Bullets, when striking stone, drywall or many other surfaces most assuredly DO give off, what appears to be, a puff of smoke. If you''ve ever seen a Vulcan fired at a concrete bunker you can observe this effect quite easily.
In, " The Lt. of Inishmore" last year, I used a series of polypropylene hoses routed under the stage floor and then up through several 'Rocks' and the 'Dirt Path' that was the down stage playing area. the hoses ran backstage to a CO2 tank with a regulator and a 4 way electrically operated solenoid and manifold setup. It's actually quite easy. I might suggest looking at AllScare.com for the solenoid/manifold setups. I say this because they sell the whole assembly for less than you can buy the solenoid alone from Grainger. The hose was standard 3/16" hard poly, like you'd use to plumb an ice machine or coffee maker. I used one of these assemblys to achieve the "Padric shoots the cell phone" effect and the effect of the girl shooting at the boy with the BB gun. the ends of the hoses came to just under the surface of the carved styro rocks. Pre-show a PA would load about an 1/8th of a teaspoon of rye flour into the end of the hose.this was enough that the audience would get the effect of a ricochet off a rock without actually having to use balloon cutters. Hope that helps a little.
VAN there is a mistake in your post. Namely it is lacking a YouTube video of a Vulcan firing at a bunker
Yeah, I looked, but all I could find was dweebs with Airsoft guns...... Don't get me wrong I think Airsoft is fun but there is simply nothing like watching a real mini-gun take apart a concrete bunker, in person. Doesn't sound like a gun so much as a real loud buzz. Then a line of "puffs of smoke" walking straight towards the bunker then a giant cloud of Concrete dust. Scary, very, very scary.
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