Posted on 01/10/2017 12:28:43 PM PST by w1n1
In the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead, Negan stopped Rosita's bullet with Lucille, his barb wire wrapped bat. Though we don’t know how under powered the round loaded by Eugene might have been, it was at least powerful enough to cycle the slide on Rosita's Beretta.
Here's a video that explores the reality of a scene from season 7, episode 8, wherein Rosita attempts to kill bad guy Negan by shooting at him with a handloaded 9mm. Could this really happen? Could a baseball bat stop a 9mm round?
He takes the shot and the bullet goes clean through the sweet spot of the bat and into the rubber dummy behind it. So no, it is highly unlikely that Rosita's shot would have been captured by Lucille like it was in the show.
But that's TV! We just have to suspend belief and accept that some things aren't going to match up with real life. See the video here.
Maybe it was one of Eugene’s hand loads that didn’t have enough powder? Either that, or the show is make believe.
Glad I stopped watching it. An animated corpse would rot away to a pile of bones in weeks with no circulatory system to feed the cells but the zombies stay around for years.
Very nice test. Result is as I would expect.
My question is why did Rosita have Eugene make her only one bullet? Is it that she lacked a magazine? I don’t know, because I would have had my manufacturer, Eugene, make me an entire magazine full + one in the chamber, and unloaded them all into Negan.
Never assume!
exactly.
Never assume!
We must assume that no one ever got killed before the invention of baseball bats and firearms.
These people can’t find another way to kill this cat ? Is he a damned Jedi ?
I could make a better bat, take a metal one, cut off the big end, make a roll of sheeted dyneema and kevlar, soak it with urethane such as bedliner, rhino lining or that stuff you can get in walmart, push roll into bat, allow to cure, reattach end cap.
For better hitting power leave a half or 3/4” tube in the middle and fill with lead shot, make it a dead blow.
Wrapping the bat with metal strip spikes fortifies the bat and could deflect and or slow down the bullet. Its why they wrap wood poles with metal bars.
You’re not the only one who stopped watching it. It turned in to “Days of our Lives” with a few zonbies thrown in. They don’t even bother having the slides rack on their handguns anymore. First two seasons were a lot of fun. then... YAWN.
Z Nation at least tries to make it fun to watch.
Dr. Matt Carriker did this on “Demolition Ranch” too. Who’s copying who?
CC
Like my wife says when I wonder aloud, "Now why the hell would that happen?"
"Because it's in the script dear."
Wait, what ? no way.
Next I suppose you’ll cast aspersions on wrestling...
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Sure! If his last name is man . . .
Yep. Say whatever you want about the show - but Michonne is one bad-ass chick.
Yeah, but Z Nation went off the reservation when the zombies started attacking the arctic base. They would have frozen in place before ever reaching the base.
He even puts his lightsaber, Lucille, in the hands of those he knows wish him great harm, and then turns his backs to them, and then provokes them by doing various Negan oriented activities, and they do nothing.
Sheep! They are sheep! No doubt every last one of them, including Rick, Carl and Jesus were Hillary voters!
Except Rosita. She’s got balls, but she is a poor planner and tactically ignorant.
You never go with one bullet, because these days chances are the bullet was a Hillary voter too, like that one she fired at him. Sissy bullet.
That dude's a Vet? I thought he was just some good old boy with a sweet gig shooting stuff. I'm impressed.
She has the perfect SHTF weapon. And she is the best warrior on the show.
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