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Subject: Re: engine blocks, exploding gas tanks and SPARKING BULLETS!
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Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 17:01:50 EST
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Article: 1:19

In article <258@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> you write:
>Article: 1:16
>
>I assume that most of the ammunition one sees "expended" on TV and the like
>is *supposed* to represent more or less conventional stuff.  I cannot
>imagine any conventional bullets generating sparks (such as those produced
>by steel on a high speed grinding wheel) when they hit something.
>
>Does anyone know of any instance of reality that may have prompted this
>idea or why virtually all TV (and perhaps theater) movies have begun to do
>this?
>
>Charlie

Occasionally one runs into some WW II surplus armor piercing ammo
that will do this, although this is probably really getting rare
these days.  When I first started buying surplus ammo in the late
60's the stuff was 0.05/rd.  The stuff really gives off sparks when
you hit a glancing shot on something hard.

Bruce Jones