VV I worked with a Guy and he was shooting a 22 in an apartment closet im like what the heck you doing . he was like its safe im shooting the drywall and 2x4 , Im like no its not there are 5 units behind that wall and 12 kids you dumb as_ I told him I take the gun if he did any more shooting .
@@MrTheHillfolk Toothpaste? A one pound tub of drywall mud or painters' spackle is like $5 and will stay good (with some stiring) for many years, a 40 pound box is like $15
No Shit! I've taken all kinds of small game up to and including deer with a .22 and have slaughtered sheep, beef and pig with the same gun. the trouble with the .22 is you have to be a skilled hunter and a dead shot to place it accurately, and you have to be close enough for the round to be effective. Not many are that skilled with a weapon!
@@imapaine-diaz4451 you can be sure, if the dry wall is the normal 20 to 25 ft. As in a normal situation, your test is probably not going to even close, sorry. Ol by
Those saying .22LR isn't enough power need something "bigger" as replacement fuzz on their peaches. Once shots are fired, hitting home or not, an intruder is out of there... or down.
If it doesn't stovepipe or jam,you can't deny that 22s jam more than ANY firearm,if squirrels are breaking in to your house they may give you a sec to clear the chamber and rack a new one but a meth head with 45 ain't gonna wait,I have many 22s and sometimes they jam,a major no no
@@stevedeutsch7240 yep ,when I was a teen I would put my 10/22 up against a mattress in our barn,like right up against it,9/10 that mattress stopped it ,if it didn't freaking jam,no way am I trusting my life with one.its like a framer saying I can frame this whole house with a tack hammer instead of a nailgun,right tools for the right job imo
Yup, I am working up a bullpup 10-22. Rimfire ammo is the only one that we are allowed to own full sized magazines for up here in Canada. Which is a shame, I would rather be using centerfire cuz then I would have access to Glaser rounds and I wouldnt be watching penetration videos... on UA-cam.
I’ve saw many episodes of Forensic Files (which are actual real-life murder cases) and it seems like of the ones who were shot, there were more shot with a .22 LR than anything else.
I love this demonstration. A lot of people always likes to talk about the biggest and ignoring small .22 and looked so smug like it will not kill anything because it's in the "lower tier".
@@APlife764 What those extra pieces of drywall simulate are things in the room. Furniture, clothes, beds, PEOPLE. Those things also cause friction. Nobody competent lives in a completely empty house even if you live alone. One of those pieces of drywall could also have been a window that’s 10 feet from your neighbors house. Who knows. You should always know what’s behind your target whether it was an intention shot or not. Still, goes to show what a .22lr is capable of and that it shouldn’t be underestimated.
Yea I wanna make a mock up of regular studs and drywall. Drywall with electrical wires through it. Drywall with some pvc pipes, and drywall with metal duct work. Pretty sure it’s non existent on UA-cam from my searching would love to see 22LR and also HP some different grains see what’s what. Curious what round goes through as little as possible
Since the mid-70s, I've used .22LR, for self defense, NOT as as an expense issue, but for accuracy, dependability, and (truth be told), stopping power (and believe me, proficiency IS a factor, IF you rely on .22LR exclusively). CCI Stingers (hyper velocity hollow points) are a VERY practical choice (personal opinion) for my Ruger six inch, as is my old Iver-Johnson, also an excellent weapon for the use of shot shells. All this is of course, personal preference, but preference born of experience.
+cullen riley My mother and father always carried .22 revolvers for defense. They figured if a bad guy was close enough to matter, they would just stick the gun in the bad guys face and pull the trigger. A couple of hollow points to the head will make most any thug change his mind.
+Lithus17 And what about a .50AE? You miss the point. It's a demo of the 22lr. All wall punching stats go up from here. But about this weird preference for getting shot with a 22lr. Most sane people don't want to be shot by anything! I sometimes carry a 22lr & can guarantee (GA-RON-TEE) if I have to use it, the recipient ain't gonna feel like bothering me (or anyone else). I am the weapon. My gun is merely a tool. Don't blame your tools because you can't get the job done.
Never underestimate the energy behind a .22 LR round. Still wondering why people laugh at 22 rifles. I'm sure a well placed shot from one would wipe smiles off faces.
Even though the .22LR is tiny, its a really fast round, and is (depending on the company and the weapon, and shooter) ia extremely accurate. It can easily kill a person, given the number of rounds and where it hits.
After all, it was the 22 lr round that had nearly killed President Reagan. It also wounded Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy (who had acted as a human shield for the Commander-In-Chief) and police officer Thomas Delahanty (who, unfortunately, was forced to retire from the Metropolitan Police Dept. due to the permanent nerve damage he incurred to his left arm by John Hinckley Jr.).
Your plans to deal with home invasion have GOT to take into consideration your family and your neighbors. Do what you need to do - protect your loved ones - but always keep in mind those around you.
Videos like this are very informative. For some reason, in some circles. people scoff at a .22 and refer to it as a loud bb gun. However the truch is the .22 is just as deadly as any other round. Any time a projectile puts a hole in your body that isn't supposed to be there,, it's a bad thing. I saw a test on another channel showing that a .22 lr at 500 yards was easily capable of going through a human body. Great video.
.22LR is a massively underestimated round in my opinion. I use a .22 Chiappa M1 Carbine as my home defense weapon loaded with Remington Thunderbolt roundnose SP. Figure a couple of those will do the trick.
+DayRider76 Can you believe someone put up simulated wood grain paneling over the dry wall in one of the bedrooms of my house before I bought it? Why would someone do that... That is like buying a beemer and then spray painting it with primer
this has been confirmed again and again. at close range (which almost all cases of self defense occurs) the .22 is sufficient. noone is claiming its meant for combat against "hard" targets...but against soft human flesh - its a killer.
Nah, I need high explosive, armor piercing, high velocity, anti-tank, long range, incendiary, uranium depleted, belt fed, hollow point, full metal jacket, anti aircraft rounds for plinking. If I have an intruder, I need to move up to nuclear ordnance. It's the only way to be sure.
What you want for self defense is stopping power. Sure a .22 will kill you, however the target may dance for a bit. A .45 on the hand, well they'll feel it
@@REM-4444 self defense is up close and personal, otherwise its very hard to prove. In that context accuracy is irrelevant, you'll hit your target. That's why pocket pistols are common, your short single stack 9's or 45's, its not because they are accurate, because they aren't. But rather because its easily concealed and will provide a means of self defense. Do you really prefer accuracy over stopping power? I prefer the threat to seize immediately. But to each their own.
