I was watching Mythbusters tonight and they were testing to see if a bullet from a campfire was lethal. They first tried them in an oven, then in a campfire. They put every caliber from .22 to 50 cal. They concluded that it was NOT lethal, but you still wouldn't want to do it. They found out that the case was the most dangerous part and not the bullet. The case flew out very quick, as the bullet just kinda sat there. How many of you have thrown bullets in a fire when you were young or a teenager? Of course I never did......
Ever thrown a bullet in a campfire?
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nekwah
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When he was a kid my moronic cousin stuck one in a fencepost and hit it with a hammer. Case almost hit him.
Lonestar.45
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I wouldn't recommend it. When my aunt was a little girl, some kids threw a .22 bullet into a campfire. The bullet got hot and exploded, sending the bullet through my aunt's mouth. It went in one check, through her mouth, missed her teeth, and came out the other cheek. She still has the scares some 60 years later. She was very very lucky. I'm sure it would have been lethal if it had hit her in the temple or in her ear or something.
Her brother, my uncle, pissed on a sparkplug on a running lawnmower on a dare when he was a kid. That is another story entirely, and I don't think I'd recommend that either. Guess when you were a poor kid growing up in the oil field in West Texas back in the '50's there wasn't much to do for entertainment.
Her brother, my uncle, pissed on a sparkplug on a running lawnmower on a dare when he was a kid. That is another story entirely, and I don't think I'd recommend that either. Guess when you were a poor kid growing up in the oil field in West Texas back in the '50's there wasn't much to do for entertainment.
Shytheed Dumas
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When I was a kid I cut a shotgun shell open, drained the powder out, and hit the primer with a hammer and nail on my dad's work bench. It hurt like hell, and 25 years later I have yet to be tempted to do anything that stupid again. The energy in a primer is amazing, and I don't have any interest in messing with a fully loaded cartridge.
jcwit
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Once again the laws of physics are broken. But then again I wasn't there.
CoRoMo
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I saw that show too.
I never recommend acting foolish.
I never recommend acting foolish.
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I never thru a hot round in the fire but I threw what was left of a can of pork-nbeans in the coals one night. One time only!!
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moooose102
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no, i always thought it was a dangerous and really dumb thing to do. after all, how many hospitals are next door to your campsite? on the outside chance someone should get hurt, you might be HOURS away from medical help. it isnt that important to me to find out for certain what will happen.
I used to throw in .22's the CB long's from CCI in the fire all the time. It's about as loud as a firecracker, does a pretty good job at scaring the crap out of people.
I have thrown probably over 100 of those little guys in the fire over time and I have never had a piece of shrapnel, or a bullet for that matter hit me ever.
I have no idea how one could go through one cheek and out the other unless the cartridge and bullet was in some kind of chamber to direct the pressures..
One thing I don't think I have the balls to do is throw in anything larger, like a 9mm or 45 or .223 etc.
I think if you used steel cartridges you could be in for some trouble, did they test those on mythbusters?
I have thrown probably over 100 of those little guys in the fire over time and I have never had a piece of shrapnel, or a bullet for that matter hit me ever.
I have no idea how one could go through one cheek and out the other unless the cartridge and bullet was in some kind of chamber to direct the pressures..
One thing I don't think I have the balls to do is throw in anything larger, like a 9mm or 45 or .223 etc.
I think if you used steel cartridges you could be in for some trouble, did they test those on mythbusters?
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Artillery shells, fireworks, etc... no ammo. That is tarded, I don't care if it isn't lethal. With my luck it will go off and blind someone then I am screwed legally.
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"No throwing ammunition into campfires" is actually one of the official rules in the Hells Angels charter.
MD_Willington
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only primed brass.. pop.. pop, nothing else...
halfbreed808
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Hmmmm? Seems like a good experiment to test artificial STUPITY.
geronimo509
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spray paint cans when i was a teenager. they were really loud! and we saw a deer come running out and hop a 5 ft set of bushes. I didnt even think there were deer in those woods. it was a pretty small wooded area. needless to say but i grew up a lot since i was 14
GlowinPontiac
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I've done it with some primed hulls that were damaged. Not much more than some pops. Now a small Coleman propane cylinder on the other hand will shoot an enormous jet of flame and do a decent imitation of a surface to air missle as it leaves the campfire.
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All I can think to say is; just about everyone has one in there family that surprises us every day that they can still breathe on their own. With that said I would almost bet money that my little brother has done something like this.
Two stories:
A friend's teenage son threw some .22 rounds into a campfire, then something cut his ear when they went off. The cut was cleaned and bandaged, but for days and days it wouldn't heal. Then one day as the family was eating breakfast, my friend saw a glint of something, reached over and pulled a sliver of brass out of his son's ear lobe.
The cut then healed up just fine.
Long ago, another friend brought some noodle soup when we were camping, and had the bright idea of heating it up in the hot coals of the campfire, without opening the can first.:banghead: It sounded like a shotgun blast when it exploded, and noodles were hanging from the trees!
A friend's teenage son threw some .22 rounds into a campfire, then something cut his ear when they went off. The cut was cleaned and bandaged, but for days and days it wouldn't heal. Then one day as the family was eating breakfast, my friend saw a glint of something, reached over and pulled a sliver of brass out of his son's ear lobe.
