Thread: Shed some light please

I have a steel gong at 100 yards for plinking. 6mm Hardox (I believe. )
Anyway. It already has a couple of holes from my 243 and 308 , so has become the sacrifial gong.
Mate just turned up to sight in his 7-08, and having got it shooting to POI, he put a couple into the gong.
Thing is, they only dented the bugger.

Now as far as I can tell from the numbers, that just should not happen. Whats the story?

Point of AIM, dumarse

Originally Posted by Pengy

Point of AIM, dumarse

Who are you calling dumb arse, dumb arse?

Using armour piercing in the 243

Originally Posted by northdude

Using armour piercing in the 243

Not quite. 85 Nosler sp

7-08 is not a manly calibre?

Originally Posted by Steve123

7-08 is not a manly calibre?

Thems fighting words........

Originally Posted by Scouser

Thems fighting words........

Steve doesnt hit girls

Originally Posted by Gibo

Steve doesnt hit girls

Ya reckon change his forum name to Blouser Gibo?

Probably hit the quarry truck on the way down to the gong ....

Shot angle? Hit low so swing took impact? Gay 708?

Pengy, having failed School Certificate twice (the second time with distinction) I can absolutely tell you that the answer to your question lays in the diminished area of impact and the rate of transfer of energy on impact. You heard it here first.

Now knowing that you are slow on the uptake, I will give you an example. Think of your hand as a gong. You put your hand on the floor, palm up. Rushy jumps on your hand with the heel of his boot from a chair (this is the 7-08). Your hand hurts (is dented) but is not pierced. Now Gibo (who is there or there abouts half of Rushy's weight) jumps on your hand from the same chair but Gibo is wearing his wife's stiletto (as he has a tendency to do on a Friday night) and he lands the heel right in the centre of your palm (this is the 243) and Bob's your nana, a neat hole in the hand.

Originally Posted by Rushy

Pengy, having failed School Certificate twice (the second time with distinction) I can absolutely tell you that the answer to your question lays in the diminished area of impact and the rate of transfer of energy on impact. You heard it here first.

Now knowing that you are slow on the uptake, I will give you an example. Think of your hand as a gong. You put your hand on the floor, palm up. Rushy jumps on your hand with the heel of his boot from a chair (this is the 7-08). Your hand hurts (is dented) but is not pierced. Now Gibo (who is there or there abouts half of Rushy's weight) jumps on your hand from the same chair but Gibo is wearing his wife's stiletto (as he has a tendency to do on a Friday night) and he lands the heel right in the centre of your palm (this is the 243) and Bob's your nana, a neat hole in the hand.

That story puts the shits up me, I hate the thought of a punctured hand, have stabbed myself with a Mercator right in the middle of my hand (palm side) whilst cutting the strings off a bale of silage before and while it was only a small injury it hurt like a bastard and made me get shivers down my spine whenever I felt or looked at it

Originally Posted by Rushy

Pengy, having failed School Certificate twice (the second time with distinction) I can absolutely tell you that the answer to your question lays in the diminished area of impact and the rate of transfer of energy on impact. You heard it here first.

Now knowing that you are slow on the uptake, I will give you an example. Think of your hand as a gong. You put your hand on the floor, palm up. Rushy jumps on your hand with the heel of his boot from a chair (this is the 7-08). Your hand hurts (is dented) but is not pierced. Now Gibo (who is there or there abouts half of Rushy's weight) jumps on your hand from the same chair but Gibo is wearing his wife's stiletto (as he has a tendency to do on a Friday night) and he lands the heel right in the centre of your palm (this is the 243) and Bob's your nana, a neat hole in the hand.

But that doesn't explain the holes attributed to the 308.

Originally Posted by gadgetman

But that doesn't explain the holes attributed to the 308.

I did wonder about that but I'm not a fucking scientist GM. I have another theory though and it goes like this ....... the 7-08 was useless and belly flopped onto the gong.