What happens if you shoot a bed sheet?

[rickomatic]

What happens if you shoot a bed sheet?


Is he wearing it?

If he is....it will hit the fan.

 

[FIFTYGUY]

In addition to the well-known Japanese usage of silk in armor on the battlefield, there was much exploration in the West in Victorian times of weaving silk into body armor. The expense limited it to VIP protection, and it was only effective against slower bullets.

Some interesting history there.

 

[Tomahawk674]

Is the sheet made of kevlar?

 

[R.W.Dale]

The Royal Navy has a sail from the HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar..... guess what

it's full of holes that were shot into it.

 

[FM12]

I'm tired of all this sheet....

 

[B yond]

Sheets bullet proof ??? NOT TRUE -- I heard thats why the KKK quit wearing them !!!


PS ---- just a joke , don't freak out about it !!!

I'm horribly offended.

PS ---Also just a joke.

 

[evan price]

Kevlar Sheets, Tinfoil Hats, Tactical Wheelbarrows- is there anything in the gunnie world that can't be improved????

 

[indoorsoccerfrea]

yep! the trigger finger

 

[qajaq59]

He's right. Except he left out the part where the bed sheet was 5 miles away and behind an oak tree.

 

[KD5NRH]

Having shot a towel hanging from a clothesline with one of those Speer plastic practice bullets driven only by a primer, and punched a hole right through it from 7 yards, I'm not trying this one with any of the sheets.

 

[Odd Job]

 

[Bearhands]

I believe that protocol dictates that after a bedsheet shooting, you must in fact have a service, then properly bury it.

 

[CajunBass]

Well. That would explain why shooting a ghost doesn't work.

 

[T J]

An old man years ago told me that if you hang a handkercheif from a clothes line (don't remember if silk or cotton or whatever) and shoot with a .22 that it will not put a hole in it (the bullet will slide across the material and push the handkercheif out of the way. If you then take a .22 round and cut grooves in the lead with a pocket knife, the bullet will put a hole in the handkercheif as it will grab the material. Never did try it though.

 

[oldgold]

Major B.S.

For years we have used old bed sheets hangiing over a clothes line to pattern our shotguns at 40 yards. I've never seen a #7 1/2 or #8 shot stuck in the sheet. At 40 yards a #8 shot is only traveling around 650 fps.

At ISPC and Idpa matches the clothes line with variuos shirts and such is often used for "soft" cover. Never seen any noticable deflection from cloth even jeans.

A couple of us got the bright idea to hang a canvas tarp behind an X-card setup at a local turkey shoot. We hung it loosly at 70 yards behind the target stand. We had to throw the tarp away because it was full of holes !

 

[foghornl]

Have tested this in my basement...

My "Red Ryder" BB gun will NOT penetrate a standard sheet. However, my Crossman .177 pellet pistol WILL punch a pellet through, if I give it more than 4 pumps (range of 16 feet) I forget which model Crossman pellet pistol I have, but it resembles the old Rem XP-100 bolt-action pistol. (Maybe Mdl 1377C ? ?)

 

[expvideo]

hankercheif, maybe. Bedsheet, no.

 

[physics]

I knew it. I just knew it. I make it a point to NEVER open physics related threads in here, because it just depresses me. Kinda like when at the bar and someone asks what I do. I tell them I'm a physicist and they say, "Huh? What's that?" :banghead::banghead:

It's already been said, but REALLY!?! Where in the world do people come up with these things? It really is like apes putting sticks together trying to reach the banana! Oh well, don't feel bad, I'm an idiot too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lytxafTXg6c

 

[user3214]

If there is air, the air resistance would prevent the sheet from moving in the direction of the bullet at the speed of the bullet. That would cause bullet to rip through the sheet.

If there is no air (and no resistance), as the bullet pushes the sheet, the sheet would move and start absorbing some of the energy; if the sheet is large enough it would eventually absorb all the energy and stop the bullet.

 

[tpaw]

His latest is that you can't shoot through a bed sheet. He maintains that the sheet will give, wrap around the bullet, and capture it. I doubt it, I think even a 9mm pistol round will shoot right through it. Google hasn't been helpful, does anybody know the answer for sure?

To even entertain this stupidity is an insult to all that post here.

 

[86thecat]

Another rural legend is that a piece of screen may stop a pistol bullet (or bounce it back at you).

 

[MT GUNNY]

This is bull sheet! I'm leaving!

 

[jjtroutbum]

Its all about thread count !!!!

Does that matter besides expensive sheets looking better mounted.

And are imported sheets shoot on sight as so many other invasive things are?

 

[KD5NRH]

I guess we're just going to have to have a get together and stand around shooting the sheet until this is settled.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

W is sometimes a vowel - true
Mountain Dew is the highest selling soft drink - false
The melting point of aluminum is 1200 degrees - true

I just love "facts" as 2 out of the 3 example facts are actually wrong.

W is never a vowel. It is a semi-vowel or semi-consonant, but not a vowel, much like Y, and both are also called "glides."

The melting point of Aluminum is not 1200 °F, but 1220.666 °F

So you can shoot through a bed sheet. Go figure...given the other "facts."
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