On the exploding trombone, I get the impression the mute EXPLODING and sending shrapnel at the conductor is what caused him to fall back into the crowd - and not anything to do with the slide.
My dad was a metal worker, and he used to warn me not to hit hammer on hammer, for they are surface hardened. Later, i saw a coworker hitting a hammer to open some crate manytimes..i warned him and he looked at me like," Mind your business boy". And kept hitting untill he was lkke struck by lightning and a hole of about a centimeter x a half opened up his bicep he digarded it but had to go to hospital and had a shard removed near his shoulder..hence hitting it many times apparently causes the hardened surface to crack and then next possibly pieces could be propelled at high velocity
If you have a old chisel with a rolled over "mushroomed" edge there actually can splinter off shrapnells. Thats the reason in old days you forgeweld them back on and in modern days you grind them off. I think thats the origin of this myth.
What the Smith says about the hammer I can verify. I was once using a hammer with a cold chisel. The handle was slightly mushroomed from years of use. One piece shot off and buried itself in my arm. That stuff can fly off pretty fast
Not sure what lips were supposed to do. The trombone itself isn't a particularly great pressure bearing system but that's not a problem, the Wehrmacht issued cardboard Panzerschrek and Panzerfaust at the end of the war, the tube is simply a guide, it's Newton's 3rd law which launches the projectile, not pressure differentials.
The panzerschrek/faust are basically recoiless rifles or, in more simplified terms, rocket launchers. They fire a self propelled projectile and therefore the launcher doesn't need to be a pressure vessel because the launch isn't as a result of expanding gasses within a confined space. The trombone in the experiment is being used as a crude cannon where an expansion of gasses within a confined space forces a projectile out of the end of the vessel. By increasing the confinement of the pressure vessel (sealing one end of the trombone with lips) you force more of the expanding gasses to go out the desired end resulting in a greater projectile velocity. Think of it sort of like an exaggerated gas port on a semi automatic rifle, if the port is too big and too much gas is allowed to escape rather than pushing the bullet down the barrel then the speed of projectile will drop
*some* hammers or mallets *will* explode if they are hydraulic pressed, however! It's violent enough that I'd call it an 'explosion' at least, even though it's probably technically not one
35 years a carpenter, If i could add a photo here id show my hammer that exploded when i hit a sledge hammer with it. Shards cut my chin i have scar still.
For the hammer: It won't explode, but I shattered a hammer made around 2020 during use while trying to remove a hinge pin in a hydraulic excavator arm. Was fun to explain the hospital. The essential part is that it is only a hammer head on a separate part handle.
All accounts of Hathcock's feat of counter-sniping had him using .50BMG with an M2 Browning modified to have a regular grip & trigger rather than its spade grips & trigger, not a Springfield with .30-06. AP or not, the .30-06 doesn't have the mass or energy to properly penetrate a scope at long range, and Carlos wasn't parked a dozen feet from his Vietnamese counterpart, which is gonna make it even HARDER with the Springfield.
There is a video on another channel where they submeged part of a shotgun barrel under water and remotely fired it. It resulted in the cartoon banana. I think it was demotion ranch a number of years ago.
I got shown a video in my shooting licence course of someone who had a gun slung barrel upward in the rain and then they unslung and fired and the water blocking the barrel meant it banana’d the barrel out. the myth did specifically call for a finger tho so that part is busted
I learned the hard way that you shouldn't strike waffle-end hammers together.. a chipped off piece of shrapnel buried itself in my forehead. But a regular hammer doesn't pose any threat of exploding.
When I was 18-21, I worked on a residential subdivision and some dude on his off time was splitting logs with a sledge and axe and it shattered and shot him in the stomach, he ended up needing surgery.
20:30 I'm starting to think it is fake, because the barrel should split along lines of weakness, where it is thin or welded, damaged, etc. The only places like that in a modern barrel made of one piece would be the grooves on the inside of the barrel for creating twist on the bullet. If that is true, the banana peels should do a full revolution every twelve inches or so of barrel length and it looks like they're arrow straight.
