Intresting bullet concept

I suppose if you took the shotgun, duck hunting, (knowing that the bullet comes back) you could feasibly leave the dog at home, right?

You think you have it figured out, but these guys have invented the self-reloading cartridge. You'll never need more than a box of them in your entire life!

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The downside is you have to hold the gun very steady -- or the bullet might miss the muzzle when it reloads itself.

Semi-lethal.... like a tazer?

There used to be a bullet called Triton Quik-Shoks that used pre-fragmented bullets that broke into 3 pcs like this. Trials in ballistic gelatin showed what we already know, lighter, offbalanced projectiles penetrate very poorly.

Looks like the same ammo, but now held together with string. Seems that the string will actually hinder penetration rather than make this into a flying guillotine.

Seriously, why would anyone want to shoot bullets guaranteed to not hit COM when aimed properly?

I can only see an application for these in combat cheese wheel cutting tournaments.

You guys are crackin me up. Vern and Sam, you guys are nuts.
I lost it when I scrolled down and saw the pic of "whats their names" yo-yoing!

Interesting...however I predict the actual terminal ballistics to be exceedingly disappointing.

Once the bullet has separated, the problem is that the bullet no longer has the characteristics of a single piece of mass. In effect, you split the bullet up into tiny fragments whose individual ballastics characteristics will act accordingly. In other words, if you were to start out with a 115 grain bullet which split up into four parts of approximately equal mass, what you will have are four fragments each with a mass of approximately 30 grains.

If you further hamper the ballistics by keeping them tethered together, then the tether acts as further drag on the assembly, which will radically drop velocity off over a relatively short distance. This further exacerbates the issue by radically decreasing the energy of the individual pieces even more rapidly. It will also act to radically decrease whatever effective range it may have.

I'm not really sure what this bullet is supposed to be able to do...but what it WON'T be able to do is penetrate worth a darn. And the single most important characteristic a bullet needs to be able to do for self defense is penetrate.

Sheesh, at least the animation looked like it had a decent size slug in the center. The actual design has nothing in the center...so you are ensured 3 peripheral hits of light, flat projectiles with a low sectional density that won't reliably penetrate to the vital organs. AMAZING!

Where are the gel shots? The rough concept has merit perhaps out of a 12 Ga shotgun with 00 or 000 if it would penetrate. Like a 230 gr .45 cal HP slug and 3 00 or 000 pellets on a tether.

I thought this was a joke , a bad joke at that :banghead: and they sold cases of this junk what next , maybe they will come out with some in blueberry flavor

If a competent marksman were to aim (and hit) a 12 inch target, nothing would strike it but the string (or polyetheldrinepsyco-sematic-nuclearphyicological 1,2,3,4,5 mass).

Seriously, if you were to hit what you were actually aiming for that was within 14 inches in diameter, nothing but the string would hit it. If you were lucky, the string wouldn't break and the "bullet" would wrap around and possibly damage it.

The guy literally reminds me of the Steve Carell of physics. Its kinda funny, but not realistic or practical.

"Seriously, if you were to hit what you were actually aiming for that was within 14 inches in diameter, nothing but the string would hit it. If you were lucky, the string wouldn't break and the "bullet" would wrap around and possibly damage it."

A hair-net cannon? Call it a LTS round (Less Than Serious )

A better concept would be to take some piano wire, crimp split shot sinker weights along it, and coil up the thing into a shotshell (for pistol or shotgun). At least that thing would be focused enough to break skin, and stiff enough when unfurled to not tangle up in the air stream.

TCB

The guy in the video review of the product is the same guy that tried to boycott Ed Brown because Ed wouldn't grant him an interview at last years SHOT show.

P.H. -- Those fellows are the Smothers Brothers. Very funny dudes from a bit simpler time.

My grandpa used to tell me tales of using something similar back in the 20 and 30s for deer. Made 'em himself by opening up buckshot loads, cutting a grove in the pellets and tying 'em together with piano wire. Doubt if they worked much better on game back then as the new ones do now. Legality would be a concern for not only deer but Turkey as many states do not allow shot larger than #4 for turkey and most do not allow rifles.

I made it at 32 seconds. I lost it when he said

Would you label this as one of the biggest advancements in the last 100 years in ammunition technology

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My grandpa used to tell me tales of using something similar back in the 20 and 30s for deer. Made 'em himself by opening up buckshot loads, cutting a grove in the pellets and tying 'em together with piano wire. Doubt if they worked much better on game back then as the new ones do now. Legality would be a concern for not only deer but Turkey as many states do not allow shot larger than #4 for turkey and most do not allow rifles.

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I mentioned that earlier -- it's called "strung buck." Every now and then someone "invents" it, a few people try it, it doesn't work, and it's forgotten for a decade or so until another "inventor" appears.

barnbwt said:

A better concept would be to take some piano wire, crimp split shot sinker weights along it, and coil up the thing into a shotshell (for pistol or shotgun). At least that thing would be focused enough to break skin, and stiff enough when unfurled to not tangle up in the air stream.

TCB

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Something as hard as piano wire probably won't unfurl when fired but will probably screw up bullet spin and accuracy, it may open up or break after hitting target, but won't penetrate as deeply as solid slug. Glazer rounds come to mind.

I've seen 3-bladed versions of that atop helicopters.

Reminds me of a wind-up toy with a 3-bladed, ringed flyer I loved as a kid. Those water/pressure handheld pump-up rockets were the bomb too!

I don't see any advantage to the design at all. Add a few more lines and weights at the ends and you might have a really neat batman/spiderman retaining net...

Semi-lethal.... like a tazer?

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No, semi-lethal like a cartoon shotgun, like Elmer Fudd's.

lol

I made it to "battle fatigue." Good grief.