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How many frying pans does it take to stop a bullet?
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Posted on 03/05/2026 5:58:24 AM PST by nuconvert

Just an entertaining video. Enjoy


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: bang; video
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1 posted on 03/05/2026 5:58:24 AM PST by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

Answering the important questions.


2 posted on 03/05/2026 5:59:23 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Skwor

;~ )


3 posted on 03/05/2026 6:05:07 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: nuconvert

.308 is pretty impressive.
I’d like to see how my 7.5x55 compares.


4 posted on 03/05/2026 6:07:44 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: nuconvert

That depends on the frying pans. Cast iron being the most durable. Teflon coating, or lack thereof won’t really matter. Be prepared for richorchets.


5 posted on 03/05/2026 6:12:06 AM PST by lee martell
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To: nuconvert

I have an almost 50-year cast iron skillet. Don’t want anyone shooting it.


6 posted on 03/05/2026 6:17:15 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: nuconvert

The premise is invalidated after the first hole. Replace the pans for a valid test.


7 posted on 03/05/2026 6:24:07 AM PST by montag813
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To: nuconvert
THIS GUY https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIOGCEG14rj9GpIFhszkWoQ

has some pretty crazy videos.

8 posted on 03/05/2026 6:49:13 AM PST by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: nuconvert

Better question: How many Barbara Walters videos does it take to stop a round?


9 posted on 03/05/2026 6:49:48 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: lee martell

Rich or Chets?

I’m ready for both of those guys.


10 posted on 03/05/2026 7:01:18 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (May we notice massive black violence without being labeled “racist!” so we can work on solutions?)
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To: montag813

He rotated the pans so fresh ones were in the front.

Not perfect, but the already-damaged pans weren’t touched until the .50 cal.


11 posted on 03/05/2026 7:10:15 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

My late grandmother called hers a spider.

The thing was freaking huge.

Good thing grandma was built like a tall tank.

And nobody else touched it.

She cared for it, seasoned it, had it for decades.

I think that thing could have stopped a mortar.


12 posted on 03/05/2026 7:39:17 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: mewzilla

A spider skillet has three legs, which mine doesn’t. At least mine’s from back when the manufacturers would grind the cooking surface of the pan smooth, which they all seem to have quit doing quite a few years ago.


13 posted on 03/05/2026 7:53:24 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I know. :-)

And grandma still called her smooth bottomed cast iron fry pan a spider.

Nobody argued with her about it.

Especially when she was wielding it.

One handed.


14 posted on 03/05/2026 7:57:45 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

You know, that got me to thinking...

My grandparents were farmers. And grandad had quite the shop in his barn.

Delighted us kids. We got into all kinds of mischief there.

He might very well have done that to grandma’s pan.


15 posted on 03/05/2026 8:02:18 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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I hadn’t thought of that. Spiders are good for cooking on a campfire, but the legs are a disadvantage when cooking on a stove. Your grandad might indeed have ground the legs off your grandma’s spider for that reason.

I’ve often wondered who ended up with my grandma’s skillet after she passed in 2008, just shy of her 100th birthday.


16 posted on 03/05/2026 8:15:29 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: nuconvert

It depends. In some video games it only takes one.


17 posted on 03/05/2026 8:16:01 AM PST by jimtorr
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To: nuconvert

Probably quite a few if it’s a .460 weatherby magnum with buffalo bore solid brass bullet
I’d reckon


18 posted on 03/05/2026 8:25:08 AM PST by wardaddy (If u hate Trump you’re stupid or clueless what’s going on)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Lol! It’s probably been misspelled. Ricochet is not a verb I often need to use day to day.


19 posted on 03/05/2026 8:25:52 AM PST by lee martell
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To: nuconvert

You can buy slick cast iron non stick from Field
But they are pricey

Lodge takes effort to get up to snuff through a dozen uses usually

Nothing disburses heat like cast iron but careful touching handle


20 posted on 03/05/2026 8:27:44 AM PST by wardaddy (If u hate Trump you’re stupid or clueless what’s going on)
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