As a brass player - ain't no way my lips make a perfect seal. As a novice smith - I'm skeptical of the welding explanation (a smithing weld, unlike modern welding, has as a goal less to make a seam and more make the piece one), but I find that the different types of metals being of different hardness and malleability ... plausible at least. On paper. Seeing the same result as the old experiment tells me the old timey smiths did a good job.
@@ao1778 It's common practice for tiny pieces of shrapnel. I've known a bunch of military vets with bits of steel shrapnel stuck deep in various bits of the body, some including the head and torso, but there were a lot with pieces in their arms or legs. In all those cases....it's just not worth the risk to operate. Shrapnel is usually inert and sterile, and it's _very unlikely_ to cause an infection if the wound is cleaned, so it's way more dangerous to go digging around in a body cavity or organ where you could potentially snip a vessel or hit something else vital. So standard practice for tiny shards of metal is just to leave em in there, because surgery is almost always the riskier option. The body heals and scars around them and they just about always stop moving and don't cause any problems. We used to leave bullets in the body too, till we learned about how poisonous lead is. The exceptions are, of course, if the shrapnel is large or sharp, etc. Then it's surgery time.
@@zuzoscornerI don't know a relative of mine went to doctors after like 2-3 years because his big toe was hurting he got checked out by a doctor and had a sewing needle stuck in his foot I am not quite sure how it got there tbh
Why did they think the trombone needed to impart enough kinetic force to knock buster over? If something explodes in front of you and pieces of metal smack your face you're going to fall over.
29:03 I have a scar over my solar plexus where a fragment of hammer face flew off the face of my ball pein, penetrated 4 layers of work shirt and embedded itself in my flesh. Pinky fingenail size and I had to dig it out with a pair of needlenose pliers.
I hit a metal chisel with a hammer as a kid and a small piece from the chisel went into my hand, I still have the scar . ( a few mm into the skin , nothing serios tho ).
Critical thinking, just shows that the “banana” barrel photo had perfectly straight edges on each “peel” and the tip was bent at a strange angle, as if someone had used a powerful vice to “peel” back the barrel sections that were cut with a disc. Only “believers” will miss that.
can you imagine how often people have it wrong xD They always think they know it xD Fans are, again, dissed by their own thoughts xD The banana peeling? totally busted. Impossible.
An issue with using buster and then saying see he didn't fall into the crowd if i were a conductor, and during a performance, an explosion went off, and i got hit in the face with anything i might jump backwards out of pain and or fright
47:00 I don't know if that's actually busted, there are some variables to consider; was the player actively blowing into the trumpet when the explosion happened? Were they holding the mute against it? Does it make a difference if it is a well used and lubricated instrument, vs one discarded in a pawn shop for who knows how long? Also, is there a reflex for the player to pull their hand away when there's an explosion in their face, possible pulling the slide off manually, or at least assisting it? Also, were they playing a descending note and consciously pushing the slide ahead at the time of the explosion? Any or all of these things could be a factor that makes it more plausible.
Fans: Don't smack two hammers together Jamie! They might explode! Mythbusters: Reeeaaallly now? Awesome! Mythbusters after testing: no... no they don't, sadge. Fans: Yeah, but you weren't using pre WWII hammers for your tests ... neither was Jamie when smacking his hammers together, so where even was the point of your original complaint?
not sure how much this matters, but I get the sense that the slides on the trombones they used might not have been as aligned as they should be, leading to excess friction. the trombones looked pretty old and beat-up, and one of the most common problems for a trombone is for the slide to get sticky no matter how much you lube it, b/c the inner slide and outer slide are just not pointing the exact same way. watching the episode & watching the guys handle the slides, I get the sense that they aren't the level of smooth frictionlessness I'd want in a trombone slide (to give an idea, it should start sliding off if the trombone is even a tiny bit below horizontal), and that might've stopped them short.
@@sheepphic They did lube the slides up, or technically they showed Jamie lubing up the 1st trombone @ 13:57. They didn't show them doing that to the 2nd but a lot gets cut away from TV.
