The Box O' Truth - The Buick O' Truth #2 - Windshields Outside/In

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The Box O' Truth - The Buick O' Truth #2 - Windshields Outside/In - Page 2

The .40 S&W round penetrated the passenger seat completely.

Even striking the target in the back seat of the vehicle.

Next up, a .45 being fired through a MK23 SOCOM pistol.

Notice how the main point of impact (which is indicated by the red pen in all the pictures) is at the point of aim.

Again, the bigger the bullet, the less deflection you are likely to see.

The .45 also had less fragmentation than the 9mm or the .40 S&W rounds.

So I bet you are wondering where the photos are of the .45's passthrough, right?

Well, it didn't penetrate the passenger seat.

Before the .40 S&W fanatics start to post about how superior the .40 round is to the .45, a word needs to be said about the seats in this Buick.

The seats in this car are built around what appears to be a VERY sturdy metal frame. This frame is, quite literally, bulletproof, heavier than I have seen in just about any other vehicle.

I have done vehicle shoots before, and the .45 and .40 normally penetrate that seat fairly easily, while the 9mm and 357 sig sporadically penetrate it.

The .40 round in this series just seems to have hit a sweet spot that didn't have any steel in it.

People talk about how poorly GM cars are built, but as the shoot wore on we found that this particular Buick was actually a pretty tough cookie.

As before, we will also look at what happens when you put multiple rounds in roughly the same spot.

Here as in the inside example, a 9mm Glock is used.