Spinning Ice Bullets?

[Buckshot Bear]

Spinning Ice Bullets? ....... I've never seen anything like this, before I get too excited....is this real???

 

 

 

[Alpo]

I have heard of it before. I have seen video. Might be that same video. But it does make sense.

 

I've shot dirt at my feet, and the bullet just goes in a couple inches. But the dirt has so much friction that it stops the spinning. If the ice is thick enough it should prevent penetration, and ice is slick, so it might sit there and spin. Spinning should produce heat, which should melt the ice enough to give it a smooth surface to spin on.

 

I don't know if it's real, but it does seem possible.

[Pat Riot]

I can’t figure out how the bullet ended up about 3 feet (.91 meters) closer than where the gun was aimed. 
I have never heard of this either. 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

Mythbusters tested and confirmed it.

 

[Eyesa Horg]

9 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

I can’t figure out how the bullet ended up about 3 feet (.91 meters) closer than where the gun was aimed. 
I have never heard of this either. 

And for the angle it was fired,why didn't it just ricochet away?

[Pat Riot]

9 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

And for the angle it was fired,why didn't it just ricochet away?

It might be a magic ice patch…no wait, it’s one of this icy knoll bullets and it went into  the ice and it’s rotation made it move erratically through the ice to pop up where it did but it went no further because of the warmer air layer right on top of the ice…

Yeah, that’s it…

 

[Buckshot Bear]

Why didn't it penetrate the ice?

 

[Pat Riot]

11 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

Why didn't it penetrate the ice?

 

It’s magic! 

[Texas Joker]

14 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

Why didn't it penetrate the ice?

 

It's hard for bullets to penetrate water. 

[Eyesa Horg]

I'm always amazed at how fast snow stop a bullet. 

[Pat Riot]

7 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

I'm always amazed at how fast snow stop a bullet. 

Water too. I remember when they made me the duty gunner for the motor whaleboats. My job was to use an M14 to keep sharks away from anyone in the water. I asked where I should aim to kill the sharks and the gunnery chief said “You don’t aim at the sharks. You shoot at the water to get the shark to chase your bullets and not the man in the water. Besides, 7.62 loses all its power within the first 4 or 5 feet of water so you’d probably just pi** the shark off by shooting at it.”

Luckily I never had to deal with sharks when men were in the water. 

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

Must sign "IN" to prove I'm not a Bot.  Not doin dat.

[Eyesa Horg]

For sure, shot at a beaver in my brook with a 1911 and watched the bullet roll off it's back!

[Eyesa Horg]

1 minute ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:

 

Must sign it to prove I'm not a Bot.  Not doin dat.

Sign what??? You don't appear to be a Bot. But with AI, can we be sure?!

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

2 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

Water too. I remember when they made me the duty gunner for the motor whaleboats. My job was to use an M14 to keep sharks away from anyone in the water. I asked where I should aim to kill the sharks and the gunnery chief said “You don’t aim at the sharks. You shoot at the water to get the shark to chase your bullets and not the man in the water. Besides, 7.62 loses all its power within the first 4 or 5 feet of water so you’d probably just pi** the shark off by shooting at it.”

Luckily I never had to deal with sharks when men were in the water. 

Another Mythbusters test. They tested shooting various guns into a swimming pool. They found that if you were 3 feet underwater, a handgun bullet won't have the energy to do any damage. All the rifle rounds, up to a .50BMG broke up as soon as they hit the water. They could only find small fragments of them.

[Quiet Burp]

So what's the call on the first video clip that was posted.....BS or real? 

[Pat Riot]

5 minutes ago, Quiet Burp said:

So what's the call on the first video clip that was posted.....BS or real? 

I think it’s bogus, but then I cannot figure out how they got a bullet to spin like that on ice.  It’s weird. 
 

 

Death to Otto!!!

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

1 hour ago, Quiet Burp said:

So what's the call on the first video clip that was posted.....BS or real? 

 

58 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

I think it’s bogus, but then I cannot figure out how they got a bullet to spin like that on ice.  It’s weird. 

If it looks like the Mythbusters clip, it's real. Watch the Mythbusters clip, they did it and were able to repeat it once they got the trajectory right.