I seriously hope this moron doesn't have any guns of his own.

Fath said he'll never hit a bullet with a hammer again.

No shiat.

Stupid person is stupid.

I'd like to team up with Pocket Ninja to create a story about this sad orphan bullet. We can start how it was made in a factory in China and was named Ping by his diligent creators. One day he got word that he was shipping off to America... his dream had come finally come true.

After a long story, like Fivel Goes West, he ends up in the yard of a tribe of Mongoloids from the Shovelhead clan. They pick him him thrashing about, until one of them gets the idea to smash him. A long fight ensues with Ping losing the battle.

Ping is certain it is final curtain time. After he enters the stomach of one of the Mongoloids, he passes by what seems like mountains of Chocodyles and lakes of Boone's Farm. As he lazily washes ashore on Boone's Farm lake, a mighty figure reaches out to rescue him. He says his name is Lemmiwinks. He is traveling North to freedom...

To Be Continued...

I honestly thought this was repeat. Shiat, I played with explosives and gasoline as a kid. The worst I ever did was blowing my eyebrows off because I forgot gas fumes were explosive.

How can you possibly think that hitting a live cartridge with a hammer will produce good results?

Damn you, Darwin!

If I had a hammer
I'd shoot me in the stomach
I'd shoot me in the belly
All over this land

Not sure what's more stupid... this goober hitting a rimfire with a hammer, the implications in the article of how dangerous it is, or the great lengths you're supposed to go to just to be rid of it.

Use pliers and rip the bullet from the case. Use your teeth and rip it out. Whatever. .22 cartridges are fragile.

back when I was a kid we used to steal 22 rounds from the range and try to make them go off.

Good times

I didn't know it was even possible to reach age 10 without knowing that hitting a bullet with a hammer can cause it to fire.

NewportBarGuy: I honestly thought this was repeat. Shiat, I played with explosives and gasoline as a kid. The worst I ever did was blowing my eyebrows off because I forgot gas fumes were explosive.

How can you possibly think that hitting a live cartridge with a hammer will produce good results?

Damn you, Darwin!


That takes me back, NewportBarGuy. My brother and I were total firebugs. When we got tired of our GI Joes, we doused them (and their jeep) in gasoline and played fiery fatal crash. Kills me to think about how cool it would be to have those GI Joes now...
We also set up those little plastic army men and used firecrackers, cherry bombs and bottle rockets as artillery fire. Good times.

/I am sick about how we destroyed those foot-tall GI Joes (with life-like hair, no less).

Deacon Blue: /I am sick about how we destroyed those foot-tall GI Joes (with life-like hair, no less).

You torched the Real Deal. Dude, I can't pardon that. I'm sorry.

Nah, I did worse.

If you find a .22 cartridge in your yard do you: A. Bury it. B. Soak it in water then throw it away. C. Hit it with a hammer and shoot yourself in the stomach?

Definitely C.

Kin ah git inturnetz naooww ?

I don't get why he is claiming the bullet penetrated his stomach and had to be removed. It says right in the police report that he suffered only an abbrasion, which would make sense, since without the bullet being in the chamber of a firearm, its discharge lacks the pressure needed to move the bullet with any sort of dangerous velocity.

Relatively Obscure: I didn't know it was even possible to reach age 10 without knowing that hitting a bullet with a hammer can cause it to fire.

You'd think that the fact that the object which strikes the firing pin and causes the round to fire is called the hammer would be a dead give-away.

This story is more convoluted than Rashomon. Did he shoot himself in the stomach, or farking not?

mjtme: I don't get why he is claiming the bullet penetrated his stomach and had to be removed. It says right in the police report that he suffered only an abbrasion, which would make sense, since without the bullet being in the chamber of a firearm, its discharge lacks the pressure needed to move the bullet with any sort of dangerous velocity.

This.

Still extra stupid though. You think he'd at least be smart enough to point the cartridge away from himself.

Didn't Mythbusters bust this one a while back?

A kid down the street used a hammer on a bullet, AFTER securing it in a bench vise. He showed up to school with his hand in a cast.

He also used to put .22s into the end of a straw ...throw them up in the air, so when they hit the ground ass first, they'd shoot into the air.

Parents, please lock up your bullets if you have moron kids.

Hot like pancakes

I'm calling this one good reason to have plentiful cheap ammunition. If .22 cost what .338 Lapua did, no one would have discarded a live round, and this dumbass would have missed this opportunity to seriously injure himself.

joshuax: He also used to put .22s into the end of a straw ...throw them up in the air, so when they hit the ground ass first, they'd shoot into the air.

assuming "ass" means rim, you have a very different atmosphere/gravity than we do on earth. Additionally you have RIM fires that go off when you strike the CENTER of the base of a rim fire cartridge as if the priming compound wasn't spun into the hollow rim of the shell casing during manufacture. You know, because that's where rim fires strike the casing.

Additionally, without the confines of a chamber, the case will rupture, often leaving part of the casing attached to the projectile. The bullet goes nowhere, just a fire cracker. Nothing like firing a round in the air.


Ignore previous post. Well...not the first part.

I ran the other way when I saw him playing with bullets, so maybe they didn't fire. I remember a pop though.

You seem to know more about bullets than I do, so even if they only popped like a firecracker, it made me nervous at the time.

joshuax: I ran the other way when I saw him playing with bullets, so maybe they didn't fire. I remember a pop though.

You seem to know more about bullets than I do, so even if they only popped like a firecracker, it made me nervous at the time.

