rim fire question

[The Real Wyatt]

A .22 outside the confines of a chamber ain't gonna hurt you.

When I was a wee lad I attended a 1 room schoolhouse in a remote region of Appalachia. During the winter there was always a big bonfire going in the schoolyard so the kiddies could warm their hands during recess etc. The bigger kids used to run by and toss a box of .22s into the bonfire just to watch us little ones scramble.

I don't ever recall anyone getting hurt or injured from such activity. Fast forward from 1940 to 2011 ... can you imagine the furor that'd be raised if such a thing happened in an elementary schoolyard tocday? The school would be locked down for a week, all the kids would have to undergo counselling and a few barely pubescent boys would be charged with 50 counts of attempted murder, tried as adults and have their lives ruined forever. My how times have changed.

 

[X hunter]

well not to contradict MYTHBUSTERS or anybody else but way back when, we used to put 22lr's on the train tracks and throw rocks at them. I did get hit just below the knee and the bullet is still lodged under the skin. I recently discussed this with my doctor and he said it would be more dangerous to try and remove it now than leaving it alone.

 

[xcgates]

In those cases something is trapping the case so it couldn't move. Hammer, rock, it is something heavy adding mass to the casing side of the bulletMass*A=caseMass*A equation.

 

[bonza]

"You need a brass magnet."

Oh, come on, everyone knows there ain't no such animal.....what you need is a lead magnet!

 

[unspellable]

I'm still working on my aluminum magnet.

 

[Ryanxia]

Just wanted to throw this into the mix. Mythbusters 'cooked' a round in an oven in several tests to see what would happen. The round 'exploded' but because the bullets were heavier than the cases the bullets basically stayed there and the cases became the projectile.

I don't know how this would balance out in a .22LR but if it were the same and the casing became the projectile, the mower deck should protect any penetration I would theorize (probably poorly).