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    How much water would be needed to stop a .22 bullet?

    Yes, .22 LR. Great- I'll try to round one of those up..or some comparable column of water. Thanks
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    How much water would be needed to stop a .22 bullet?

    No, I didn't do any formal extrapolation, but it seemed in the Mythbusters that the high velocity, high caliber guns tended to shatter upon contact with the water, while the lower-velocity 9mm didn't. I'm assuming the small & relatively slow .22 cal will not shatter, and might actually...
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    How much water would be needed to stop a .22 bullet?

    I'm trying to figure out how deep a column of water I would need to stop a .22 bullet. I'm interested in recovering bullets from a series of guns and trying to see those 'characteristic striations' each gun leaves as part of its 'fingerprint.' For what it's worth, Mythbusters tried to...
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