View Full Version : Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
s15driftking
10-16-2010, 08:06 AM
what? it looks real... to me!
http://www.break.com/index/spinning-bullets-on-a-frozen-lake-1936597
Superbad
10-16-2010, 08:32 AM
It is just the bullet rebounds off the ice without deforming and continues to spin. The gun barrel has rifling to impart spin into the bullet as it travels down the barrel. The spin is what makes the bullet go straight.
kydsid
10-16-2010, 08:34 AM
Does look real, but something odd in the sound of the weapon. The camera mic pickups the crunching of the ice under their feet but the weapon sounds well different. I dunno can't describe what I am thinking.
Interesting video and it does seem plausible.
Yay for the three future Darwin award winners!
Does look real, but something odd in the sound of the weapon. The camera mic pickups the crunching of the ice under their feet but the weapon sounds well different. I dunno can't describe what I am thinking.
Interesting video and it does seem plausible.
Could be a low power or subsonic rounds, or just that the camera mic is being overdriven and a compressor-limiter circuit is kicking in, or both. Or it could be BS. Doesn't matter to me one way or the other.
RazzBarlow
10-16-2010, 08:54 AM
Looks like BS to me. There's no deformation of the round at all.
shilala
10-16-2010, 09:16 AM
That's pretty cool. :tu
s15driftking
10-16-2010, 11:40 AM
Looks like BS to me. There's no deformation of the round at all.
thats what I said.. but the 2nd one the capture on video seems to be gyrating meaning that it could not be spun by a machine planted in the ice.
elderboy02
10-16-2010, 12:06 PM
It seems that the bullet should have rifling marks on it.
Also, the guys in the video are jackasses. The guy with the gun swept the cameraman a few times.
s15driftking
10-16-2010, 12:08 PM
The guy with the gun swept the cameraman a few times.
saw that!
Emjaysmash
10-16-2010, 12:14 PM
Sorry, I'm bit dumb when it comes to guns, but what does "swept" mean?
elderboy02
10-16-2010, 12:21 PM
Sorry, I'm bit dumb when it comes to guns, but what does "swept" mean?
Point a gun at someone.
Eleven
10-16-2010, 12:26 PM
Ridiculously stupid.
@Emjay:
The shooter and the cameraman constantly crossed paths, with the loaded gun pointing directly at the cameraman, and probably the others there too.
That is what Swept means.
TheDudeAbides
10-16-2010, 12:39 PM
It seems that the bullet should have rifling marks on it.
Also, the guys in the video are jackasses. The guy with the gun swept the cameraman a few times.
:tpd:
A bullet can't pass through the barrel of a gun without picking up marks from the rifling. I'm calling shenanigans in the video.
-Dude
sikk50
10-16-2010, 12:56 PM
It looked like it did on the second bullet at least...
The only thing I have a problem with is the trajectory. The angle he's shooting at the bullet is going to disperse a lot of force and energy into the ice at a fairly extreme angle. This would cause me to expect one of two things: inbedding into the ice or deformation of the bullet. Additionally I wouldn't expect the bullet to bounce back like it did. We've all seen films of bullet skipping so idk just seems slightly odd
newcigarz
10-16-2010, 01:52 PM
It was discussed on the mythbusters forum on Discovery channel.
Here is the thread.
http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5261919888/m/28619129301/p/1
:bs The round would either penetrate the ice and be deformed or it would ricochet off if the angle was shallow enough.:rolleyes:
markem
10-16-2010, 02:56 PM
Myth Busters to the rescue!
http://gizmodo.com/5663836/the-incredible-case-of-the-spinning-bullet-on-ice
from the mythbusters forum
http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5261919888/m/28619129301/p/1
688sonarmen
10-16-2010, 02:58 PM
Yay for the three future Darwin award winners!
Could be a low power or subsonic rounds, or just that the camera mic is being overdriven and a compressor-limiter circuit is kicking in, or both. Or it could be BS. Doesn't matter to me one way or the other.
Thats Sonar tech talk!
BigFrank
10-16-2010, 06:38 PM
I was hoping someone would have gotten shot :(
Starscream
10-16-2010, 09:07 PM
I was hoping someone would have gotten shot :(
That's horrible, Frank, but funny as hell.:r
thebayratt
10-17-2010, 01:41 PM
Real or fake, morons like this shouldn't own firearms.
That one fool said " I don't care if I get hit"
And the cameraman getting "swept"....
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!! Thats how people get killed then want to blame someone else for thier families' idiotic actions.
I think its fake though.
Lear31MX
10-17-2010, 01:55 PM
At the beginning of the video I think I here one of them say "hold my beer and watch this"
BigFrank
10-17-2010, 02:16 PM
That's horrible, Frank, but funny as hell.:r
Don't lie to yourself :r
You know that's what you were thinking. Iced over lake, retards with a firearm. It's bound to happen. Only reason it didn't because it was fake = (
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