Is it really possible to break a rifle in half over a knee?
 

I just saw that recently in an episode of Longmire. Guy breaks a gun over his thigh/knee. I say that’s BS but I’d like to hear from the brain trust. I’ve never owned a rifle but I think I’d break my knee cap if I tried to do something like that.

I suppose it depends upon the rifle and the knee.

I think it's probably possible.
I could see the narrow part of the stock just behind the trigger being able to be broken.
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This guy could probably do it.

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Hold my beer.

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They cut it most of the way through first

I'd only try to using someone else's knee...

Unless the wood is rotten from age or damage, yep impossible.

I have seen movies where they break a shovel handle over a knee. Yea, right.

Every semi in any movie or TV show seems to have the exact same blaring horn as the go past. Most all cars have a squealing brakes as the come to a stop. And someone fixes a huge breakfast and everyone iin the house takes a few sips of orange juice or takes coffee with them and says they have to run. And handguns guns rattle as they move them around.

^^^

I like hearing the motor drives whirr when photographers take photos with digital cameras.

I heard a podcast that was about movie sound effects. The "bang" gunfire you hear in a lot of westerns was made the sound of a drum altered by crude sound effects that was created sometime in the 1930s. The people laughing on sit-com laugh tracks have been dead for decades.

Bo Jackson

https://youtu.be/IxiGyqIO6Ew?si=4hyRn5dFmAD-ra__

That was back in the juicing days.

Just a bare wood stock ? Maybe . A wood stock with the barrel installed . Nope

Short answer, no. But neither is almost daily murder in small Western towns; that doesn't stop Hollywood from pretendin'..

That guy was all natural, no steroids for Bo

I'm sure I could break one over a knee. It may take a few swings and whoever's knee it is may not be too happy.

Possible? Sure. Probable? No

I have seen a stock crack/break at the wrist under recoil, but fairly sure stock already had a crack/plit started in it before the trigger was pulled

If you're going to do it on your own knee....make sure you give it everything you got.
If it doesn't break, it'll hurt worse. :)

Only if it's a break action. ;)

Baseball guys have injured themselves trying to break a bat over their knee.
So no.

that's the unbelievable thing in Longmire?

I watched that show for Vic.

I've seen a couple stocks broken at the wrist. I've seen many more with visible cracks.

I had an old Stevens double barrel 20 break there when I shot it. I got to carve a new butt stock.

So breaking a previously cracked stock at the wrist seems reasonable. I haven't seen Longmire so I can't say how realistic the scene in question is.

Breaking a bat is not that hard, you just hit it on the label