Weaponizing Silly Putty
Shotgun slugs made of silly putty get fired, look like sex toys:
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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October 11th, 2012 at 9:25 pm
(Insert inappropriate ex-wife joke here)
October 12th, 2012 at 7:18 am
Where’s Darwin when you need him?
October 12th, 2012 at 10:43 am
From the looks of the clay block, I would say the fragmenting silly putty transferered 100% of it energy. I would have liked to see what it would to with a simulated interior wall. Would it penetrate the second piece of drywall?
October 12th, 2012 at 11:35 am
Is that a 10-gauge? Him look mighty big, chemo-sobby.
By now, some wag is busily incorporating buckshot shards, or coating the whole thing with hard copper. Silly Putty fouling must be deuced hard to dissolve.
October 12th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
Would like to see the impact on some ballistic gel.
Actually, rubbing alcohol is perfect for removing silly putty, so just swab the barrel a few times with that and then run a brush
October 12th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
I’m with Instinct – I wanna see the ballistic gel! Seems like it would expand more than a comparable slug, leaving a fairly bodacious wound channel.
October 12th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
More information required! Did they use a sabot?
October 13th, 2012 at 1:02 am
A higher speed camera is required just so we can see what shape comes out the end of the barrel. I’m sure the back part of the silly putty slug deformed like a Minié ball, but you have to hope that the Silly putty retains its non-Newtonian features and completely acts like a rigid solid under the force of the propellant. Ever blown a bubble with Silly Putty? That’s what you DON’T want to happen.
Provided that works and you don’t end up with a shape with the aerodynamic properties of a cow pat, I’d expect this to transfer energy into the target a bit like a bean-bag round.
Meh.
October 13th, 2012 at 10:25 pm
A nice follow on experiment would be to see if you could bounce it off hard ground/asphalt and hit a target as it came back up.
October 13th, 2012 at 11:41 pm
ZOMG, I just thought of something, that I will NOT put into words. Might try it, though. Someone hold my beer.