.410 shells
copper or lead BBs
masking tape
a good healthy drop

Charles_Nelson_Reilly: Didn't Mythbusters bust this one a while back?

ummmm, NO!

Well after a couple good whacks with a hammer on the side of a round, the percussion cap in the center gets squeezed out a tad and begins to protrude. At that point you can set it off by hitting it on the side with a hammer.

On another note newton wasn't full of shiat when he said for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. So if you hit a shell like this, even if it's aimed away from you, the percussion cap or shell itself will still put a hole in you as it flies backwards.

My dad actually knew a kid when he was growing up that used to take .22 cartridges and hit them with a hammer. All the parents forbade their children from going over to the kid's house. Probably a good decision since he ended up blowing a few of his fingers off.

Supposedly the kid made it to adulthood, but not for lack of trying on the part of Darwin.

I would definitely NOT put it in my urethra and warm the end with a Zippo lighter. That I would not do. Again.

Denial_of_Death
You are the win.

Conservation of momentum (and medical reports) suggest he was hit by the shell, not the bullet. Simple physics folks.

"Call local law enforcement and we can take car of it," Lewis said.

please fire the editor...

FTFA: "Call local law enforcement and we can take car of it," Lewis said.

Well that's good to know.

Oh damnit. I should refresh before posting.

Since when does soaking a bullet do anything? Has lead and brass suddenly become water permeable while I wasn't looking?

PadreScout: Since when does soaking a bullet do anything? Has lead and brass suddenly become water permeable while I wasn't looking?

I don't think it does anything, but at least it doesn't shoot anyone in the stomach. So I vote for that. Or burying it. Preferably where a lawn mower won't churn it up.

haha. wonder what this big bag of dumb looks like.

antialias: PadreScout: Since when does soaking a bullet do anything? Has lead and brass suddenly become water permeable while I wasn't looking?

I don't think it does anything, but at least it doesn't shoot anyone in the stomach. So I vote for that. Or burying it. Preferably where a lawn mower won't churn it up.

Bullets are not manufactured to be air tight. Storing them in damp places or most especially submerging them can cause the powder to become damp or wet, rendering the bullet useless. Some will take longer than others since some are mostly air tight by chance even if not by design.

Also, even though the lead is heavier than the casing, when a bullet is discharged outside a chambered device, the casing itself will rupture and shrapnel can cause serious injury. The projectile will also be thrown from the explosion but at much less velocity than the casing and is usually not dangerous.

In this particular case the hammer could have disallowed the casing to move, or compressed it enough that most of the force from the explosion would transfer itself to the projectile causing it to move faster than if thrown into a fire, for instance. There are many variables, but I would almost bet that it was a piece of the casing that hit the boy rather than the projectile.

Charles_Nelson_Reilly: Didn't Mythbusters bust this one a while back?

Somewhat - "Bullet in an Oven"

I smell a petition for a "Farking Retarded" tag.

FTA: George Fath moved to his mobile home ....

It seems like whenever a mobile home is involved, Darwin is always not too far behind. It kind of like an omen of things to come.

NCP69: "Call local law enforcement and we can take car of it," Lewis said.

please fire the editor...
They already did. That was news 2-3 yrs ago. News can't afford editors anymore. Writers are expected to self-edit.

we were doing it with rusty 7.62 cartridges as kids. big deal!

/durr...!

Rann Xerox: FTA: George Fath moved to his mobile home ....

Came in here to say that. When the first sentence mentions a mobile home you can get a good idea where the story is heading.

Can't speak for everyone, but... (A)would take too long. (B) Don't want to get wet. The only other possible option I can think of is (C).

D) Pull the bullet. Dump the powder out, toss the brass in the spent casings bin, then save the bullet to melt down and re-cast.

// My dad bought a progressive press because of Obama-mania.
// Not the smartest idea, but hey, I get to use it.

Used to hold the bullet with needle nose pliers, hold the cartridge over a candle. Bullet goes nowhere. Casing goes somewhere else but not with enough velocity to break the skin. Wouldn't do it with anything more than a .22.

mud_shark
back when I was a kid we used to steal 22 rounds from the range and try to make them go off.

Good times

that made me smile. memories of doing a myriad of silly things when we were all young is always nice.

Charles_Nelson_Reilly: Didn't Mythbusters bust this one a while back?

Anyone that cites "MythBusters" as some sort of authoritive source needs to go back to school.

I remember the one they did on electric fence urination. They called BS on that as well. Their methods of testing are barely valid. I accidentally checked the electric fence one out, personally. I don't advise doing it.

There's nothing else to say, really.

clayndwoods: Charles_Nelson_Reilly: Didn't Mythbusters bust this one a while back?

Anyone that cites "MythBusters" as some sort of authoritive source needs to go back to school.

I remember the one they did on electric fence urination. They called BS on that as well. Their methods of testing are barely valid. I accidentally checked the electric fence one out, personally. I don't advise doing it.

I didn't see this episode, but I suppose if your stream hits the ground first and then you drag it over the fence that the current would go down instead of up. However, if one pissed directly onto the wire, such that the stream contacted the wire before making a connection with the ground, one would get a shock.

I do not intend to test my conjecture.

George Fath moved to his mobile home...

That was all the information I needed to know.

I knew a kid who hammered a blank for an m16 into a dead tree then hit the primer with a nail. funny as shiat as no one lost an eye. blew a huge chuck out. So personally I would have tossed it in the woods. but some kids I grew up with would have picked c.