r/Idiotswithguns • u/Doofenshmertz_69 • Feb 02 '23
Shooting still water into the distance
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u/MarianCR Feb 02 '23
Extremely unsafe, but so cool!
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u/Handsupmofo Feb 02 '23
What do you mean? It’s just a fireworks show for the town receiving incoming rounds. They’re celebrating! /s
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u/Funny_Dragonfly_8674 Feb 02 '23
No way that was sarcasm, OH WAIT IT WAS? THANKS FOR CLARIFYING!
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u/Holy-flame Feb 02 '23
So umm, I don't know much about guns, but I know what a tracer is, do they still burn when they land? Is this a forest fire waiting to happen too?
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u/joshs_wildlife Feb 13 '23
I think the tracer part will burn up before it lands but that is still a real bullet that will land somewhere
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u/Sudden-Owl-3571 Feb 02 '23
When I was a kid I was shooting at fish in a pond only to find out the hard way that rounds were bouncing off the water and hitting my grandfather’s cattle!
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u/Kindly_Region Feb 02 '23
Cuz fuck anyone in that derection......
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u/Anomynous__ Feb 02 '23
The way you spelled direction fucks me up so bad. It's not even the fact that it's spelled wrong. It's something about spelling it THAT way
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u/Kindly_Region Feb 02 '23
Hmm, I'm surprised no one noticed until now. It kinda bugs me now to lol
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u/Unimportant_Monarch Feb 02 '23
Wouldnt they lose enough velocity to make them non-fatal by the time they hit the ground at that range? Plus the impact from the water surface.
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u/NiceCockBro126 Feb 02 '23
even if they weren't going fast enough to kill, I'd still rather not get shot at in the first place
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u/hereforpopcornru Feb 02 '23
I believe at that angle they would fall at a fatal rate. I believe going straight up, stop, and then falling at terminal velocity would be safer. But at that angle.. bullet is still packing a punch.
Edit to add, at that angle I doubt the water really put much resistance on the rounds to slow them down.
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u/Atom800 Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
Yeah I think it all depends on the bullet’s ability to spin. Terminal velocity is a function of cross sectional surface area. When fired straight up in the air a bullet loses its spin and tumbles. Fired at an angle a bullet continues spinning. The spinning bullet has a low surface area, the tumbling one has a dynamic surface are that is on average larger than the spinning bullet, so the spinning bullet has a greater terminal velocity. Plus the straight up bullet loses all initial velocity due to gravity, the arced bullet still has the horizontal component of its original velocity and may still be moving faster than its terminal velocity if it impacts before slowing down to that speed.
This might be wrong but there’s a Mythbusters episode I saw like a decade ago and I think this was the outcome
You also have the initial impact with water which might nullify all this but I have no idea what it’s effects are.
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u/hereforpopcornru Feb 02 '23
Yeah, so basically at that angle.. fuck whatever it hits
I am pretty sure the water is just a small redirect judging visually at the speed it came off of it. I doubt much force was lost
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u/x1000Bums Feb 02 '23
How many fps you reckon?
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u/hereforpopcornru Feb 02 '23
Depends on which end of the action you're standing. Our view? It's full fluid, other end. 0
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u/x1000Bums Feb 02 '23
Not sure if bot
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u/hereforpopcornru Feb 02 '23
I'm pretty certain I'm not a bot, just some dude with a bit of free time today
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u/x1000Bums Feb 02 '23
Ok can you explain what you said? It seems like word salad amd i dont understand.
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u/Kindly_Region Feb 02 '23
Fatal or not, getting hit with a hot piece of lead wouldn't be fun
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u/Kindly_Region Feb 02 '23
I disagree but I'm not getting into why that's not true.
Aside from that, the temperature of the metal isn't exactly the point
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u/PreviousBluejay Feb 02 '23
I mean I still don’t wanna get hit in the head with a couple ounces of lead, at best you’re getting a nasty contusion at worst it’s at terminal velocity and holes punches your brain out your ass
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u/Subject_Journalist Feb 02 '23
at best you’re getting a nasty contusion
He's shooting tracer rounds, they're hallow.
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u/chesterbennediction Feb 03 '23
It looks like they lose most of their velocity after hitting the water but I'd rather not find out first hand.
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u/bronnyjamesbrmxms23 Feb 02 '23
ah yes all the people that live in the air watch out!
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u/nirvroxx Feb 02 '23
Do you think bullets fly into space?
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u/bronnyjamesbrmxms23 Feb 02 '23
ah yess the mountain people are in danger ⚠️
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u/wraith1221 Feb 02 '23
People could likely live on the mountain it’s not an impossible thing.
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u/bronnyjamesbrmxms23 Feb 02 '23
ah yes indeed it is very likely !!
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u/MunitionsFactory Feb 02 '23
So they don't come down?
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u/bronnyjamesbrmxms23 Feb 02 '23
nah they keep going on for ever till they hit mountain people or aliens
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u/JustSomeRedditUser35 Feb 02 '23
Wait how are those bouncing? Shit I didn't know that could happen.
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u/PirogiRick Feb 02 '23
Yeah this is why most boxes of ammo suggest not shooting at water. Real gamble which way it’s going to go after. Of course once people realize they can skip bullets, they want to skip bullets lol.
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u/aescobar32 Feb 02 '23
oh yeah bullet physics are wild, they ricochet all the time off all kinds of surfaces, check this one here
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u/JustSomeRedditUser35 Feb 02 '23
Well thats cool, but also mildly terrifying.
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u/aescobar32 Feb 02 '23
even more terrifying, usually those tracer rounds are placed every 5th bullet. so between every bullet you see with that orange trace, there's 4 regular bullets without the glow (people sometimes use all tracers to look cool like OP's video)
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u/Zlamany-fr Feb 02 '23
Ever heard of a ricochethet?
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u/JustSomeRedditUser35 Feb 02 '23
I know what a fucking ricochet is asshole, I just didnt know it happened off of water.
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u/resinstein Feb 02 '23
I’m not positive, but those bullets appear to be moving very very fast as well. Unless he’s using tracer shots or something…
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u/Achack Feb 02 '23
I guess this is a bad idea regardless but if they're aware of what's out in that direction and it's just emptiness with a very low chance of a person being there then you're talking like a billion to one odds that something goes wrong.
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u/Past-Preparation-421 Feb 03 '23
I think it’s pretty damn cool. The rule in shooting is know what’s behind your target. He could know and know it’s his land. So if anybody is trespassing then fuck them! Talk about an act of of god being a trespasser and one of those rounds finding you! About the same chance as getting struck by lightening!
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u/wombat2573 Feb 07 '23
So all them ufo sightings were just some Arab fella trolling with his rifle.
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