Claims it was a 9mm, but that sure doesn't look like one. Does anyone know of any 9mm rounds that have a conical inverted rear?
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Yeah, I've recovered some 9mm FMJ's like that. Also, the lead may actually HAVE shifted when the bullet suddenly stopped in the ice, making it dent inward towards the tip.
I've fired 9mm FMJ into a hard packed stack of National Geographic magazines two feet thick backed up by concrete and the 9mm came out pretty unscathed save for the rifling marks too.
Also, everyone claiming the bullet was not deformed may not be right, it may well be deformed, but just into another regular bullet-like shape with an intact jacket. We just don't know how deformed they are until someone takes a micrometer to them.
In the first video, at 1:57 he shows the magic round next to the magazine from the pistol to show that they are "the same."
Except that the spinning bullet was a FMJ round nose, and the top round in the magazine looked to me like a flat point.
I'm calling it a fake. I also didn't think the spinning round was "discovered" anywhere near any of the places he shot. Watch closely.
AFAIK, those bullets were .40 S&W which has to have a flat meplat to get 180gr into the OAL of a 9x19. And perhaps impact deformed the nose back into a more traditional ball-FMJ profile.
I'm far from convinced either. OTOH, why go through all the trouble to fake it either?
Assuming it's not CGI, they'd have to spin the bullet up in some kind of a drill then let it go or whatever. If this is just some oddball effect of firing a near-point-blank ranges into ice, it's obviously no harder than pulling the trigger and looking around your feet for the bullet.
So in a weird way, it does make a certain amount of sense from an application of Occam's Razor.
