BenBurch
Gatekeeper of The Left
...call me dense, but I had to see it live TWICE to figure out how the exchange happened.
...call me dense, but I had to see it live TWICE to figure out how the exchange happened.
I can't for the life of me work it out. It's one of the best tricks I've ever seen...
I can't for the life of me work it out. It's one of the best tricks I've ever seen...
Clones and multiverses?He didn't do it the easy way.
I spoke to Jamy Ian Swiss about the bullet catch at TAM 4 (I think. It might have been 5. Or 3. ). We were discussing magic tricks, and he said that most magicians know how most magic tricks are done. Or at least one of the many ways that a given trick can be done. However, he went on to say that very few magicians know how the P&T bullet catch is done. It's that good. Which leads me to believe that the OP is most likely wrong in stating that he has figured it out.
Yeah, the trick's quite different if performed in the nude.
They walk all the way to the rear of the stage to do the whole tapping thing, then walk all the way back into the audience so we can watch the shells loaded into the guns, then walk all the way back to the rear of the stage to put on protective gear. Protective gear they will not need.
Wow, I thought they were actually in danger.![]()
Yeah, the trick's quite different if performed in the nude.
I mentioned this to someone today and he said there's an exposure video on YouTube explaining the trick step by step. The video independently confirms what I had guessed, step by step. Interestingly, there's another video identifying the 50 greatest tricks of all-time, and there's segment on this bullet catch with Penn saying "No one knows how it's done."![]()
The trick with the coins and goldfish is fantastic, much better than the double bullet catch.
If I remember correctly, the bullet was seated far enough to cover any grooves that may have been put in place before it was seated into the case and marked by the people in the audience. Only the ogive and tip were showing. Grooves are easy to put on a bullet by pushing it through any gun barrel with a wood dowel. The brass case can be sized to allow the bullet to be seated firmly, but removed with one's teeth or a small set of pliers concealed in the magician's hand. No need to go through the silencer and recovering a bullet routine to mark it with grooves.
I have no idea how they switched the brass cases between their "magic wands"
Ranb
As I have said in another thread, I'm not sure why people cannot just link to the YouTube video. Instead there has to be vague hints after which people have to search for it themselves.
Either it is easy to find in which case why not just link straight to it, or it is difficult to find in which case mentioning it isn't really very helpful.
I find it a bit hypocritical too - why does no-one have a problem linking to videos showing how Uri Geller does his tricks. (And before anyone replies with comments about how he claims what he does is real, it seems comparable to people not linking to explanations of Derren Brown and we know he misleads people about how his tricks are done).
I...However, he went on to say that very few magicians know how the P&T bullet catch is done. It's that good. Which leads me to believe that the OP is most likely wrong in stating that he has figured it out.
... The trick with the coins and goldfish is fantastic, much better than the double bullet catch.
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I have examine the bullet very closely, it has real groves on it from being fired. I think a stage hand fires the bullets picked out through a supressed pistol backstage and then gives the case and bullets somehow to P&T.
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It's been said that one of the differences between lay people and magicians is that if a lay person figures out just part of a trick, he will feel he knows it all; if a magician figures out all but part of a trick, he will feel he doesn't know it at all.
That one had you fooled?
I must have been on a good sight line from it, because I could make you that box right now. Its all optics and partitions.
Clones and multiverses?
I love the Bullet Catch. What a great trick. In descriptions from others, I've seen many say that a confederate backstage is watching the live video and then tries to re-create the marks drawn on the bullet. I don't think so. I'm convinced the bullets that come out of the mouths are the very same ones the audience marked up.
And isn't it a beautiful thing? The fact they are the same makes the whole trick that much better.Of course they are.