Shotgun shell discharges after rolling off table

[pirate]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHuGtqbhdjk

 

[printcraft]

I'm calling

 

[jblomenberg16]

If it is a fake, it is a good one. Damage to the wall and shelf in the background.

 

[EvilKidsMeal]

The brass was facing the wall that was damaged. unless it flipped, which is possible. I feel like there would be more damage though

 

[rockhopper46038]

Bah. Damn phone.

 

[downzero]

The brass was facing the wall that was damaged. unless it flipped, which is possible. I feel like there would be more damage though

Shell isn't going anywhere. If it isn't contained in a chamber, it will just blow apart.

 

[printcraft]

Shell isn't going anywhere. If it isn't contained in a chamber, it will just blow apart.

This /\

 

[Bunnykid68]

If it is a fake, it is a good one. Damage to the wall and shelf in the background.

Yep, timing is beautiful on that. Not likely to happen but anything is possible.

 

[SSGSAD]

I'm calling

YES, ME TOO !!!!!

 

[SSGSAD]

Shell isn't going anywhere. If it isn't contained in a chamber, it will just blow apart.

THIS, and lead, is heavier, than brass, so it will PROBABLY, land crimp end DOWN, therefore, NOT exploding at all .....

 

[printcraft]

Someone call Mythbusters.

 

[EvilKidsMeal]

Shell isn't going anywhere. If it isn't contained in a chamber, it will just blow apart.

Learn something new everyday.

Notice how his hand clears the frame just before it goes off. Be pretty easy to time when the shell will fall. Coincidence...maybe.

 

[jblomenberg16]

What is interesting is that the one he puts on the table isn't the one that goes off. It rolls into a few others, bumping them and sending another down the line.

 

[chezuki]

Bravo Sierra.

 

[Benny]

Shell isn't going anywhere. If it isn't contained in a chamber, it will just blow apart.

Yeah, this.

Someone call Mythbusters.

Then call someone who could actually figure it out.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

Can't watch the video while at work...

I get the jist of it from the comments, however.

Devil's advocate player here: It IS possible for a falling cartridge/shotgun shell to go off upon landing. It's also possible for a tray of loaded ammo to have an ejected empty piece of brass fly through the air and land "just right" on a primer to set off a cartridge.

What most of us seem to understand, though, it's the containment / directional containment of said cartridge that causes the damage.

-J-

 

[Justin Case]

I'm calling

Ditto!

 

[pirate]

I think it happened. Only because there are too many variables that you can't see below the table where it falls. You just never know. I don't see enough evidence from the video to say it didn't happen and the wall/table area certainly looks damaged.

As far as the bullet/shell not going anywhere if its not chambered....That simply cannot be the case if its shot in the shell. Any type of explosion in the shell would certainly move the shot at combustion. They are just too close together not absorb the energy enough go somewhere unlike a heavier bullet. Now of course, it isn't going to be like the full force of coming out of a chamber, but it will move somewhere.

It could be a fake, but I don't see enough evidence to think it is.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

When I was in the police academy in '96 we were downloading magazines after a day at the range. There was 4 or 5 of us chucking live .40 rounds into a bucket. One of the ones chucked in struck another round with the primer and went off. The bullet itself didn't go anywhere but the case blew apart and some of the shrapnel injured one of my fellow recruits slightly. So this incident is plausible, in my opinion.

 

[Fishersjohn48]

The flash that you see is CLEARLY added post production. go frame by frame and it becomes pretty clear.