Intresting bullet concept

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Pretty funny! Miniature chain-shot.

Someone somewhere pointed out the exact historically appropriate use: dismasting ships-in-a-bottle. :D

I'd suggest that those miniature ships had better be at pretty close range if you want to take out the little tiny rigging. Accuracy will be somewhere between disappointing and alarming.
 
http://kitup.military.com/2014/01/expanding-bullet-set-display-shot.html

Called the Mi-Bullet, the round acts somewhat like a multi-pellet buckshot, but the separate fragments of the round are connected and will expand to a pre-determined diameter after the bullet is fired. The Mi-Bullet expands to a diameter of 14 inches when fired from handguns and 24 inches from shotguns. [It] maintains its accuracy by utilizing an accelerated radial spread aided by the rifled barrel, officials say. The larger diameter makes it harder to miss, the company said.
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And what would any good product be without a good spin....
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/new-bullet-expands-itself-into-four-connected-parts-to-1496153895
 
I think it would be interesting to shoot at big blank targets and gelatin blocks just to see what happens and for the interesting physics, but probably not particularly practical for much.
 
Reminds me of the continuous rod warheads that are common in air-to-air missiles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-rod_warhead

Of course, the difference is that the combined kinetic energies of jets and CRWs are so high that there's no question of terminal ballistic effectiveness. Whereas a slightly-less-than-a-third-weight projectile from a handgun may not penetrate enough to reliably incapacitate. I'm sure it would hurt.
 
What will be interesting is what happens if one of the little wires breaks.
The whole spinning mess will probably take off at some uncontrolled angle and totally miss the target.
I remember reading about a double barreled canon that was developed during the Civil War. The two canon balls were connected by a length of chain with the idea that slightly divergent barrels would spread the balls out until stopped by the chain and would then just mow down approaching lines of troops. Seems the problem was to get both barrels to go off at the same time with the same velocity. The one time it was fired the balls and chain spun off to one side and took the steeple off some building
 
What this reminds me of is chain shot used in naval battles.

Chain-shot were a type of ammunition formed of two iron sub-calibre balls, or half-balls, chained together. They were used in naval warfare to shoot down yards, masts, or to cut the shrouds, or any other rigging of a ship.
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It lost it's usefulness when High Explosive shells were introduced that sent shrap metal all over and did a better job at longer distances.

Jim
 
It probably would have some boomerang potential from a barrel with a slanted crown...
 
I wonder what the connective material is?


Make it a bigger spread and it will be like shooting a net. Like the one in Total Recall, or was it Running Man?
 
Heh, methinks in reality the "lethal" will be "semi-lethal" and the "semi-lethal" will be "could-be-lethal" and the "non-lethal" will be useless but still considered deadly force by the legal system. :neener:
 
See how long you can make it through the promotional video without herniating yourself! Post your best time you can hold it in before you bust a gut!



"Science, physics, the way the world works is just intuitive to me!" LOL! Comedy gold!

Hey, at least it is now ATF approved... :rolleyes:

"One of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had shooting a gun!"

Look where his second shot actually impacted! Fantastic stuff.

It is always fun when the line entirely blurs between reality and satire.
We passed that line a while back with this one, but I think we can still see it in the rear-view mirror.
 
And what happens when you hit a tree or human neck/head or whatever...something vertical and it whips around, snaps the string and hurls a bullet fragment back at you or in any number of BAD directions?
 
Wait, wouldn't the cables bow under wind resistance and pull the orbiting bits in weird directions? Wouldn't the orbiting bits simply tumble once separated? Wouldn't flinging mass outward slow rotation to the point the central projectile tumbles? Wouldn't cabling between the projectiles spread their impact so as to negate its effect? Wouldn't the rapid unraveling of the projectile mean that a cable failure would throw a stray projectile into an utterly random direction? Who will ever practice with a 10$ round? What would a jury think of something so arcane being used in a self defense shooting? They can keep their Gobbler Guillotine as far as I'm concerned (and I'm not normally skeptical of odd/novel ideas, but this is dumb). Maybe as a LTL round it could maybe be useful over rubber bullets, but only if the cables are actually long enough to tie up more than a man's face.

"I'm so keeping this thing; it's the first net cannon I've used that actually works. They normally just mess up the guy's hair" --Brock Samson

TCB
 
Who will ever practice with a 10$ round?
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We'll, to be fair, that's one of the benefits they mention in the video -- that you don't need to buy boxes and boxes of stuff for practicing. I mean the host guy in that video missed the target silhouette with his second shot, at only like 5 yards, but that's ok! In fact, he found it exhilarating!
 
If it's $10 a round, probably $9.50 a round is liability protection for them.

Is there a factory somewhere in China with little old women hand rolling those bullet lines together? :rolleyes:
 
It's called "strung buck" and every ten or fifteen years someone re-invents it. Note that in many decades it hasn't taken the buckshot deer hunting clan by storm.

I do like the way the bullet reverses itself, rewinds itself, and slides back down the muzzle and pushes the slide back into battery.:neener:
 
I have this image in my head of the grounds keeper, at the gun range being really angry when he has to cut all of those little cables out of the mower blades.
 
I have this image in my head of the grounds keeper, at the gun range being really angry when he has to cut all of those little cables out of the mower blades
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Didn't you watch the video? The bullet only goes a short distance, then it winds itself back up and goes backward, back down the barrel.:p
 
Vern Humphrey said:
I do like the way the bullet reverses itself, rewinds itself, and slides back down the muzzle and pushes the slide back into battery.
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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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