Hold my beer question

[GunnyGene]

If you fire a bullet into a tornado funnel what will happen? Will the high wind capture it and spin it around and possibly spit it out back at you, or will it be sucked up into the cloud?

Seein' as how we're coming up on Hurricane season, which usually means some spin up tornadoes around here, and I've been wantin' to do a hold my beer video and become an internet star, I figure if a twister gets close enough to my place I'll take a few shots at it.

All I need is a volunteer to hold my beer and video the proceedings. Any takers? :D

 

[ChiefMuzz]

If you fire a bullet into a tornado funnel what will happen? Will the high wind capture it and spin it around and possibly spit it out back at you, or will it be sucked up into the cloud?

Seein' as how we're coming up on Hurricane season, which usually means some spin up tornadoes around here, and I've been wantin' to do a hold my beer video and become an internet star, I figure if a twister gets close enough to my place I'll take a few shots at it.

All I need is a volunteer to hold my beer and video the proceedings. Any takers? :D

Gunny - if you're planning on tornado hunting, everyone knows you need to use a heavy, penetrating bullet with a wide meplat. I would recommend a 475 or 500 Linebaugh, since you'll only have one hand available to shoot, while the other is steering your tornado chaser van.
By the way, when does tornado season start. Is there a daily bag limit?

 

[GunnyGene]

If you fire a bullet into a tornado funnel what will happen? Will the high wind capture it and spin it around and possibly spit it out back at you, or will it be sucked up into the cloud?

Seein' as how we're coming up on Hurricane season, which usually means some spin up tornadoes around here, and I've been wantin' to do a hold my beer video and become an internet star, I figure if a twister gets close enough to my place I'll take a few shots at it.

All I need is a volunteer to hold my beer and video the proceedings. Any takers? :D

Gunny - if you're planning on tornado hunting, everyone knows you need to use a heavy, penetrating bullet with a wide meplat. I would recommend a 475 or 500 Linebaugh, since you'll only have one hand available to shoot, while the other is steering your tornado chaser van.
By the way, when does tornado season start. Is there a daily bag limit?

Runs from April thru mid July around here, but it's been really quite so far. Hurricane season officially starts 1 June so if we get a decent size 'cane coming out of the Gulf it will normally spawn a dozen or more cat 1 or cat 2 tornadoes. Might get a hurricane or 2 this year. Already a tropical storm brewing in the Caribbean that looks like it will move into the Gulf and strengthen in the next week or 2.

PS: No bag limit. :wink: Don't need a van to chase 'em here either. Had more than one go by in the last 10 years within a 1/4 mile or so. :shock:

 

[#1rugerman]

My suggestion is to not let someone hold your beer, go ahead and chug it just in case the bullet gets spit back at you, they will NOT give you a beer in the emergency room, or the mortuary.

 

[Sagebrush Burns]

I'll be glad to hold your beer as long as you understand that I will also drink it...

 

[Tom W]

If you weren't over in Mississippi.......

 

[Pat-inCO]

Just don't do what that one guy in the YouTube video did. He was shooting
a .50BMG bolt action at what looked like one hundred yards, into a bank.
Hit things just right and knocked his own hat off. :shock:

:D

 

[JPGLSG]

Gunny the trick would be to get your old shoot up red riding lawn mower rotating in the tornado. Then you could try some bank shots off the side wall of the funnel and see if you could hit it. Oh yea don't forget to tank the gas out of you could cause a fire.....

 

[Mobuck]

Honestly? Even though the tornado winds would cause deflection of the bullet, most rifle caliber bullets would exit the funnel in the same general direction as fired. Slower bullets like 22lr or handgun calibers might be deflected several degrees from original. There's simply not enough surface area for the air movement to cause a complete reversal of flight.
Just a SWAG.

 

[Rancher Will]

I wouldn't worry about a tornado. Be careful with a cow skull though.

Years ago, while I was county undersheriff, I and the County Sheriff were pout on a routine call in the East end of the County. On the way back to town, on an isolated county road, the Sheriff noticed a bleached, old, cows skull, laying about a hundred yards off the road in a pasture. He suggested that we do a little "target shooting".

We got out of the car and the Sheriff took the first shot with his .38 revolver. At the shot we heard the sound of the hit on the skull, then the hum of the bullet in the air, flying back to us. The bullet landed on the road about 10 feet from where we were standing. I picked it up and gave it to the Sheriff.

The Sheriff put it in his pocket, said "If it is going to shoot back, that's it. I quit." We drove away with out firing another shot.

 

[coach]

While no real firearms or tornadoes were involved. As a kid I was shooting at a plastic army man, about 6 inches high hard plastic, with my BB gun. I was about 30 feet away when I nailed the helmet and watched the bb arc back to me and hit me in the forehead. Not sure what I did next but I probably switched to softer targets.

 

[Pal Val]

Hmm... If you're close enough to a tornado to shoot a bullet into it, I won't be the guy holding your beer. See ya later!

 

[bogus bill]

A tornado hit our town in about 1956 or 1957. My aunt got under a heavy kitchen table and that was all left. It was my uncles birthday and a birthday card was swept away. Some time latter they got a letter with the card in it and a woman asked how they were. The same day, later in the afternoon a black cloud went over and that card fell on her lawn roughly 70 miles away!