@@notduong8087 oops, I typoed "tuned up" as "tubed up". the issue is, no matter how much you lube them, if the inner & outer slides are out of alignment there's a lot of friction
@@sheepphic Well clearly there wasn't enough friction to actively prevent them from pulling the slides, and this is an explosion with gunpower we're talking about, and it did partially work on the 2nd try when they soldered up the lip.
Papa Kalash @BrandonHerrera _and_ the Father of .500 @KentuckyBallistics might want to have their go at this.... With all the love and respect to Jamie and Adam, but that is _not_ how you treat a classic.
I don't think they tested the hammer thing enough i don't know if it gets addressed later. But if they had tools with cracks and didn't notice.. and kept using over and over its possible. Really sad they didn't keep reseting the test for at least 10 attempts after the cracks and see what (at human power) may have happened, one of the few times i think.. more testing still needed.
They still got the trombone experiment wrong in my opinion. They should have tested the pressure exerted on the mouthpiece when playing the instrument and used some analog that could replicate that. Playing the instrument would result in a perfect seal and the force would be greater than taping the ballistic face to the mouthpiece. It may not have made a difference, but it may have been just enough back force to cause the slide to shoot off.
Really? How much energy do you think you can produce by blowing into the mouth piece? It will not even come close to producing as much energy as twice the amount of black powder would. What even.
My beef with the sniper rifle experiments... They never tested it with shock meters on the MVA sniper's head. I'm 100% certain that any one of the shots that was tested in the original and revisit episodes would have killed the sniper just due to the impact of the scope with the eye socket (likely liquifying the sniper's brain inside of the skull, even if there was no external injuries).
I can only speak to this mathematically. Assume we're using 12.96 Lapua Magnum at 100 meters. According to the function I found online, you'd be talking about 1.3-1.4 Gs of impact. Now, 1.3 Gs of impact focused on a single point: That'll kill you. Spread across the area of a scope? Unlikely. MAYBE it would give you a concussion. (concussions happen from 90-120 Gs of inertial trauma) You certainly wouldn't feel great. But "liquify the brain"? No, not even remotely. Edit: Yes, it would cut up your face something horrible, but I think that's self-evident.
@@designator7402 I get your point, but I'm confused about your math. Isn't impact measured on Newtons? G's are a meassure of acceleration. Or am I missing something?
@@pwb83 Probably because I didn't finish the math. We're talking acceleration relative to a mass and an area of impact. I don't know either of those, so I resorted to napkin math. If you wanna go into more detail, I welcome it!
Plausible on banana peel?? From that little crack? NO! You're never gonna a banana peel effect from a rifle unless you've purposely weakened the barrel along where the lines are and then plugged the barrel with a steel rod or something. The fact that fans wanted this myth revisited so badly really goes to show how easily fooled some people are.
Still busted. Be careful what you believe because alot of war stories are made up due politics especially about Vietnam. The Americans are still salty even though they started it.
The description reads: "Every so often the MythBusters draw conclusions that leave the fans seething" But in truth, they leave _everyone_ with an actual functioning brain and even a remote understanding of what experimental science is, seething, pretty much all the time.
No they don't. They leave people with actual functioning brains, who can fill in the blanks and understand the point of the experiments, as well as casual viewers who don't care and just want to see interesting nuts, bolts and explosions, all entertained. They leave people who have spent too long not seeing the sun, overly pedantic for the sake of sounding clever, and obsessed with irrelevant details, seething through and through. Not because the Mythbusters did anything wrong, but because it makes them feel better about themselves that they are "smarter" or more "expert" than them.
Love it when grant uses a robot to fire a gun thus breaking several ATF rules and turning a double barrel shotgun into what the ATF considers a machine gun.
16:26 “bombone” was RIGHT there standing in the middle of the show’s pun alley
You can just feel them wanting to turn to the camera and say "See?!" I love it
On the exploding trombone, I get the impression the mute EXPLODING and sending shrapnel at the conductor is what caused him to fall back into the crowd - and not anything to do with the slide.
I have a bit of metal in my right thigh from an errant hammer shard - as Kari said that is not in dispute - but I agree on the "exploding" hammers.
