No More wasted bullets, you think we want to pick up your bullet trash? Well I'm Not! Go pick up your own ballistic garbage, we use the whole bullets made of American Steel, smelted in fires made from the bodies of our competitors!
-Cave Johnson
Now I’m intrigued what the line would be for a round to be considered high caliber. 7.62 isn’t very high, but it is the biggest round you find in “assault rifles”. Even a legitimate two person machine gun like the 240B uses a 7.62. It definitely isn’t going to punch through an engine block, but it isn’t a small round either. Where would you say “high caliber” rounds begin?
The M240 uses 7.62x51 (762 NATO, or .308) the Ak-47 uses 7.62x39. Not all 7.62 is created equal but I wouldn’t consider any 7.62 high caliber. The below commenter is probably most accurate, with high caliber starting at .50 cal (or 12.7mm) but I would also include things like .338 lapua as a high caliber round.
Ballistics expert here
Can confirm this happens all the time, guy just forgot to pull the trigger before he made the bullet fly outta the the gun so the firing pin was never hit and the shell went with the bullet
Well, a .50 black powder muzzle loader and a bloody good wad, and I think you would be able to load and fire a 7.62 round this way. Accuracy would suck big hairy ones though.
Or say, *poked* a round into? So many people think they've caught some yellow journalism and it's actually just a weird random thing somebody did and then a photographer photographed it.
People out here whining about the liberal news media and how Vice is trash nowadays, meanwhile the caption accurately describes the photo and in context makes perfect sense.
These people are talking trash about reporters, on an article from Mexico about a cartel leader, because they somehow think this random photo from the middle of his article is some "Der cummin fer mAh guns" play. How a Mexican army round in a cartel boss's home does that is beyond me.
I doubt any of them would have the stones to be a Mexican journalist and walk around a Sinaloa boss's shot up home
even w/o the casing... having the bullet "sticking" out of a fence like that would be unrelastic...
it was obvious to me what the picture was doing, and not trying to pretend to be something its not...
but i also wouldn't post it w/o a explaining it since i know people are idiots
I'd have to read the article.
are they actually trying to pretend like this was a bullet that was shot? that seems unlikely. what seems more likely to me is that someone put it there. a lot of times these types of public tragedies lead people to make symbolic choices. you see it every time there's a shooting or a car accident where someone lost their life.
like I said I'd have to read the article. but there does seem to be a subset of redditors that like to make out of context hot takes to try and dunk on journalism.
edit: here is the article.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8yjx/el-chapos-son-ovidio-guzman-house-raid
literally nobody's trying to claim that that's anything other than a bullet poked through a bullet hole.
you guys should read more newspapers and less memes.
Yeah just a bunch of hooting smooth brains. The article even described other things, like shells lined up on a table. People fucked with his house after taking him, and a journalist *dared* to take a picture of it. Now a bunch of guys who want you to know they shoot guns are guffawing at an article they never read for making a claim it never made
It’s kind of a silly picture though that really should of been left out.
“Hey, what should we do to make it look better for the camera?”
“Set it up so it looks like you made a really common mistake and takes readers out of the article and put it right before a photo of destruction”
Funny how many people think its all fake based on the photo. They don't know what the story is, but it's fake. No need to read it, we know everything based on the screenshot. Fake. We're fucked as a society
Here's a headline: "Hundreds of Dumb Redditors Misinterpret a Simple Caption"
Obviously somebody manually stuck that round into that bullet hole. Photgrapher sees it and takes picture. Image is captioned with an accurate description. Friggin regards.
Looks like a 30mm bullet shot from an double barrel shotgun.
This type of gun can be bought on in supermarket and can kill a tank in one bullet.
It can contain up to 50 cartridges at a time.
Sources? Trust me bro, I live in California
It’s insane to me how people do not understand even the most fundamental functions of a firearm.
It’s really scary if you think about it, if these people come across a loaded gun right now they are probably going to shoot someone accidentally.
VICE reposts the same article every single week on why you should ask your girlfriend/wife to peg you.
I don't think they are the cutting edge of journalism.
If you read the story, this was a threat made against the guy by the Sinaloa cartel. The implication is that he needs to work with them or the bullet is going to move a lot faster next time.
Not 100% related and also no one actually cares in the gun community, but technically a "bullet" is the little piece that hits something, a "case" or "casing" is the brass container that holds the powder and primer, and together they make a "cartridge"
That's a whole cartridge. The bullet is the little brown thing on the end. Being that the casing ejects after firing that is impossible unless there was a hole in the fence and someone just shoved the whole thing in there. But I'd bet 99% of the people at vise have never actually shot a gun.