Great video! You always do well to inform, and teach us about this 22lr round. For those who are critical to you.......make your own damn video. Nice Job brother!
Wow glad your still here to tell your story an to let it be know the 22 is no sissy it saved my life when gangbangers tried to rob me idk if I hit them but they ran so fast they almost took flight
At the 3:34 mark, so the answer is 10 sheets or 5 walls (2-sided). Also it is without any insulation in the walls and firing at perfect 90 degree angle with the walls all 6 inches apart.
Interior walls usually don’t have insulation. So worst case scenario is inside your home without hitting other things along the way it could travel 5 rooms(including closets) over. Possibly being lethal or damaging in the 4th room but likely not in the 5th. Add in insulation or an exterior wall (brick) is would likely travel less. Still not a low power enough to forget about what’s behind your target in a self defense situation.
Roberto Tamborrini It can kill people,animals and destroy objects. To me that is a great caliber plus its cheap. You need aur rifles registered here and you need multiple permits to get a .22lr so I guess it is fairly decent. Soneone can still make your lights black with a small s&w or ruger in .22lr with a suppressor and no one will know...
And the 20,000 lb GBU-43 MOAB has nothing on a 5KT W80 nuclear warhead. Does not mean I would wish to have one dropped on my house. While the 22lr may not be a .30-06 it's still dangerous at the minimum and potentially lethal. And yet still people treat 22LR firearms like toys.
Dry wall rigidly mounted on studs on both sides would adsorb less energy than the bottom mounted test pieces, and more pieces would be penetrated. Also, most houses only have insulation in EXTERIOR walls, so this test is good on that score.
Yeah, this is not about the test or penetration of such walls. Who lives in a cardboard box? That's a joke. I would rather live in a trailer park drinking JD and pee into a bucket. It's already miserable to have plaster walls but non insulated... damn.
Definitely my favorite caliper, most common and abundant gun round out there, when everyone was racing to the store to buy ammo, I was buying tons of .22. best survival rifle in any situation, defense, offense it can do it all. Cheaper too.😎👍💯
Definitely surprised at how the pistol rounds from a slide action auto wearing a suppressor were that close in penetration to the lever action rifle rounds
Chances are good that the barrel is actually too long on the lever gun. If your powder charge is not enough to continue to accelerate the projectile for the length of the barrel, then it can actually begin to lose velocity before it clears the muzzle. As we all know, a 22lr is not dealing with an abundance of case volume for a powder charge.
@John Smith optimal length is going to vary by powder charge and bullet weight. You need a long enough burn to continue accelerating the bullet until it is going to clear the muzzle, which of course will change based on just how long the barrel is. This is also the reason we use slower powder to reload with heavy bullets, and faster burning powder for lighter weight bullets.
Sometimes higher velocity = less penetration. Especially in HP ammo like the Stinger and Velocitor. I think we would have seen greater penetration out of the rifle with round nose projectiles.
@@geckster109 for this to happen. One of two things must be true. Either the hollow point bullets are being driven too slow from a pistol, not allowing the bullet to expand, and thus over penetrating, usually not a concern for such light weight bullets. Or, they have to be moving so fast from the rifle length barrel, that they are experiencing bullet failure due to excessive velocity. Neither case is likely here.
I got reamed by a gun salesman once for getting slugs for home defense. My neighbors blah blah blah. My neighbors are about 200 acres away, fuck off salesman!
I find it interesting the shorter barrel (i.e. lower velocity, lower energy) creates a straighter path through the gyp board. The Henry path is much different. Is it the barrel angle or the energy being lost at a much higher rate because of the velocity?
What I find amazing is the relatively small amount of apparent increase in power when fired from a rifle in comparison to the much shorter pistol barrel.
There is a substantial difference. Usually a bit over 200 fps. That is substantial (somewhere around 14% increase. He also used a suppressed pistol (which I don't understand why since most people are not going to have a suppressor on their HD pistols) which slowed the pistol shots down some.
Cameron F depends where you are, most multi family units have insulation on interior walls cause of the sound deadening. In places where it gets cold most homes have interior wall insulation as well. And older homes Often just have some weird stuff going on behind drywall like more drywall, or brick, post an beam home often have wood strip wall and horse hair plaster. I’d still like to see a test with insulation I doubt it would affect the travel that much but you never know if you don’t try.
But the bullet leaving the house and going through that and then the siding with likely plywood? Plush, hollow points will break up better than a solid
12 sheets of ply that close together is not the equivalent of 6 walls in your house. It's a great test but the distance between walls, bullet tumbling, insulation, all will slow down the bullet. And my walls are doubled on both sides with a better grade of drywall.
I love how so many folks bag on the .22... but won't ever stand in front of it. I use .22 in my home, I've got plenty ready to go. Yes I have bigger, but my kids just love to know they're safe in the house.
Ok. Thanks for doing this! Oh dear, the .22LR is showing more and more why I chose it, and I am ever more comfortable as a disabled older guy to have it for both fun target shooting and for home defense! So how big is that bullet diameter again? Oh, right, almost 1/4 of an inch. So imagine some crazy nutter comes at you with an 8 inch long Philips screw-driver, the shaft of which is about a 1/4 inch in diameter. Get it? So that crazy dude stabs you in the chest twice. You think you'd like that? I know I would not! The hole a .22LR leaves is actually bigger, thanks to the disruptive effect of the shockwave. So a double tap from a 22 pistol is like getting stabbed with that screw driver twice. YIKES! Good luck trying to survive that one!
I've seen photos of what a single .22 round from a pistol can do to a heavy young man. Did it kill him? Well, I didn't get a chance to ask the pathologist who did his autopsy.
@@streetrat6455 And the Röhm .22lr that Hinkley used. It downed 4 men; Secret Service agent McCarthy; permanently disabling Press Secretary Brady and DC cop Delahanty; and Reagan almost died from a .22lr RICOCHET. That richochet bullet broke his rib and punctured his lung. He started coughing up blood, went unconscious, lost half his blood volume, and battled an infection after surgery.