29:03 if modern hammer being too soft will not cause hammer to explode, then what is problem with Jamie hitting them together? Jamie is always right
Modern hammers are hardened but the middle is soft because they dont break.
My dad was a metal worker, and he used to warn me not to hit hammer on hammer, for they are surface hardened. Later, i saw a coworker hitting a hammer to open some crate manytimes..i warned him and he looked at me like," Mind your business boy". And kept hitting untill he was lkke struck by lightning and a hole of about a centimeter x a half opened up his bicep he digarded it but had to go to hospital and had a shard removed near his shoulder..hence hitting it many times apparently causes the hardened surface to crack and then next possibly pieces could be propelled at high velocity
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If you have a old chisel with a rolled over "mushroomed" edge there actually can splinter off shrapnells. Thats the reason in old days you forgeweld them back on and in modern days you grind them off. I think thats the origin of this myth.
Such fun watching these old episodes, more please !
free prime has em all
@@karls8103 free prime?
@@karls8103with insufferable ads
I must have missed this one - 45:45 - I was cheering in front of my computer
What the Smith says about the hammer I can verify. I was once using a hammer with a cold chisel. The handle was slightly mushroomed from years of use. One piece shot off and buried itself in my arm. That stuff can fly off pretty fast
14:32 Had me dying 😂
That's by far the funniest thing I've ever heard him say
Pretty sure GySgt Hathcock wasn't using iron sights that day. In fact his equipment is readily available. His ammo was a match-grade boat-tailed round
Yes. Some other people did the expirement and made the shot first try
@@AlechiaTheWitch The Fat Electrician talks about it in his video on Hathcock
Not sure what lips were supposed to do. The trombone itself isn't a particularly great pressure bearing system but that's not a problem, the Wehrmacht issued cardboard Panzerschrek and Panzerfaust at the end of the war, the tube is simply a guide, it's Newton's 3rd law which launches the projectile, not pressure differentials.
The panzerschrek/faust are basically recoiless rifles or, in more simplified terms, rocket launchers. They fire a self propelled projectile and therefore the launcher doesn't need to be a pressure vessel because the launch isn't as a result of expanding gasses within a confined space. The trombone in the experiment is being used as a crude cannon where an expansion of gasses within a confined space forces a projectile out of the end of the vessel. By increasing the confinement of the pressure vessel (sealing one end of the trombone with lips) you force more of the expanding gasses to go out the desired end resulting in a greater projectile velocity. Think of it sort of like an exaggerated gas port on a semi automatic rifle, if the port is too big and too much gas is allowed to escape rather than pushing the bullet down the barrel then the speed of projectile will drop
Bugger, now I'm gonna have to get a tuba for the shit house.
Jamie is the most interesting fella ever, rolemodel
Mix Adam and Jamie together and you've got yourself a father figure
*some* hammers or mallets *will* explode if they are hydraulic pressed, however! It's violent enough that I'd call it an 'explosion' at least, even though it's probably technically not one
35 years a carpenter, If i could add a photo here id show my hammer that exploded when i hit a sledge hammer with it. Shards cut my chin i have scar still.
Myth is busted, theres no way that could happen. Give it up already
I've heard about it happening too, from people I trust. Frankly I believe you
I was hoping to see the mute secured into the bell of the trombone like the mouthpiece.😂☮🕊
26:00 Nah Jamie, you cold as f*#% bro💀💀
For the hammer: It won't explode, but I shattered a hammer made around 2020 during use while trying to remove a hinge pin in a hydraulic excavator arm. Was fun to explain the hospital.
The essential part is that it is only a hammer head on a separate part handle.
All accounts of Hathcock's feat of counter-sniping had him using .50BMG with an M2 Browning modified to have a regular grip & trigger rather than its spade grips & trigger, not a Springfield with .30-06. AP or not, the .30-06 doesn't have the mass or energy to properly penetrate a scope at long range, and Carlos wasn't parked a dozen feet from his Vietnamese counterpart, which is gonna make it even HARDER with the Springfield.
@24:13 wasnt the M1 Garant not already replaced in Vietnam?
There is a video on another channel where they submeged part of a shotgun barrel under water and remotely fired it. It resulted in the cartoon banana.
