Can a butter knife split a bullet?

markseventwo

markseventwo

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So I was watching Penn and Teller Tell a Lie today and they had a pretty interesting segment. First they split a bullet with a katana (I couldnt find that part of the episode), and then a dull butter knife. Pretty cool stuff.

[video=youtube;3O-YKzdTT3A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O-YKzdTT3A[/video]


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i dont see why it wouldnt, bullets that arent designed to penetrate armor i.e almost all bullets on the civilian market are desinged to be soft in order to enable expansion thru petaling or deformation and expansion through mushrooming in order to cause a more greivious wound channel and transfer as much kinetic force to the target as possible this also cuts down on the issue of over pentration. if the knife is harder than the bullet then there is not reason it wouldnt split at the over 800 fps that a .45 acp is traveling. now if it was replaced with anti armor rounds that instead of expanding are meant to stay tight and hard in order to penetrate then i think the butter knife wouldnt standa chance. ive seen videos of katanas cutting a .50 bmg in half, id like to see a butter knife do that.
 
Never understood the point of the test. Bullets are lead and copper, knives are steel. Steel wins. Steel targets are steel (no way!), those are made to be shot at, and the bullets always lose.
 
hardheart said:
Never understood the point of the test. Bullets are lead and copper, knives are steel. Steel wins. Steel targets are steel (no way!), those are made to be shot at, and the bullets always lose.
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Well said.;)
 
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