Posted on 02/25/2012 3:43:56 PM PST by U-238
I remember as a kid seeing those magic bullet cartoons. They would not dumbly pierce anything suitably soft in their path. Instead they would screech to a halt, toss a net over their target, or deploy a little mallet that conks the target over the head, or something equally cute. I tried to figure out in my little-tyke head how such a gimmicked projectile might be made to work. I figured something like air resistance acting on a deployment mechanism such that the gimmick deploys at the desired distance from the gun, and even tried to build a model out of paper and kiddie wooden blocks, but heck if I understood the physics.
Yo’ thutty-thutty ain’t nuttin’ compared to my old Remington 45-70!
Well shucks, I’ve got Gran-dad’s 30-30 saddle gun (no BS I do) and it shoots a fair piece... I’d put it up against another, iron sights and all.
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