What Happens to Bullets When They Hit Auto Glass?

[blues]

Can you draw us a picture?

Have you got a magnifying glass?

[DMCutter]

I failed kinematics twice in college, but physics is pretty cool. Still prefer electricity, light, and magnetism though (I made an A in that course...).

This is why I'm a civil engineer. Everything I deal with is standing still. Electricity, magnetism, thermo, optics (Physics 251) was a 5 credit hour D for me...at the end of the semester I took the Halliday and Resnick textbook to a friend's farm and shot the shit out of it with my AR-180. I don't remember which way the bullets deflected.

[TCinVA]

[Totem Polar]

Bullets and cars are interesting to me. I know for a fact (from a Matt Graham class) that the headrest in a 90’s accord will stop all common service calibers—an interesting tidbit.

I also took a “ballistics” course (which included shooting car parts with pretty much everything under the sun, from .380 to .308) from LE in N Idaho that convinced me that 12 gauge slugs are the way to go if one absolutely must shoot at something inside a passenger car.

And that’s all this musician has to add to this fascinating topic. I mean, aside from confirming that my own first shot through fresh windshield glass from the inside did go a little bit high, while the rest went through the created port to get on target per usual.