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On this episode of Mythbusters...

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Fire in the hole!

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It's Wham!

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Bam!

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Thank you fans!

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It's another Myths Revisited Special.

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Oh, tell me what might happen this time!

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Where you judge how the Mythbusters have been conducting themselves.

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Were Adam and Jamie responsible for a trombone travesty?

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That's just awesome!

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Exploding Hammer's myth strike a low blow.

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Low blow!

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And we revisit two high caliber Myths.

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Where you say the guys didn't aim up.

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Oh, Jamie!

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Now we're talking.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.

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And Jamie Heinemann.

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It's almost too exciting.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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Cue dramatic music.

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Joining them, Carrie Byron.

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That's gonna be so cool!

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Grant Imahara.

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Listen to that baby purr!

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And Tori Bellachy.

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Charamedics are nowhere to be found.

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They don't just tell the Myths.

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They put them to the test.

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Yes, it's that time again.

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The Mythbusters are going to answer their critics the only way they know how.

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By going back to the drawing board.

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Add first on the chopping block,

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a myth that has long been a trombone of contention with fans.

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Yeah, you know we shot Mad Trombonist during season one?

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That's the longest distance we've ever had between a myth and its revisit.

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What the heck did we get wrong?

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There wasn't a trombonist.

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Once upon a time, two fresh-faced fledgling mythbusters blew up some brass.

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The Myth, a trombonist wants to put a bit more bang into the 1812 overture.

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So he fills his mute with firecrackers.

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When they go off, the force of the blast turns the trombone slide into a musical missile,

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which strikes the conductor and knocks him into the audience.

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But no matter how much black powder Jamie packed into that trombone, the slide wouldn't fly.

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When the smoke had cleared and the police had calmed down, Adam was adamant.

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We have taken this myth absolutely to pieces. This is another rarity for us.

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Every aspect of it is completely impossible.

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Zach left fans feeling brassed off, and they've been demanding an encore performance ever since.

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Only this time, they want to see a pair of lips pressed against the trombone's mouthpiece.

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So how would a trombonist have made a difference?

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The idea is that the trombonist's lips would seal the trombone more effectively,

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hence making the explosive propel the slide off the end of the trombone like a rocket.

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Okay, that's good enough. You know, if we're going to do this, though,

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I think we should make sure we can put it way to bed.

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Let's put a pair of lips behind the mouthpiece, but if that doesn't work, let's make a mouthpiece that we well shut.

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Sure.

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Okay, so according to you guys, having someone's mouth pressed against the trombone will make it a sealed system.

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Expanding gases from the explosion will no longer be able to escape through the mouthpiece.

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They'll have nowhere to go, but through that slide.

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Right, you ask for it. Adam and Janey are going to take it again from the top.

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Look at all those trumpets.

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Did you play the trumpet?

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No.

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Aren't you a bugler in the Civil War?

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Once again, the guys go trolling for trombones.

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Second hand, of course.

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They also need some mouthpieces.

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And some mutes.

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Unfortunately, this is the last note this trombone will ever play.

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Trust Adam to turn a trombone into an instrument of torture.

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Question is, will they still be able to blow their own trumpet when this revisits done?

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Finger in a barrel.

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I knew we were going to have to revisit this one.

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That's the one where a gun barrel can explode into a banana peel just like in the cartoons.

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This one's well worth a revisit, if only so we can catch up with our friends, the Mythtoons.

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They're a gun barrel of laughs.

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When our familiar foes come face to face, there's plenty of animated animosity.

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But instead of saying his prayers, our cheeky red-haired rodent forces his finger into the barrel.

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And the hunter's best laid plans backfire big time.

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The Mythbusters tried to get the same result in real life.

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They took modern rifles and plugged ballistics gel fingers into the barrels.

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The bullets won, hands down.

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All re-darned.

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And while they got one or two bulges in their barrels, nothing could trigger that famous cartoon banana peel.

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I don't want to count our chickens before they hatch, but I think we may end up revisiting this one.

