Can u injure someone with a meat bullet?

Question

i saw a show where a guy used a frozen beef bullet to kill someone so as the bullet would dissolve and he wouldn't get arrested. i think he used liquid nitrogen to hard freeze the bullet? please air some tell me if this is possible? this would make a real good myth to do on the show right?

Answer 1

I think an ice bullet would work if you used a sabot made of wood or plastic.

Answer 2

The did that myth twice on Mythbusters. It was busted. Here's the link to it.

http://mythbustersresults.com/episode1

Answer 3

I honestly believe everybody here is wrong - a meat bullet can kill somebody.  Lets think about this.

Lets assume you load 1oz of meat into a sabot for a 3" 12 ga load.  We will also assume that we get a very modest velocity of 2,000 fps.  

That hunk of chicken will have a hair under 2700 ft.lbs at the muzzle.  Just to give you an idea:  it is 27x the energy of a 22 lr fired from a handgun or 7x a 9 mm Luger.  That piece of meat has about the same energy (ft.lbs) as a .308 Winchester with 150 gr bullets.  Ouch.

If the sd is 1/2 of lead, then it will still have 1000 ft.lbs at 100 yards - more than enough to be deadly.  

As for it melting in the barrel, the whole slug can be put in the freezer.  That will alow for the plastic sabot to insulate the meat until it leaves the barrel.  As for the meat being able to withstand 2000 fps, frozen meat is very, very hard.  It seems alot harder than the plastic end of a  Reminton AccTip.

I am sorry; you guys have this one wrong.

Answer 4

well with a meat bullet they would probably figure it out seeing as there would be a hunk of meat in the wound, now a ice bullet would be better

Answer 5

An Ice bullet was already used in some mystery novel or other.

Because of the low density and short useful life of an

ice or meat bullet the idea of killing with one is pretty far fetched.

Answer 6

No dice, soldier. Why would anyone try this? Shotshells are untraceable as long as you don't leave shells behind.

Answer 7

The scene you saw was fake.  Besides, if someone had a big hole in them, someone would get arrested.  People are killed all the time without bullets being recovered for ballistics testing.  If someone has a mysterious hole in them, the cops don't just assume it wasn't murder.

Answer 8

They did do it on myth busters.  Its just a myth.  Ice bullets were to brittle they didny even get to load them in the rifle.  And for the meat bullets.  The heat and pressure from the gun powder unforze instantly and it didnt even go thourgh a paper target.

Answer 9

I think that they already did that on the show Myth Busters. Cant remember what the final outcome was but i do remember seeing it on the show.

Answer 10

they did it on myth busters. Meat and ice and both dissolved in the air.

Answer 11

If you're looking to avoid leaving rifling marks on a bullet (it'd be pretty obvious they were shot anyway), you can always paper-patch a bullet of a smaller caliber. Do a good enough job of it, and it'll still be pretty darned accurate. This is one movie trick (Shooter) that'll work. Though, I wouldn't recommend shooting anyone, of course.

A meat bullet, even if it hung together well enough to injure, may still have accuracy issues. That's another thing that would need testing, I guess.