I think it was demotion ranch a number of years ago.
I got shown a video in my shooting licence course of someone who had a gun slung barrel upward in the rain and then they unslung and fired and the water blocking the barrel meant it banana’d the barrel out. the myth did specifically call for a finger tho so that part is busted
Kentucky Ballistics did it. Looked exactly like a banana but he used all extra spicy round.
It's almost as if hammers were made to hit hard things. 🤷♂
0:14:32 - can't stop laughing 🤣
I learned the hard way that you shouldn't strike waffle-end hammers together.. a chipped off piece of shrapnel buried itself in my forehead. But a regular hammer doesn't pose any threat of exploding.
When I was 18-21, I worked on a residential subdivision and some dude on his off time was splitting logs with a sledge and axe and it shattered and shot him in the stomach, he ended up needing surgery.
Thats the reason you dont hit a axe with a sledge.
Jamie is a damn good shot!
i also had a piece of a hammer break off and lodge itself in my arm, but never seen a hammer "explode" when hitting another hammer
34:17 I wonder what would happen if they only heat-treated the striking part of the hammer, not the whole thing
20:30 I'm starting to think it is fake, because the barrel should split along lines of weakness, where it is thin or welded, damaged, etc.
The only places like that in a modern barrel made of one piece would be the grooves on the inside of the barrel for creating twist on the bullet.
If that is true, the banana peels should do a full revolution every twelve inches or so of barrel length and it looks like they're arrow straight.
As a brass player - ain't no way my lips make a perfect seal. As a novice smith - I'm skeptical of the welding explanation (a smithing weld, unlike modern welding, has as a goal less to make a seam and more make the piece one), but I find that the different types of metals being of different hardness and malleability ... plausible at least. On paper. Seeing the same result as the old experiment tells me the old timey smiths did a good job.
Hammers wont "explode" they will however send shards. i have a piece of a modern hammer stuck in my forearm that hasnt come out yet after 5 years
... Why did you just leave it inside?
@@ao1778 i legitimatly cant find it, it isnt causing me any pain so the dr said it would be more painful to have a surgery to find and remove it
Taht sounds like an infcetion just screaming to happen.. i don't think this tale is real
@@ao1778 It's common practice for tiny pieces of shrapnel. I've known a bunch of military vets with bits of steel shrapnel stuck deep in various bits of the body, some including the head and torso, but there were a lot with pieces in their arms or legs.
In all those cases....it's just not worth the risk to operate. Shrapnel is usually inert and sterile, and it's _very unlikely_ to cause an infection if the wound is cleaned, so it's way more dangerous to go digging around in a body cavity or organ where you could potentially snip a vessel or hit something else vital. So standard practice for tiny shards of metal is just to leave em in there, because surgery is almost always the riskier option. The body heals and scars around them and they just about always stop moving and don't cause any problems. We used to leave bullets in the body too, till we learned about how poisonous lead is.
The exceptions are, of course, if the shrapnel is large or sharp, etc. Then it's surgery time.
@@zuzoscornerI don't know a relative of mine went to doctors after like 2-3 years because his big toe was hurting he got checked out by a doctor and had a sewing needle stuck in his foot I am not quite sure how it got there tbh
did they ever find the metal finger that Tori made?
16:55 Or Pete's credit card limit.
Why did they think the trombone needed to impart enough kinetic force to knock buster over? If something explodes in front of you and pieces of metal smack your face you're going to fall over.
29:03 I have a scar over my solar plexus where a fragment of hammer face flew off the face of my ball pein, penetrated 4 layers of work shirt and embedded itself in my flesh.
Pinky fingenail size and I had to dig it out with a pair of needlenose pliers.
Lost a piece of a work hardened drift doing a bearing one day and found it in my hand 3yrs later, shot off so fast and went in so clean I had no idea.
By welding the hammerhead you soften the steel…
17:17 is it me or … that moment shows the infamous tensions between the two ?
9:41 Dr. Disrespect trying to set things right by a tweet ;]
I hit a metal chisel with a hammer as a kid and a small piece from the chisel went into my hand, I still have the scar . ( a few mm into the skin , nothing serios tho ).