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Well Adam, those chickens have now hatched and they're coming home to roost.

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Since busting the myth, fans have been firing a volley of suggestions.

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First we should try this. It's an older gun with a Damascus barrel.

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And what is that?

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Well up until the 20th century, they were making Damascus barrels and that's where they would take alternate strips of steel and iron,

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twist it around a rod and then weld it together. So it wasn't one piece of metal.

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Okay, so let's get that straight. A Damascus barrel was made by taking strips of iron and steel and welding them together.

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According to fans, those weld points weaken the structure and if the barrel is blocked, they'll give us our cartoon peel back.

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Well it looks like I need to go dig out the hand molds we used last time.

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And I'll work on a remote trigger because if this does indeed work, it could very well explode.

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While the guys get to work, let's revisit the science behind this cartoon caper.

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Pull the trigger of a gun and there's a small explosion.

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The expanding gasses propel the bullet through and out the barrel.

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Block the barrel however and the gas has nowhere to escape.

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The pressure builds and gun ruptures.

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Some fans might rupture too when they see what the mythmusters are going to do with this collector's item.

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Boy, you better marry my daughter.

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This ten-gauge shotgun had both barrels fashioned Damascus style.

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This one was made in 1877, so it's an antique and we're going to destroy it.

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Grant mounts the shotgun on Jamie's special rifle rig and wires up a remote trigger.

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We have a radio control system that transmits a wireless signal to the receiver.

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The receiver sends a control signal to the servo.

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It's going to turn the head of the servo which pulls a string.

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The string goes around the trigger and is captured on the other side by a hose clamp.

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And then that fires the gun.

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Three, two, one.

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There you go.

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Meanwhile, you gotta head it to Carrie. She's got hand-making down pat.

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So here we have a ballistic gel hand with a skeleton cast inside.

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It's been sitting up overnight and the nervous part is over because it came out of the mold and looks alright.

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Out in the mythmusters' purpose-built bunker, the rifle rig is screwed down and Carrie fits the finger into the Damascus barrel.

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Another thing that I read off the message board was people were complaining that we didn't have a skin layer on the outside.

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On the outside of our ballistics gel.

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So I've been recommended to use a finger from a glove to create a skin layer which will make an extra seal.

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Here we go. One skin layer, an extra bit of authenticity and at least one audience member, if not many, much more satisfied with our result.

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Hey Al.

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Overseen the experiment firearm specialist Sergeant Alan Normandy.

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He always rides shotgun when the guys go bustin' gun myths.

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So we have the shotgun set up. What kind of ammo are we using today?

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Well today we're gonna go with maximum power. So we're going with a 3.5 inch magnum 10 gauge rifled slug.

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It's a big bullet.

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It's a big shell.

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It's the first round this museum piece has seen in quite a while.

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This shotgun is absolutely unsafe with modern ammunition.

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Fantastic!

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Perfect!

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Fantastic!

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Oh!

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Hey, we got something.

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The hand's gone.

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Dang, I think the gun's ruined.

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That's pretty good. It's better than what we got last time.

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First time round all they got was a little barrel bolt.

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This time the Damascus barrels torn open and peeled back like cardboard.

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That's a better result, but it's still not the full banana.

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And unlike the cartoons, the guy who pulled the trigger still has a face.

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Our shooter doesn't look harmed at all.

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But the guy with the finger, little worse for wear when you say.

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And that's a good.

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It's obvious a flesh and bone finger isn't strong enough to cause a barrel to explode.

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So, Tari wants to take a slight detour on the road to Damascus barrel busting.

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I found this piece of steel. It fits perfectly in the barrel.

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Like so.

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I'm just going to cut off a little piece.

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And then I'm going to sculpt it to look like a finger.

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Just because I can.

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Being the model, model maker that he is, Tari is pretty handy at making a finger.

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And there's my steel finger.

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At Tari, that needs to go into another orifice. Thank you.

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I'm going to weld in the steel finger that I made into the good barrel.

