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Keith nuttle

wrote:
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:26:54 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:41:31 GMT, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Neat thing happens - you shoot the ice at a slight angle and the
bullet enters the ice and travels a bit until the steam builds up
enough - the bullet will come screaming back out of the hole and at
pretty decent velocity. :)
I simply do not believe it. Ice is brittle. You might make a shallow
but wide trough. otherwise you get a shallow crater.

Casady

I wondered about that too. I used to break up gallon jugs of ice with
a .22 for a cooler and I never saw any evidence of any melting around
the impact site. It was dry snow looking stuff with a little powder
burning. I just picked out the big chunks and threw all the other
stuff away.

I believe that it is physics. As the energy is dissipated by the bullet,
energy converts Ice to water. You see a similar phenomenon when a
meteorite hits the earth, the rocks melt, and re solidify. part of the
signature of an impact crater

However I can not believe there would be enough energy to convert
sufficient amount of ice to steam that would blow the bullet back at you.

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