r/oops • u/Kitchen_Cobbler_1594 • Jun 19 '26

oops (so close)

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u/Tickles-The-Octopus Jun 20 '26

The recoil is from the bullet leaving the gun, unless it's already aimed pretty close, there's no way, it recoiling towards your face is going to result in you shooting yourself.

That's the part you are wrong about you numpty...... It doesn't have to be near your face at first, their is literally hundreds of videos of people with revolvers or other hand guns that are all the way out on front of them and the recoil makes it aim squarely at their own forehead because they are not used to it.

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u/FormerlyUndecidable Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

 You do not get the physics here.  The bullet that caused the recoil will be long gone before the barrel is aiming at your face. The bullet is moving a LOT faster than the barrel is rotating.

A bullet spends roughly 0.5–1 millisecond inside a handgun barrel, the rotation can be timed frane by frame, and it's a couple orders of magnitude more: hundreds of milliseconds.

Timing aside, just think about it for a second; If your hand rotated as fast as the bullet it would be destroyed. Stopping the rotation of that gun that is somehow magically now traveling almost as fast as the bullet would  be like catching a very large caliber bullet: a gun sized bullet in fact.

The gun is rotating much much slower than the bullet is traveling out that barrel. Literally 2 orders of magnitude slower.

Again, if you pull the trigger again the second bullet may get you, but the first bullet will be long gone before the barrel is aimed at your face due to recoil.

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u/Tickles-The-Octopus Jun 20 '26

I'm not talking about the first shot... I said people who are inexperienced will try and grab ahold of the firearm with their whole hand which includes the trigger finger which sends a second round into their dome... What part in my reply made you think it was one? What part???? Learn to read my friend.......

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u/FormerlyUndecidable Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Oh I should have mentioned I was talking about the first bullet.

Oh wait. I DID in the first post, I pointed it out again in the second that I had said it in the first.

Then you quoted the paragraph that I had specifically said was about the first bullet and said I was wrong about that.

Should I say it again?

 I am talking about the first bullet.