I’ve seen a bunch of videos of bullets shot at sword edges. Invariably the result is the bullet is split into three bits. Why is it so consistently three and not two?
Got a link to any of these videos? Are they real, or fictional?
Just saw it tonight on “Forged in Fire”.
Here’s one from Season 1 of “Forged in Fire”.
My first guess is that it has something to do with the spin of the bullet. But honestly, I don’t know. A close-up version of the slo-mo shot might help.
There’s this one. It makes a lot of pieces but in the sheet behind the knife there appears to be three holes. I’m not sure if this shatters more because the knife isn’t very sharp.
You can tell that the shards are different colors and sizes, so most likely the shot hits at a slight angle and the blade cuts off a piece of the jacket and part of the lead slug.
I see what you’re saying now that you point it out and I go frame by frame.
The lead core will easily separate from the brass jacket when bullets hit, I have recovered lots of them. In the videos it looks like the lead splits in two and the jacket holds together as a third piece.
Dennis
Watch it in slo-mo and pay attention to the color of the fragments. In both shots, the fragment on the far right is lead with attached jacket, while the first fragment to hit paper on the left has lost its jacket. The loose piece of jacket is the last to hit the paper in both instances.