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A buddy of mine just picked up a mossberg and in the course of our talking he posed a question I didn't have an answer for....

WHAT IF..... what would happen if you fired a slug from a 12 gauge at a bowling ball. Would the ball be destroyed or would the slug just bounce off and back in your face? I know there's a lot of room between the two choices, anybody ever done anything like this?

We have no plans of carrying out the experiment, just wondering.
 
Shooting at bowling balls can be extremely dangerous to all around. Ricochets can go in nearly any direction inclucing straight up.

Sam
 
Dead on hit would "stick" in the ball to some extent & roll it back some. Other than that, you get a varying amount of "scrapin'" & a slug flyin' off to parts unknow.

What's a bowling ball made of anyway .... ? :confused:
 
I would not just to error on the safe side. Me and my friend were shooting a trashed car which some drunk people had destroyed then rolled down a hill, then drug back up the hill and destroyed again, shooting it themselves a fair ammount the entire time.

Anyway, one of my 00 buck rounds landed on a hard and rounded place on the underside of the car (sort of like a bowling pin) and pellet fragments sprayed everywhere. I got a small cut along the side of my neck from a piece of lead and my friend caught about half a pellet on his arm just below his shoulder. It didn't break skin but left a huge welt and put a hole in his shirt where it eventually got tangled and stopped. Just imagine if that had been a slug...

I always figured that bowling balls had a fiberglass shell with lead weights in them, but thats just my guess.

Sincerely,
Adam
 
The point's moot,since bowling balls are neither aggressive nor good to eat. Not a good target choice, IMO.

Neither are old cars, for the reasons given. And, they are bad PR...
 
agreed, and it was of course just a topic that came up in conversation that we figured someone somewhere would have allready tried. :)

When I was about 12 years old I shot a golfball with a pellet rifle, it bounced back and lodged in the fat on my belly. I had to get it out using a pocketknife or tell mom what I had done, I opted for the swiss army knife. Kinda pictured the same results in this scenario.
 
Almost as bad is a toilet. Had my trusty .22 at the dump one day and spotted a toilet. Fired into the toilet bowl and all the chips flew out and peppered me. This was before safety glasses were common. :eek:

Giz
 
War story from long ago. I was about 12 and hip shooting a 22 at some cans near a few rocks. One ricochet penetrated my sneaker and lodged under the skin of my ankle. I removed it gingerly with my fingers and have exercised more care since.
 
a buddy of mine who served many years in the army told me that one of their favorite pranks to play on fresh recruits was, when sitting around a campfire, to wait until the newbie wasn't paying attention and throw a tiny pinch of c4 into the fire. Said the flash would scare the piss off of anyone around that didn't know what was going on.

Which reminds me of my first boyscout camping trip. The Scoutmaster sent me on a mission to all the surrounding camps looking for a lefthanded smoke shifter. About an hour or so later of argueing back and forth for a left handed model and only being offered one or two right handed ones a slightly older and wiser scout from another camp pulled me aside and broke the news to me. Needless to say I felt a bit betrayed by this adult that I had been entrusted to for the weekend.

That night after everyone had gone to bed, I pissed in his campfire. When the stench hit his tent a few feet away he came out shouting, I just quietly said it was too bad he couldn't use a righthanded smokeshifter and went back to bed. :D
 
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