Is it true some people used to dip their bullets in Cynide? Would it actually make a difference?
2007-12-29 01:45:17 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
I saw it in a movie and was wondering if it was really true.
2007-12-29 02:01:54 · update #1
I saw it in a movie yes, I also someone in a movie get cancer in happens. Some things in movies are unrealistic other aren't, dipping a bullet in cynide could be done.
2007-12-29 06:41:15 · update #2
Only in Hollywood. But there was an actual bullet reputed to be used by the KGB that contained ground glass in the hollowpoint of the bullet. This was because the glass would not show up in an xray, so the doctors could not find it. it would fester and cause a terrible wound and eventual death, in case the gunshot itself was not fatal. My question is, what kind of sicko would really use something like that?
2007-12-29 04:54:05 · answer #1 · answered by randy 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Cyanide Bullets
2016-12-15 09:28:20 · answer #2 · answered by vaibahv 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I used to do this experiment in my lab with the O level/GCSE kids. I called it the "Monkey and the Hunter" problem. A hunter fires a gun horizontally at an intelligent monkey in a tree. The clever monkey lets go of the branch when it sees the gun has fired. Does it get hit? Well I rigged up the demonstration firing a marble through a light gate - which released a "monkey" from an electromagnet - and you've guessed it - the monkey gets hit every time! Why? Horizontal and vertical velocities are independent. No matter how fast the bullet is fired horizontally - it still falls at the same rate with the pull of gravity. Both bullets fall the same distance vertically so they both have the same air resistance. So the answer is = both bullets hit the ground at the same time ( but not in the same place of course. )
2016-04-03 07:48:36 · answer #3 · answered by Deborah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I've heard that some hitmen and the SLA's gunmen either dipped their bullets in cyanide, or put a pellet of cyanide in the cavity of hollowpoint bullets.
As others have pointed out, this is a really bad idea if you intend to eat what you shoot. It is an even worse idea for ammo you intend to use defensively. If you shoot someone with that sort of ammo, even if it is a good shooting, your butt is going to be in deep trouble for using poisoned bullets.
Leave that sort of stuff to the badguys. It does not increase stopping powder. If you merely wound a man with one of those cyanide tipped bullets, he might die of cyanide poisoning, but he will probably put two or three JHP's in your chest before he goes down.
Doc
2007-12-29 17:13:08 · answer #4 · answered by Doc Hudson 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That would be pretty stupid if you intended on eating your kill.
Not to mention the fact that you would get a face full of cynide when you fired the bullet
2007-12-29 01:54:31 · answer #5 · answered by evo741hpr3 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some people believe everything they see in movies. Just like when i was in elementary school, i believed that superman, was real.
Dipping your bullets in Cynide, wouldn't be the smartest thing that you have ever did.
Then again, maybe it WOULD be.
2007-12-29 03:43:19 · answer #6 · answered by gladesnotary 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Cyanide, filling a hollow point with mercury, and all sorts of other silly ideas have been tried, and the general trend among them has been that they either do nothing in terms of improving lethality, or if they do, it's so trivial that it's statistically lost compared to the really important thing: hitting the right spot.
2007-12-29 06:24:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
yes it is true. does it work? well probably not as good as you think.Many people have experimented with a myriad of things to much of no avail, but food for thought; a old timer told me that he used to make exploding bullets for his revolvers by filling in the hollow point with a magnum pistol primer, Little dab of gum and some solder.being a old police officer and gunsmith he swears by it that it works, but i wouldn't touch that with a 10 ft. pole, but i sure thought about it just to see if it would work just for fun.
2007-12-29 06:47:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I saw it in a movie."
That says it all. I saw in a movie where a guy flew through the air after getting his car blown up and he landed on the ground with only a sprained ankle! Cyanide is not used to tip bullets and probably never was used.
2007-12-29 04:25:37 · answer #9 · answered by david m 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
NO
cyanide has to mix with a acid forming hydrogen cyanide gas.
this will happen in the stomach and the gases will travel up the throat to be inhaled.
cyanide on a bullet will not work this way.
just a stupid movie trick.
2007-12-30 15:16:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