Can you detonate a barrel of gunpowder by firing a blackpowder rifle into it?
Spent the night with a friend who is REALLY into Broadway Show tunes ( I am not). I only agreed to sit and watch “The King and I” with Yul Brynner, if the other person agreed to watch the MODERN version of that movie with Jodie Foster (Anna and the King, 1999).
The modern version, has a more desperate, violent, ending. In the movie, the King is being attacked. They need to blow up a bridge to prevent the bad guys from attacking.
The King’s Royal Guards rig a bridge for detonation. They place barrels of blackpowder strategically all along the bridge. Then, as an initiator, they have what look like Civil War Muskets, strapped to fire directly into barrels of black powder. The rifles will be fired by pulling long cords attached to the triggers.
Would that actually work?
What is causing the initiation of the explosion? The bullet hitting the black powder at speed? Or the flash of the muzzle, directly into the black powder?
Black power is set of by fire, whether it be a spark or open flame, not by impact. The bullet made a hole in the barrel and the fire of the unburned power escaping from the bore of the gun set the black power off. But you have to realize that most of what Hollywood shows about firearm is untrue, and only to make good drama. Black power as with modern smokeless power has to be confined to explode, both will burn with no explosion if not confined.
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