fluffy Being Freddie Wong this is almost certainly being done as special effects.
Smellvin I looked at the chunks of watermelon to see if they made the obvious mistake there, but the pieces fly towards the shooter as they ought to (against what most people would expect). Mr. Wong knows his physics.
fluffy Why does that happen, anyway? I would expect most of the shrapnel to go along with the path of the bullet, but this video shows that a .50 caliber round + watermelon does in fact cause crap to go in every direction pretty much equally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoW8nHIVuRk
Konversekid I believe the reasoning is a large proportion of the soft mass within the watermelon follows the path of the bullet which propels the shell forward.
I think it was on mythbusters for the JFK episode but I am unable to find the clip or a definite reasoning.
Konversekid 'Forward' being the opposite direction of the bullets tragectory.
Comatose2 At least you won't have anything to worry about if something goes wrong.
oddeye Either this is fake or both of these fellas are huge fucking idiots.
Ursa_minor Being that it's most definitely fake, it makes a good case that they aren't idiots at all. In fact, Freddie Wong and his cohorts are really pretty talented little goofballs in regards to their homegrown special effects bonanzas.
If it IS real, these guys are crazy and stupid, though they would be just as crazy and stupid for doing this with ANY rifle.
Xiphias nah, trying it with a .50 cal is way crazier than trying it with a .22
Adham Nu'man Well, a .22 to the head would likely leave you tarded, a .50 cal to the head would likely leave you dead.
Also, most .22 rifles are not very precise at any kind of distance.
I think picking the .50 cal would increase my chances of it ending the William Tell way and not the William Burroughs way.
Ursa_minor Anything over .22 with have the same result. Maybe a bit messier, but dead nonetheless. .50 is no crazier than 5.56 in this case.
Buggerman If you look carefully at the pixels, you can tell it is fake.
chumbucket I appreciate that they threw the giant "don't try this yourself" banner but I'm going to give it about 2 weeks before we hear about the first casualty of copycats (in a bike helmet of course).
William Burns The compression wave created by a .50 BMG bullet will kill you just by passing near your head.
The Great Mel Bay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ABGIJwiGBc
Disproves your theory, in theory at least.
William Burns Heard it from a marine. Not sure why I believed it but I shouldn't have repeated it.
dododge This one gets repeated so often that the Discovery channel has a sticky thread for it in their forums. The easy counterargument is that if you shoot a .50 through a paper target it leaves a bullet-sized hole without otherwise disrupting the paper.
Mythbusters did an episode last year about sonic booms which included firing a .50 BMG to pass within an inch or two of various objects such as light bulbs and panes of glass. As I recall, the only time an object so much as wiggled was when one of the shots veered slightly off course and actually hit it.
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