Always finish on an explosion.
Critical thinking, just shows that the “banana” barrel photo had perfectly straight edges on each “peel” and the tip was bent at a strange angle, as if someone had used a powerful vice to “peel” back the barrel sections that were cut with a disc. Only “believers” will miss that.
why is this the same as Season 4 Episode 7?
I just saw this one like a day or two ago....why is youtube saying I didn't?
Repeated hammer strikes and heat differentials
can you imagine how often people have it wrong xD
They always think they know it xD
Fans are, again, dissed by their own thoughts xD
The banana peeling? totally busted. Impossible.
Handmade hands lol
Wouldn't it take 100 years in a busy shop to work harden a striking tool? Or, is that what mushrooming is?
An issue with using buster and then saying see he didn't fall into the crowd if i were a conductor, and during a performance, an explosion went off, and i got hit in the face with anything i might jump backwards out of pain and or fright
Correct, he could have fallen from just pure surprise. The slide hitting him is kind of red herring by itself.
Bet you anything the left the slide locked on that trombone. Talk to a trombonist, fellas.
I miss Grant he is mucho gwapito
47:00 I don't know if that's actually busted, there are some variables to consider; was the player actively blowing into the trumpet when the explosion happened? Were they holding the mute against it? Does it make a difference if it is a well used and lubricated instrument, vs one discarded in a pawn shop for who knows how long? Also, is there a reflex for the player to pull their hand away when there's an explosion in their face, possible pulling the slide off manually, or at least assisting it? Also, were they playing a descending note and consciously pushing the slide ahead at the time of the explosion? Any or all of these things could be a factor that makes it more plausible.
They really don't know anything about hammers, do they?
Do you even know how wind instruments work?
Fans: Don't smack two hammers together Jamie! They might explode!
Mythbusters: Reeeaaallly now? Awesome!
Mythbusters after testing: no... no they don't, sadge.
Fans: Yeah, but you weren't using pre WWII hammers for your tests
... neither was Jamie when smacking his hammers together, so where even was the point of your original complaint?
They might have been confused over Adam's jokes of how old Jamie supposedly was, and thus his inventory. We the audience are rarely consistent
yeah, but what if jamie had his hammers hardened by a blacksmith for no reason at all?
not sure how much this matters, but I get the sense that the slides on the trombones they used might not have been as aligned as they should be, leading to excess friction. the trombones looked pretty old and beat-up, and one of the most common problems for a trombone is for the slide to get sticky no matter how much you lube it, b/c the inner slide and outer slide are just not pointing the exact same way. watching the episode & watching the guys handle the slides, I get the sense that they aren't the level of smooth frictionlessness I'd want in a trombone slide (to give an idea, it should start sliding off if the trombone is even a tiny bit below horizontal), and that might've stopped them short.
OH yeah, finally hearing Adam move one at 46:02, that slide is REALLY sticky. they really should've got that tubed up before trying this imo
@@sheepphic They did lube the slides up, or technically they showed Jamie lubing up the 1st trombone @ 13:57. They didn't show them doing that to the 2nd but a lot gets cut away from TV.
@@notduong8087 No matter how much you lube them, if they're out of alignment they'll stick
@@notduong8087 oops, I typoed "tuned up" as "tubed up". the issue is, no matter how much you lube them, if the inner & outer slides are out of alignment there's a lot of friction
@@sheepphic Well clearly there wasn't enough friction to actively prevent them from pulling the slides, and this is an explosion with gunpower we're talking about, and it did partially work on the 2nd try when they soldered up the lip.
need to blow air into the trombone wile explosion takes place
Why does Kari has to wear a too short shirt? Safety…
I love when shows openly display their contempt for their audience...
was thr trmpet person playing as his fireworks go off as in have the slide out n blowing air in n all that
Papa Kalash @BrandonHerrera _and_ the Father of .500 @KentuckyBallistics might want to have their go at this.... With all the love and respect to Jamie and Adam, but that is _not_ how you treat a classic.