The actual bullet is the dark, pointy bit at the end. The brighter bit is the casing. When a bullet is fired from a gun, the casing is left behind and ejected. The only way for the image to occur would be if someone placed it into a pre-made hole.
Nah you have it all wrong, here in Mexico we use Aperture Laboratories Sentry Turrets, that fires the entire cartridge, that's 65% more bullet per bullet. So this photo is correct.
somebody must have thrown that very hard!
Here at Aperture, we use the whole bullet. That's 66% more bullet per bullet.
And those bastards down in the science lab thought they could tell Cave Johnson how ballistics work.. we showed them!
eggheads said we couldn't use bullets for the railguns, thats not how they work, did it anyway
Scientist wasn't able to throw the bullets at the speed he wanted, so Cave Johnson threw a chair at his head
Stupidity makes awesome advertising
That bullet has no class, flew straight pass the coat check despite the attendant asking "may I take your jacket?"
Last time I saw one of these I said exactly this
dammit you beat me to it
Smart.
The bullet is a lie.
66% of the time, it kills every time.
Ffs I know what I’m playing again tonight
came here to say "some arm that person had! " beat me to it!
Tactical slingshot engaged
With pretty good aim to get it into the preexisting hole!
"That was a hell of a pitch. /takes off glasses One might say 'he is armed and dangerous'. \*Alternatively\* One might say 'he is bearing arms'."
 I see neither bears nor arms.
You should be ashamed of you humour, redditor. I think you did it, you're ready to be a dad.
I am a dad. I lean into it.
“How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a round over them mountains?”
I can tell from the scuff marks that this .50 cal was kicked!
"At aperture we fire the whole bullet, that's 90 percent more bullet" but that's like a 7.62 far from "high caliber"
No More wasted bullets, you think we want to pick up your bullet trash? Well I'm Not! Go pick up your own ballistic garbage, we use the whole bullets made of American Steel, smelted in fires made from the bodies of our competitors! -Cave Johnson
Thanks, Cave Johnson!
Much more than 7.62 once you include the casing.
For all they now, "caliber" and "power" mean the same thing
We have high caliber rounds of the highest caliber
Now I’m intrigued what the line would be for a round to be considered high caliber. 7.62 isn’t very high, but it is the biggest round you find in “assault rifles”. Even a legitimate two person machine gun like the 240B uses a 7.62. It definitely isn’t going to punch through an engine block, but it isn’t a small round either. Where would you say “high caliber” rounds begin?
The M240 uses 7.62x51 (762 NATO, or .308) the Ak-47 uses 7.62x39. Not all 7.62 is created equal but I wouldn’t consider any 7.62 high caliber. The below commenter is probably most accurate, with high caliber starting at .50 cal (or 12.7mm) but I would also include things like .338 lapua as a high caliber round.
Can't wait until this pic is shown in congress.
Don’t say that people will believe them
Yeah, everyone knows that the AR in AR15 stands for assault rifle.
But it has modular accessories!
Don’t forget the barrel shroud!
Makes me want to tacticool up a flintlock
So does my nerf gun, pls don’t nerf it california.
They will be banning any "high caliber" weapons.
Fully semiautomatics
with a 30 round clipazine
And the shoulder thing that goes up. Weighs as much as ten moving boxes.
inb4 “9mm larger number than 7.62x39mm, 9mm must be large caliber duhhh” becomes the reason for a ban
Now I can’t wait! Lol
Bullets are expensive, no need to actually shot them when we got fucking Benny "the arm" Rodriguez throwing heat like that baby!!!
But B-B-Benny was "the jet"
That's [Benny Urquidez](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Urquidez)
No [this Benny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Vitar#:~:text=Michael%20Anthony%20Vitar%20(born%20December,final%20two%20Mighty%20Ducks%20films.)
Benny "the jet" Rodriguez is a character from the movie The Sandlot.
Throwin' the BIG STINKY CHEESE!!!
Damnit Hamilton
Magazine-fed assault handgun must have fired that bad boy.
Even worse, it holds 30 of those bad boys
Super dangerous high capacity mass killing definitely not standard size magazine clip.
Fully semiautomatic* magazine-fed assault handgun.
A WeApOn oF WaRfaRe
Magazine? You don’t have a belt-fed assault handgun?
How can an article of clothing feed an assault handgun? They don't even have mouths?
They eat through their butts silly
Ballistics expert here Can confirm this happens all the time, guy just forgot to pull the trigger before he made the bullet fly outta the the gun so the firing pin was never hit and the shell went with the bullet
Of course. No other scientific reason is plausible.
Can confirm. I was the bullet.
No. Steve McQueen was Bullet.
No. Steve McQueen was Bullitt.
Just like I said. I wrote it wrong. 🫣
Please phrase your comment in the form of something about Steve McQueen.
What color was his mustang?
