I guess. I recall the Alaska pipeline looking pretty beefy.
I seem to recall at least one instance of someone punching it with a 460 Weatherby mag or something.
My cousin had some .30-06 armor piercing ammo. Well, that’s what he claimed. Had the black tips on them. Anyhoo, he claimed they’d eat up 3/8 plate. Never tried it though. I think I’ll let someone else blast away at steel plate while I’m doing something elsewhere.
"Anyhoo, he claimed they’d eat up 3/8 plate. Never tried it though. I think I’ll let someone else blast away at steel plate"
We have a steel silhouette range, at the range i belong to. Some of the shooters use 30-06 pistols as well as other large calibers.
Some one was using loads too hot or too hard (armor piercing).
We have a lot of 3/8ths plate steel sihouettes with neat holes a little less than half inch in diameter blown through them.
Your cuz speaketh truth. I have shot neat little holes through 3/8" mild steel plate with plain old U.S military surplus 7.62 147 grain FMJ slugs, not even AP stuff. The holes looked like they were blown through with a cutting torch.
I was firing from about 20 yards so those slugs were still moving at a pretty good clip when they hit the steel. I can't say what they would do at a longer range.