Bouncing Bullets off Water in Ultra Slow Motion

[Grapesoda]

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Pretty cool. Has a Tarantino vibe to it.

[Victor-E]

Fake video! A bullet doesn't skip like a rock. It will penetrate the water and follow its bath. The kinetic energy is too much for the water to deflect it like that. It will also not tumble like that.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Victor-E

Fake video! A bullet doesn't skip like a rock. It will penetrate the water and follow its bath. The kinetic energy is too much for the water to deflect it like that. It will also not tumble like that.

actually you are wrong. if you jump off a bridge. you hit the water the wrong way it's like a brick wall.


Shooting at water is never a good idea. Bullets skip off water and go out of control in often dangerous directions. Sometimes a thrown rock “penetrates” into water, and sometimes it skips along the surface.

[Victor-E]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

actually you are wrong. if you jump off a bridge. you hit the water the wrong way it's like a brick wall.


Shooting at water is never a good idea. Bullets skip off water and go out of control in often dangerous directions. Sometimes a thrown rock “penetrates” into water, and sometimes it skips along the surface.

I'm not saying the bullet won't bounce off the water. I just find it very hard to believe it would tumble and cartwheel like that after hitting the surface considering how fast it's travelling.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Victor-E

It's a super slow motion shot of a bullet fired from a gun. Do you think it would tumble and cartwheel like that several times within travelling only inches after hitting the water? No way! It's fake.

It's true that water feels solid when you hit it with your body when you fall from a bridge or fall off your skies. That's because the surface area of your body is massive compared to your weight where as a bullet has a lot more mass to surface ratio and it's only a fraction of an inch in diameter and it's travelling thousands of times faster than your body while being thousands of times smaller so it hits the water with thousands of times more kinetic energy than your body ever could. The laws of physics defy the assertion of this video.

i have never tried have you??? science is experimenting. just think of seeing a tv for the first time. it seems impossible. did you see that it cooled the bullet? when it hit the dirt it look slowed...

[AmeliaG]

Love that slow motion video goodness

[Victor-E]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

i have never tried have you??? science is experimenting. just think of seeing a tv for the first time. it seems impossible. did you see that it cooled the bullet? when it hit the dirt it look slowed...

I've tried shooting fish in water with a 22. You got to calculate for the refraction factor for targeting. But it was at a pretty steep angle so it didn't bounce off. What made it hard to believe, in this video, was the tumbling frequency of the bullet after bouncing off the surface. But like you say, it's hard to accept something when you see it for the first time.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Victor-E

I've tried shooting fish in water with a 22. You got to calculate for the refraction factor for targeting. But it was at a pretty steep angle so it didn't bounce off. What made it hard to believe, in this video, was the tumbling frequency of the bullet after bouncing off the surface. But like you say, it's hard to accept something when you see it for the first time.

we don't know how many times they fired...

[NatalieK]

fantastic vid, thank you