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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: 3, Informative) by Arik on Friday July 31 2020, @03:39PM (3 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Friday July 31 2020, @03:39PM (#1029330) Journal
    Demolition Ranch is a fun channel, but this is not surprising nor is it really new. There have been several rifles made with curved barrels over the years, the easiest to document would probably be the German Krummlauf. While there are problems with doing this - most obviously you can expect the barrels to wear out much more quickly this way - it does work.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @04:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @04:59PM (#1029362)

    A different way to skin the cat is the cornershot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTCHy28q960 [youtube.com]

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @06:04PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @06:04PM (#1029410)

    So then the feamle Galil, is not completely a joke then.
    https://silahreport.com/2018/03/24/the-female-variant-of-the-galil/ [silahreport.com]

    • (Score: 1) by gmby on Friday July 31 2020, @06:32PM

      by gmby (83) on Friday July 31 2020, @06:32PM (#1029433)

      What a nice shape!

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