Timeline for How does a rifle fire backwards?
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| May 26, 2018 at 14:40 | comment | added | user64384 | @Schwern I don't think the projectile needs to be large or move extraordinarily fast, considering that it's supposed to wound the person holding the gun. Tapping enough gas shouldn't be too hard if the bullet blocks the barrel once it cleared the gas-port. A few pellets should probably do at that distance to at least significantly wound the operator. Didn't know about that the rifle in the movie used an operating-rod. So using the gastube is out of question, but I suppose there are ways around that | |
| May 26, 2018 at 3:28 | comment | added | Schwern | "The projectile that is supposed to hit the gunman is placed in the gastube". The Ruger Mini-14 in the film has no gas tube, it uses an operating rod. If it did, gas tubes are very narrow and would not be able to hold a meaningful projectile. Making it large enough to hold a significant projectile and tap enough gas to propel it at a meaningful velocity would look very suspicious. | |
| May 25, 2018 at 23:55 | history | edited | user64384 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 25, 2018 at 23:21 | comment | added | user64384 | @Veskah the point isn't to redirect the bullet using the gasport, but to use the pressure in the gas-port to propel another projectile. Basically the idea is to use the gasport as an additional barrel, instead of it's more common use. What's happening with the original bullet is a completely different story, but shouldn't matter once it cleared the connection to the gastubes | |
| May 25, 2018 at 23:16 | comment | added | Veskah | There's no way the gas port could influence the bullet to such a degree because the majority of the gas doesn't get delivered until after the bullet has cleared it on account of it riding the blast wave, so to speak. The best you can do is overload the piston/gas key, causing mischief. | |
| May 25, 2018 at 21:40 | comment | added | Mazura | I don't know about propelling a bullet in the direction of the shooter, but our resident retired Marine sniper says, "The most common I have seen are overpacking the rounds and not properly configuring the gas tubes." +1 | |
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| May 25, 2018 at 20:24 | history | answered | user64384 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |