How Many Water Filled Baloons ......
 

How many water-filled balloons does it take to stop a 44 magnum?


Not what I would have guessed, maybe you can do better.
Lon

The Idea of this is to take a guess before the gun is fired......


How many balloons filled with water do you think it takes to stop a 44 Magnum handgun round ? Make your guess before the test.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlZRnpyZjBE

Ha! I guessed right! I'll be darned!

A few years back the Myth Busters fired several different rounds into a pool of water and the bullet only went a few feet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvSTuLIjRm8 Thank you both!

Good Ron, I guessed right too !! :)

Me too Now just prove I didn't. Bill

I thought 6, maybe 7

Fascinating

I guessed 5. Amazing what water is capable of.

Onestly I guessed at least 5 or 6 but a lot depends also on the shape and type of the bullet.

Sergio

I wonder how that test would look with different rounds. Say 50 caliber vs. 223 rounds. Considering all things equally filled balloons.

I think this would make a difference. After I watched this clip, I went off on a side trip among the related vids presented at the side and watched another in which a guy was shooting at balloons filled with water or "oobleck", as they called a mixture of cornstarch and water (which is a non-Newtonian fluid, the reactions of which were the main focus of the clip). He was using a .22, and hollow points and round nose bullets had different effects on balloons with both liquids, and I'll bet the same holds true for the .44 Mag.

In the Mythbuster the used various rounds including 50 caliber armor piercing. The water destroyed them all! Eric

I missed on my guess. I thought it would take more than 4 to stop a 44Mag bullet.

Awhile back I was out hunting groundhogs for a friend that was experiancing some damage to his crops from the little guys , I was using a Win. M70 chambered for the .225 Win., I was shooting some pretty hot reloads and before quiting for the day I noticed what looked like a bottle cap on the bottom of the dredge ditch along where I had been hunting, the water couldn't have been more then 10" to 12" deep, I took a shot at it and right away noticed a lot of shiny gold colored specks all around it, after a second shot it became pretty obvious my bullets had disintegrated on impact very near the surface. I'm sure that's no surprise to all of you that like shooting those hot, small caliber rounds. I guess that .225 would barely get into the first baloon.

Lon