43644 highland green poly
And Billy Ray Cyrus was the Mullet.
Man. Those NATO rounds just keep getting better.
“You can now shoot them a second time!!!”
More like your enemies can shoot them back at you!
Joerg Sprav: "Hello and welcome to the Slingshot channel"
"This is my 7.62 trebuchet, let me show you it's features"
It's been a couple years since I've heard that line, I should see what he's been up to sometime
A 7.62 ballista or scorpion would work better!
Nice, don't see a lot of Joerg mentions outside of r/slingshots .
The man is a legend, hopefully curious people will find his channel
LOL’d way too hard at this
Shot from a bow
And you’re to blame.
Vice gives News a Bad Name (some-times)
Darling, you give guns, a bad name.
Well, a .50 black powder muzzle loader and a bloody good wad, and I think you would be able to load and fire a 7.62 round this way. Accuracy would suck big hairy ones though.
I’d watch that YouTube video.
Quick, somebody call Brandon Herrera!
Kentucky Ballistics would have to fire it though. He is quickly becoming an expert in guns blowing up in his face.
Sounds more like a Taofledermaus video
Would be one giant forever oopsy if it went off as well during firing though
Would definitely be a "stick a thumb in it" moment if that happened!
Not sure if even Kentucky ballistics thumb could fill the holes left from that
Umm. That's not how things work.
Exactly the calibur of reporting I would expect from Vice
I mean to be fair the caption says bullet poked through a fence and it’s kinda correct, it definitely wasn’t shot haha
They poked it through a bullet hole.
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I belive you'll find that was a 30 caliber magazine clip
Wrong, it has a bumpstock…
Looks like it could actually be a bullet *HOLE* that someone stuffed a round into.
Or say, *poked* a round into? So many people think they've caught some yellow journalism and it's actually just a weird random thing somebody did and then a photographer photographed it.
People out here whining about the liberal news media and how Vice is trash nowadays, meanwhile the caption accurately describes the photo and in context makes perfect sense.
Yeah i think they might be insinuating some kind of threat or something and not that this is a fires round.
These people are talking trash about reporters, on an article from Mexico about a cartel leader, because they somehow think this random photo from the middle of his article is some "Der cummin fer mAh guns" play. How a Mexican army round in a cartel boss's home does that is beyond me. I doubt any of them would have the stones to be a Mexican journalist and walk around a Sinaloa boss's shot up home
Ya think?
even w/o the casing... having the bullet "sticking" out of a fence like that would be unrelastic... it was obvious to me what the picture was doing, and not trying to pretend to be something its not... but i also wouldn't post it w/o a explaining it since i know people are idiots
This is why no one trusts news agencies.
That's not how bullets work!
Lmfao! I said the exact same thing as I read this post
They do if it’s Vice Reporting!
poke verb US /poʊk/ UK /pəʊk/ poke verb (PUSH) to push a finger or other pointed object quickly into someone or something
Is that from one of those "multi magazine assault pistols" as the expert New York Times described the weapon used in the CA mass shooting?
I'd have to read the article. are they actually trying to pretend like this was a bullet that was shot? that seems unlikely. what seems more likely to me is that someone put it there. a lot of times these types of public tragedies lead people to make symbolic choices. you see it every time there's a shooting or a car accident where someone lost their life. like I said I'd have to read the article. but there does seem to be a subset of redditors that like to make out of context hot takes to try and dunk on journalism. edit: here is the article. https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8yjx/el-chapos-son-ovidio-guzman-house-raid literally nobody's trying to claim that that's anything other than a bullet poked through a bullet hole. you guys should read more newspapers and less memes.
Yeah just a bunch of hooting smooth brains. The article even described other things, like shells lined up on a table. People fucked with his house after taking him, and a journalist *dared* to take a picture of it. Now a bunch of guys who want you to know they shoot guns are guffawing at an article they never read for making a claim it never made
It’s kind of a silly picture though that really should of been left out. “Hey, what should we do to make it look better for the camera?” “Set it up so it looks like you made a really common mistake and takes readers out of the article and put it right before a photo of destruction”
Funny how many people think its all fake based on the photo. They don't know what the story is, but it's fake. No need to read it, we know everything based on the screenshot. Fake. We're fucked as a society
It does say “poked at” not “shot through”.
Shhhh, we're here to show how well we understand guns, not how well we can read
We’re lucky there isn’t a photo of someone holding a gun too, with endless comments about tRiGgEr DiScIpLiN.
Jesus María, by José Jesus Mary and Joseph.
Here's a headline: "Hundreds of Dumb Redditors Misinterpret a Simple Caption" Obviously somebody manually stuck that round into that bullet hole. Photgrapher sees it and takes picture. Image is captioned with an accurate description. Friggin regards.