I looked all over the Internet to try to buy some CCI "Staangers" but they do not sell them anywhere... Must be some new stuff that has not hit the market yet... lol
When I was a kid, a friend discharged a 22. In his living room. It went through the wall behind him and lodged in the mattress of the upper bunk bed in his brother's bedroom. His brother was in the bed! The bullet went through 2 layers of drywall, 1/2" plywood under the mattress and stopped in the mattress. Fortunately no one was hurt. His mom never found out!
you forgot the most important variable in that is the distance between the actual walls which it varies from 10 to 20 foot to try to set up only three walls with a distance of 10-20 foot from each other and you'll come out with very different results.
+SinClairOnAir Nonsense. A far more important variable would be the angle you shot the wall at. Firing dead-on like this I doubt the rounds would be deflected more than a few inches until it had passed through several walls already.
Yea. This is a good test, thank you. I did a test of using a CCI "Quiet" .22 LR shooting from a Taurus 94 revolver. Into a bucket of sand with two newspaper under bucket of 4 inchs of sand in my shed with plywood floor. I covered muzzle with cloth and point Blank shot one round. It basically went clear through everything including floor, i never found the bullet itself. I was trying to see what mushroom effect occured at point blank range, . After removing bucket, newspapers, and a small hole visible, it was long gone and more powerful than i thought, being 790 fps. For the quiets CCI ammo.
I agree, I had a argument with a know it all once who said it was useless. I said I guarantee if a proficient shooter in stressful situations was able to dump all 10 rounds into your face I bet you’d change your mind. He just got mad and wanted to change the topic.
Actually this test should be done with at least 7ft spacing between every pair of drywall (w/ 2x4 spacer). This would simulate flying through one wall, crossing the room and exiting the other wall. More accurate test IMHO.
Velocity drop isn't that much over such a short distance. 7 feet between each of these would only end up at around 40-50 total feet. You might get 1 less dry wall board at that distance. They would still go from one side of your house to the other.
a c thanks for that. I’m saying set them up as if it were room next to room next to room. This would show what would happen if we are shooting within a home where you may have a few bedrooms next to each other and possibly a common area next to that or in an office setting. What I want to ascertain is what the bullet would do in that potential scenario where other members of a family or colleagues in a work environment could be affected. The scenario in the video is cool for bullet travel over a short distance, but would not help me in a real world scenario unless I’m trying to shoot somebody in a drywall factory loading dock where multiple sheets of drywall might be stacked up in a series similar to this.
In 1981 Hinckley nearly got Reagan with a .22...and seriously injured Press Sec Brady, Delahanty (policeman), and McCarthy (Secret Service). The shot that hit President Reagan was a ricochet.
Actually, Mob choice was not a 22. They used a 25 caliber revolver pistol very precisely applied point blank to the brain stem by a sneaky approach from behind.
@@H2oHazard I was referring to the 22lr but, yes, ANY projectile that will enter the body and affect it in a way to cause death will work. The words "will" and "affect" are key in this understanding. Yes, a pellet with enough integrity and speed could be fatal. How the pellet achieves these is an engineering problem to be solved. Be safe.
@@DaHoodedBandit how many of those calls have you had to respond to. If you dont wanna talk about it understandable. My dad is a firefighter and he work as a emt for a while as well.
Just saying y'all if you use any kind of .22 round it will put someone down, those bullets can travel a mile and a half that's something I was taught growing up they are dangerous little things
You were taught wrong. Even the . 223 will barely reach that far. A .22lr won't even make it a mile. And it will be about as dangerous as hail at that distance.
The distance from the gun to the target makes a huge difference. I had a 1948 International pickup truck when I was a kid, and it'd already been target practice for quite a few gunners. I tried shooting .22 LR's (Sears, made by Winchester) from a Ruger 10/22 rifle at this 10 (?) gauge sheet metal on the bed sides. At 50 feet from the target, the bullet dented the metal, but didn't make it through. At 30 feet or so, part of the bullet made it through, but the rest was left as a starfish type pattern stuck to the perimeter of the hole. At 5 feet away, the entire bullet made it through. That's some serious velocity drop from a relatively small amount of air.
Just gonna post in advance for anyone making the routine "but you used a silencer" argument... the one we see on every penetration and body armor test on youtube. Ugh. Long story short: Silencers alone don't decrease muzzle velocity, many actually increase by small margins, so don't confuse them with using subsonic loads. I'm betting 80%+ of the people in the comments know this, but hey, just for those other guys.
Nick condo Well, on the plus side, for all the video game idiots interested enough to crawl their way over to Plink and other IRL firearms youtubers, they'll learn a lot about actual firearms fast and rough, likely thanks to the interest brought on by video games. I was once one such vidiot, but now I watch gun stuff for 50% culture and 50% impromptu science and mechanics. Not to mention there's a lot of history bound to firearms for the past few centuries.
+YCCCm7 Very true. I just watched an un-suppressed 338 Lapua fail to reach a target at just under 1500 yards because it dropped to subsonic speeds and destabilized, but once the suppressor was put on, it could reach it consistently. Tried to take it out another 100 yards and it became unstable again due to dropping too much speed. The suppressor gave it just enough of a boost to make 1500 yards accurately. Very impressive.
That's exactly right!!!! For all of the people that think that the .22 bounces around in the body, like a pinball...lol That's completely absurd, and I don't even know where they heard such crap. It simply does what every other bullet does....it penetrates until it stops. Period!
Nah, I need high explosive, armor piercing, high velocity, anti-tank, long range, incendiary, uranium depleted, belt fed, hollow point, full metal jacket, anti aircraft rounds for plinking. If I have an intruder, I need to move up to nuclear ordnance. It's the only way to be sure.
Add paint, insulation, framing boards, siding, furniture, decorations, trim boards, nails, windows, wiring, appliances, etc. Id like to see a real world test...
@@JosedelaPuenteG damn dude he just made a suggestion to revisit the topic, chill. I'd like to see him do it with hollow points, cuz nobody uses fmj for home defense anyway
Great video.. Can you take it further by stacking them tight? Maybe group 4 pieces making a 2" solid wall, the 8 & then if they still pass 12.. I wonder if the tightness will effect them much??
Deflection, sure. But this video is not about being accurate through walls. Also, the velocity that is lost simply due to distance traveled, is completely inconsequential when the distance is measurable with a tape measure...
I fully expected the silenced pistol to stop at @4 and the rifle to go through all. Shocking results! Then again, I have a Buckmark Hunter pistol and watched someone on another channel testing CCI MiniMags and it tested at 750mph. A little too large to conceal but I always thought it would be very effective if I had to depend on it!
