Ringing steel!

[TDH]

years ago I built a gong out AR plate. I pulled it out of the scrap bin at work. It was an inch thick and 3 foot in diameter and it took a beating. It took a fifty at 100 yards and only put a big pock mark in it. When it started getting to beat up we'd pull it down when we had enough people and hard face it. It usually took four strong men to hang it.

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It took a fifty at 100 yards and only put a big pock mark in it.

That's quite a claim if the ammo is issue ball. The ball ammo contains a steel penetrator, mild steel, and that doesn't evaporate on strike. If it was a civilian product then it well may just have lead core. AP of course is a Tungsten core...all bets are off then. I used to christen any plate I hung with a clip of AP out of the M1 rifle...all went through to the point you could see through the hole they left. Didn't really matter what steel, but that was what it was for. We had a piece of armor plate from the dockyard that was from the destroyers, it lasted very well for years.