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Amazing Slow Motion x-ray gun shots (pictures)

Here are some greate x-ray pictures of slow motion bullets being fired through many objects. Slow motion gun shot pictures.

Shooting a Full Coke Can

Full can of soda shot by a 17-caliber pellet. The contents of the can is exploding out the right side. The bullet (left) is now tumbling.

Note: The can is beginning to rupture along the right side.

45 Cal. Through 8 Plates

Bullet penetrating eight metal plates. Note the shadow of the hand holding the weapon.

Lunch Box Surprise

Image taken of a metal lunch pail with a bomb inside. (End view) Bottom left is the battery, bottom right is the explosive, middle oval is a clock at a 45 degree angle, above clock is a mercury switch. Note the lunch box clasp on the outside, left.

45 Cal. as it Fires

Picture of a hand gun being fired (note bullet at the end of the barrel). Image was taken using an acoustic trigger.

Explosive Bullet

Six frames showing the dispersal pattern of an exploding bullet

Bullet Stikes Metal Block

Explosive shock wave moving
through a metal block.

Shape Charge Through Armored Plate

Detonation of a shaped charge. The charge struck the metal plate from the bottom and is moving upwards.

Detonation Effect

Detonation's effect as it travels from left to right.

Metal Mold

X-ray series of a mold filling operation. Lead is being poured into the central channel and filling the mold's six cavities.

Medium Caliber, Semi-Automatic

Light image and a zoomed in x-ray image of a loaded gun. Note the
round in the chamber.

Shooting a Raw Egg

An egg just after a bullet has passed through its lower quarter.

Note the light outline of a large shell fragment flying off to the right.

Shooting a Coffee Cup

A bullet (now badly distorted and to the right) just passed through this cup. Note that the cup has multiple fractures but has not (yet) fallen apart.

Coffee Cup Shot, Delayed

A different cup 250 msec after impact

Shooting a Wine Bottle

A wine bottle being shot with a 45 caliber weapon. The flattened slug is exiting to the left.

Note the cork flying up out of the bottle.

Machine Gun

A rapid fire, multi-barreled gun.

Bullet in Golf Ball

Colorized xray image of a 30-06 passing through (right to left) a standard golf ball. Note the ball is still resting on its golf tee.

Bullet with Two Golf Balls

A 30-06, moving from right to left has passed through the first golf ball and is about to emerge from the second golf ball.

Bullet through 2" x 4" Boards

A 30-06, moving from right to left, has just passed through the second board. Note the fragments (light blue) that have come to rest in theright side of the left hand board.