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This way we're sure that it's not going to pop out when we take a shot.

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The barrel is now well and truly blocked.

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Okay, we're hot.

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We're set for a cartoon catastrophe.

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Fire in the hole.

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Three, two, one.

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Fire in the hole.

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Three, two, one.

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The shotgun suddenly becomes a sawn off.

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That's not a banana peel. That's like loss of tip.

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That's just total shattered the end off.

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But where's the finger?

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The end is gone.

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We've wrecked the gun.

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Steel finger.

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Gone.

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Gone.

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We'll find the finger later.

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Our Pursuit Hunter has suffered no ill effects, but the Damascus is done for.

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So in our second test with the steel plug welded into the Damascus barrel,

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we didn't get any banana peeling effect.

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Now this piece may look like it's a banana peel, but it's not actually a part of the barrel.

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This is just a detailed piece that goes between the two barrels of this double barrel shotgun.

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Once again, the finger myth gets the thumbs down.

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I'm banging the bang in the bang in the...

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Still to come on Myth 3 Visited, the guys become blacksmith busters

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as the hammer falls on a tall tool tail.

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And up next, the day the music died.

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Can a trombone turn rocket launcher?

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It's a musical mishap that could have come straight from the golden age of slapstick.

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Can a mute full of fireworks turn a trombone slide into a musical missile?

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For this raucous recital, Adam and Jamie are off to the Alameda County bomb range.

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Look at this.

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Isn't this so myth busters?

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Jamie's truck flanked by the bomb squad and the paramedics.

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Just like last time, Buster the conductor will have to face the music.

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He'll be propped up on a simple metal frame.

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Should he be buffeted by flying brass, he'll topple backwards.

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Now he just has to dress for the occasion.

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Hey Buster, that suits a nice... cut.

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But it's too big.

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Last time they tried this, the trombone was on its own.

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This time, crucially, they've got a bust of Grant puckering up behind the mouthpiece.

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This is ballistic material.

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It's got the same consistency as human flesh, human muscle tissue.

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That's behind this mouthpiece he has snubbed there.

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That is a committed trombonist behind this mouthpiece.

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To make sure that the slide can launch smoothly, Jamie takes out his handy tube of lube and goes to work.

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And we suddenly find out yet another startling fact about his past.

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The only time I had any kind of band instrument experience was I got a hold of an old tuba.

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So I mounted it in the bathroom when I was a teenager and you could sit on the toilet

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and everybody in the house knew what was going on.

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That's unique.

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Hold it, hold it, hold it.

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At this point, there are so many one-liners, my brain's about to explode.

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Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it.

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Movements, bum notes, crotchets and wind.

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Oh no!

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Okay, better now.

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While we try to wipe from our minds the image of the Heinemann's sister in symphony, let's take stock.

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Here is a disgruntled or very ambitious trombone player.

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He's decided during the 1812 overture to fill his mute with explosives for the finale.

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He fills them with explosives, they blow up, they send his slide, shooting all the way towards the conductor.

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Boom! Who falls backwards and into the audience.

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That's the myth.

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With the bomb squad supervising, the mute is packed with black powder and loaded into the trombone bell.

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Places, please everybody, we're ready to strike up the bell.

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It's good to go.

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This is Mad Trombonist.

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Lips behind the mouthpiece, revisit in five, four, three, two, one.

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I can see the slide moved a little bit.

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Just a little.

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I'm having the most shocking sense of deja vu.

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The high speed shows the mute flying from the trombone like shiny shrapnel and bouncing off Buster's cranium.

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But he remains unmoved.

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And as for the trombone slide, well it's still firmly attached to the instrument.

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The trombonist lips don't seem worse for wear, but I don't think they made much of a difference.

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In the name of due diligence and because they love blowing stuff up, the guys reset for a reprise.

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This time, Jamie doubles the amount of black powder.

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That's perfect.

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This mute is going to be anything but.

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In five, four, three, two, one.

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The music's on fire.

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Now that's a finale.

