What happens if you shoot a bed sheet?

[smartshooter.45]

Huh? How can anyone even entertain this idiotic suggestion? If you even for one second think this might be plausible you shouldn't be handling firearms.

agreed

 

[blkbrd666]

If you hit any vitals, they're guaranteed to drop right there. Even with a bad shot, you shouldn't have to track them far. Check your state laws, there could be a caliber requirement for hunting sheets. I wouldn't hesitate to try and take one with a .22 though.

 

[railroader]

I loaded a 45 of mine dropped the slide while it was safely pointed down toward the bed. The hammer followed sending the bullet through the bedspread, blanket, 2 sheets, the mattress and through the boxspring which one of the boards was shot through. The concrete floor stopped the bullet. The gun immediately went back to the manufacturer.

 

[Sean Dempsey]

I heard that a bedsheet is the most poisonous fabric in the world, but its fangs are too small to pierce human skin.

 

[indoorsoccerfrea]

kind of like a daddy-long led right? do the sheets eat ants also?

 

[DAVIDSDIVAD]

This silly notion brought up by the OP somehow negatively affects my life to the point where I become rude and condescending!

Therefore, I am qualified to make judgements as to whether or not the OP should be a handler of fire-arms!






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PS.

Didn't Japanese dudes waaay back when wear silk armour to protect against arrows?

 

[blkbrd666]

How long do you generally leave a sheet hanging after you field dress it?

 

[young hunter]

David i think it was the mongols and they wore layers of silk so that even though the arrow pushed into the body the layers of silk wrapped around it to keep it from cutting anything vital . I know you can do this with a bow and a parachute , You have to hang the parachute by the top only and shot low into it and it will catch you arrow . I doubt taht would work with a bullet though .

 

[J_L_A]

I've heard that you cannot shoot thru "Pure silk" ( if you hang it up on a clothesline for instance) but never just a bed sheet.

 

[ultradoc]

is your friend under the sheet?

 

[ar10]

Did it once, long time ago. .45apc very close to sheet. Sheet got torched. Didn't stick around for dad to show up because of running like hell. Can't tell if bullet went through, but my dad noticed a bullet hole in the side of the barn next to the clothes line.

 

[moooose102]

a bedsheet will catch a bullet! i just tried it! i had my wife hold the sheet, and i picked up one of my 45 acp bullets and threw it at the sheet as hard as i could. stopped it dead in its tracks! lol! but, if you fire it out of a gun, i shure wouldnt want to be on the other side of the sheet.

 

[Grey_Mana]

The myth comes from martial arts classes. Punching and kicking a sheet hanging from a clothesline - if you're fast enough, you can get the sheet to snap.

In the current incarnation, you hang newspaper from a door jab. If you can punch a hole through the newspaper, you are punching fast.

 

[Claude Clay]

"Holy Sheet, Batman!"

 

[Gerald in Ga]

If it is a motel sheet and you mount it after you shoot it. You better wear protection against STD's

 

[The Bushmaster]

Gimme a break. Why are we wasting all this space on such a stupid idea?:banghead:

Tell you what. Have your friend stand behind that bed sheet. Bet he won't...

 

[elrod]

That myth sounds like a bunch of sheet................

 

[Tommygunn]

I would be very careful about shooting bedsheets.



The bedsheet season doesn't start until April 1st.

 

[A-190]

Well I can tell ya that in 67 my mother was unloading dads Hopkins and Allen and it discharged into the bed sheet,...............and dad had to replace the mattress and the box spring and the slats and the floor and the underwear....................I still have that old gun, (it was his Dads) and mom to this day swears it spontaneously fired...............

My point, welol a bed sheet wont stop a 12 gauge...........

 

[statelineblues]

Dang! Tommygunn beat me to it...

 

[Joe Demko]

In a book about dueling, I read that duelists favored silk shirts for more than just fashion sense. The typical large caliber, slow moving pistol bullet of the day would drive the shirt into the wound without penetrating the shirt. The bullet could be extracted from the wound just by pulling the silk fabric out. Supposedly, Mongol warriors wore silk shirts because they worked the same against arrows.
Perhaps this bedsheet thing is a "telephone game" version of one of those factoids.

 

[jackdanson]

That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard... I can shoot a paintball through a plastic sheet (don't ask how I found out, I was "testing" my pball gun in the garage and figured it would splatter/bounce against a plastic sheet, my wall still looks oily), I guarantee you I can shoot a bullet through a cloth one.. going shooting this week, I'll bring some old sheets and take pics so you can prove him wrong.

 

[Yoda]

It's from an OLD western..

I can't recall the name of the movie, but it starred Eddie Alert (the 'Green Acres" guy) when he was much younger. He played a locksmith who was captured by Indians, and to impress them, he showed them that a bullet wouldn't penetrate a silk hankie that was held at the top but allowed to float freely at the bottom. He explained to the starlet who was with him that "every locksmith knows" a bullet will just push a silk hankie away rather than penetrate it. Anyway, the indians thought it was magic and let him go, IIRC.

- - - Yoda

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[FIFTYGUY]

I can't recall the name of the movie, but it starred Eddie Alert (the 'Green Acres" guy) when he was much younger.

Eddie *Albert*. "The Dude Goes West", 1948.

Never seen it, but I just had to go look that up. Sounds fascinating...

He played a locksmith who was captured by Indians,

Apparently he played a *gunsmith*?

 

[mossberg]

If a sheet gets shot in the forest, do any bedbugs hear?