Posted on 08/07/2017 5:59:44 AM PDT by w1n1
That is exactly what's said to have happened in this shocking video. This video, shared on Facebook by Caliber Cache, has ignited some serious debate. While this shooter is engaging targets, his left cargo shorts pocket moves.
What actually happened? Well, many comments on Facebook have been on the order of a ricochet hitting his pocket, which then set off the cartridge. Other comments suggest it indeed was a detonation that could have been caused by an e-cigarette or other loose items coming into contact with the primer. See the richochet in the pocket video here.
Is it possible for a bullet to go off in your pocket?
“which then set off the cartridge”?
So is a cartridge or a bullet?
Whoever wrote the title of this article should not be writing for a “shooting journal”.
Happened to me once.
Then I started to think about baseball..
Years ago I went to Disney and while there I listened to an important Buffalo Bills game on my walkman. I carried a couple extra batteries and each time I bought something I put the change in the same pocket as the batteries. In a couple hours my leg was burning as the batteries became so hot that it melted the plastic off of them.
You could teach a Chihuahua to speak, anything is possible. The actual mechanism that detonated the cartridge would depend on whether it was rim-fire or center-fire. If a rim-fire, any sharp blow to the rim of the cartridge base would detonate the cartridge and send the casing and slug opposite directions. The center-fire, while presumed to have a heavier loading than a rimfire, may tend to burst the casing, and send a considerable amount of energy sideways. It would also be much harder to detonate, unless the detonator were struck almost dead-center, a much lower probability.
Very, very high on the freak occurrence side of the probability curve.
Liberals and idiots ( but I repeat myself) need to see this- see just how dangerous a “bullet” is? An unsupported cartridge being initiated is a non-threat ( well, in this case maybe a burn) but “bullets” don’t go flying through the air and do all sorts of damage in cases like this.
In fact, other than the flame of the propellant, the case and projectile will not even penetrate a cardboard box ( ask how I know)
Hatchers notebook should be required reading in HS across the US. That or maybe 9th grade intro to physics....
Now, how did this particular round go off? Who knows, but this boy now has a cool story to tell...
A .22LR round across the leads of a 9 volt battery will eventually cook off.
Don’t ask me how I know this.
“Don’t ask me how I know this.”
I’m afraid to ask you what else you might know.
My guess: Static electricity...................
Live .22 LR ammo will fit in some fuses chassis, but don’t work out that well.
Old high school friend found out.
on it’s own, no. but that is not the case here.
Static electricity is a serious issue in many indoors ranges. All that moving air tends to generate it. If the guy had on silk undies all bets are off....;-)
Silk or polyester.......In either case they needed changing...............
That reminds me of stories I heard as a kid. The story goes a .22 cartridge was used to replace a blown fuse in a car. The round went off and death or injury resulted.
I’m guessing hot shell ejected and landed in his pocket...
likely ricocheting off one of those false walls.
—I have on several ocassions offered to “cook off” a .30-’06 class cartridge in my fingers ,with a blowtorch (wearing leather gloves) for some sum of money—never have got a taker——
Cartridges contain primers which are detonated by impact.
A cartridge (the ‘bullet’ is the projectile) can go off if the primer is struck with sufficient force.
Sensitivity is a factor. I don’t know if primers become more sensitive with age.
But the answer is “yes, but it is hard to do.”
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