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In the aftermath of the second bomb trombone, it seems the mythbusters might have settled an old score with the fans.

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Again, just like the last one, we can see the shockwave in the bell and the slide didn't come off.

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That's about the only thing that didn't suffer with this one is the slide.

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It didn't even knock the baton from his hand.

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Which is barely hanging there.

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This musical myth is looking more busted than Pete Townsend's guitar.

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Or is it?

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I think there's one last thing we could do to put this to bed once and for all, and that would be to take our second backup trombone

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and solder or weld the mouthpiece so that no air can escape from it.

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Okay.

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Not just count on the lips, but make a complete blockage there and see if that works.

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If you say so.

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Try and have some enthusiasm, Jamie.

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Don't believe the cartoon's friends.

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Shove your finger in the barrel of a gun won't make the gun explode.

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Your hand, however, will.

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The guy with the finger.

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Little worse for wear, wouldn't you say?

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Not so good.

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But that's not all folks.

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Having busted the myth a second time, the mythbusters now want to find out what will make a barrel bend back like a banana peel.

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That's like loss of tip.

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And the fans have a sure fire suggestion.

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So next test is somebody was shooting a 30-odd 6 with a borsh cider still in the barrel.

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And that thing ripped shreds.

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I'm extremely familiar with the pictures of that.

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I have had so many emails sent to my inbox going, look, banana peel.

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We got the same exact gun that that happened with.

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So we're going to set that up and try it the same way.

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I really want to find out if that's real.

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Do these photos show a real deal peel?

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Are they smoking gun evidence?

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The mythbusters have their sights set on finding out.

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With the borsh cider, you put it in, you turn on the laser.

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And where the laser goes, that's where the bullet should go.

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Then you get your scope and you put your crosshairs on that laser point.

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Of course, you're supposed to take the borsh cider out of the barrel before pulling the trigger.

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Something our unfortunate marksman apparently forgot to do.

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Sergeant Normandy's got a theory as to how this scenario might work.

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Perhaps the little rubber gaskets on the borsh cider create such an adequate seal

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on what is a fairly small diameter for the bullet that it creates so much pressure in the barrel that it blows it up.

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Containment, combustion, explosion.

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Exactly.

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Okay, then let's see.

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Okay, we are loaded.

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They've got a brand new .30-odd 6 hunting rifle with a borsh cider stuck in the barrel.

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Three, two, one.

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Oh, what the heck?

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I think the borsh cider bounced off the bullet catcher and hit the light.

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Oh, wait a minute. We got a split.

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Did we?

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Yeah, split the barrel. Wow.

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That's about a three-inch split.

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The barrel separated from the stock.

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The borsh cider's in bits, but still no banana peel.

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I'm feeling like it is possible.

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I mean, we have never gotten any kind of damage like this before where it's actually splitting down the length of the barrel.

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Think about it. This has got to be a one in a million shot to create that banana peel effect.

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We've got a crack up the barrel. We've got the stock separated.

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I mean, under the perfect circumstances, that photo could be that one in a million shot.

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Also, we don't know what the age of the gun was, what kind of abuse it might have gone through.

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This is a brand new gun.

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That's a totally valid point. It's like he could have had that gun for years and it was already stressed.

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That's a great point.

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Alright, so I guess we call this one plausible.

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Plausible.

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I agree.

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From one firearm myth to another that made fans few.

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Sniper scope revisit?

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Yeah, I am very pleased that we found some things to retest in this one because personally, I don't really enjoy making snipers angry.

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Is that why you're wearing this thing?

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Yes, it is.

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So what exactly did we get wrong in the first try?

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Well, according to some viewers, we used the wrong rifle and or the wrong scope.

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Oh, is that all?

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This myth goes back to Vietnam.

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The story goes that US Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock took out his VC counterpart with a single shot straight down the scope.

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But when Adam and Jamie scored direct hits on scope after scope, the bullets never made it all the way through.

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Leading Adam to conclude,

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we don't have the scope that Gunny Hathcock shot at so we can't know for sure.