You really should have put 10 -12 feet between each pair because the velocity would decrease over distance too. But, it does make a point, a missed shot will go through a wall to the next room and probably the one after that.
“How many pieces of dry wall will a .22 LR go through??”
Answer: Enough to get you kicked out of your apartment building that’s for sure.
VV I worked with a Guy and he was shooting a 22 in an apartment closet im like what the heck you doing . he was like its safe im shooting the drywall and 2x4 , Im like no its not there are 5 units behind that wall and 12 kids you dumb as_ I told him I take the gun if he did any more shooting .
@kyndakrazy
Someone doesn't know the toothpaste trick to fill holes in drywall 🤣🤣
Carefully pick an 'Exit hole' on the opposite wall, bye bye twatty neighbour...
@@MrTheHillfolk Toothpaste? A one pound tub of drywall mud or painters' spackle is like $5 and will stay good (with some stiring) for many years, a 40 pound box is like $15
@@mytech6779 You must not have ever lived check to check.
Looks like the first time I hung drywall. 20 holes, 4 screws.
😂😂 that would be me if I had to try to hang dry wall.
Lol. Exactly what i was thinking when watching this. I used to help my father in law with drywall during my college years. Haha
Hmmmm??? hammer holes, using screws??
Measure twice. Cut once.
@@dannybolman7739 measure twice cut three times because you missed the giant knot or chunk in the 2x4 😂
As a teenager I used a 22 for hunting. And from what I saw of its effects, I came to the conclusion that a 22 is not to be underestimated.
No Shit! I've taken all kinds of small game up to and including deer with a .22 and have slaughtered sheep, beef and pig with the same gun. the trouble with the .22 is you have to be a skilled hunter and a dead shot to place it accurately, and you have to be close enough for the round to be effective. Not many are that skilled with a weapon!
@@imapaine-diaz4451 you can be sure, if the dry wall is the normal 20 to 25 ft. As in a normal situation, your test is probably not going to even close, sorry. Ol by
Those saying .22LR isn't enough power need something "bigger" as replacement fuzz on their peaches. Once shots are fired, hitting home or not, an intruder is out of there... or down.
If it doesn't stovepipe or jam,you can't deny that 22s jam more than ANY firearm,if squirrels are breaking in to your house they may give you a sec to clear the chamber and rack a new one but a meth head with 45 ain't gonna wait,I have many 22s and sometimes they jam,a major no no
@@stevedeutsch7240 yep ,when I was a teen I would put my 10/22 up against a mattress in our barn,like right up against it,9/10 that mattress stopped it ,if it didn't freaking jam,no way am I trusting my life with one.its like a framer saying I can frame this whole house with a tack hammer instead of a nailgun,right tools for the right job imo
22lr has been around for well over a 100 years. Still, it's the most misunderstood and underestimated round there is.....
History has proven a thrown rock will kill. How anyone could believe an explosive propelled one wouldn't be dangerous is beyond me.
Yup, I am working up a bullpup 10-22. Rimfire ammo is the only one that we are allowed to own full sized magazines for up here in Canada. Which is a shame, I would rather be using centerfire cuz then I would have access to Glaser rounds and I wouldnt be watching penetration videos... on UA-cam.
@ I KNEW somebody who was killed by a 22 . I guess it is better then a toaster.
I’ve saw many episodes of Forensic Files (which are actual real-life murder cases) and it seems like of the ones who were shot, there were more shot with a .22 LR than anything else.
Are you the Steiner who made the full-auto suppressed AK-22?
22lr ain't no game. Great video bro. Helps people learn what's really what 👍
I love that there’s a channel dedicated to 22 cal.
My recommended video after watching this "How to repair holes in drywall."
Or 'Avoiding Future Landlord Queries'
Murder gang shih
Ok kyle
After watching “How to coverup an indoor gunshot from your neighbors”
Tooth paste will fix the holes
That's really surprising. Pretty cool demo and thanks for the video Brother!
plinkster and you need to get together and make a video!
***** You seem like a well educated individual.
+Patrick Ross atleast he can spell it right lol
+Fuck you is probably 16 years old hiding behind a phone his parents bought him. Fuckin troll-ass.
+M85FSLUVR damn roast boy lol
I love this demonstration. A lot of people always likes to talk about the biggest and ignoring small .22 and looked so smug like it will not kill anything because it's in the "lower tier".
I must say I love the pattern placement, I couldn't get that precise if I were to drill them stacked up
you should add 10 feet of space between every other piece of drywall to simulate rooms. Air causes friction and slows the bullet.
So do potential hits on the studs, wires, plumbing, etc.
Exactly…while I believe 22s are lethal, I know there is the variable of space between walls often overlooked
@@APlife764
What those extra pieces of drywall simulate are things in the room. Furniture, clothes, beds, PEOPLE. Those things also cause friction. Nobody competent lives in a completely empty house even if you live alone. One of those pieces of drywall could also have been a window that’s 10 feet from your neighbors house. Who knows. You should always know what’s behind your target whether it was an intention shot or not.
Still, goes to show what a .22lr is capable of and that it shouldn’t be underestimated.
And insulation..
Yea I wanna make a mock up of regular studs and drywall. Drywall with electrical wires through it. Drywall with some pvc pipes, and drywall with metal duct work. Pretty sure it’s non existent on UA-cam from my searching would love to see 22LR and also HP some different grains see what’s what. Curious what round goes through as little as possible
Since the mid-70s, I've used .22LR, for self defense, NOT as as an expense issue, but for accuracy, dependability, and (truth be told), stopping power (and believe me, proficiency IS a factor, IF you rely on
.22LR exclusively). CCI Stingers (hyper velocity hollow points) are a VERY practical choice (personal opinion) for my Ruger six inch, as is my old Iver-Johnson, also an excellent weapon for the use of shot shells. All this is of course, personal preference, but preference born of experience.
If someone pointed a .22 at me I would have the same bowel response as a .223.
+cullen riley My mother and father always carried .22 revolvers for defense. They figured if a bad guy was close enough to matter, they would just stick the gun in the bad guys face and pull the trigger. A couple of hollow points to the head will make most any thug change his mind.
+James Cooper Guaranteed to ruin a good day of thug life!
+Lithus17 And what about a .50AE? You miss the point. It's a demo of the 22lr. All wall punching stats go up from here. But about this weird preference for getting shot with a 22lr. Most sane people don't want to be shot by anything! I sometimes carry a 22lr & can guarantee (GA-RON-TEE) if I have to use it, the recipient ain't gonna feel like bothering me (or anyone else).