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Always sad to see Adam being nice then Jamie is just like a little rude kid 47:25
I don't think they tested the hammer thing enough i don't know if it gets addressed later.
But if they had tools with cracks and didn't notice.. and kept using over and over its possible.
Really sad they didn't keep reseting the test for at least 10 attempts after the cracks and see what (at human power) may have happened, one of the few times i think.. more testing still needed.
Jeez lay off the puns lol, it's like every sentence
They still got the trombone experiment wrong in my opinion. They should have tested the pressure exerted on the mouthpiece when playing the instrument and used some analog that could replicate that. Playing the instrument would result in a perfect seal and the force would be greater than taping the ballistic face to the mouthpiece. It may not have made a difference, but it may have been just enough back force to cause the slide to shoot off.
i totaly agree with you
Yes, agree
Really? How much energy do you think you can produce by blowing into the mouth piece? It will not even come close to producing as much energy as twice the amount of black powder would. What even.
@@chiragnk602 it would open up the valves giving a free route for the explosion
They plugged the mouthpiece far better than a mouth would.
My beef with the sniper rifle experiments... They never tested it with shock meters on the MVA sniper's head. I'm 100% certain that any one of the shots that was tested in the original and revisit episodes would have killed the sniper just due to the impact of the scope with the eye socket (likely liquifying the sniper's brain inside of the skull, even if there was no external injuries).
I can only speak to this mathematically. Assume we're using 12.96 Lapua Magnum at 100 meters. According to the function I found online, you'd be talking about 1.3-1.4 Gs of impact. Now, 1.3 Gs of impact focused on a single point: That'll kill you. Spread across the area of a scope? Unlikely. MAYBE it would give you a concussion. (concussions happen from 90-120 Gs of inertial trauma) You certainly wouldn't feel great. But "liquify the brain"? No, not even remotely.
Edit: Yes, it would cut up your face something horrible, but I think that's self-evident.
@@designator7402 physics high five lol
@@designator7402 I get your point, but I'm confused about your math. Isn't impact measured on Newtons? G's are a meassure of acceleration. Or am I missing something?
@@designator7402 .338 Lapua Magnum is also a silly example for the time period, it would be 30-06.
@@pwb83 Probably because I didn't finish the math. We're talking acceleration relative to a mass and an area of impact. I don't know either of those, so I resorted to napkin math. If you wanna go into more detail, I welcome it!
ruclips.net/video/s_wzcrfiiw4/видео.html A response to this Hathcock shot.
Plausible on banana peel?? From that little crack? NO!
You're never gonna a banana peel effect from a rifle unless you've purposely weakened the barrel along where the lines are and then plugged the barrel with a steel rod or something. The fact that fans wanted this myth revisited so badly really goes to show how easily fooled some people are.
Those pics look like the barrel was cut and bent. Wayyy to clean edges
Hugh jackmanuator
need to hit the hammer multiple times repeatedly
The armour piercing bullet wasn't the kind used in Vietnam by the original marksman. So it's still busted, not plausible.
M2 AP was absolutely used by Snipers in Vietnam, my biggest issue is that they called it tungsten core, which it absolutely is not.
Still busted. Be careful what you believe because alot of war stories are made up due politics especially about Vietnam. The Americans are still salty even though they started it.
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The description reads: "Every so often the MythBusters draw conclusions that leave the fans seething"
But in truth, they leave _everyone_ with an actual functioning brain and even a remote understanding of what experimental science is, seething, pretty much all the time.
It's mid-2000s entertainment on a limited budget, what can you do.
No they don't. They leave people with actual functioning brains, who can fill in the blanks and understand the point of the experiments, as well as casual viewers who don't care and just want to see interesting nuts, bolts and explosions, all entertained.
They leave people who have spent too long not seeing the sun, overly pedantic for the sake of sounding clever, and obsessed with irrelevant details, seething through and through. Not because the Mythbusters did anything wrong, but because it makes them feel better about themselves that they are "smarter" or more "expert" than them.
Experimental science is the BEST Science!
Love it when grant uses a robot to fire a gun thus breaking several ATF rules and turning a double barrel shotgun into what the ATF considers a machine gun.