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I say we have to call this myth busted.

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So what was wrong with the scope?

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Well, fans say that we were not using a period scope, which apparently has a lot fewer glass elements than a modern scope and thus, my extension should be easier to get through with the bullet.

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Okay, what about the ammo?

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Well, it turns out that the modern ammo we used, while very accurate, is designed much more efficiently to kill than the period ammo, which means it breaks up much faster.

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We got a letter saying the period ammo would have made it through more glass than modern ammo.

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Is it harder to pull it?

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Yes.

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Okay, let's see how the myth busters aim up this time.

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That's it there like that?

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Fresh from helping out with finger in a barrel, Sergeant Alan Normandy will once again be calling the shots.

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According to photographic evidence, this is the exact same model of rifle that Gunnery Sergeant Hathcock would have been firing against.

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Exact same rifle, exact same mount, exact same scope.

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This is not a replica rifle, this is an actual period gun.

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It looks like there's some Russian writing on here, if you want to see if you can translate.

341
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There's Russian writing on the rifle.

342
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Lucky Jamie studied Russian literature.

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If you have a Soryuginia Zavori SSSR tool via 1928, so it means that it was made in 1928 and it was the first issue of the factor, I believe.

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Alan's also scoped out a bunch of period correct scopes.

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Put next to their modern counterparts, you can see that size does matter.

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You can see that there's a size difference.

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There's not much of a difference in functionality.

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There's between six and eight elements in each of these scopes.

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The light is moving similarly through them, but the lenses in this one are much bigger, which means they're much fatter.

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There's a lot more glass for the bullet to get through.

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There's a lot less glass for the bullet to get through in this scope.

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Last time, the bullets were hitting the modern scope dead on, but were deflected by the heavy-duty lenses inside.

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That shouldn't be a problem with this scope.

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If we can't fire through this scope, this myth is busted.

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Grant's ballistic bust is on another tour of duty, this time as the sniper.

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His rifle and scope setup is authentic, exactly what Sergeant Hathcock's enemy target would have been using.

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For this test, we're going to use this .30-odd 6 rifle with an original 1968 vintage M72-173 grain round.

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This is the actual type of round that Gunny Hathcock would have used in his rifle.

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.30-odd 6, 173 grain. This is a solid, full metal jacket round.

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We've seen what these .30-odd 6 bullets do several times in the past, and we know that, for example, this bullet right here will go through two thicknesses of the ballistic glass that we use to protect ourselves here.

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These really are powerful bullets.

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Jamie prepares to replicate Sergeant Hathcock's killer shot.

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Deep breath, but it surprised you.

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Dude! Oh, man.

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How'd I do?

366
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Well, we obliterated the scope mount for one. That's what I can see from here.

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I think we wasted a little energy on some of the metal.

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Jamie was just off target. The bullet didn't make it through the scope. Instead, it smashed the casing.

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Our sniper's still at clear and present danger. It looks like the old scope isn't as easy to penetrate as first thought.

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It may seem like the period scope has less glass to penetrate, and it probably does, but here's the catch.

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The period scope has a metal ring that's actually quite thick that the bullet has to push all that glass through to get to the other side.

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It's a little more difficult than it might seem.

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Adam's solution is typically straightforward.

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I don't know. I'm starting to think that we should just place this thing at point blank for the highest percentage of just seeing what the bullet will do.

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I'm all for it.

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But Jamie doesn't agree. He thinks Adam's taking a pot shot at his aiming ability.

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And soon our science-loving snipers are sniping at each other.

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I was pretty centered. I just need to move it up a little bit. I don't like to change variables every time we redo a test here.

379
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Well, I wasn't trying to change variables. I was trying to eliminate them.

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By moving the desk closer, we're kind of like having...

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By moving it all the way up to the barrel is kissing the thing. That's just removing the variable of aim.

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If you want to keep working with a variable of aim, I'm happy to.

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Okay.

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Jamie sets for a second shot.

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Making ready for live fire.

