What are the chances?
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wouldn't you see rifling marks on both bullets?
Perhaps the one bullet was fired from a worn out rifle barrel? There would have been lots of lead flying around from different directions in concentrated periods of time so certainly a real possibility of a mid air collision.
Woodsmoke
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Could easily have hit another bullet in a bandolier, or magazine, etc. Apparently, during some American Civil War Battles, the intensity of firing warts great that it happened quite often. These would be lead balls mostly though, I would've thought?
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Are the two collided bullets at the Battle of Gallipoli real?
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I would imagine a fairly high likelihood of it happening in mid air also given say a m/c gun position firing on another which was also firing at it?
I guess in theory if 2 snipers where aiming at each others muzzles with the same chambered rifles and the same cartridges, rifling, barrel length etc etc then the bullets would collide if they timed pulling the trigger correctly to meet at half range and at the same trajectory........
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I guess in theory if 2 snipers where aiming at each others muzzles with the same chambered rifles and the same cartridges, rifling, barrel length etc etc then the bullets would collide if they timed pulling the trigger correctly to meet at half range and at the same trajectory........
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Foxyboy43
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There are two collided bullets in the fantastic museum at Gettysburg - from memory Minnies but don’t quote me. I have also seen a number of examples in musees around the Somme battlefields - usually a live bullet hitting a clip or belt but more often in the brass. Also a number of examples of bibles and other pocket contents “saving” a life but not sure about these because pocket bibles are very thin and IMHO wouldn’t stop much in the way of .303 or 8mm. But who knows - maybe at great distance?
Wasnt there an episode of mythbusters that looked into a 'myth' from the American civil war regarding a minie ball passing through a soldiers scrotum and carrying on to hit a woman bystander , making her pregnant thus coining the term "son of a gun"
nothing to do with the OP but an interesting story nontheless.
nothing to do with the OP but an interesting story nontheless.
nun_hunter
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Doesn't a bullet rotate at something like 180k rpm? If both were doing that then surely the hole won't be perfectly through the bullet but would be torn to pieces? Makes me think the bullet that has been hit was standing upright and not spinning at all, hence no rifling marks on it. Not to mention it has been hit at 90° side on rather than head on.
A Guy Out West
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Son of a gun is a British term I believe. It was used to describe a boy child of a sailor that ran a cannon on the old sailing ships. The “guns” used to bring their family with them. That’s the story I have heard.
Ive heard that version too,and it would make more sense.
Foxyboy43
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From wiki
“A 1787 correspondent to The Gentleman's Magazine suggested that the phrase originally meant "a soldier's brat".[5]
A 19th-century gun deck (HMS Victory).
The phrase potentially has its origin in a Royal Navy direction that pregnant women aboard smaller naval vessels give birth in the space between the broadside guns, in order to keep the gangways and crew decks clear”.
presumably they had to time their delivery between actions!
“A 1787 correspondent to The Gentleman's Magazine suggested that the phrase originally meant "a soldier's brat".[5]
A 19th-century gun deck (HMS Victory).
The phrase potentially has its origin in a Royal Navy direction that pregnant women aboard smaller naval vessels give birth in the space between the broadside guns, in order to keep the gangways and crew decks clear”.
presumably they had to time their delivery between actions!
Foxyboy43
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Amazing! WW1 British snipers were instructed to shoot at the machine gun rather than the gunners as replacing the gun was a lot harder than the men who fired it. Later german machine guns had a round bulletproof plate fixed just behind the muzzle to protect the vulnerable cooling system.
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