I am the weapon. My gun is merely a tool. Don't blame your tools because you can't get the job done.
cullen riley same because 22 Is little but deadly
James Cooper yeah they would change there mind because they would be dead
Never underestimate the energy behind a .22 LR round. Still wondering why people laugh at 22 rifles. I'm sure a well placed shot from one would wipe smiles off faces.
Even though the .22LR is tiny, its a really fast round, and is (depending on the company and the weapon, and shooter) ia extremely accurate. It can easily kill a person, given the number of rounds and where it hits.
After all, it was the 22 lr round that had nearly killed President Reagan.
It also wounded Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy (who had acted as a human shield for the Commander-In-Chief) and police officer Thomas Delahanty (who, unfortunately, was forced to retire from the Metropolitan Police Dept. due to the permanent nerve damage he incurred to his left arm by John Hinckley Jr.).
shikat2371 Interesting info, thanks. I didn't realize it was a 22 lr that was used.
People laugh at it bc it is one of the weakest rifles
I've still to the day never had someone who claimed they are soooooo weak volunteer to take a .22lr in the chest from 10yd
Your plans to deal with home invasion have GOT to take into consideration your family and your neighbors. Do what you need to do - protect your loved ones - but always keep in mind those around you.
My NRA class taught me just that. Home intrusion, keep you head and know where you're aiming. Kids in the next room, neighbor's house, etc.
410 shotgun with #8 loads will get the job done , in my opinion.
I have 12 gauge target loads. Fuck it
“Know your target and what lays beyond”
Amazed at the penetration of the CCI "Stanger"
Why is your pronunciation better?
@@dnsmithnc lighten up Frances
See see eye Stang-ger
CCI developed a line of Stingers called Stanger’s because of him.
When you’re that good, they enlarge the box to envelope your ideas.
I was suspecting that was "twing" on Stinger. I was like, WTF is a "stanger"?
Videos like this are very informative. For some reason, in some circles. people scoff at a .22 and refer to it as a loud bb gun.
However the truch is the .22 is just as deadly as any other round. Any time a projectile puts a hole in your body that isn't supposed to be there,, it's a bad thing.
I saw a test on another channel showing that a .22 lr at 500 yards was easily capable of going through a human body.
Great video.
Sandor Althof I own one and I agree. Now just to learn how to properly aim it so I get bullseye everytime...
It will SHATTER any skull on Earth. PERIOD!!! Nuff said.....
@@jamiesloan5902 I sure you mean human skull.
.22LR is a massively underestimated round in my opinion. I use a .22 Chiappa M1 Carbine as my home defense weapon loaded with Remington Thunderbolt roundnose SP. Figure a couple of those will do the trick.
I’ve shot a .22 lr through 5/8 think pine wood and it went strait through and berated the 2ltr pop bottle behind it at roughly 20 feet away.
Need to do simulated wood grain paneling for all us trailer trash!
+DayRider76 Easy there, it's 'alternative housing' folks!! ;-)
Drumboy5165
metal framed community!
+DayRider76 Can you believe someone put up simulated wood grain paneling over the dry wall in one of the bedrooms of my house before I bought it? Why would someone do that... That is like buying a beemer and then spray painting it with primer
The walls under them were fine, other than a few old nail marks. I think the old owner just liked how simulated wood paneling looks xD
Richard Smith
better than mine, the only drywall in my house has a giant wall paper forest scene?
Well, that answered a huge question. That was a lot more drywall than I would have guessed.
subscribed to to hear you say "stanger" more.
yep
stANGer
Rob skating more like stAINNGErrr..
we need STANGER shirts lol
I checked every website I could think of, and never did find any CCI Stangers... :(
I like how he calls the CCI "Stang-ers." Makes me smile.
Maybe he been dranking.
+Daevo Rozo Hahaha, I doubt that. 22Plankster seems like a responsible individual with firearms.
+Matt Blouch No doubt.
this the best test I've seen!!now we need to test with a actual house distances,go through a wall plus room distances in a actual home I'm impressed
My thoughts exactly.
Alot of people underestimate the power of a 22. Nice little round
this has been confirmed again and again. at close range (which almost all cases of self defense occurs) the .22 is sufficient. noone is claiming its meant for combat against "hard" targets...but against soft human flesh - its a killer.
@Phil McCrevice I wonder what your thoughts are on that statement today? ;)
@@davecasey4341 shots fired
Nah, I need high explosive, armor piercing, high velocity, anti-tank, long range, incendiary, uranium depleted, belt fed, hollow point, full metal jacket, anti aircraft rounds for plinking. If I have an intruder, I need to move up to nuclear ordnance. It's the only way to be sure.
What you want for self defense is stopping power. Sure a .22 will kill you, however the target may dance for a bit. A .45 on the hand, well they'll feel it
@@REM-4444 self defense is up close and personal, otherwise its very hard to prove. In that context accuracy is irrelevant, you'll hit your target. That's why pocket pistols are common, your short single stack 9's or 45's, its not because they are accurate, because they aren't. But rather because its easily concealed and will provide a means of self defense. Do you really prefer accuracy over stopping power? I prefer the threat to seize immediately. But to each their own.
I was impressed with your accuracy, nice four corners group!
Great video! You always do well to inform, and teach us about this 22lr round. For those who are critical to you.......make your own damn video. Nice Job brother!
I once had a 22lr go in one side of me and out the other. It was no pea shooter. It felt like a softball went through me.
There speaks a man who knows.
did it go through your heart?
Would you do it again?
Wow glad your still here to tell your story an to let it be know the 22 is no sissy it saved my life when gangbangers tried to rob me idk if I hit them but they ran so fast they almost took flight
When did you first notice?
Cool vid and interesting but I wonder how the results would have changed if there were room size gaps between every other sheet of drywall?
At the 3:34 mark, so the answer is 10 sheets or 5 walls (2-sided). Also it is without any insulation in the walls and firing at perfect 90 degree angle with the walls all 6 inches apart.
Interior walls usually don’t have insulation. So worst case scenario is inside your home without hitting other things along the way it could travel 5 rooms(including closets) over. Possibly being lethal or damaging in the 4th room but likely not in the 5th.
Add in insulation or an exterior wall (brick) is would likely travel less. Still not a low power enough to forget about what’s behind your target in a self defense situation.