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He adjusts his aim just a fraction.

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And another 30-odd, 6-ram thunders into the sniper scope.

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That looked like a good shot.

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Well, the glass is all obliterated.

390
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That's one good sign.

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Adam admits admiration.

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Well, that was a good shot, Jamie. That made it all the way through.

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The question is, is that our bullet?

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It sure looks like it to me.

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Really?

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Oh, yeah, there's the copper.

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It melted some of the glass with some of the heat exchange.

398
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That's definitely copper.

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The bullet blasted straight through the scope, but somehow stopped before sniper grads BDI.

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The bullet made it all the way through in obliterated glass, but it still was just sitting right there.

401
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Yep, our little guy here is not happy at all, but he's not dead.

402
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The period scope, plus the period rifle and the period ammo all made significant differences, but I still want to call this one Buster.

403
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What do you think, Al?

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I'm not ready to call it over just yet. I got one little trick up my sleeve.

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USGI 30-odd, 6 armor piercing ammunition.

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Let's do it.

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Stay with us as the Mad Trump bonus myth reaches its brass crushing crescendo.

408
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And next, the guys tool up to hammer a blacksmith myth.

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Now the next myth ripe for revisiting is one I don't quite remember.

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Can a hammerhead really explode?

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Oh, that type of hammerhead.

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Got it.

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Sorry.

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You know what? It's always the little ones. You think you've tested them thoroughly, but the fans, they still complain about it.

415
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It's exploding hammer.

416
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,000
Well, you know, I really thought we nailed that one.

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I think we did too, but the people disagree.

418
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Why?

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Why don't we let the narrator explain?

420
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Oh, okay then.

421
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Well, see, it all started when Jamie innocently used one hammer to bang another.

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Don't do that, fans exclaimed. A hammer can explode. It's struck by another hammer.

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Well, of course, that sparked a frenzy of flailing tools as the mythbusters tried to blow a hammer sky high without success.

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Looks like the handle's bent, but no shattering.

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But according to fans, they got one or two things wrong.

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For a start, the modern hammers they tested were too soft.

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And when they fired up the homemade forge to try and harden a hammer, they didn't get the temperature right.

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Nag, nag, nag.

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And to top it all off, the anvil they used wasn't a real anvil.

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What?

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It was what blacksmiths call an aço, or anvil-shaped object.

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So it looks like we need to get some pre-World War II hammers, some modern day hammers that we can get all the way to transition temperature

433
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and then quenched. And finally, I think we need to get ourselves a real anvil.

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Sounds like another trip to the blacksmith.

435
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Got it.

436
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So the guys are going to take another swing at this one.

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First, they'll take two modern commercial hammers, have them super hardened by a blacksmith, and see if it's crunch time.

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Then they'll try it with antique work hardened hammers.

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I see you, fans are right.

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And finally, they'll put the antique tools up against a real anvil.

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One!

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Now, last time around, Tori put together a top hammer swinging rig.

443
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It'll be like Kallamo. It'll be like Bledow.

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Which he promptly destroyed after the myth had been busted.

445
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We need hammer rig.

446
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Unfortunately, I chopped it up and turned it into a chop saw table.

447
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You think we would learn?

448
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While Tori puts the rig back together, Kary and Grant are off to forge a relationship with a blacksmith.

449
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You even look like a blacksmith. Amazing.

450
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Well, thank you.

451
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As president of the California Blacksmithing Association, Herb Uppam knows a thing or two about swing and steel.

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See, here where a rather large piece has broken free from the top and has probably flown off at nearly the speed of sound.

453
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,000
Really?

454
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,000
Really.

455
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,000
Are you serious? The speed of sound?

456
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,000
The speed of sound.

457
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And he has one or two hammer horror stories.

458
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The chip flew off the hammer head and cut the artery in their left arm.

459
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Oh my God! So, what happened?

460
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They needed some immediate first aid because the artery where it was severed was squirting blood directly out of their arm.

