Greatest thing since… well, if bread came pre-sliced, it would be as great as that.
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Greatest thing since prepackaged bread.
Mythbusters did it, the shock wave is what kills em, if I remember correctly.
I feel like the bullets help though
Yes, but the point is that you don't even have to hit a fish in a barrel with a bullet, to kill it.
The hydrostatic shock caused by the void from the bullet's travel path... its basically the equivalent of a pressure wave from being nearby a bomb, as a human in air.
So, basically, for any fish in a barrel that has a bullet shot into it, more or less feels like the water itself is hitting them with a baseball bat swing, but from pretty much all directions, simultaneously.
(This generally would not be the case for fish in say, a pond, or the ocean. The barrel confines then pressure shockwaves, bouncing them into each other.)
Humans have to worry about this concept too, but because air is much less dense than water, we have to do something even more destructive.
Such as shooting an RPG from inside a building.
Or... trying to stand within about 10 - 20 feet of the muzzle of a main battle tank cannon, when it fires.
Both those scenarios have enough pressure that they can seriously injure you, knock you unconscious, potentially kill you, even if you're not directly in the path of the rocket/shell/backblast.
…but after some thought I realise it is in fact a comparable level of difficulty to that of the time when I forcibly removed confectionery from the grasp of a very young child
I like to believe it’s one of the first things they did with guns, you know, to see how easy it can make things.
Shooting fish in a barrel isn't as easy as the phrase implies. I mean, if it's a very large barrel and there are few fish, you could unload a whole magazine into it and never hit anything. Not to mention that bullets tend to stop or shred apart pretty quickly in water unless they are specifically made to be used in water.