Bandolier Problems?

[rgs1975]

I've asked this question to several of my friends and gotten several different answers.

What would happen if you were wearing a bandolier full of bullets and you were shot. The bullet that hits you hits the stash of ammo in your bandolier first. Would this cause a catastrophic explosion? I realize that if this is happening then you have been shot, most likely in the chest so your ammo exploding or not may be a mute point but I'm still curious.

I've gotten such a variety of answers to this that I'm half ready to load a bandolier and shoot it at 100 yards just to see what happens.

 

[fixyurgun]

check out the box o' truth.com the section on magazines may give you an idea of the result

 

[mikec]

I would be more concerned if I was wearing 500 primers, in bulk, on my chest and got shot at.

Smokeless powder doesn't explode, it burns very fast. IF someone shot at you with tracers and hit a casing in said bandoleer and the bullet went through a case it might ignite that powder. The powder would burn and the primer may pop. No catastrophic chain reaction.

Here is a link for the first reply.

 

[pcf]

Based on experimentation, shooting smokeless rounds is not a serious threat they are really hard to ignite, blackpowder rounds are much different. Even when smokeless rounds go off (because it's in a fire or been struck with a hammer), it's anticlimactic (that's if you're expecting them to go off), bullet pops out and the case might split.

The only difference will be that your bullet hole with have bits of bandolier, brass, powder, and clothing in it, instead of just clothing.

 

[rgs1975]

The only difference will be that your bullet hole with have bits of bandolier, brass, powder, and clothing in it, instead of just clothing.

Sounds like an infection nightmare if you manage to survive the impact of being shot lol.

 

[mikec]

Sounds like an infection nightmare if you manage to survive the impact of being shot lol.

Didn't a German WW II general die that way? Infection from debris that wasn't properly cleaned out of the wound.

 

[NMshooter]

Unless you are one of the few folks on this board who carries 40mm grenades in bandoliers it is not a problem...

 

[oneshooter]

Don't worry, the blood from your wound will put out any fire that may have started.

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas

 

[Mauserguy]

An assassin’s grenade exploded outside of the car, and a small piece of shrapnel traveled through the seat, carrying a horse hair fiber used as padding, into Heidrich. He later died a well deserved death due to infection.
Mauserguy

 

[geekWithA.45]

Don't worry, the blood from your wound will put out any fire that may have started.

The trick there is optimized tactical bleeding. You want to bleed just enough to put the fire out, and then stop. For that, you need to practice your Zen circulatory control powers.

 

[Warren]

Unless you are one of the few folks on this board who carries 40mm grenades in bandoliers it is not a problem.

No problem as he is not from Texas.

 

[clt46910]

The bottom line is don't worry about it. If one did ignite(a extremely unlikely event) it would be just a very small flash. Debris in your wound would be the biggest danger.

I came from a background of unPC, and some would say kind of dangerous or careless, type people. Years back, while sitting around the campfire, we would throw live rounds in the campfire when we had new people in camp. We knew that the worse would be a piece of lip from the case, embers from campfire, or the primer flying out but the new guy wouldn't know that they bought into the exploding fireball thing from the movies. Mostly just a pop and embers moving about.

We thought it was great fun to watch them diving for cover while we just sit there and nursed our beers. The only precaution we took was to either pull the bill of our hat a little lower to protect our eyes or keep our sunglasses on.