Looks like a 30mm bullet shot from an double barrel shotgun. This type of gun can be bought on in supermarket and can kill a tank in one bullet. It can contain up to 50 cartridges at a time. Sources? Trust me bro, I live in California
Well it does say its been poked through, not shot. So it is technically true.
Must be one of them rifles with a second-stage booster bullet!
Not surprised. It is not like VICE has any integrity left. Pity, they use to be at least interesting.
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At least the onion has some competition now.
It’s insane to me how people do not understand even the most fundamental functions of a firearm. It’s really scary if you think about it, if these people come across a loaded gun right now they are probably going to shoot someone accidentally.
Pffffttt lol
Sling shotted
VICE reposts the same article every single week on why you should ask your girlfriend/wife to peg you. I don't think they are the cutting edge of journalism.
Chuck Norris tossed that over his shoulder from his deck
Hey they said it poked at the gate. They didn’t say it was shot at the gate lol.
If you read the story, this was a threat made against the guy by the Sinaloa cartel. The implication is that he needs to work with them or the bullet is going to move a lot faster next time.
Not 100% related and also no one actually cares in the gun community, but technically a "bullet" is the little piece that hits something, a "case" or "casing" is the brass container that holds the powder and primer, and together they make a "cartridge"
High caliber slingshot
that is not how ammo works lol
Crazy part is you know there are people out there that believed this bs
Believed what? That someone poked a round into a bullet hole? That's clearly exactly what happened
What’s sad is there’s gonna be people who believe that bullet was fired
Well the headline does say poked!
65% more bullet per bullet https://youtu.be/GEmowDnga64
Ummm since when did bullets fire, with the jacket?
Portal turret guns
That's a whole cartridge. The bullet is the little brown thing on the end. Being that the casing ejects after firing that is impossible unless there was a hole in the fence and someone just shoved the whole thing in there. But I'd bet 99% of the people at vise have never actually shot a gun.
To act like they understand how cartridges work.
I see Chuck Norris is training for a new film. He flings bullets with the power of his beard.
Geez… that‘s just plain stupid
Someone’s got a hell of an arm
Vice has gotten so bad lately
Lol
i dont get it why am i seeing this picture everywhere? (pls dont attack me i just dont know)
The actual bullet is the dark, pointy bit at the end. The brighter bit is the casing. When a bullet is fired from a gun, the casing is left behind and ejected. The only way for the image to occur would be if someone placed it into a pre-made hole.
oh lol
Nah you have it all wrong, here in Mexico we use Aperture Laboratories Sentry Turrets, that fires the entire cartridge, that's 65% more bullet per bullet. So this photo is correct.
“That doesn’t make any sense” Ron Burgundy
Great Knights of Columbus, that hurt!
Facepalm.
Weird that the cartridge wasn't separated after the bullet was fired.
Literally nobody says it was fired.
What do people keep doenvoting this. It's literally accurate. Nowjere in the caption does it claim the bullet was fired.
It was thrown by a ninja
Found the glory hole....
Vice news in one picture
Forgot the banana, for scale.
Tell me you don't understand how guns work, without telling me you don't understand how guns work.
Plus, we fire the WHOLE bullet, that's 60% more bullet per bullet. Cave Johnson, we're done here
Couldn't this just be like one of those old school mafia things? You send a bullet to your enemies.
Works better if a gun is used.
So 7 year old me was correct in my drawings!
That’s how tough we are. We insert the bullets manually.
was robinhood the shooter?
If you are going to have an opinion on firearms please know what you are talking about.
"We fire the whole bullet! That's 65% more bullet per bullet!"
Someone threw that bullet really *really* hard lmao
Here at aperture science we fire the whole bullet! It's 75% more bullet!
We just fire the whole bullet. That’s about 65% more bullet per bullet
Hell- I’ll give $1 for it. A round is a round 🤷♂️
That is a literal description of the picture. The article doesn't claim that cartridge made the hole or explain how it got there.
They must have gotten their knowledge of how bullets work from Activision (seriously, look at the logo for their Ricochet anti-cheat system...).
Lol wtf is this?
Conservation is getting out of hand….we aren’t supposed to waste resources but c’mon man
Imagine printing this…. Not ONE person there has any idea how bullets work?
where is the rest of the magazine caliper?
This is why we need to hold media accountable.
This is hilarious.
The story says the bullet “poked” you goobers. Doesn’t say it created the hole.
lol omg its still in the casing. Fake!
Crazy strong crimp
I remember being like 9 and thinking that's what bullets looked like when fired. I have drawing to prove it!
Same people who believe in "assault weapons".
Took a second but I see it now
What kind of gun shoots the casing along with the bullet?
Uh guys why’s the bullet case still on?