Trick Shots w/ video!

I enjoy watching trick shots. Mostly I enjoy watching competitions on ESPN when they show billiards trick shots. However, i also like playing shooting games and the guns within them. I saw this show called Wild West Tech: trick shots and thought "Perfect! Guns+trick shots= sweet show!" While watching this show i saw an amazing trick done. The goal was to fire one bullet from a rifle and hit a sharpened blade about 10-15 feet away. Not only that, but the shooter had to also split the bullet, without popping two balloons placed mere inches away from the blade. An amazing feat! Apparently due to the density of the bullet and it's larger caliber, when the bullet hit the blade, it split, but the blade was sharp enough and the bullet dense enough that it did not shatter and pop the two balloons. Then the shooter did it again! This time with a smaller caliber, so that a splattering effect would occur. This time the shooter was trying to hit both balloons, killing two birds with one stone, so to speak. This time is was much harder though, because the shooter was using a smaller bullet, when it did indeed split when the shooter hit it and because the bullet was not as dense, the bullet shattered and the fragments hit the balloons on both sides.
This show also reminded me of a show I saw a while back which asked whether a sword could cut a bullet. After watching that show and looking at this demonstration, I know that the relatively soft and weak bullets compared to a much more dense and rigid sword will get split. So maybe taking a sword to a gun fight isn't such a bad idea after all...