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He did - and he was right!DoubleJ wrote:Didn't ol' Jeff Cooper have an interesting perspective on those?Excaliber wrote:Good thing somebody this careless was equally careless about his preparedness and only carried a mousegun.
He coulda' actually hurt somebody with a real gun....
That does sound like fun, never was much for huntingesxmarkc wrote:I'm sure I could dig up an old cell phone we could put to the challenge! Done a fair amount of plinking with a .380. Its power never impressed me too much. We took an old pair of steel toed boots out one time to put them to the test (it was the boots we were testing - not guns) and they would stop the short-barreled .380 AMT rounds dead cold not a dent. Knocked off some leather to expose the shiny steel. The other boot when shot with the Colt Combat Commander in .38 Super blew a hole through and trough. The .44 mag knocked the entire steel toe in half and both halves clear out of the leather boot.zero4o3 wrote:would you be willing to stage a test? maybe let me shoot your phone with my 380 and we can see how it fairs?esxmarkc wrote:I can almost picture Jamie and Adam debunking this one with Buster wearing a bullet proof vest built out of old cell phones.
I certainly agree that this is a caliber dependent issue. I could see it happening on .380 or less like .32 or .25.
Or.... My first 4-watt cellphone that weighed 2 pounds might just stop a .45!
Of course these tests are by no means ANY standards of power of these rounds it's just that I have shot many different things with many different calibers of weapons and have a pretty good feel for what most many will do. If you have never done it, going on a "Junkyard Safari" can be loads of fun - don't have to skin anything afterwards.
P.S. If someone is chasing you with a handgun, jump into a stack of steel belted radials.