461
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Modern hammers are a blend of metals, including tungsten and chrome, which softens the tool.

462
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Making it less likely to chip and shatter.

463
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To make a hammer harder, you heat it to the point where the metal loses its magnetism.

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That's called the transition temperature.

465
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:54,000
Then, when the steel cools, it's harder, and so the theory goes, more likely to shatter.

466
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:02,000
Now, the mythbusters tried this last time, but their homemade forage just wasn't hot enough.

467
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:07,000
Herb's propane-fueled forage is a different beast.

468
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,000
Herb, that's like the easy-to-make oven from hell.

469
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:15,000
Yes, it will toast your waffles to almost 3,000 degrees.

470
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:23,000
The brand new hammers are given the heat treatment, and when they no longer hold any attraction for a magnet, they're quickly cool.

471
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,000
This hammer is now as hard as it's ever going to get.

472
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,000
All right.

473
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,000
But has the process made it any more shatter-prone?

474
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000
It's in the danger zone.

475
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:45,000
This, if you struck it or hit it on something, it would have a very high likelihood of shards coming off, shattering, and doing some real damage.

476
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,000
Great. Excellent. Danger!

477
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,000
We'll take two.

478
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,000
Back at Hammer Headquarters, Tauri's reassembled the rig.

479
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,000
It's powered by compressed air and a pair of pneumatic actuators.

480
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,000
In three, two, one.

481
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,000
Ah, it's too worse.

482
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Out in the blast chamber, it's hammer time.

483
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,000
Bang it, bang it, bang it.

484
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,000
Herb's heat-treated modern hammers are about to swing.

485
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,000
If the fans are right, we should be in for a smashing time.

486
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:24,000
I'm going to attach them to the rig closer to the head, so that way there's no chance of bending.

487
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,000
All that energy will take place at the Hammer Head.

488
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:35,000
First time round, the guys worked out that a top human hammer swing hits with a force of around 50 pounds per square inch.

489
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:40,000
50 psi works out to be 795-inch pounds of torque.

490
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Will that be enough to make those hammers explode?

491
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:48,000
We should probably define what an explosion is before we do this test.

492
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000
Did you see the Death Star when it went out?

493
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000
I want to see that, but like it's a hammer.

494
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,000
I want a shattering of hammer heads.

495
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,000
We want it to look like it was made of rock candy.

496
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:02,000
Here we go. In three, two, one.

497
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,000
Whoa!

498
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000
We broke off the handle.

499
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,000
Yeah.

500
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,000
Well, it busted, but it didn't explode.

501
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,000
No, in fact, there's no damage to the head.

502
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:25,000
If these hardened hammers won't explode, there's no way a hardware store hammer is going to even think about going west.

503
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:30,000
These are modern hammers with modern alloys that are specifically made not to shatter.

504
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,000
They're made not to break into pieces.

505
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000
I mean, they're extra, extra hardened.

506
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:40,000
So if it's not going to happen with a hard hammer, it's not going to happen with a modern hammer.

507
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,000
High five.

508
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,000
Don't get too cocky, guys.

509
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:50,000
You might have hammered home the point on the modern tools, but antiques and anvils are still waiting in the wings.

510
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:58,000
Adam and Jamie have one last shot at shooting a sniper through his scope,

511
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,000
and they're going to take it using armor-piercing ammunition.

512
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:06,000
This bullet has a tungsten carbide core.

513
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:11,000
It's designed to drill through quarter inch steel plate without fragmenting.

514
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,000
They're down to their last scope.

515
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,000
Jamie will have to be right on target.

516
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:22,000
They stick a dot to the dummy's eye so any damage will show up clearly.

517
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,000
Are you ready?

518
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,000
I'm ready.

519
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000
You feeling good? You going to make this shot?

520
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,000
Yeah.

521
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,000
It's make or break for this myth.

522
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,000
Keep breath on the exhale, squeeze slowly.

523
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,000
Jamie gets a bead on the enemy's eyepiece.

524
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,000
You took his wig off.

