Is it safe to cut a bullet?

[lopxtc]

This description would more fit a black powder device as opposed to a more modern cased ammuntion device. And black-powder rifles/pistols are not considered firearms by normal standards since you can order them through the mail. I have friends that are into the civil war re-enactments (sp?) and before they started making their own rifles and pistols they used to order whole ones from various cataloges.

Rehme is correct in that the way modern firearms work is that the powder is ignited by the primer which builds up pressure and forces the bullet down range. Which is why too many beginner re-loaders (at least in my area) tend to destroy their pistols by trying to pack too much powder into a round. Watch a guy at a range get taken to the hospital after his .357 basically blew up, seems he had taken to hot loading and was playing with how much could he get out of each casing.

Aaron

Originally posted by HOMOCIDAL2
A firearm is a device"that expels a projectile by the means of an explosion". And yes there would be an explosion, especially with a .50cal. Next time just use a knetic bullet puller, its easy and cheap. Not to mention safer.

[Rebel46_99]

Originally posted by lopxtc
Watch a guy at a range get taken to the hospital after his .357 basically blew up, seems he had taken to hot loading and was playing with how much could he get out of each casing.

Aaron

Probably the same guy that was sighting in his rifle near me at Busch Wildlife a few years ago. He was shooting a scoped 30-06. Came back from the 25 yd target with a "group" of approximately 12 inches. Hey, they were all in the colored part! And made the comment, "Well.... That ought to get a deer."

While this was going on, I'm shooting an open-sighted antique Winchester 94 (circa 1900)at 100 yds with 6-inch groups, trying to make them smaller.

DW

[lopxtc]

LMAO .. oh man, my .45 group at 45 yards is way less than 12" ...

I can beat that though, when I was still active duty I shot a couple rounds of the base intramurals (sp?) for pistol and rifle. Well during regular qualifications for the pistol, you had a leg where it was rapid fire from the 3 yard line. Typically it was 1 round double action, then 2 rounds single action (first shot with the hammer forwards, the remaining with the hammer back) within five seconds I believe. We would actually have Marines get nervous and fail to hit the target at 3 yards (9 feet!) because they would yank trigger thinking they didnt have enough time to get all three rounds off.

Aaron

Originally posted by Rebel46_99
Probably the same guy that was sighting in his rifle near me at Busch Wildlife a few years ago. He was shooting a scoped 30-06. Came back from the 25 yd target with a "group" of approximately 12 inches. Hey, they were all in the colored part! And made the comment, "Well.... That ought to get a deer."

While this was going on, I'm shooting an open-sighted antique Winchester 94 (circa 1900)at 100 yds with 6-inch groups, trying to make them smaller.

DW