How Many Watermelons Will It Take To Stop A .500 Magnum?

22 Plinkster bills this as “Just a little fun with fruit,” but handling the punishing recoil of a .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum isn’t my personal idea of a good time.

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That said, how many melons do you think a 300+-grain slug moving at more than 1,800 feet-per-second will penetrate?

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