Tactical Rifleman skips 5.56 under a car to show where cover is

Tactical Rifleman fires about 28 rounds of 5.56 under a vehicle, then walks around to a row of cardboard on the far side to see what got through. It is a one-minute test of something most people never think about: bullets do not need to come through a car to reach you, because they can skip along the ground beneath it.

Key points

• The test: Rounds are fired at the ground under the vehicle, with cardboard on the other side to catch skipped bullets and fragments.
• What got through: The cardboard shows penetrating marks along the length of the vehicle from skipped rounds and bullet fragments.
• The clean spot: The area behind the wheel hub stayed clean.
• The rule: For cover behind a vehicle, the video names the engine block as the primary choice and the wheel hub as the secondary.

Quick take

The video's verdict on those fragments: they probably would not kill you, but they would ruin your day. The wheel hub is not much to hide behind, it says, but it stops all of that from reaching you.

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