4 Bore Rifle vs. Body Armor

[Elderberry]

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 7/8/2023

https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=55340

4 Bore is an obsolete black-powder rifle with a (roughly) 1 inch barrel used for hunting big game in Africa. Scott at Kentucky Ballistics got a modern version of that and decided to test it against body armor. Consider this as the latest in the “BattleSwarm features videos of absurdly large rifle calibers for your viewing pleasure.”

Though it has a 2,150 grain bullet producing over 200 pounds of felt recoil, the round is too flat and slow to actually penetrate the body armor, but it packs so much force that it just drags most of the body armor into the chest cavity. The zombie torsos do not fare well.

Thanks to Dave Hardy for bringing the video to my attention.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4KdwNKXCpg

I never knew there were 4 Bore Rifles. I have a 4 Bore Cannon and I'm not about to shoulder fire it.

[Sighlass]

I saw this a couple weeks ago, I think this was the fellow that had a 50 cal blow up on him a year or so ago when he used old ammo. He is about as crazy as that fake Russian dude (FPSRussia).

That said, 200lbs of kick from a gun would probable have me in wheelchair afterwards. That cannon sounds cool @Elderberry, not sure the practical use, but cool.