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I had always seen the Hollywood versions of the guy getting shot with the .357 magnum and being blasted backwards through the wall. But, according to this document, such a thing is a complete fantasy!
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That is correct. A living thing may REACT to a bullet impact in varying ways, but the impact itself does not have the power to move something the size of a human around. A test was done with a human sized/weighted dummy that was designed such that it would completely stop a bullet. It was then carefully suspended from an easily dislodged balance. It was set up so that a thrown baseball provided sufficient impact to cause the dummy to fall.
It was then shot with a .50BMG. The bullet was stopped inside the dummy as designed and the dummy was dislodged from the toggle and fell.
Here's the video (it's LONG). Their conclusion from watching the high-speed video was that the dummy moved backwards at most 2" from absorbing the entire impact from a .50BMG round at 20 feet.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=THhx9mZOWSs
December 27, 2006, 09:40 PM
