Spoiler, the answer is no, and this was always a silly firearm myth, but this video is still kind of interesting.
The myth is bascially that the pressure generated by the travel of something as powerful as .50 BMG could cause some kind of concussive damage, or perhaps the 'vacuum' in pressure caused by it's passing.
There was a video and claim going around back in 2018 that a .50 BMG had been used in deer hunting, wherein the deer's eye's had been 'sucked out' by a near miss to the head. Story and video about that here: https://fishgame.com/2018/11/did-this-50bmg-miss-suck-a-deers-eyes-out-video/
The Demolition Ranch youtube channel had done a video, actually two years prior to that claim I think, that showed a passing .50 BMG near miss wouldn't disturb a house of cards, which would be pretty damning to that (already silly) claim about the deer.
Anyway, this video takes it a bit further and does some more tests. Despite already knowing the idea was a myth, I found it interesting anyway. Even when struck with a glancing blow, the 'flesh' of a balistics dummy just gets torn away (and barely) where the projectile touches, but otherwise seems to have bascially no movement at all from the shock of the impact.
The myth is bascially that the pressure generated by the travel of something as powerful as .50 BMG could cause some kind of concussive damage, or perhaps the 'vacuum' in pressure caused by it's passing.
There was a video and claim going around back in 2018 that a .50 BMG had been used in deer hunting, wherein the deer's eye's had been 'sucked out' by a near miss to the head. Story and video about that here: https://fishgame.com/2018/11/did-this-50bmg-miss-suck-a-deers-eyes-out-video/
The Demolition Ranch youtube channel had done a video, actually two years prior to that claim I think, that showed a passing .50 BMG near miss wouldn't disturb a house of cards, which would be pretty damning to that (already silly) claim about the deer.
Anyway, this video takes it a bit further and does some more tests. Despite already knowing the idea was a myth, I found it interesting anyway. Even when struck with a glancing blow, the 'flesh' of a balistics dummy just gets torn away (and barely) where the projectile touches, but otherwise seems to have bascially no movement at all from the shock of the impact.
