything in a safe manner away from anything nearby. I have seen videos of people doing it carelessly and they don't usually end well.
Excellent video. Effective shooting. I'm retired EOD and spent many a day sweeping ranges for dud ordnance, setting up new targets, conducting accident investigations. All your results are very common. I've personally witnessed these result a thousand times in de-mil armored vehicles. If I was still in I would incorporate your video into my training cycle. Thank you for sharing this with the shooting community.
I have shot plenty of steel with smaller rounds such as 7.62x54 and 5.56 as well as pistol rounds. While these smaller rounds are plenty good at going through flesh, they are rather unimpressive when they hit steel. I did not expect the .50 to even go through the .500" track side, much less through the 1" top. Wow. Incredible power.
You just have to come close with a 50 cal!! The air velocity from grazing fire will rip limbs off a person with rounds just coming within six inches if you!!
@@user-xu7pp3sg7l My brother has an AK-74, so I have fired this round. I don't remember testing it through steel. We'll have to try it out next time we get a chance.
Nah, silver (being a rather soft metal) is designed to flatten on impact so all the impact force is spread out over a larger area. Basically the opposite of armour piercing, great against unarmoured opponents... XD
Faraz you are correct, and I wouldn't have expected to have to point it out... although Radical may have a point: I don't think we know a lot about werewolf train tracks, maybe they take one some properties of train tracks and would indeed be impervious to silver bullets for purely mechanical reasons. That's a lot to think about...
@@EdwinSarkissian Pastor please pray for the release of curses and magic. Please pray to facilitate the brain and be given intelligence. Please pray to get rid of the disease in the body. Please pray for smooth finances and be given wealth.
Iazzaboyce You ain't shittin! That's what the U.S. military uses those weapons... the Barrett 50cal is powerful enough to go through an engine block and stop a vehicle cold!
That stronger railroad track metal is called steel, and it's been around for a while. That last round you can hear the ricochet so yeah... not safe to shoot things that will bounce the round back at you like a tennis ball on a concrete floor.
If you have such a problem with Edwin why did you watch the video and bother commenting on a 5 year old video? Oh well, thanks for the engagement anyway.
@@MRX-rr5xf Ok, have fun shooting at solid metal targets. They make the loudest most satisfying sound when they are facing flat at you to bounce the most amount of sound back at you.
He's In the deep desert, very far from the target, shooting some crazy steel/iron making us a cool video, and you wanna biche about it........... The bullets are not gonna hit him, sorry but go somewhere else to disrupt.
Cannot imagine what any one of those rounds would do to a human body. That is a clear indication of how much punch-thru power those bullets have. Im impressed.
It basically cuts the victim in half....Chris kyle turned a lot of Taliban fighters into jello,with a 50 cal, and that was from a mile away and through concrete blocks beforehand!
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AllBlacks NZ I have no way of knowing for sure, but I suspect that railroad track is probably about the least quality steel that can actually serve a purpose. I mean just consider how much track and how quickly it needed to be made - it's probably the least expensive mix of metals possible based upon price of raw materials right out of the furnace and I doubt anyone ever took the time to harden it even ONE time let alone the many times any better quality steel might be hardened. Awesome. Very interesting!
Michael Devito Depends from the era of the rail. If it's from the 50s or 60s, it's pretty much the way you described. But anything from 70s + and especially 2000s is super strong. Also depends were the rail is from. Modern day mainline is way different from a short line.
Michael Devito Railroad tracks are built the some of the highest quality steel that you can buy, and with the average diesel locomotive. weighing in at 200 tons, you can not use cheap steel. And railroads do have the money for high grade steel, they are one of the most profitable business on the face of the earth.
@somenteasescrituras4064 ...they cant have these guns so he probably has no experience with them, unless former or current .mil (im unaware of aus service cals.)
Very impressive! Maybe if the railtrack piece was fixed the result would be more dramatic. Now a lot of impact energy is 'lost' in moving the railtrack piece, but still a scary thought not being safe behind a half inch steel wall.
Algo que destacas amigo y me gusta esq apuntas a diferentes lugares del hierro ha diferencia de otros RU-vidrs qué apuntan al mismo agujero hasta que lo debilitan y luego dicen que lo atravesaron, con un solo tiro en un solo lugar se nota la potencia del calibre
I was sitting in a train station in Germany and the main frame(Girders) of the station was still there from before WWII. Only the glass was replaced. There were bullet holes all over the steel beams. Looked like a woodpecker was at them. No doubt steel core ammo-some looked like .30 cal holes.
on the last black tip shot , did you notice the ricochet of the bullet as it went backwards & down toward the shooter then to come out of nowhere to almost hitting the camera? that was pretty cool stuff!!!!!!! I was just wondering if anyone else saw it? thanks for the great video!
IH - MTXRGU ..you are right this length rail log is much heavier to hold but the way this guy is holding that with single hand easily is not possible at all....this block seems 9.0 inch approx in length and if its that much in length then its not possible to hold it with single hand like he is holding.