The CCi Stinger forever renamed the Stanger. Wish i could find those damn things.
I had been considering doing the same test, thanks dor saving me a lot of time and trouble. Good video
This is where you needed to say "and remember, .22LR is real ammunition, treat it as such "
Some people really underestimate .22lr
AirsoftSlo theres nothing to underestimate its a piece of absolute shit
Roberto Tamborrini It can kill people,animals and destroy objects. To me that is a great caliber plus its cheap. You need aur rifles registered here and you need multiple permits to get a .22lr so I guess it is fairly decent. Soneone can still make your lights black with a small s&w or ruger in .22lr with a suppressor and no one will know...
AirsoftSlo yeah deffo pal, im just talking about compared to other rounds, its capable but its nothing really
And the 20,000 lb GBU-43 MOAB has nothing on a 5KT W80 nuclear warhead. Does not mean I would wish to have one dropped on my house. While the 22lr may not be a .30-06 it's still dangerous at the minimum and potentially lethal. And yet still people treat 22LR firearms like toys.
Wow,
Any gun can kill someone if hit them in right place, laugh if want but .22 can kill like any other gun, so respect .22 like any other gun.
jwflyaway no.
anime trash yes
Guns don't kill bullets do, well I suppose you could pistol some to death.
I have seen people killed with a 22.
@Smokey Bear and president Reagan, damn near...
Yep. 5 shot pump shotgun with 18.5” barrel and number 4 pheasant shot is my fav for inside the home.
Dry wall rigidly mounted on studs on both sides would adsorb less energy than the bottom mounted test pieces, and more pieces would be penetrated.
Also, most houses only have insulation in EXTERIOR walls, so this test is good on that score.
+tom jackson ... ALSO - most production & multi family builders use the thinner 3/8" drywall.
No wonder your houses suck over there lol
Yeah, this is not about the test or penetration of such walls. Who lives in a cardboard box? That's a joke. I would rather live in a trailer park drinking JD and pee into a bucket. It's already miserable to have plaster walls but non insulated... damn.
After 4 walls you are going to have to go through some siding.
I always wondered about this and glad you made the video. Nice job!
Nice presentation. I was shocked at the outcome!
This man is a scary good shooter, I watched him shoot a 22 through a separate 22 barrel he set up on a post
Thank you, too many people don't respect what even a small caliber firearm can do!!!
Very interesting, I didn't expect it to go through that many sheets of drywall either. That's pretty cool!
Would be interested to see the results with subsonic hollow points
Definitely my favorite caliper, most common and abundant gun round out there, when everyone was racing to the store to buy ammo, I was buying tons of .22. best survival rifle in any situation, defense, offense it can do it all. Cheaper too.😎👍💯
Yeah but if you really, REALLY need to kill with one shot from far away, the good old .308 is a gem
Can you do a test with segmenting 22lr? I live in a condo and worry about neighbors.
Thanks
Definitely surprised at how the pistol rounds from a slide action auto wearing a suppressor were that close in penetration to the lever action rifle rounds
Chances are good that the barrel is actually too long on the lever gun. If your powder charge is not enough to continue to accelerate the projectile for the length of the barrel, then it can actually begin to lose velocity before it clears the muzzle. As we all know, a 22lr is not dealing with an abundance of case volume for a powder charge.
Lots of people don't realize, suppressors actually increase the velocity of the round.
@John Smith optimal length is going to vary by powder charge and bullet weight. You need a long enough burn to continue accelerating the bullet until it is going to clear the muzzle, which of course will change based on just how long the barrel is. This is also the reason we use slower powder to reload with heavy bullets, and faster burning powder for lighter weight bullets.
Sometimes higher velocity = less penetration. Especially in HP ammo like the Stinger and Velocitor. I think we would have seen greater penetration out of the rifle with round nose projectiles.
@@geckster109 for this to happen. One of two things must be true. Either the hollow point bullets are being driven too slow from a pistol, not allowing the bullet to expand, and thus over penetrating, usually not a concern for such light weight bullets. Or, they have to be moving so fast from the rifle length barrel, that they are experiencing bullet failure due to excessive velocity. Neither case is likely here.
What I gathered from this video, people who use 5.56 as their home defense round must really hate their neighbors.
I use 300 BLK. :)
I use 155mm HE.
+aux99139 out of the 777 or 198?
+Cameron Miles I use a .50 cal armor penetrating incendiary rounds
I got reamed by a gun salesman once for getting slugs for home defense. My neighbors blah blah blah. My neighbors are about 200 acres away, fuck off salesman!
WOW! That was a shocker. Thank you for the demonstration!
I find it interesting the shorter barrel (i.e. lower velocity, lower energy) creates a straighter path through the gyp board. The Henry path is much different. Is it the barrel angle or the energy being lost at a much higher rate because of the velocity?
I would be comfortable in any gunfight with my 17-shot tube-loaded .22rifle
Not at 250 yards.
@Phil McCrevice awesome, looking forward to that video!
@Dagwood Dogwood do Marlin 60's hold that many in the tube?
I own one, I should check. But these are awesome rifles.
mark mark agreed
sounds like my Winchester model 190..semi auto......love that gun
I have a Bersa .22 and I'm very surprised for your results...thank you for your video!!!
What I find amazing is the relatively small amount of apparent increase in power when fired from a rifle in comparison to the much shorter pistol barrel.
There is a substantial difference. Usually a bit over 200 fps. That is substantial (somewhere around 14% increase. He also used a suppressed pistol (which I don't understand why since most people are not going to have a suppressor on their HD pistols) which slowed the pistol shots down some.
It's a great little round!!
GREAT INFO! I just settled for the Browning 1911-22 bc I couldn't find a .380 so this is nice info to have.
I like how you can see the bullet drop as it goes through the panels.
+Coffee Shark Not really bullet drop; he was shooting at a downward angle because he's taller than his target.
To everyone whining about "no insulation"...insulation is generally just in your exterior walls and if your lucky it might be in your bathroom walls.
Cameron F depends where you are, most multi family units have insulation on interior walls cause of the sound deadening. In places where it gets cold most homes have interior wall insulation as well. And older homes Often just have some weird stuff going on behind drywall like more drywall, or brick, post an beam home often have wood strip wall and horse hair plaster.
I’d still like to see a test with insulation I doubt it would affect the travel that much but you never know if you don’t try.
But the bullet leaving the house and going through that and then the siding with likely plywood?
