Talk:Bullet catch

message: The article says NOTHING of how this trick is actually performed, other than that the gun fires blanks. I think it's safe to assume that the most important aspect of the trick isn't that the magician didn't die (from a real bullet), but HOW the signed bullet ended up in his mouth. The method presented in the article does not answer this question at all, despite quite a detailed summary of Penn & Teller's version of this trick which makes special note of the fact that the magicians do not pass the signed bullet to each other (line drawn across the stage). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilyag (talk • contribs) 17:32, 12 September 2005
Seconded. How is it done? --67.218.17.97 (talk) 15:12, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Method 

message: I'm not sure if any other performers have done the bullet catch for real, but I can assure you with first-hand experience that there is at least one person who has performed the bullet catch for real.  His name is Carl Skenes, and ignoring his contributions to the bullet catch is a glaring ommission on the part of Wikipedia.  Carl Skenes performed the stunt on That's Incredible in 1980, and later repeated the feat with his wife, Tina, as his sharpshooter on similar shows in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Japan.  He wore a special tooth guard, and then placed into his mouth a small metal box with a target a little smaller than a dime in the front.  A .22 rifle was then placed on 2 gun stand for steadiness, and the bullet was actually fired into the box in his mouth.  So, the vast majority of "how'd they do that" can be attributed to magic tricks, distractions, and gimmicks, but at least one performer of the bullet catch uses no gimmicks or tricks.
:You wanna reference this? -- Krash 20:47, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool. But this treads a fine line with respect to vanity guidelines and souce citation.  I'm not trying to be a dick, just saying that without sources this could be perceived as dubious. -- Krash 21:46, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

text: It's in The Linking Ring Vol. 80 No. 11 (November 2000): pages 62-65. Equinox (talk) 23:24, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing piece of the puzzle 

message: In the History section of the article: "A sharpshooter then fired the bullet into the dime-sized opening at the front of the box."
Can this be changed to something else? As something being "dime-sized" means little to non-US citizens. How big is a dime?
I don't mean to be pedantic, I am just interested in this article and I would like to know how large the opening is.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.56.85.81 (talk) 18:57, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If only there were an online encyclopedia where people could look up the size of a  dime... Bourne 23:49, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  dime-sized 

message: I have removed the method from the article as it is unsourced.  This is following the guidelines laid out in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Magic#Magic_Methods_and_Exposure.  If the method can be properly sourced, then it can be re-added. StephenBuxton (talk) 16:34, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Method removed 

message: I added Ben Robinson since he literally wrote the book on it (well at least the history) and performed it a couple of times.  And removed a few of the internal links that were now dead (the ages on two of the "famous" performers had been removed by Wikipedia).And to those of you here using this for a discussion of the potential techniques... it's supposed to be for talk about updates and issues, not for the discussion of possible methodologies. SamKamin (talk) 00:11, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Couple of Quick Revisions 

message: The history section mentions a few cases where the trick was purportedly performed "without a gimmick".  Why is this presented as fact?  Certainly there's no proof, and the performers themselves certainly are not going to explain the gimmick if they've developed a new version of it!
It's especially funny when the section ends with the Myth-busters example that shows how dubious those claims are.
Surely it can't be policy to accept a performer's claims about a magic trick at face value? APL (talk) 00:46, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  No gimmick? 

message: The method was recently removed because it was unsourced.
I strongly suspect that the method explanation is taken from on of the non-inline sources, but I don't have them handy so I can say for sure.  If somebody could please source that section and put it back, that'd be appreciated. ApLundell (talk) 21:21, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Method 

message: The entry referring to Maurice Rooklyn being shot in the 1950s is incorrect. He was shot in 1934; whether this was genuine or partly a publicity gimmick is not known.
Refer to my article http://sydneymagic.net/HISTORY/ROOKLYN/rooklyn.html based on original source material from the Rooklyn collection.
Kblackmore (talk) 23:11, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maurice Rooklyn shot 

message: Curious -- what are the little symbols after some of the listings?  they look like crosses.  i haven't ever seen this symbol/icon used in other lists on WP, nor any other place on WP where death is involved.  but i have seen that symbol used, sometimes, to denote that there is a "footnote" of sorts on the page.  that isn't the case here.
if this is some religious thing, then i'm wondering if they should all be crosses.  my guess is "no."  there's a very good chance that the icon after dr. epstein's listing should be something else.  and really, i'm wondering if they should be there at all, then.  but maybe it's something else—something unique to WP that i don't know about.  in which case, i'd be grateful if someone could explain it! Colbey84 (talk) 14:03, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like they indicate people who died performing the trick. If that's so, it should be clarified. ApLundell (talk) 18:51, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

text: With my last edit I removed the crosses (and cleaned up some of the list). They were never explained and duplicated text that was already there. MikeHfuhruhurr (talk) 03:26, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Famous Performers 

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