Using scopes.

[DonWorsham]

Th-th-th-that's all folks!

[Hazcat]

Last year there were some pics circulating among many of the gun sites on the net (including IIRC Michael's Blog) where someone had forgotten. Remember when Bugs would stick his finger in the muzzle of Elmer's shotgun? Yeah, it's kinda like that....

Did ya ever see the Myth Busters episode on that?  They tried several ways and couldn't get it to 'banana peel'.

[Snake45]

Did ya ever see the Myth Busters episode on that?  They tried several ways and couldn't get it to 'banana peel'.

I guess they didn't try leaving a laser bore sighter in the barrel. 

[CDR]

Mythbusters..........aren't these the geniuses who determined that there is no danger of anyone getting killed by shooting a bullet into the sky?  Something about not having enough weight and mass when it lands?   

[Hazcat]

Mythbusters..........aren't these the geniuses who determined that there is no danger of anyone getting killed by shooting a bullet into the sky?  Something about not having enough weight and mass when it lands?   

If you shoot STRAIGHT up and it hits the 'stop point' (my name for it) and then comes down it will not have the velocity or mass, BUT the probablility of making that shot is VERY remote.  Most likely it will be a ballistic trajectory so it will not be falling from a 'stop' and will retain much of the original velocity and it will kill.  That was their finding.

[Sponsor]

[CDR]

If you shoot STRAIGHT up and it hits the 'stop point' (my name for it) and then comes down it will not have the velocity or mass, BUT the probablility of making that shot is VERY remote.  Most likely it will be a ballistic trajectory so it will not be falling from a 'stop' and will retain much of the original velocity and it will kill.  That was their finding.

I think they sent the wrong message to people given that people have been killed in the past by falling bullets.  Didn't they determine that the myth that you could be killed by a bullet shot into the sky was "busted"?

[tombogan03884]

I think they sent the wrong message to people given that people have been killed in the past by falling bullets.  Didn't they determine that the myth that you could be killed by a bullet shot into the sky was "busted"?

They also claimed to have "BUSTED" the "MYTH" of Carlos Hathcocks counter sniper scope shot, but on their website Jamie did it with an M-1 Garand using AP ammo, OFF HAND, which impressed me. But Hathcocks shot was not the only documented case, the book and movie "Enemy at the Gates" is based on documented engagment between Soviet sniper named Zaitsev and the head of the German sniper school, a Col. named Koenig who was sent to Stalingrad specificly to kill Zaitsev. Koenig was struck through the eye by a bullet that traveled down his scope tube.