shooting at ice

I've seen that before. It seems more likely that the bullet would ricochet off the ice and continue in the same general direction rather than spin on the ice. I guess you have to hit it at just the right angle. It appears there had several impacts on the ice before they got one to spin. That's cool regardless.
 
1KPerDay said:
Yes, it's real. Mythbusters even did an episode on it.
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Cool.
Never saw that Myth Buster. I did see the one about replacing the 2-30 amp fuse in a automobile with a 22 long.

Those real slo-mo films they do, show the spin as the bullet leaves the muzzle or hits the steel.
Very captivating to watch that stuff.
 
Mythbusters was fun entertainment but they were not really Gun People.

Buy a consumer chronograph, no.
Fire a shot in front of a grid, count high speed camera frames, calculate, and report bullet velocity in MPH. Ick.

Shoot a hand grenade? That got wonky.

Characterize a vertically falling bullet? Couldn’t find one.
 
It's just a You-Tube Thing ...

They show anything on You-Tube real or imagined .

I no longer watch You-Tube ... too much fake stuff shown ... a waste of my Time !
Gary
 
Shoot ice.
I read a proposal on the subject once.

Fighter aircraft guns had to be tested, .50 cal, 20 and 30mm.
The usual procedure was to shoot into a sand trap. But that left you with sand containing lead, HE residue, even uranium, that had to be handled as hazardous waste.

Somebody had the idea to shoot into a bin of ice cubes. When done, let the ice melt, filter the water and hazmat a much smaller amount of filter cake and some ion exchange resin. Didn't catch on.
 
Ice is pretty good at absorbing the impact without much ricochet risk... I frequently shoot ice cubes with my steel BB guns, the ice cube explodes, and the BB just stops dead in its tracks and bounces on the target table. They never bounce back at me. It's a very satisfying plinking target, and it doesn't involve any cleanup afterwards.
 
Ethan Verity said:
Ice is pretty good at absorbing the impact without much ricochet risk... I frequently shoot ice cubes with my steel BB guns, the ice cube explodes, and the BB just stops dead in its tracks and bounces on the target table. They never bounce back at me. It's a very satisfying plinking target, and it doesn't involve any cleanup afterwards.
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Face it ... you're just cheap!

Kidding ... :) please don't report me, ha!
 
Ethan Verity said:
Ice is pretty good at absorbing the impact without much ricochet risk...
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This has been my experience also, unless you shoot at a low angle. As a kid growing up, it was common for me and any hunting companions while hunting squirrels/rabbits with .22s, to shoot into the ice on frozen creeks, just to retrieve the undamaged bullets with rifling marks on them. Why we thought this was such a cool thing, I don't know.
 
I have a bridge in my driveway and have shot the ice every time I walked to the mail box in the morning. I've had that same result several times and many of those were spinning in the dent it made shooting the ice. The bullet was just sitting there spinning where it hit.
 
buck460XVR said:
This has been my experience also, unless you shoot at a low angle. As a kid growing up, it was common for me and any hunting companions while hunting squirrels/rabbits with .22s, to shoot into the ice on frozen creeks, just to retrieve the undamaged bullets with rifling marks on them. Why we thought this was such a cool thing, I don't know.
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Yep, when I was a kid, I use to do something that was probably equally dumb - even though I never retrieved the bullets. I grew up just a quarter mile from the Snake River in western Idaho, and down by the river, there was a lot of jack rabbits for me to shoot with my .22. When I'd get bored though (or the shooting was slow), I'd sometimes squat down beside the river and see how many "skips" (usually 3) I could get out of a .22 bullet before went into the brush on the other side.
I guess I was pretty lucky in that there was a lot of open country with very few people and buildings on the other side of the river. My "skipping" bullets across the Snake River could have had disastrous consequences. o_O
 
.308 Norma said:
.When I'd get bored though (or the shooting was slow), I'd sometimes squat down beside the river and see how many "skips" (usually 3) I could get out of a .22 bullet before went into the brush on the other side.
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When we got bored, or nuttin else was in season, we would "shoot Minnows" in the same creeks we would shoot into the ice. Throw a rock in a deep hole and shoot 'em as they tried to get to another hole. Probably just as dangerous as "skipping" and the Lord knows, it probably wasn't legal, even back then. Thank the Lord we all grew up, both physically and mentally.
 
buck460XVR said:
When we got bored, or nuttin else was in season, we would "shoot Minnows" in the same creeks we would shoot into the ice. Throw a rock in a deep hole and shoot 'em as they tried to get to another hole. Probably just as dangerous as "skipping" and the Lord knows, it probably wasn't legal, even back then. Thank the Lord we all grew up, both physically and mentally.
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I did this, but with a BB gun.

I spent endless hours walking barefoot in a creek over the hill from an Aunt and Uncle's place in Kentucky, flipping stones over and shooting the crawdads that would scurry about.

I'd go through BBs by the carton this way.
 
My very first handgunning experience - at 12 years old, with the new-fangled Beretta 92FS - involved blocks of ice perched on a fence post. Until this very moment, I had never considered that they might be life threatening. I lived through it, apparently.
 
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