Plush, hollow points will break up better than a solid
@@dominicsmall4566 wrong!
@@Knotrockets I’m sorry what part was wrong?
12 sheets of ply that close together is not the equivalent of 6 walls in your house. It's a great test but the distance between walls, bullet tumbling, insulation, all will slow down the bullet. And my walls are doubled on both sides with a better grade of drywall.
I love how so many folks bag on the .22... but won't ever stand in front of it. I use .22 in my home, I've got plenty ready to go. Yes I have bigger, but my kids just love to know they're safe in the house.
Ok. Thanks for doing this! Oh dear, the .22LR is showing more and more why I chose it, and I am ever more comfortable as a disabled older guy to have it for both fun target shooting and for home defense!
So how big is that bullet diameter again? Oh, right, almost 1/4 of an inch. So imagine some crazy nutter comes at you with an 8 inch long Philips screw-driver, the shaft of which is about a 1/4 inch in diameter. Get it?
So that crazy dude stabs you in the chest twice. You think you'd like that? I know I would not!
The hole a .22LR leaves is actually bigger, thanks to the disruptive effect of the shockwave. So a double tap from a 22 pistol is like getting stabbed with that screw driver twice. YIKES! Good luck trying to survive that one!
people tend to leave you alone when you poke holes in them
Dem Stangers! Awesome vid!
I guessed 6-8 and was thoroughly impressed by both rounds esp. the "stanger!" GB!!
I keep searching for CCI stangers but it keeps saying not found.
+Leo Krupp ROFL!
+Zebra Dun hahaha ;)
+Leo Krupp I think I like calling them Stangers. That's so funny. LOL
***** Yeah, I know, it was just a joke. It's like Missouri and "Missoura" or pecan and "peecin".
stingers not stangers
Very impressive had no idea the 22 lr could penetrate like that
Best channel on UA-cam. Thx Plinkster.
I've seen photos of what a single .22 round from a pistol can do to a heavy young man. Did it kill him? Well, I didn't get a chance to ask the pathologist who did his autopsy.
Dont forget an iver johnson .22 killed robert kennedy...
@@streetrat6455 And the Röhm .22lr that Hinkley used. It downed 4 men; Secret Service agent McCarthy; permanently disabling Press Secretary Brady and DC cop Delahanty; and Reagan almost died from a .22lr RICOCHET. That richochet bullet broke his rib and punctured his lung. He started coughing up blood, went unconscious, lost half his blood volume, and battled an infection after surgery.
H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S!
@@californiaslastgasp6847 yup.
I looked all over the Internet to try to buy some CCI "Staangers" but they do not sell them anywhere... Must be some new stuff that has not hit the market yet... lol
It's hard to find but it's out there. I bought 250 rounds a couple of months ago online.
+seamorgh21 I think he's joking and saying he actually typed in "staangers" when looking.
+seamorgh21 don't they sell them at your local gun store
I couldn't find any viloci-tours either
+Scorpion Airsoft lol
When I was a kid, a friend discharged a 22. In his living room. It went through the wall behind him and lodged in the mattress of the upper bunk bed in his brother's bedroom. His brother was in the bed! The bullet went through 2 layers of drywall, 1/2" plywood under the mattress and stopped in the mattress. Fortunately no one was hurt. His mom never found out!
STANGGGGURRRSSS
I caught that too...
far exceeded my expectations .
Spot on. Your commentry is spot on.
“ STANGEEER bounced outta numba tin !”
you forgot the most important variable in that is the distance between the actual walls which it varies from 10 to 20 foot to try to set up only three walls with a distance of 10-20 foot from each other and you'll come out with very different results.
+SinClairOnAir Nonsense. A far more important variable would be the angle you shot the wall at. Firing dead-on like this I doubt the rounds would be deflected more than a few inches until it had passed through several walls already.
+Mark Laver it will if the distance between the walls is 10-20 but not if it's like he did it
+SinClairOnAir Thank you. I was just about to type the same thing
Great round in my opinion very under estimated and super cheap.
Stanger ammunition ™
You mean Stayn-gerr?
I can't find those CCI "Stangers" anywhere.
its stingers
Only available in Texas.
Yea. This is a good test, thank you. I did a test of using a CCI "Quiet" .22 LR shooting from a Taurus 94 revolver. Into a bucket of sand with two newspaper under bucket of 4 inchs of sand in my shed with plywood floor. I covered muzzle with cloth and point Blank shot one round. It basically went clear through everything including floor, i never found the bullet itself. I was trying to see what mushroom effect occured at point blank range, . After removing bucket, newspapers, and a small hole visible, it was long gone and more powerful than i thought, being 790 fps. For the quiets CCI ammo.
The .22lr is constantly under estimated. This is an extremely lethal round and will do the job
I agree, I had a argument with a know it all once who said it was useless. I said I guarantee if a proficient shooter in stressful situations was able to dump all 10 rounds into your face I bet you’d change your mind. He just got mad and wanted to change the topic.
Actually this test should be done with at least 7ft spacing between every pair of drywall (w/ 2x4 spacer). This would simulate flying through one wall, crossing the room and exiting the other wall. More accurate test IMHO.
Velocity drop isn't that much over such a short distance. 7 feet between each of these would only end up at around 40-50 total feet. You might get 1 less dry wall board at that distance. They would still go from one side of your house to the other.
a c thanks for that. I’m saying set them up as if it were room next to room next to room. This would show what would happen if we are shooting within a home where you may have a few bedrooms next to each other and possibly a common area next to that or in an office setting. What I want to ascertain is what the bullet would do in that potential scenario where other members of a family or colleagues in a work environment could be affected. The scenario in the video is cool for bullet travel over a short distance, but would not help me in a real world scenario unless I’m trying to shoot somebody in a drywall factory loading dock where multiple sheets of drywall might be stacked up in a series similar to this.
@@lusmythe4898 that's not what the test is for. It's for seeing what could happen if you miss your shot.
a c ???
Don't forget the insulation
I got a 22 rifle when I was 8 years old a Sears and Roebuck that was 60 years ago, still shoots excellent.
The assassin's choice. Dismissing the .22lr as a home defense weapon is a mistake because it has killed more than most people realize.
Tom Baker yup assassination attempts were with a 22
nyc mob choice back in the day.
….A day later.
In 1981 Hinckley nearly got Reagan with a .22...and seriously injured Press Sec Brady, Delahanty (policeman), and McCarthy (Secret Service).