The cut then healed up just fine.Long ago, another friend brought some noodle soup when we were camping, and had the bright idea of heating it up in the hot coals of the campfire, without opening the can first.:banghead: It sounded like a shotgun blast when it exploded, and noodles were hanging from the trees!
laguna0seca
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When i was a kid in scouts (which is probably the most dangerous place for a young kid) we would throw everything that had the potential to be flammable into fires. The worst was several rocket engines..... left a good size dent in a scout leaders truck. Not that I ever encouraged such behavior......
Yeah, I'd much rather toss a loaded cartridge into a campfire . . . than piss on a sparkplug of a running engine.
I know a guy who pulled that trick on a 10 year old years ago. He'd pulled the plug wire off the side of his Honda 350 motorcycle ahead of time . . . then offered the kid, who was raking leaves to earn money, $5 if the kid would help him get his motorcycle to start by pissing on the engine as he cranked it.
When he told me the story, he started laughing. Said that stupid little kid was crying and rolling on the ground . . . holding his Johnson.
25,000 volts from the coil wire . . . at such low amperage won't kill ya . . . but I suspect it doesn't feel very good when it seeks a ground by traveling up a stream of piss . . . and out the base of one's tennis shoes!
OUCH!
I know a guy who pulled that trick on a 10 year old years ago. He'd pulled the plug wire off the side of his Honda 350 motorcycle ahead of time . . . then offered the kid, who was raking leaves to earn money, $5 if the kid would help him get his motorcycle to start by pissing on the engine as he cranked it.
When he told me the story, he started laughing. Said that stupid little kid was crying and rolling on the ground . . . holding his Johnson.
25,000 volts from the coil wire . . . at such low amperage won't kill ya . . . but I suspect it doesn't feel very good when it seeks a ground by traveling up a stream of piss . . . and out the base of one's tennis shoes!
OUCH!
twoclones
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No bullets. But as a kid I was told [warned actually] that throwing batteries into a fire would cause an explosion. I've been trying to make flashlight batteries explode ever since
No luck...I never tried that, my old man was not the nicest person to be around when I pulled stupid tricks.
(I did get in just a little trouble when I was 15 though. During Christmas break I had to help the ranch hands clean the cow crap out of the shelter sheds. These things had at least a foot of frozen cow crap over a saw chip bedding. We had use a pick to break it up . I got the brilliant idea of using the 1/4" sticks of dynamite with a 2min slo-blow fuse and detonator to break up the cow cow crap. (the dynamite was used for blowing fence post holes) It worked fine for about 2' dia. it shot a 2' hole right through the shed roof. That really pissed off my dad.)
(I did get in just a little trouble when I was 15 though. During Christmas break I had to help the ranch hands clean the cow crap out of the shelter sheds. These things had at least a foot of frozen cow crap over a saw chip bedding. We had use a pick to break it up . I got the brilliant idea of using the 1/4" sticks of dynamite with a 2min slo-blow fuse and detonator to break up the cow cow crap. (the dynamite was used for blowing fence post holes) It worked fine for about 2' dia. it shot a 2' hole right through the shed roof. That really pissed off my dad.)
jcwit
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Hey AR10 that was a good one. Never had the cow sheds but helped clean out chicken houses, that ain't good either. lol lol
What a wonderful thread! It is Saturday night afterall.
Yes, most aerosol propellants will shoot high in the sky (fifteen/twenty feet,) but the key is to make sure they are bottoms up; otherwise, if they are pointed towards anyone, they could inflict serious harm.
Boys need to be boys. Some get hurt, hopefully most survive. I believe that it is still an important rite of passage to do some dumb things. We won't always be there to protect them.
In my family, that is me.
A cartridge cooking off is pretty harmless unless, and there are so many possibilities that the unless is key, unless it happens to have a immovable surface behind it, e.g., rock or heavy backlog. In that case, the rock might act like a bolt face and the boolit could actually make some distance.
Newton's Law of "For every action, there is an equal an opposite reaction" applies here, that's why I can see why the case may actually pose more of a risk than the boolit since the boolit may weigh more than the brass in some situations and send the brass backwards.
Anyway, with the cost of ammo nowadays, why throw it in the fire?
Yes, most aerosol propellants will shoot high in the sky (fifteen/twenty feet,) but the key is to make sure they are bottoms up; otherwise, if they are pointed towards anyone, they could inflict serious harm.
Boys need to be boys. Some get hurt, hopefully most survive. I believe that it is still an important rite of passage to do some dumb things. We won't always be there to protect them.
In my family, that is me.
A cartridge cooking off is pretty harmless unless, and there are so many possibilities that the unless is key, unless it happens to have a immovable surface behind it, e.g., rock or heavy backlog. In that case, the rock might act like a bolt face and the boolit could actually make some distance.
Newton's Law of "For every action, there is an equal an opposite reaction" applies here, that's why I can see why the case may actually pose more of a risk than the boolit since the boolit may weigh more than the brass in some situations and send the brass backwards.
Anyway, with the cost of ammo nowadays, why throw it in the fire?
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