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Tree Sap Bullets
Is that do-able? It would be lighter than lead right? And tree sap gets rock hard. I dont have a gun yet so I cant test this. :( You could mold it into a bullet. What do you think?
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RE: Tree Sap Bullets
I think that such a thing would shatter, burn and/ or melt upon firing - and all that would emerge from the muzzle would be fragments. Remember, even in a low- pressure cartridge (such as a shotgun shell), chamber pressure is well above 1000 atmospheres. In any high-pressure rifle round, chamber pressures often exceed 2000 atmospheres. Such an idea might be usable as pellets in a shotgun shell, but they would be irregularly- shaped pellets, so they wouldn't pattern well.
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Would never ever ever work. Neither would wood bullets, salt bullets, ice bullets, etc... etc... etc...
I could go into all of the reasons why it wouldn't work but I won't. It would take too long. I'll just post the easiest reason........ the temperatures created inside a barrel with the gun powder burning would melt the sap before it ever got out of the barrel. |
RE: Tree Sap Bullets
If tree sap was a good material to make bullets out of, then bullets would be made out of tree sap.
Why would you want to try this? Bullets (the metal kind) are cheap and plentiful. I can't help but question your motives for considering such a thing. Mike |
RE: Tree Sap Bullets
I like to think outside the box.[&o]
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HUH?
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Neither would wood bullets, |
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They actually tried to mold a functional bullet out of a lot of materials like this on the TV show Mythbusters one week. They were trying to find a material that would hold together well enough to inflict a lethal wound but then dissolve inside the human body. Long story short, none worked for the reasons already mentioned above.
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RE: Tree Sap Bullets
Many years ago my grandpa had a story he told of shooting a guy in the a-- with a 12 guage shell filled with rock salt,stealling chickens.Don't know if that really happened but do know he had some loaded up that he kept with his shotgun.
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RE: Tree Sap Bullets
ORIGINAL: herman Many years ago my grandpa had a story he told of shooting a guy in the a-- with a 12 guage shell filled with rock salt,stealling chickens.Don't know if that really happened but do know he had some loaded up that he kept with his shotgun. |
RE: Tree Sap Bullets
thinking outside the box???? youd have to be a idiot to shoot tree sap down your barrel.........there i said what everyone else was thinking.........i wouldnt shoot tree sap down rebel hog's barrel.......ha ha
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No I would never use a good gun to test things like that out.
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The wooden bullets, which someone mentioned, were tried by the Japanese, out of desperation. The ones used were fitted with a metal cap on the base, in an attempt to try to keep them together. They didn't always make it to the target, let alone in one piece. Also, they had to be used in a special, lower velocity load, as they would not stay intact if fired at normal rifle velocities. This, of course, heavily compromised the ballistics and effective range of the weapons being used with them. All in all, not a very satisfactory result...and hardly practical for standard use.
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RE: Tree Sap Bullets
ORIGINAL: gorse The wooden bullets, which someone mentioned, were tried by the Japanese, out of desperation. The ones used were fitted with a metal cap on the base, in an attempt to try to keep them together. They didn't always make it to the target, let alone in one piece. Also, they had to be used in a special, lower velocity load, as they would not stay intact if fired at normal rifle velocities. This, of course, heavily compromised the ballistics and effective range of the weapons being used with them. All in all, not a very satisfactory result...and hardly practical for standard use. FWIW Range wasn't an issue most the time as the enemy was in their face. Many Americans were severely injured by these splintering things. I agree...not much of a bullet but if someone shoots you with one at 50 feet.....it's not much comfort knowing that it was a poor bullet. |
RE: Tree Sap Bullets
ORIGINAL: cuchullainn I like to think outside the box.[&o] |
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