The shot that hit President Reagan was a ricochet.
Actually, Mob choice was not a 22. They used a 25 caliber revolver pistol very precisely applied point blank to the brain stem by a sneaky approach from behind.
Absolutely deadly. Proper shot placement will stop a threat immediately.
With anything even a pellet gun
@@H2oHazard I was referring to the 22lr but, yes, ANY projectile that will enter the body and affect it in a way to cause death will work. The words "will" and "affect" are key in this understanding. Yes, a pellet with enough integrity and speed could be fatal. How the pellet achieves these is an engineering problem to be solved. Be safe.
@@DaHoodedBandit how many of those calls have you had to respond to. If you dont wanna talk about it understandable. My dad is a firefighter and he work as a emt for a while as well.
instigating
@@DaHoodedBandit (Not that I ever want to be shot in the head, but...) hope you're called to be my paramedic, if that be the case. Best Regards.
That is exactly why I love my .22 Ruger little thing is loud and powerful, easy to carry.
Thanks I need to hang some pictures in all the rooms saves me drilling holes
Just saying y'all if you use any kind of .22 round it will put someone down, those bullets can travel a mile and a half that's something I was taught growing up they are dangerous little things
You were taught wrong. Even the . 223 will barely reach that far. A .22lr won't even make it a mile. And it will be about as dangerous as hail at that distance.
Love to see this test repeated using the CCI Quiet segmented round. Because, why damage your hearing shooting a bad guy?
drywall is for dem fancy folks. what you done do a video with aluminum siding next. thankee
The distance from the gun to the target makes a huge difference. I had a 1948 International pickup truck when I was a kid, and it'd already been target practice for quite a few gunners. I tried shooting .22 LR's (Sears, made by Winchester) from a Ruger 10/22 rifle at this 10 (?) gauge sheet metal on the bed sides. At 50 feet from the target, the bullet dented the metal, but didn't make it through. At 30 feet or so, part of the bullet made it through, but the rest was left as a starfish type pattern stuck to the perimeter of the hole. At 5 feet away, the entire bullet made it through. That's some serious velocity drop from a relatively small amount of air.
22lr isn't very aerodynamic.
Just gonna post in advance for anyone making the routine "but you used a silencer" argument... the one we see on every penetration and body armor test on youtube. Ugh.
Long story short: Silencers alone don't decrease muzzle velocity, many actually increase by small margins, so don't confuse them with using subsonic loads. I'm betting 80%+ of the people in the comments know this, but hey, just for those other guys.
Nick condo
Well, on the plus side, for all the video game idiots interested enough to crawl their way over to Plink and other IRL firearms youtubers, they'll learn a lot about actual firearms fast and rough, likely thanks to the interest brought on by video games.
I was once one such vidiot, but now I watch gun stuff for 50% culture and 50% impromptu science and mechanics. Not to mention there's a lot of history bound to firearms for the past few centuries.
+YCCCm7 Very true. I just watched an un-suppressed 338 Lapua fail to reach a target at just under 1500 yards because it dropped to subsonic speeds and destabilized, but once the suppressor was put on, it could reach it consistently. Tried to take it out another 100 yards and it became unstable again due to dropping too much speed. The suppressor gave it just enough of a boost to make 1500 yards accurately. Very impressive.
What is interesting is there was little or no change in flight path!
That's exactly right!!!! For all of the people that think that the .22 bounces around in the body, like a pinball...lol That's completely absurd, and I don't even know where they heard such crap. It simply does what every other bullet does....it penetrates until it stops. Period!
Looking to get a gsg chambered in 22 lr and this definitely helped my decision
Nah, I need high explosive, armor piercing, high velocity, anti-tank, long range, incendiary, uranium depleted, belt fed, hollow point, full metal jacket, anti aircraft rounds for plinking. If I have an intruder, I need to move up to nuclear ordnance. It's the only way to be sure.
I hope you live on Nevada.
👍😎🤘
And it better be full auto.
😂
Lol😎
Add paint, insulation, framing boards, siding, furniture, decorations, trim boards, nails, windows, wiring, appliances, etc. Id like to see a real world test...
durtsurf shhhh he doesn’t want to hear logic
paint ? ok if u thnk paint makes a difference stand behind the 11th sheet & ill fire a 22 at you...
Then go make it yourself and STFU
@@JosedelaPuenteG damn dude he just made a suggestion to revisit the topic, chill. I'd like to see him do it with hollow points, cuz nobody uses fmj for home defense anyway
Lmao the paint factor... Does the color also has an impact on penetration ?
Hollow points or round nose ammunition also makes a huge difference in damage and penetration
Need to get another camera so you can do some slowmotion side views of this stuff. Keep it up! :)
What you need to do is get out of California and make videos, you guys are great.
Wow, didn't expect that at all.
+CWB1863 Glad my house has an all brick exterior and a solid concrete foundation.
You're the smartest out of the three little pigs! Haha! You're set brother!
Great video.. Can you take it further by stacking them tight? Maybe group 4 pieces making a 2" solid wall, the 8 & then if they still pass 12.. I wonder if the tightness will effect them much??
*AMAZING, I THOUGHT MAYBE 3 AND STOP AT 4 SHEETS...WHO KNEW?!!* 😯 *BOTTOM LINE, BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU POINT THAT GUN, YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!* 😱
How many people live in a house with 4" wide rooms? Deflection and velocity loss over feet no accounted for!
Deflection, sure. But this video is not about being accurate through walls. Also, the velocity that is lost simply due to distance traveled, is completely inconsequential when the distance is measurable with a tape measure...
Get behind your statement then.-former 11b4p
3.5” walls. Lumber is dimensional
I think velocity loss due to air resistance through 10 feet of air is probably negligible. However, we may lose some tumbling effects.
No exterior insulation, No exterior plywood, not siding, no foam that may be there for added insulation.
But the point is well taken
I have a STEYR RFP handgun and love it! Trust me, it will do the job
I fully expected the silenced pistol to stop at @4 and the rifle to go through all. Shocking results! Then again, I have a Buckmark Hunter pistol and watched someone on another channel testing CCI MiniMags and it tested at 750mph. A little too large to conceal but I always thought it would be very effective if I had to depend on it!
You really should have put 10 -12 feet between each pair because the velocity would decrease over distance too. But, it does make a point, a missed shot will go through a wall to the next room and probably the one after that.
Yep! This^^^^