I found this bullet picture!

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dl351

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Well, I was browsing the web, looking for a picture of a knife shot in the side, but I found this:

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Now, I know we can't see what kind of knife it actually is, it looks A LOT like a Seal 2000 or similar SOG! What do you guys think?

Oh, I just checked the caption here:

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3782124

The author says that he thinks it was a SOG Seal knife and it was shot with a .22 cal. Not quite the same as the old Tigershark pictures, but still cool!
 
That is a darn cool pic no matter what knife it is showing the bullet. Has a look like liquid metal :)
 
That was a SEAL knife shot with a .22. It was done for a magazine, I think it was FHM about 4 years ago. We were in talks with the guy that did it but we could not come to an agreement on cost for this. I have more of those photos somewhere that I could try to dig up but since I do not have rights to use them there is not much we can do with them.
 
me and a friend actually tried this a while back whilst target shooting a 40 S&W and a 45 ACP, considering it was a POS swap meet knife it did rather well ....until we hit it from the side :D
 
Rat 1 said:
They should have done that to a crappy Gerber, not a SOG.
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Do I fail to see something you do? What's wrong with this picture? The knife wasn't broken. In fact, it looks fine. Was SOG wrong for doing this with a .45 and an SK5 Tigershark years ago? I just don't understand the problem.
 
SOG bites the bullet and survives!
it's pretty much an updated "tactical take" on the old Buck Knives can cut through bolts bravado.
with Buck Knives, this was true of it's early handmade products;
and so when people still continued to try this amazing feat years later with the more recent or modern standard production models...no doubt the reason why this bolt cutting image has long since been erased from the Buck Knives logo.
(erased but never quite forgotten!)
such feats are great for the product image, but would unfortunately constitute a void in many of today's knife warranties.
there was a passage in the book Black Hawk Down where a US Navy SEAL's Randall Knife purportedly prevented a bullet entry, by shots fired from an AK47.
if this is true, it was not by design but by sheer luck and circumstance.
however, i would like to think that someday all knives might be made bullet proof anyway!
perhaps a design consideration that could be studied and put into reality by knife makers someday (a particularly interesting selling point for products active in military circles).
"dl351" nice picture!
 
surely hitting it with a bullet would ruin not only the aesthetics of the knife but the structural integrity and maybe even the heat treat
 
I remember seeing SOG's bullet cutting advertisements as far back as the mid nineties.
 
zombie_killer said:
surely hitting it with a bullet would ruin not only the aesthetics of the knife but the structural integrity and maybe even the heat treat
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Uh, but SOG, years ago, advertised with an SK5 Tigershark that split multiple .45 bullets with no damage to the blade. There was only lead smeared on the edge of it. As for the heat treat, I highly doubt that a .22 bullet hitting it would do anything to it. The bullet would hit it too fast for very much heat to build up or to transfer from the bullet to the blade. Think about it. A huge piece of steel compared to the .22 bullet.

Besides, it's just a cool picture! Why not enjoy it? It's not like there's any practical reason to split bullets anyway.
 
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