.22LR Penetration Test & Ammo Review

Welcome back! As promised, here is the result of our penetration test;

I have some weird obsession with the penetration characteristics of various types of ammunition, I have noticed how the majority of individual shooters who make penetration test reviews and videos seem to be quite closed minded in terms of target materials and overall setup. Most tests you will find online are merely bottles filled with water and shot with a few different brands and velocities of ammo. or metal plates, soft drink cans (soda cans) etc.

We have created a pretty nice multi layered And multi material target which has 3 impact points which will test one type of ammunition for the time being ( Eley Club, 40grain 1085fps ) and it's different impact points and penetration ability or difficulty between each layer.
It is one target with all 3 target aim points in one, yet multiple material layers beneath each level, Materials include:

• Tin Cans eg: beans, soup etc.,
• Hardened Cardboard,
• Folded Soft Drink Cans (Aluminium),
• Plastics of two thicknesses and density,
• Rubber Strips,
• Electrical Tape (Not thick, only to hold target and layers together as well as separating aim points.
• TARGET WEIGHT BEFORE SHOOTING: 135+Grams (using analogue kitchen scale so not entirely exact)

Level 1 (thin thickness section):
15.5mm of all materials combined including a +-3mm dead space (empty space)
Level 2 (medium thickness section):
17mm of all materials combined - this level has No dead space area / part
Level 3 (thickest section):
21mm of all materials combined - this level has No dead space area / part

Eley Club .22LR - 1085 fps Penetration Test

Triple Layer & Multiple Material .22LR Penetration Target

 I shot the target at 25 yards, hot good clean hits but did also experience 2x shots which slightly skimmed the top, these were not counted as it became obvious they didn't hit all materials in Layer 3.


.22LR Metal Penetration (nice clean hit on layer 1)

 In Layers 1 & 2, we had good penetration through all metal plates, plastics, hardened cardboard, Rubber etc. The above is the final plate in front of the final Rubber and plastic layers in Level 1.

.22LR: The two that skimmed and slightly missed some materials in Level 3's test

 As you can see above we just clipped the target spot and thereby will not count these two shots as they definitely missed a few layers in Level 3.

.22LR Penetration Test - Back of target blasted out but semi intact

 Finally, the back of the target - blown nicely out but still relatively intact! The conclusion is that we have severely misunderestimated the power of the .22LR - we expected Layer 3 to stop the round but had penetration anyway ... so the good news for you is that we will come back with a Layer 4 which we will make to stop this ammunition ( Eley club - 1085 fps ) and will post the update here in the near future!

A video of this may be posted sometime soon too, so keep an eye on this space! Come back soon as we will be describing what materials were in each Layer of today's test.

 

to be continued .....