Thread: 22LR bullet put a hole in my pocket - literally!!

a long watch but very interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SlOXowwC4c

Originally Posted by Comfortably_Numb

Ouchies!

I carry spares in a ziplock bag, folded up tight to stop any noise etc.
fill mags before leaving, the more mags, the merry.

Actually mate I barely felt it, the hole in my pocket is more of a burn hole than anything. Still, as you and others have said, ziplock bags and full mags is great thinking. Or seperate pockets or whatever.. Just not hanging out together!

Originally Posted by smidey

a long watch but very interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SlOXowwC4c

Excellent video mate

https://youtu.be/U4FQgrU2fYk

Originally Posted by kiwijames

https://youtu.be/U4FQgrU2fYk

FFS I hope my kids don't try that.

That's fairly high on the stupid scale I reckon

Sent from my workbench

Damz thanks for the heads up. Heaps of current the 18650s.. Dam i wounder how a .17hmr would go, might be nastier as they seem more solidly closed than a .22.

The thought of a dead shorted 18650 in my pocket scares me more than the prospect of a live round cooking off!

Originally Posted by Monsterbishi

The thought of a dead shorted 18650 in my pocket scares me more than the prospect of a live round cooking off!

good point theres a few vids of Li-Po cells going bang. Not nice as a pocket warmer!

Ive seen a mates drill battery catch fire in the drill he was using. We called it the DeFault after that.

Those Li-ion and especially Li-pol cells have a very low internal resistance which allows a much higher current to flow, more than 10 amps. So that's about 40 Watts for a brief time until the ptc kicks in and causes the circuit resistance to increase thus limiting current. I think they are great batteries but one must treat them with respect, be safe

have to be the most common bullet to go thru washing machine due to that exact habit ,growing up there was always a little pile on shelf above washing tub.
Never heard of that before and will never keep them loose again.

That is scary as fuck. I wonder how much power they lose without any "focus" to use the blast to push the projectile out if you know what i mean.

Originally Posted by smidey

I watched a video that the American fire fighters produced about ammunition going if in a fire. You have little to be worried about from what I watched.
These guys filled a forty foot shipping container almost full of ammo, various calibers and types. They set it up like a tightly packed gun store and put combustable materials to mimic a shop building structure and set fire to it.
They studied it for a while then got brave and stood at the door. They were getting hit by projectiles but nothing was moving fast enough to do any damage at all.
They also did a range of tests on packaged ammo, dropping it, shooting it etc and the results were surprising in the fact that ammo is really quite safe until is loaded into a barrel

Sent from my workbench

Interesting. We've all seen a bunch of movies where some wily hero puts ammo in a frying pan to use as a distraction or some such. But we also know how BS Hollywood is when it comes to guns though. I wonder how much force something like a 308 would have going off in a pocket?

More to the point did you have a change of undies in the wagon for the trip home

I had a neighbour a while back that was floggin my firewood. I did think of drilling a hole in a bit and stashin a live round in it.
But I thought better of it in the end as it could of gone bad