.50 BMG vs Firebox

Not the most professional opening method but it worked. Would probably be a bit hard on the contents too.

If somebody had asked me to guess what it would do I would have said pass through both sides knocking the box about 20 feet but leaving it locked. I wonder if the incendiary had any effect or if it was the impact alone. On similar subject does anybody know specifically which laminated padlock Master used in that commercial where the lock is shot with a rifle? In my tests (yeah too much time on my hands) any centerfire I tried bigger than a .223 did enough damage the test lock pretty well fell apart. Mythbusters had the same result although they were fairly impervious to handgun rounds.

It was a number 15, I have one sitting right here. The fallout rate is about 40 out of 500, (yes, they shoot that many every few years), but not all of those come open, many just have a single plate sticking out at a dangerous angle and aren't used to send out as displays. BBE.

They did it at point blank range. I didn't have bullet resistant barriers etc so I did it at 75 yards give or take with a scoped rifle from a rest, .308, 30-06 and .223 actually 5.56 ammo and chamber on two different occaisions .308 and 30-06 little to no apparent differnce the 5.56 less damage .308 and 30-06 were surplus mil ball the 5.56 SS109. The 5.56 did not cause them to fail. The .308 and 30-06 did. I tried an AK with 7.62X39 and open sights as well but couldn't get any good centered hits on them with that at what I considered a safe range. Locks were master #10 and one or two Chinese on a 4X4 and locked through a big fence staple. No more inherently dangerous than shooting a steel silouhette. The #15 is about

2.5 inches wide so it's big enough that deformation of the plates probably has a limited effect, it would have to be hit just right. I didn't have any of those I was willing to sacrifice.

Thanks. I figured somebody would know. Bigger than the 10's I used. I didn't have any 15's I was willing to destroy.