jkh@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) (01/19/86)
Article: 1:16 This is prompted by posting by snell@utzoo.UUCP. I don't know the answers to his two questions (will .357 penetrate engine block & does shooting a gas tank cause it to explode?). I don't know the answers but they remind me of one of my favorite annoyances on TV: SPARKING BULLETS! I assume that most of the ammunition one sees "expended" on TV and the like is *supposed* to represent more or less conventional stuff. I cannot imagine any conventional bullets generating sparks (such as those produced by steel on a high speed grinding wheel) when they hit something. Does anyone know of any instance of reality that may have prompted this idea or why virtually all TV (and perhaps theater) movies have begun to do this? Charlie
co198w@sdcc13.UUCP (01/23/86)
Article: 1:19 In article <258@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> you write: >Article: 1:16 > >I assume that most of the ammunition one sees "expended" on TV and the like >is *supposed* to represent more or less conventional stuff. I cannot >imagine any conventional bullets generating sparks (such as those produced >by steel on a high speed grinding wheel) when they hit something. > >Does anyone know of any instance of reality that may have prompted this >idea or why virtually all TV (and perhaps theater) movies have begun to do >this? > >Charlie Occasionally one runs into some WW II surplus armor piercing ammo that will do this, although this is probably really getting rare these days. When I first started buying surplus ammo in the late 60's the stuff was 0.05/rd. The stuff really gives off sparks when you hit a glancing shot on something hard. Bruce Jones