How do they REALLY catch a bullet with their teeth?

[SCSimmons]

@Oglomott

The bullit trick is always presented as a death defying stunt, as opposed to a trick, which is all it is.

A big part of the secrets of some magic tricks is that they just lie to you. When they say that this is a dangerous trick, that is not true. Likewise, when they tell you that “no camera tricks” are used, that may also be a lie. And a lot of, if not all, studio audiance “volunteers” are on the payroll.

All true. Bear in mind that in some kinds of tricks, including this one, there is a reducible but ineliminable risk. When part of the trick description reads, “Person A aims the gun at/towards person B and pulls the trigger,” there’s the potential for one person’s stupid mistake to lead to another person’s injury or death. Not just with magic tricks, either-ask Brandon Lee. (Via a good medium, naturally.) If everything works like it’s supposed to, no magicians will be harmed, naturally. And the magician will do everything in his power to make the probability of that as close as possbile to 100% … but he can never be absolutely positive he’s gotten there.

Probably safer than driving on the freeway at rush hour, though.

[DougC]

…Call me a skeptic on this. …

• • • Well, on the TV show, the camera was behind the shooter’s shoulder during the firing–and you could see that the rifle was aimed at the lady. And everything else I said you can check on gun forums–having experience with shooting, I feel very strongly that there are no technical reasons any aspect of such a trick would have to be faked. The difference in this example is that they showed the rifle being loaded just previous to the shot, the rifle was some type using a 22LR-length case, and the lady admitted to having a metal cup in her mouth.
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[David_Simmons]

@DougC

• • • Well, on the TV show, the camera was behind the shooter’s shoulder during the firing–and you could see that the rifle was aimed at the lady. And everything else I said you can check on gun forums–having experience with shooting, I feel very strongly that there are no technical reasons any aspect of such a trick would have to be faked. The difference in this example is that they showed the rifle being loaded just previous to the shot, the rifle was some type using a 22LR-length case, and the lady admitted to having a metal cup in her mouth.
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Well, you know, I sat right beside one of those sit-down-at-your-table magicians while he did all sorts of amazing tricks and I never caught him at any of them There were no cameras, no assistants, no nuttin’ but him and those of us at the table. I am completely innocent of any knowledge of how a TV show’s producers and a magician can make things up as I would suppose most of us are.