Shooting at beer bottles from short distances

Shooting at beer bottles from short distances Total: more than 200 bottles destroyed during filming Shooting bottles from a short distance. Lead balls No. 1 were used as a projectile I was wondering how a shotgun shell would behave at short distances. The shot does not have time to accelerate, but when it hits the first obstacle, it has a chance to ricochet and change the original flight path. I decided to add bottles according to the rules of arithmetic progression - each new row 1 bottle. Thus, we get a pyramidal design of the goal from the same elements. However, at some point I decided to stop, because a shotgun shell is not able to break through a wall of bottles. More and more bottles remain untouched, and the structure is destroyed only by transferring the impact energy from one element to another. At the end of the experiment, I tried a different design of the target, as well as placing bottles in boxes. Conclusion - a row of 5 beer bottles can significantly extinguish the energy of a shotgun shell at close range. If you pay attention, the entire row of boxes shifts when hit. Consequently, the impact energy is quite significant and at a short distance damage is possible even without penetration of the projectile into the target. #experiment #shooting #video