Grizzled Roberts
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I am talking about a smoothbore on the Hitler no History Channel special " The Real Wolfman " This was put out last year and they are repeating it on History International now. The legend is a Werewolf killed over 100 people in southern France
in the 1760s. After three years of this a shabby street urchin killed the werewolf with a shabby flintlock smoothbore. He was using a silver ball and the shot was around 45 - 60 yards.
The History Channel hired a scientist and a criminal profiler to go over to France and investigate the 1760 killings. I will not talk about their findings on the killings. I am going to rant on their findings on the killing shot on the beast! I came close to Elvising my TV when I seen this the first time last year!
The criminal profiler said he could prove the shot with the silver bullet could not be made.
So back in the states he has some silver bullets made up for his test. Here is where my blood pressure went up. He did not pour silver round balls he poured silver rifle bullets ( think Lone Ranger ) and fired these bullets out of a leaver action rifle! The silver bullets stripped the riflings and did not group well. The silver bullets all penetrated deeper in the gel block than the lead bullets.
The criminal profiler came to two conclusions
#1. The silver bullet would not shoot straight enough to make the kill shot on the beast.
#2. Because the silver was harder than lead it would penetrate too deep and not expand to make a good killing shot.
This Idiot made a test to simulate a flintlock smoothbore by using a modern leaver action rifle.
Where as a hard silver bullet will strip the riflings on a modern breech loading rifle. The smoothbore has no riflings. I have shot hard lead in my smoothbores, Hell I know two men who have shot steel balls out of their smoothbores! The hardness of a ball does not matter in a smoothbore!
Saying that a hard projectile is not good for dangerous game makes no sense. They make extra hard bullets for dangerous game. This beast killed over 100 people I guess this would qualify
as dangerous.
This man walked out of there with a big smile like he had solved the case! I don't know how my TV survived this.
:cursing:
in the 1760s. After three years of this a shabby street urchin killed the werewolf with a shabby flintlock smoothbore. He was using a silver ball and the shot was around 45 - 60 yards.
The History Channel hired a scientist and a criminal profiler to go over to France and investigate the 1760 killings. I will not talk about their findings on the killings. I am going to rant on their findings on the killing shot on the beast! I came close to Elvising my TV when I seen this the first time last year!
The criminal profiler said he could prove the shot with the silver bullet could not be made.
So back in the states he has some silver bullets made up for his test. Here is where my blood pressure went up. He did not pour silver round balls he poured silver rifle bullets ( think Lone Ranger ) and fired these bullets out of a leaver action rifle! The silver bullets stripped the riflings and did not group well. The silver bullets all penetrated deeper in the gel block than the lead bullets.
The criminal profiler came to two conclusions
#1. The silver bullet would not shoot straight enough to make the kill shot on the beast.
#2. Because the silver was harder than lead it would penetrate too deep and not expand to make a good killing shot.
This Idiot made a test to simulate a flintlock smoothbore by using a modern leaver action rifle.
Where as a hard silver bullet will strip the riflings on a modern breech loading rifle. The smoothbore has no riflings. I have shot hard lead in my smoothbores, Hell I know two men who have shot steel balls out of their smoothbores! The hardness of a ball does not matter in a smoothbore!
Saying that a hard projectile is not good for dangerous game makes no sense. They make extra hard bullets for dangerous game. This beast killed over 100 people I guess this would qualify
as dangerous.
This man walked out of there with a big smile like he had solved the case! I don't know how my TV survived this.
:cursing:
