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Bullets shot onto ice sometimes just sit close by where they hit spinning madly on the ice, like a kid's top.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1btKoF_HZkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foZlciP6gUQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1gf8ck_g7kHas anyone ever figured this out? There's plenty of mystery there, like why don't the bullets go trough the ice and why don't they ricochet off into the distance?
I really don't think there's any fakery involved since so many people have submitted so many videos of it in so many different conditions and in so many different places.
I first heard about it back in the 60s from a guy who used to ice fish and one day up on one of the lakes he decided to start a hole by shooting into the ice and was amazed to hear and find the bullet spinning like the videos show.
I thought it was "mountain man's BS" and kind of forgot it for decades until maybe 50-60 years later, I started to see some videos on it.
Mythbusters had a Q&A video on their experiments --they found that iit does happen:
https://youtu.be/PF7Q8xSpqiI (3:40)
The first question was somebody noted the bullets spinning backwards.
My left eyebrow, my "whatsa matta fi you?" eyebrow, went up. After all, almost all Colt handguns have left hand twists. (Besides the possible stroboscopic illusion, as when wheels in videos and airplane props seem to run backwards.)
My eyebrow remained up through the rest of that video. The upshot in most of the "scientific" videos on it seems to be kind of a "Well, that's just the way things are" non-answer.
What, does frozen water act like a trampoline under high impact?
I myself have never tried it. By the time I got re-interested in it, I was too old to go hiking around on frozen lakes. However, I did see one vid of it happening with a guy shooting into a frozen-over puddle in a tire track.
So. Have there been any definitive explanations I may have missed?
Terry, 230RN