Would it be possible to survive a direct hit from a .50 bmg or a .58 Nayati?

Question

Like if a .50 bmg or .58 Nayita hit you anywhere in the chest, would it be possible to survive? Even if they missed anything vital, wouldn't the shock alone kill you? The BMG has 12,000 foot lbs. of force, the Nayaita about 11,000, ( I think you only need about 90-100 to drop a man with moderate effictvness!)
So what do you think?

Answer 1

If you're an MD you'll know the effects of hydrostatic shock on living tissue. Maybe you've never seen the effects of even a 30-06 fired from an M-1 Garand on a human chest at close range.

Instant death. The results are explosive. The damage is devastating and total.

I won't bother to detail the results of the Browning. You don't call the medic- you call the morgue. What they can't pick up, gets hosed off the deck.

Answer 2

During the Viet Nam War people said that the .50 BMG round was not an anti-personnel round (Geneva Convention) because no matter where it hit you, it would leave you in two pieces. There is probably a little bit of exageration to the 'two-piece theory,' but not much. The .585 Nyati is a dangerous game cartridge developed to hunt Water Buffalo & other dangerous game. It is just under the .50 BMG powerwise, still it is potent. Now your question is: Is it possible to survive a torso hit from a .50 BMG or .585 Nyati?

Answer: ANYTHING is possible, but it is extremely unlikely.

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Answer 3

Its very doubtful one would survive either of these. They have enough powder to penetrate the entire chest cavity. They are going to punch a half inch hole going in and a bigger hole comming out.
It is also pretty tough to miss something vital with that big of bullet. Just think of all the arteries, the heart, 2 lungs, 2 kidneys, liver, spleen, intestines and so on. If any of those get hit the chances of survival decrease. Even if bone is hit, it can break/shatter and pierce organs. Now the ribs are turned into deadly shrapnel.
Just grazing the side or shoulder would be survivable. Anywhere else, even if the person didn't die from vital organs being damaged, now there is still chances of hemorrhage or infection, both can be killers on what looks like a survivable wound, depending upon how the gunshot is treated.

Answer 4

I have no experience with the .58 Nayati, but I do with the .50 BMG. And yes, a chest wound caused by a .50 BMG is survivable. Is a lot of damage done? Yes. Is long term survival likely? No. Will the damage done impair you for the rest of your life? Almost certainly. But yes, people have survived chest wounds caused by a .50 BMG.

Answer 5

First, the .50 BMG makes use of a 750 grain pointed projectile as that's significant bullet, 2nd the .fifty 8 Springfield makes use of a pair of 200 grain around projectile. based on the burden and velocity distinction, Kinetic potential equals mass circumstances (velocity squared), the potential might unavoidably be lots larger from a .50 BMG.

Answer 6

Possible? Easily.

Probable? Probably not.

Foot pounds of force don't kill....penetration does. Follow that fact with logic and you come to "if you can stop the penetration, the victim will probably survive". It's the principle behind ballistic body armor.

Problem with that thinking is that if body armor can defeat a weapon in question, you can simply improve the weapon til it defeats the body armor. There is no real limit to the potential power of a theoretical weapon. Whereas body armor, you're limited to just what the body can support.

Answer 7

Maybe if you get hit from like 10000 meters away.

But if you talking anything under 2000 meters your a goner. The reson is because it has so much shock that if you get his in your lower stomach area the shock can explode your heart. If you can survive a bullet from one of these things then why do snipers use them?

Answer 8

no. a .50bmg is an anti material round used to pierce armor. it is highly unlikely that anything other that a graze to your outer layer of skin would result in anything other than a mortal wound resulting in death.

if you are shot in the chest by the smallest of bullets death is almost guaranteed.

cuntrary to popular belief a chest shot is actually more lethal that a head shot(from a small caliber weapon)

the cause of death form a head shot is blood loss, the brain can actually take much more damage than people think. (ive seen men shot in the head and survive with only part of their brain)

the cause of death from a chest shot is blood loss and organ failure. even if the blood loss is stopped you cant function without your organs.

Answer 9

there have been people hit by high powered rifles, (even in the chest) and have survived. there are no guaranties on any gun.) but a .50 cal, not much chance

Answer 10

I highly doubt it! Even though such a round would have no chance of stopping inside a humn body, the energy shock would fataly rupture all your organs! (say, mabye they should use one on thet child perv in the news!)