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

[cantdrv55]

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.

[masraum]

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.


This guy could probably do it.

[Eric Hahl]

Hold my beer.

[Tobra]

They cut it most of the way through first

[KFC911]

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

[GH85Carrera]

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.

[wdfifteen]

^^^

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.

[Sooner or later]

Bo Jackson

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

[Arizona_928]

That was back in the juicing days.

[rfuerst911sc]

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

[herr_oberst]

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

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by Arizona_928

That was back in the juicing days.

That guy was all natural, no steroids for Bo

[Bill Douglas]

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.

[id10t]

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

[stevej37]

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.

[cabmandone]

Only if it's a break action.

[911 Rod]

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

[vash]

that's the unbelievable thing in Longmire?

I watched that show for Vic.

[Porchdog]

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.

[Tobra]

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