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Never Saw This Before....

One in a Million, but more than a million rounds are fired in this country every month..... ....another object lesson to never assume it can't happen to you....

Last time I found a live round in my pocket, which happened to be a few month after my "seeing what I expected when clearing a pistol, and putting away a pistol with a dud chambered in it", I went through all my pistols and re-cleared them again.

I hate to bring up "Myth Busters"*, but they did the Frog Gigging myth, where the story was a guy replaced an old fashioned fuse in his pick-up truck with .22LR round, and they did manage to set off the .22LR by way overdrawing current on the circuit, but when it fired it simply burst and the few time the round it hit their gelatin dummy without enough force to break the skin....

Without a chamber and barrel to contain the pressure, setting off a random round is like setting off a fire cracker, and yes a 9mm or .45ACP is going to be more powerful than a .22lr, but like he was saying, its not likely to hit you and even if it did, not likely with enough velocity to do more than a minor injury....

*I have nothing against Myth Busters, I enjoy the show, I have something against people that act like the Myth Busters single small sample experiments are somehow proven science and something is completely true or false solely on an episode of Myth Busters.... ...like glock fanatics, those people are intolerable j/k ;)...
 
Well I do know that a loose round CAN cause damage when it explodes outside of a barrel, which is probably as mentioned a one in a million. Have personally seen it happen. At a boy scout bonfire someone tossed at least one round into a bonfire, I want to say. .357 casing was found when they sifted thru the ashes later but it's been a long time. The projectile went thru an aluminum dinner tray a kid was holding. No injury but still...
 
Sld1959 said:
Well I do know that a loose round CAN cause damage when it explodes outside of a barrel, which is probably as mentioned a one in a million. Have personally seen it happen. At a boy scout bonfire someone tossed at least one round into a bonfire, I want to say. .357 casing was found when they sifted thru the ashes later but it's been a long time. The projectile went thru an aluminum dinner tray a kid was holding. No injury but still...
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Aluminum Dinner Tray? As in heavy tin foil like tv dinner tray, or a heavier stamped camping dinner tray?

Piercing an aluminum dinner tray, yea, I'd say that would break the skin (unless its that heavy tin foil type), even cause you to loose an eye.... ...But deadly injury? Then again, all we know is that it had enough energy to pierce an aluminum tray, the round could arguably had many times more energy than it took to pierce the tray....

BTW, in the Myth Buster episode, the exploding .22lr, the dummy had on sweat pants and t-shirt, the debris did cut through the clothing but bounced off the gelatin without piercing. I do remember some damage to the interior vinyl and plastic panels, but again so minor it was believable it wouldn't pierce the skin or at worst just pierce the surface...
 
RickAnderson said:
Aluminum Dinner Tray? As in heavy tin foil like tv dinner tray, or a heavier stamped camping dinner tray?

Piercing an aluminum dinner tray, yea, I'd say that would break the skin (unless its that heavy tin foil type), even cause you to loose an eye.... ...But deadly injury? Then again, all we know is that it had enough energy to pierce an aluminum tray, the round could arguably had many times more energy than it took to pierce the tray....

BTW, in the Myth Buster episode, the exploding .22lr, the dummy had on sweat pants and t-shirt, the debris did cut through the clothing but bounced off the gelatin without piercing. I do remember some damage to the interior vinyl and plastic panels, but again so minor it was believable it wouldn't pierce the skin or at worst just pierce the surface...
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Well this was back in the 70s, and it was a regular aluminum cafeteria style dinner tray the kid was eating from. As I remember it went thru his beans. Heck for all I know it could have been steel, I was like 14 and it's been close to 50 years now lol.
 
Sld1959 said:
Well this was back in the 70s, and it was a regular aluminum cafeteria style dinner tray the kid was eating from. As I remember it went thru his beans. Heck for all I know it could have been steel, I was like 14 and it's been close to 50 years now lol.
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“They dont make em like they used to”
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Remember a BB gun that can't pierce the skin will easily pierce an aluminum beer or soda can.....
But yes, I'm sure the cafeteria tray was much thicker than that....
 
Jfal said:
Holy crap, this is a new one for me. You guys ever experienced this phenomenon?


My only gripe is Colion calling a cartridge a bullet throughout the entire video...
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this may be 1 reason why, at the state owned open range?

they do not want boxes of ammo on the bench. we MUST keep our ammo in our bag, and the bag MUST be zipped up tight.
 
Back in the early 80s 2 friends and I were standing chatting buddy dropped a 357 round on impact the round blew up. The bullet and brass were laying at our feet the brass was torn open. We kinda looked at each other amazed. So it happens
 
I forgot this one until my wife reminded me. Her father was a Detroit PD officer. One afternoon her brother who was home "sick" stole a couple of .38 special cartridges. Well he had the bright idea of hitting them with a hammer like you used to do with roll caps to make one big bang. He was kneeling down and when he hit it did indeed go bang and the lead round nose bullet lodged under his knee. He had to have surgery to remove it.
 
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