Firearms demo

[Dean Lofthouse]

In a few week's time I am putting on a firearms demo for around 150 people. A lot of them are shooters but mainly they will be people who have never seen a rifle before.

My main aim is to put across the safety aspect and demonstrate how such a little projectile such as a bullet can have such a devastating effect.

People imagine being shot is like they see on the cowboy films where the guy holds his chest and falls to the ground.

Last year I demonstrated on melons and water butts shooting and vaporizing them whilst putting across some facts about ballistics

I don't want to do the same demo over again and want ideas to keep uninterested spectators interested without boring them to tears with facts and figures

The demo is aimed to last around 20 minutes, any unusual ideas welcome

[Steve Bullman]

buy a pig carcass

[Dean Lofthouse]

buy a pig carcass

I'd eat it before

[likeitorlumpit]

what about if you have a large paddling pool- the shoot in water thing where bullets don't travel that far unlike private ryan opening scenes.

[easy-lift guy]

I'd eat it before

 

Butcher the pig and fill with Jello or the like, stitch em up and than lay on the rounds:thumbup1:

easy-lift guy

[muttley9050]

When I was in Cambodia years ago. We went to a scary firing range ran by pissed up military. You could shoot pretty much any weapon u liked, including bazookas. They told me someone bought a cow along once and blew it up, maybe true, maybe not, but reckon it should keep your crowd interested.

[treedave]

Cans of pop are good for small cal stuff, otherwise something most folk use/are familiar with.

Have a try with a 2L plastic bottle filled with jelly? Might resist enough to get full expansion of the bullet.

This is all assuming that you're using an expanding bullet for max effect!

 

 

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[Ian Leach]

Make ballistic gel heads stick them on spikes then boom simples

[10 Bears]

To make it interesting you could start with a question - how many feet per second would a projectile have to travel to cause significant damage to this (insert melon/pig/cow/politician etc.)? Have all your guns covered up at this stage if possible so those in the know dont have an unfair advantage at guessing.

 

Get some answers from the audience, in type of a sweepstake - and offer a small prize to the closest eg the still bleeding heart of the pig or similar. Have 10 of them write down their answers on a piece of paper as you need to control how many get involved in the demo. This will be their raffle ticket. Then reveal what guns/options you have, and leave them on display to build anticipation.

 

The discussion could build up in this sort of a fashion -

 

Step 1:

Discuss projectiles and basic ballistics.

Demo: Start with a daft propulsion for a projectile eg throw a stone at the target and explain that was 10 feet per second etc. Knock any bad answers out of the sweepstake.

 

Step 2:

Discuss propulsion systems eg powder/charge, compressed air, rubber!

Demo: Fire a catapult at the target. Explain the feet per second. Check for damage - discuss if minor damage is shown. Knock any bad answers out of the sweepstake.

 

Step 3:

Discuss shooting safety eg back stops, clear line of sight, 100% certainty etc.

Demo: Fire a .22 rifle. Explain the feet per second. Check for damage - discuss if minor damage is shown. Knock any bad answers out of the sweepstake.

 

Step 4:

Discuss legal issues eg FAC, ammo control etc.

Demo: Fire a decent rifle. Explain the feet per second. Check for damage - discuss if minor damage is shown. Knock any bad answers out of the sweepstake.

 

etc. etc. until you have covered all the important stuff and built up to:

 

1. A winner in the sweep stake, and

2. You have managed to get the big guns out and cause loads of damage!

 

I think that would keep them interested - particularly if like in the other post you can end with blowing up a cow with a bazooka!

[Commando]

You can buy exploding clays from most gun shops, they are effective and look on impact!

Cdo