Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

what? it looks real... to me!

http://www.break.com/index/spinning-...n-lake-1936597

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

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.

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

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.

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

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.

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

Looks like BS to me. There's no deformation of the round at all.

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

That's pretty cool. :tu

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

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.

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

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.

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

saw that!

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

Sorry, I'm bit dumb when it comes to guns, but what does "swept" mean?

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

Point a gun at someone.

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

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.

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

: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

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

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

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

It was discussed on the mythbusters forum on Discovery channel.

Here is the thread.

http://community.discovery.com/eve/f...8619129301/p/1

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

:bs The round would either penetrate the ice and be deformed or it would ricochet off if the angle was shallow enough.:rolleyes:

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

Myth Busters to the rescue!

http://gizmodo.com/5663836/the-incre...-bullet-on-ice

from the mythbusters forum

http://community.discovery.com/eve/f...8619129301/p/1

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

Thats Sonar tech talk!

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

I was hoping someone would have gotten shot :(

Re: Spinning bullets on a frozen lake?
 

That's horrible, Frank, but funny as hell.:r