Can a .50 Cal Near-Miss Rip Your Arm Off? - Ballistic High-Speed Youtube video

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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.

 

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When i can shoot a piece of cardboard with it, and only put a half inch hole, why would anyone think a near miss could do anything?

*maybe* if if went right by your ear Trump style the sonic boom could blow out an eardrum. Maybe.

 

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Clearly, if a 9mm will blow the lungs right out of the body, then a .50 BMG bullet passing by in close proximation would likely sever all limbs and send them flying in different directions.

DUH. Shouldn't take a descendant of Einstein to figure that out.

 

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The mythology about .50BMG causing explosive near miss damage has been around since its invention in 1910.
Certain Bullets will cause massive amounts of damage, while others just cut a nice round 1/2" hole, and given the hyper expansion of any high velocity projectile one could easily expect body parts to detach and even (according to an eye witness I worked with) blow a man damn near in half...perhaps there's some truth in that hitting say a block wall causing fragmentation from the round passing through causing collateral damage is possible...In "Tank Rounds" the projectile piercing thick steel melts, spalls sending metal fragments like a shotgun blast....then there's the guy shooting his fifty at the range only to have a ricochet zip by taking his hat off, luckily not his head.

 

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The mythology about .50BMG causing explosive near miss damage has been around since its invention in 1910.
Certain Bullets will cause massive amounts of damage, while others just cut a nice round 1/2" hole, and given the hyper expansion of any high velocity projectile one could easily expect body parts to detach and even (according to an eye witness I worked with) blow a man damn near in half...perhaps there's some truth in that hitting say a block wall causing fragmentation from the round passing through causing collateral damage is possible...In "Tank Rounds" the projectile piercing thick steel melts, spalls sending metal fragments like a shotgun blast....then there's the guy shooting his fifty at the range only to have a ricochet zip by taking his hat off, luckily not his head.

The temporary wound cavity from a .50 will be much larger than most common bullets.

We're talking a bullet with the mass of a 12ga slug moving at the velocity of a .223 round.

If the temporary wound cavity exceeds the cross section of the area of the body they are hit in, then the result is very likely to be something you could describe as "blown in half".

But, to do that it needs a hit that gets a pretty good bit of flesh in front of it. Nothing that just grazes the surface or misses entirely.

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