Posted on 11/08/2022 5:28:21 AM PST by rellimpank
"No one has shot more blanks than me. On 'Rambo,' I wanted to show what a .50-caliber could do to a human being. We took a dummy and filled it with 200 pounds of beef. I thought, 'When I fire, it will knock the dummy over.' There were no bullets in the gun. It was just the force of the compression in the shell. But it turned the dummy into mist. It blew it apart. Then I turned the .50-caliber to a row of bamboo trees and it literally cut them in half. This is without bullets!"
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(((YAWN))) Gun control is “wildly popular” among the liberal elite idiots.
I believe in gun control. Both hands, steady breathing and make every shot a suprise.
The same meatheads that want to confiscate guns from law-abiding Americans are the same pieces of meat with two eyes who are pushing the damn criminals back out onto the streets. The same asses who would fight a fire by pouring gasoline on it.
“First Blood” should’ve stuck with the original book’s storyline in which...both Rambo and the Sheriff died.
The blank bullets we used for train ing in our M-16’s did not have wadding.They were a casing with the “bullet” end crimped shut. The rifle would not operate on auoto or semi-auto with out and adapter over the muzzle to force compression into the bore so the action would operate. Look closely the next movie you see using belt fed ammo. The rounds are shaped like a full size bullet but the brass is crimped on the bullet end of the round.
“ We took a dummy and filled it with 200 pounds of beef.”
And it’s proved to be a winning formula for the “Rambo” and “Rocky” movies.
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Then he used a 9mm and blew the lungs clean out of the body!
Yeah... we use 5.56mm blanks for blasting wasp nests here. About three feet away and a single blast pretty much obliterates them. As I remember, there have been more than a few people killed and/or injured over the years with blanks.
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Not knowing what he means by a "bamboo tree", I dunno. All the bamboo I am familiar with is pretty small and hollow, so I suspect that yes, a wadding blast can probably cut it down.
"I" certainly wouldn't want to be in front of a .50BMC blank round when fired.
If they are blanks, and there is no projectile, how did it turn a dummy into pink mist? How did it cut down bamboo trees?
Something doesn’t add up - it’s not the compression wave doing that damage.
That is because there “is” a “projectile”. The wadding plug acts as a projectile for short distances out from the firearm muzzle. It is very light and loses velocity very quickly, but it CAN be deadly if you stand in the wrong place. Even the expanding gas from the muzzle is dangerous if one is too close. Neither, of course, compares to a lead, bismuth, or copper bullet or buckshot...but “I” would not put myself in the active zone.
Yes, the wadding is what killed Brandon Lee back in the 90’s during filming of “The Crow”. IIRC, they fired a squib, it got stuck, they put in a blank, and it ended up having enough force to enter Brandon’s abdomen and he died from the wound.
I just didn’t think the wadding itself would have enough force to cut down bamboo trees - those suckers are tougher than our skin!
That’s him. That’s the story I remember.
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