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How many milk jugs of water to stop a .38 SP +P

Posted: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:21:05
by TomVA
After seeing this video where a .44 Magnum was stopped with just four water balloons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blGNsJl7Ku8, I decided to see if I could stop a much weaker round with three milk jugs filled with water.

The gun is a Ruger SP101 357 Magnum with a 2.25" barrel, and the round is a Speer Gold Dot .38 SP +P 135gr JHP Short Barrel. Here are the results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-5QBMy ... e=youtu.be.

So how many jugs does it take?

Tom

Re: How many milk jugs of water to stop a .38 SP +P

Posted: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:22:27
by OakRidgeStars
I liked the video and left a comment.

Re: How many milk jugs of water to stop a .38 SP +P

Posted: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:35:53
by Palladin
If hollow points, you'll find the expanded slug in the 4th jug. Round nose might make it into the 5th jug, but I doubt it.

Need slowmo... and a run for more cereal and milk. :clap:

Re: How many milk jugs of water to stop a .38 SP +P

Posted: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 01:02:13
by MarcSpaz
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop?

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Re: How many milk jugs of water to stop a .38 SP +P

Posted: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:58:03
by Maverick
Nice little experiement from you... I really liked the video.
It would easily get through fourth one also I think .