Samurai deflecting bullets

Question

(Just carious to know if this is possible) I have herd of a samurai who deflected a single bullet but was killed by the other 4 coming at him. I now samurai swords are strong enough to take a .45 lead but does a human have the potential to continual deflect bullets coming at him.

Answer 1

Well my friend, the reason why samurai and any military art that involves sword-fighting is gone, is because of the invention of guns.

Bullet> sword

It is possible to deflect it at an angle, but human beings do not have reflexes capable of blocking a bullet, it'd be a matter of chance.

Answer 2

Its possible, but extremely hard to accomplish, ud have to have moreluck then skill

Answer 3

it is called stupidity to the maximum,,,like taking a knife to a gunfight....what's the use of pride when you already dead?

Answer 4

I think the samurai swords are strong enough to deflect a bullet if repelled at a certain angle. However, no man can have the needed fast reflex action to move the sword towards the bullet in time !!

Answer 5

Maybe this samurai DID hit a bullet that was coming at him.  Since samurai still carried swords when single fire pistols were carried, there were some samurai who actually carried guns. So a samurai COULD have been shot at - That part is plausible.

Here's where it breaks down.  A bullet loaded with black powder would travel around 500 mph out of the muzzle.  It's about the size of a small marble.   Now consider professional baseball players - guys who are trained to hit balls with sticks - and fastballs can't travel much over 100 mph.  You have a bigger, slower, easier to see ball, and highly trained people hitting it with something around the same weight and length as a sword (that's as a percentage of total body mass).  And there is NOBODY who hits every ball.

So hitting multiple bullets out of the air - impossible.  All the stuff about breaking swords, slicing bullets, etc is true also, I'm just saying hitting the bullets in the first place is a 1 in a million shot.  That's why swords were replaced by guns.

Answer 6

Yes.  It's a matter of what you are willing to sacrifice.  And if you are willing, then it becomes a matter of whether or not you get what you paid for.  You don't always.  Dedication+Chance

Answer 7

This is a myth. Yes if a traditional style katana were to meet a lead bullet directly on its cutting surface it could slice through it, they proved that on manswers on spike. However if you were even a little off it would shatter the sword. Katana's are made to have tremendous strenght head on, but are brittle from the side.

I also do not see how, unless it was pure luck, anyone could actually deflect a bullet.

I would file this one under urban legend.

Answer 8

Maybe old musket rifles but surely not of this era.  Sword metal was thicker back then.  Today we have shells that can go threw tanks so no its not.