Myths tested: What is the best cure for seasickness? Is it more efficient to drive a truck tailgate up or down? Can sticking one's finger in a gun barrel stop a bullet?
I had a 30-06 high power rifle that one new years eve at mid night i shot and when i pulled the trigger and it went boom the barrel did the banana split 4 ways not just a few inches but the hole barrel
@xxiaosaurus did you not watch this until the end? thats exactly what they did. my suggestion is to slightly score the barrel so that it will peel back from the score lines.
The gun they were using was a modern shotgun. Maybe there was no banana-peeling because of the modern robustness of the barrel? Why did they not try a much older, weaker shotgun, perhaps a Civil War-era kind where the barrel is not as reinforced? Would that do it?
@ElvenMishap My guess -- and this is only a mind experiment -- is that with a shotgun the buckshot could conceivably be guided down a curved barrel and still be an effective shot; but the kickback, now directed sideways, would probably rip the shooter's arm off. If it were a rifle, the bullet would get stuck in the barrel and it could possibly explode.
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Jarrodhoefle 1 week ago
I had a 30-06 high power rifle that one new years eve at mid night i shot and when i pulled the trigger and it went boom the barrel did the banana split 4 ways not just a few inches but the hole barrel
kookiethetrucker 1 month ago
@xxiaosaurus did you not watch this until the end? thats exactly what they did. my suggestion is to slightly score the barrel so that it will peel back from the score lines.
GevsComputers 4 months ago
I just thought of something:
The gun they were using was a modern shotgun. Maybe there was no banana-peeling because of the modern robustness of the barrel? Why did they not try a much older, weaker shotgun, perhaps a Civil War-era kind where the barrel is not as reinforced? Would that do it?
xxiaosaurus 4 months ago
Yes, but that wouldn't work with a deer slug would it?
ElvenMishap 5 months ago
@ElvenMishap My guess -- and this is only a mind experiment -- is that with a shotgun the buckshot could conceivably be guided down a curved barrel and still be an effective shot; but the kickback, now directed sideways, would probably rip the shooter's arm off. If it were a rifle, the bullet would get stuck in the barrel and it could possibly explode.
ELuhn 5 months ago
but can you render a shotgun useless by bending its barre out of shape as done by hagrid in harry potter one?
ElvenMishap 6 months ago