I bet he checks for propane leaks with a lighter.
This is what happens when you don’t let boys watch old Warner Brothers cartoons.
Anyone else notice the cop’s misinformation. He said nothing about striking the primer causing igniton, only putting pressure on the case.
The smart thing to do was to use the cartridge (one of my pet peeves) as an excuse to get your wife’s buy in to buy a fire arm to shoot the free ammo with.
Hey honey there is all this 22 ammo out in the yard and I don’t want the kids plying with it so I just have to go out and buy a pistol/rifle to shoot it up so they don’t mess with it.
Hold muh beer alert! :-)
That’s just frickin’ great. Now the government will be after our hammers too!
Everyone knows you throw them in the fire.
Oh boy. This is embarrassing!! I don’t know which is worse...the dope that hit the bullet with the hammer in the first place...the sheriff, or the tv crew reporting this dramatic story.
Good grief!!
Don't his deputies have firing pins in their guns?
I’ll wager he got hit by the case, not the projectile.
Simple physics. The bullet weighs more than the case. Outside of a firearm, the bullet goes a little way, the lighter case goes a long way.
BTW, we used to do all kinds of stupid stuff with .22 ammo. Nobody got seriously hurt.
The slug from a .22 bullet discharging without being in a gun is not going to develop any velocity. As soon as the slug separates from the casing all gas pressure is lost. It probably wouldn’t travel 20 feet. So this guys story about it knocking him over, etc. is pure hooey.
I don’t have a problem with anyone hitting a bullet with a hammer since it can’t hurt anyone.
I would have thought some Freeper would have posted this information already.
When we were little...back in Stone Age...we had these long strips of red paper with dots of powder embedded in them, and when you hit them with a hammer, they made a real nice bang.
They were in strips because you fed them into toy guns...
Obama voter.
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Oh for heaven’s sakes! Anyone with an ounce of brains knows you should not hit a rimfire with a hammer. you can kill the bullet by soaking it in water or spraying it with WD-40 or equivalent. Rimfires are not water or oil tight.
When young we often found unfired cartriges in rental houses. My dad got rid of them by dropping them between the sheetrock in walls just like we disposed of razor blades.
We once found a stick of dynamite in a rental house and my dad showed us how to dispose of it by cutting it leingthwise and crumbling up the remains. He had been a combat engineer in WWWII.
A gun has a part that is refered to as the hammer.....
Idiot. Everyone knows you are supposed to take it into the house and put it in a vice before you hit it with a hammer. Make sure you bring the kids to watch since it is so cool.
Or put it on a burner on the stove and have your wife watch.
This idiot is almost as stupid as that blob from New Mexico. The round would have just bounced off her fat @ss
Lots of smoke, flames, bad smells, and interesting reactions drove us out of his basement laughing our butts off.
He tried it with a shotgun shell held in a bench vise. The ice pick and a hammer experiment resulted in him nearly losing his hand.
You've got to think about the idea that the barrel of the gun is a very important part of the basic machine. 22 shells are way lighter than the slug of lead in the end and the shell casing, or the shrapnel from it is going to be the flying part without the barrel with the exit end pointing away from you.
Rusty gets cudos for one other crazy stunt he paid dearly for; ice skating down a frozen hill. The spiral fracture kept him in traction for months.
Last I heard he's all growed up and doing fine, but we had a lot of fun back then.