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"Curve the bullet"
Fatstrat
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Anyone see that new movie advertisement where the girl tells the guy to "curve the bullet"?
Evidently firing the pistol while swinging the arms to produce a kind of "curve ball" trajectory like a baseball.
More TV myth or can it really be done?
Evidently firing the pistol while swinging the arms to produce a kind of "curve ball" trajectory like a baseball.
More TV myth or can it really be done?
Comments
there will be some that will
hace to try it.[xx(]
Its just that they curve downwards ... Its called "drop" [}:)]
? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
That being said in WWII the germans had an attachment they could put on a rifle to shoot around corners. It did tend to shatter the bullet and cause a shotgun affect so was really only effective at close ranges.
http://www.theeasternfront.co.uk/Infantry/german/germaninfantryweapons.htm
Sturmgewehr 44
This revolutionary weapon was finally introduced into service in February 1943, following extensive trials. Initially designated MP43 it was later renamed Sturmgewehr 44. The weapon was a gas-operated, automatic weapon that could be fired both in single-shot and full automatic mode. The weapon weighed 9.5lb, fired a 7.92mm round and was fed by a removable 30 round magazine. It could be fitted with a bayonet, the Schiessbecher rifle grenade device or the ZF 4 scope. The Sturmgewehr 44 could also be fitted with ZF 1229 Vampir, an infrared night sighting device or the Krummerlauf, a bent barrel with a periscope-sighting device for shooting around corners.
But even knowing this, no one will be curving a bullet around a corner to a hidden target.
Are you an undercover Mod[;)][8D]
Or some kind of GB secret agent?
Boded
Of course it will be blamed on the lawful gun owners because we love our guns and refuse to give them up...never blame the idiot behind the trigger.
Link to vid clips ~ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493464/quote:Originally posted by MVP
kimberkid
Are you an undercover Mod[;)][8D]
Or some kind of GB secret agent?
You saw that huh [:p]
? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
Its just that they curve downwards ... Its called "drop"
Don't forget windage!
Anyone else expecting to see some moron trying this on utube....[}:)][:(][xx(]
me, me ,me, me........
Its just that they curve downwards ... Its called "drop"
Don't forget windage!
That is a curve!!!
quote:Originally posted by William81
Anyone else expecting to see some moron trying this on utube....[}:)][:(][xx(]
me, me ,me, me........
im sad to say
shows what you guys know ... bullets do curve.
Its just that they curve downwards ... Its called "drop" [}:)]
so if you lay your gun at 90% will the bullet curve[:p][:p][:p]
Guess I'll let this one slide.
[xx(]barto[xx(]
Hollywood fiction--it's a popcorn flick with Angelina Jolie & Morgan Freeman--and she does pack a really nice 1911 so what the heck I'll see a matinee[:D]
yeah the movie is called "Wanted" and it looks like a fun no-brain action movie.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/guides/mtr/fw/crls.rxml
Coriolis effect
Coriolis effect (k?r"#275;-#333;'lis) [key][for G.-G. de Coriolis, a French mathematician], tendency for any moving body on or above the earth's surface, e.g., an ocean current or an artillery round, to drift sideways from its course because of the earth's rotation. In the Northern Hemisphere the deflection is to the right of the motion; in the Southern Hemisphere it is to the left. The Coriolis deflection of a body moving toward the north or south results from the fact that the earth's surface is rotating eastward at greater speed near the equator than near the poles, since a point on the equator traces out a larger circle per day than a point on another latitude nearer either pole. A body traveling toward the equator with the slower rotational speed of higher latitudes tends to fall behind or veer to the west relative to the more rapidly rotating earth below it at lower latitudes. Similarly, a body traveling toward either pole veers eastward because it retains the greater eastward rotational speed of the lower latitudes as it passes over the more slowly rotating earth closer to the pole. It is extremely important to account for the Coriolis effect when considering projectile trajectories, terrestrial wind systems, and ocean currents.
Credit: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright c 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
This would certainly involve some long range shooting! [:D]
Best.
Trinity +++
shooting through an MRI could demonstrate this used everyday technique!
Anyone else expecting to see some moron trying this on utube....[}:)][:(][xx(]
It is not dangerous, you just lean to the side like Neo did.
apparently you have to use those "machined" bullets with artistice grooves carved into them.