Thread: iPhones will not protect you

Spend a great couple of ours with some complete strangers at the Taupo range today, sighting in my 17hmr, while the other two where wacking a 270 and 6.5.
I had a spare iPhone 7 that had caused me grief, so we used as a target. Three 17s, two 270s and two 6.5s at 100 meters.
I can now tell you they are not as good as flasks in your top pocket as heart protection!!!

Didn't the battery burn/go boom?

Nope but it smelt like I’ll keep that beside me just in case it decides to burn my Ute up!! I thought it may have caught fire, maybe we didn’t hit the battery it’s now a wall hanger, $700 bucks of shit!!

Now the guy out there warned me not to hit a lead acid battery with a HP round as they explode!! Let me know, and a coke can full of water wil flatten from round or blow the arse out! That’s for next weekend!!

leads acids wont explode, sure you will get hydraulicing and leakage but no actual boom

Originally Posted by gonetropo

leads acids wont explode, sure you will get hydraulicing and leakage but no actual boom

Oh well I try that next weekend as well?

coke can....full with origonal product (preferably the sugarfree imposter) shaken first will give much more dramatic effect.

i sent you a text...did it come through?

Originally Posted by Maca49

Spend a great couple of ours with some complete strangers at the Taupo range today, sighting in my 17hmr, while the other two where wacking a 270 and 6.5.
I had a spare iPhone 7 that had caused me grief, so we used as a target. Three 17s, two 270s and two 6.5s at 100 meters.
I can now tell you they are not as good as flasks in your top pocket as heart protection!!!

The screen looks shot...

Try a tin of beans too. They explode pretty well.

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A well warmed can of black doris plums

Next try a 44gallon drum of Oxy/Acetylene surrounded by lit candles.....video results please.

A plastic bag full of petrol (300mil or so) with a lit candle placed directly under it, (close but not TOO close!) and shot the plastic bag with 223 hollow point, spectacular in the dusk!

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

A plastic bag full of petrol (300mil or so) with a lit candle placed directly under it, (close but not TOO close!) and shot the plastic bag with 223 hollow point, spectacular in the dusk!

One would have to be a bit loose in the head to even contemplate doing this.

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

A plastic bag full of petrol (300mil or so) with a lit candle placed directly under it, (close but not TOO close!) and shot the plastic bag with 223 hollow point, spectacular in the dusk!

Alos plastic drink bottle filled with petrol, on ground on side, and hit either top or bottom, with candle behind about 300-500mm. Very impressive with 12g slug....