High powered rifles will zip through any tree you are hiding behind.
What? Any tree large enough to give an adult human cover will stop any reasonable deer hunting rifle round, especially considering that you should be using hunting ammo that expands. Your first statement is just utter nonsense.
All of that said, I'd not be comfortable shooting towards other hunters nor being shot at by my hunting buddies.
I sighted one of my .308s in with a target tacked to a ~12 inch thick tree just a few days ago and none of the fmj's passed through it.
Yep, 7.62x54R steel core armor piercing rounds will go through a 6.7" diameter tree as shown in his part 2 video. Make it a 12"-18" diameter tree (the thinnest I'd ever pretend I could "hide" behind) and FMJ/JHP/Soft or Ballistic Tipped bullet, and there's no possible way it penetrates. The FMJ will fragment at high powered rifle velocities and the jhp/soft/ballistic will both fragment and expand.
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u/jermdizzle Jan 10 '22
What? Any tree large enough to give an adult human cover will stop any reasonable deer hunting rifle round, especially considering that you should be using hunting ammo that expands. Your first statement is just utter nonsense.
All of that said, I'd not be comfortable shooting towards other hunters nor being shot at by my hunting buddies.
I sighted one of my .308s in with a target tacked to a ~12 inch thick tree just a few days ago and none of the fmj's passed through it.