what? it looks real... to me!

http://www.break.com/index/spinning-...n-lake-1936597
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It is just the bullet rebounds off the ice without deforming and continues to spin. The gun barrel has rifling to impart spin into the bullet as it travels down the barrel. The spin is what makes the bullet go straight.
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Does look real, but something odd in the sound of the weapon. The camera mic pickups the crunching of the ice under their feet but the weapon sounds well different. I dunno can't describe what I am thinking.

Interesting video and it does seem plausible.
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Yay for the three future Darwin award winners!


Could be a low power or subsonic rounds, or just that the camera mic is being overdriven and a compressor-limiter circuit is kicking in, or both. Or it could be BS. Doesn't matter to me one way or the other.
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Looks like BS to me. There's no deformation of the round at all.
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That's pretty cool. :-)
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thats what I said.. but the 2nd one the capture on video seems to be gyrating meaning that it could not be spun by a machine planted in the ice.
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It seems that the bullet should have rifling marks on it.

Also, the guys in the video are jackasses. The guy with the gun swept the cameraman a few times.
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saw that!
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Sorry, I'm bit dumb when it comes to guns, but what does "swept" mean?
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Point a gun at someone.
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Ridiculously stupid.

@Emjay:

The shooter and the cameraman constantly crossed paths, with the loaded gun pointing directly at the cameraman, and probably the others there too.

That is what Swept means.
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:-)

A bullet can't pass through the barrel of a gun without picking up marks from the rifling. I'm calling shenanigans in the video.
-Dude
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It looked like it did on the second bullet at least...

The only thing I have a problem with is the trajectory. The angle he's shooting at the bullet is going to disperse a lot of force and energy into the ice at a fairly extreme angle. This would cause me to expect one of two things: inbedding into the ice or deformation of the bullet. Additionally I wouldn't expect the bullet to bounce back like it did. We've all seen films of bullet skipping so idk just seems slightly odd
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It was discussed on the mythbusters forum on Discovery channel.

Here is the thread.

http://community.discovery.com/eve/f...8619129301/p/1
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:-) The round would either penetrate the ice and be deformed or it would ricochet off if the angle was shallow enough.:-)
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Myth Busters to the rescue!

http://gizmodo.com/5663836/the-incre...-bullet-on-ice

from the mythbusters forum

http://community.discovery.com/eve/f...8619129301/p/1
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Thats Sonar tech talk!
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I was hoping someone would have gotten shot :-)
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That's horrible, Frank, but funny as hell.:-)
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