Beckerhead firearms

Ooh yeah, lookit that. It appears AR500 has about 0.30% carbon, plus some hardening-helper alloying elements. It's in the hammer range of hardness. Brinell 500 is around ~51-52Rc. And apparently it IS abrasion-resistant, but probably not compared to blade steels. It's telling that they measure it on the Brinell instead of Rockwell hardness scales. Bullets are measured with Brinell, so that makes sense.

Getting a perfectly even heat, quench, and temper on large pieces is probably part of their trademark process, btw. Heat-treating a knife-sized piece of 10XX is one thing... heating a 1/4"+ PLATE is a whole different scale of problem.
 
I have a friend who makes armor and helms for SCA, HEMA and the Battle of Nations guys, and he HT's all his helms. In helm thickness, 45 ball still will punch whatever hardenable alloy he's using
 
535 grains of pure lead tossed out of a 45-70 sharps will smash a hole through a hardened plow disk at 100 yards.
485 grains will punch through a 4" osage orange branch and stop just under the skin on the off-side shoulder of a fair sized white-tail doe.
 
1066vik said:
535 grains of pure lead tossed out of a 45-70 sharps will smash a hole through a hardened plow disk at 100 yards.
485 grains will punch through a 4" osage orange branch and stop just under the skin on the off-side shoulder of a fair sized white-tail doe.
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there's some video of a guy with a 5.7 pistol, shoot at 100 yds, through his *good* wheel barrow, through some decent rifle rated armor, clean through, and kept going through something else interesting.

some things are punchy, some things are not i guess.

"demolition ranch" features shooting through various thicknesses of bullet proof class. neat.

also locks :D
 
I got a couple pieces of bulletproof lexan a few years ago and shot it with m193 ball-spent about twenty minutes looking for and picking up little pieces of lexan
 
New blood in the family.

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Great looking CZ. I have a P-01 and love it. Unfortunately I don't have time to shoot what I already own :( nor the funds to expand the CZ family :( :( :(
 
The P-01 would be my pick in a 9mm, at least not having shot one yet. I do like the Sig P225, tho... did I already type this recently? prolly.
 
daizee said:
The P-01 would be my pick in a 9mm, at least not having shot one yet. I do like the Sig P225, tho... did I already type this recently? prolly.
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Shoot a P-01, you'll be glad you did. I was looking at a few Sig's but after some research found the CZ and never strayed. 14 + 1 in a compact package that shoots exceptionally well. When it comes down to it, its all in how it feels in the hand. Personally, the CZ is second to none. Very accurate. Takes whatever I feed it. Shoots like a dream. Conceals well too.

 
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