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Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet

posted by martyb on Friday July 31 2020, @01:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the ruh-roh! dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:

Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet:

In an experiment you should never, ever try at home, the experimenters at YouTube's DemolitionRanch found that if you were strong enough to bend the barrel of a rifle back on itself (a clever maneuver Bugs Bunny often pulled on Elmer Fudd) the bullet would actually follow the curved path.

[...] For DemolitionRanch's latest firearms experiment, it goes one step beyond what The Mythbusters tested[*] and bent the barrel of an automatic rifle almost 180 degrees backward so that it points back at someone unfortunate enough to be holding the weapon. [...] They built a remote rig to safely test what would happen.

[...] when the rifle was fired remotely, the bullet exited the barrel at its business end

[*] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xfYfgpjtws

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @02:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @02:41PM (#1029311)

    Only if you are a wascally wabbit.

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