Besause, in another life, I got into a very heated pissing match with a poster here I wanted to post this here first.

I just watched the TV show called MythBusters and they tested the myth of the HOLLYWOOD GUN SHOT SWAN DIVE (HGSSD). You know where the shot guy gets thrown all over the place by what ever they are shot with, and I’m sure you have heard of at least one hunting tail of “My ----- (insert caliber and gun there) just picked up that ---- (insert animal there) and knocked it back, forward, up, down, sideways, whatever for ten feet.
The test was set up buy hanging a 180 pound dead pig from a set of gimbals balanced on a hook. Just a very slight shove was needed to knock it off the balance. The test was to shoot the pig with various cartridges to see which one would cause the HGSSD. They started with a 9mm HK rifle on single shot and full auto, m16 on single shot and full auto, .44RemMag revolver 240g bullet (Dirty Harry movie load), a sniper rifle (think a .308, not sure), .45ACP (they used a Thompson on single shot and full auto) and finally and 12ga slug gun. The pig NEVER MOVED (they had high speed cameras set up focused on the pig) even when all those guns but the 12ga were on the pig at the same time. Until a single shot from the 12ga slug gun caused a fall, then all it did was fall straight down off the balance because the legs had been spread from the slug hitting the hip knuckle. So there you go that whole first paragraph is pure BS.

Off topic but i have always wanted to know is a bullet hot when it hits something?

Well DUH! Anyone who has ever actually shot anything knows the HGSSD is BS.

YES a bullet is hot when it hits. Feels like a hot poker being pushed through you.

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Originally posted by Bloodnativ:
Well DUH! Anyone who has ever actually shot anything knows the HGSSD is BS.

YES a bullet is hot when it hits. Feels like a hot poker being pushed through you.

Perhaps the real question should be is there a caliber designation for 1/2 inch rope and a body harness?

Regards a bullet being hot, do not pick up a 44 RM that bounces back and lands at your feet. The steel plate you just shot was secretly very hot unknown to you, and transfered a great deal of heat to the bullet!

(You already know, no need to ask.)

Not to mention that in the hunting videos in this forum, A duiker gets shot with a 375/404 and does no backflips. That to me would be the ultimate test, shooting a poodle sized animal with a snot kickin elephant gun...

For the record when I try to exaggerate about a kill, I like the phrase "turnin 'em inside out" because I know animals do not get tossed after the shot.

Jack O'Conner wrote an article about the myth of knockdown power years ago. I have it in one of my books at home. His conclusion was that there is no weapon capable from being fired from the shoulder that posseses enough energy to knock any big game animal off it's feet. Sudden disruption of the CNS or major skeletal system can cause an animal to collapse and give that illusion but there is no such thing as "knockdown". As usual JOC was right on target.

Jeff