Talk:Powerhead

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OK, my bad, I clicked "create this article" from my search results without looking at what the title would be... This article should be titled powerhead, with redirects from bang stick, bangstick, and shark stick. scot 20:39, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

The target was unobstructed and the move was uncontroversial, you could have done it yourself with the move button, no need for a formal move request. Femto 21:16, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah, but since I've not moved an article before, I hadn't noticed the move button--I have however, instigated a formal move recently, so the process just happened to be fresh in mind. Thanks for the assistance, I'll go create those redirects now... scot 21:23, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

...but you beat me to it. Boy, I'm just not having a good day... scot 21:27, 10 January 2006 (UTC

Don't bullets shatter when they hit a meter of water or something? Shouldn't someone put that in there? brazenbell

Depends on the construction. Full metal jacket bullets are quite tough, and will deform very little even at rifle velocities; solid lead bullets are next down on the scale, and will deform some if a softer alloy is used at high velocity. Hollow point bullets are designed to deform, but most are designed not to fragment, but rather expand into a mushroom shape. The only bullets intended to shatter upon impact are frangible ones, such as the Glaser Safety Slug. Many of these are composed of tiny lead balls (often #12 shot) in a copper jacket, held together by a plastic binder. Other types, designed for indoor target shooting, are made with a non-toxic bismuth core, which turns to powder upon impacting a hard surface, such as a steel target. Of course, the other thing to consider is that powerheads have little or no barrel, and no rifling, so the bullet will be going much slower than it would from even a pistol, and it would immediately tumble. This means even expanding bullets would fail to perform as designed, due to the poor orientation and low veclocity involved. As for penetration, a full metal jacket 9 mm, for example, can penetrate about a meter of water when fired from a 4 or 5 inch long barrel; from a powerhead, the penetration would be far less due to low velocity and bullet tumble. scot 14:09, 21 September 2006 (UTC)