525
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,000
Oh, Jamie.

526
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,000
Now we're talking.

527
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,000
Jamie's pulled off the perfect shot.

528
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000
That hole is right down the middle of the scope.

529
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000
It couldn't be any cleaner than that.

530
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,000
I see a disintegrated dot, but maybe a hole in the middle.

531
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,000
But what happened to the bullet?

532
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:09,000
It's not amongst the scope debris, and there's no exit wound in the dummy.

533
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,000
I got to say, that's worth looking into.

534
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,000
I think we should take it back to the shop, cut it open, do a real autopsy,

535
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,000
see if there's a bullet in him.

536
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,000
Okay.

537
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,000
I'm driving.

538
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,000
They heft the head back to HQ.

539
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,000
And with absolutely no surgical precision whatsoever.

540
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,000
We're getting in there. That's good.

541
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,000
Adam carves himself a wedge.

542
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,000
All right, I'm going to cut this chunk out.

543
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,000
I mean, don't let this guy near your fresh baked apple pie.

544
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,000
Okay.

545
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,000
Hey, look at that.

546
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:53,000
That looks like debris a good two inches into the sniper's eye.

547
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:58,000
Sure enough, like an insect trapped in amber, the bullet is buried in the gel.

548
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,000
Well, gee, that looks like a bullet.

549
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,000
And that means the fans have scored a direct hit.

550
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,000
Well, that's definitive.

551
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:09,000
This bullet made it all the way through one of these scopes and in far enough to be a kill.

552
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,000
That's a plausible myth.

553
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,000
Yep, he's dead.

554
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,000
The fans were right.

555
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:18,000
I'm really glad that we no longer have to worry about a 3,000 yard restraining order

556
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,000
against angry sniper fans.

557
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,000
Still to come.

558
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:34,000
The guys steal themselves for some anvil antics and our lone trombone sends us out on a high note.

559
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:51,000
The mythbusters have shown that a modern hammer, even a heat treated one, isn't about to explode the user's face.

560
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,000
There's no damage to the head.

561
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,000
So Jamie was never in any real danger.

562
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:03,000
But what if our beret banger had been using historic hammers?

563
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Before World War II, hammers were fashioned from straight steel.

564
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:16,000
Theoretically, the high carbon content makes them more brittle and therefore more likely to explode on impact.

565
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Tori takes the heads of two antique tools and welds them under the swing and rig.

566
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,000
This next test should address two issues.

567
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,000
One, pre-World War II hammers, which means they should have a higher carbon content.

568
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,000
And secondly, they are seriously work hardened.

569
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,000
Blacksmith work hardened, not just our shop work hardened.

570
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,000
Let's see if the fans are right.

571
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,000
And three, two, one.

572
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,000
The hammers go head to head.

573
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000
Oh, that was a massive hit.

574
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,000
But apparently, even old hammers die hard.

575
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,000
Obviously, neither of these exploded.

576
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000
No, not even that chip.

577
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:06,000
Not content with sending an email, one blacksmith named Dorothy has actually sent in some pre-World War II hammers for the guys to test.

578
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:11,000
She sure her antique tools will give the guys their big break.

579
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,000
These have been work hardened over many years.

580
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:19,000
And she's actually retired them because she feels they're too unsafe.

581
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:24,000
And these are old hammers, the Rhett to go.

582
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,000
All right, so are we.

583
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,000
Here we go.

584
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Oh, wait, I don't need this.

585
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000
Don't worry, Grant.

586
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,000
Never can be too safe.

587
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,000
All right, in three, two, one.

588
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,000
Whoa!

589
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,000
It looks like they hit right on the face.

590
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:45,000
Oh, yeah.

591
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,000
And what do you know?

592
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:53,000
One of Dorothy's retired tools has given this myth its best crack at success.

593
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,000
It gets a chip and a crack.

594
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,000
Yeah, that's not bad.

595
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,000
She wasn't lying.

596
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,000
They're ready to go.

597
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:04,000
Surely, if it's subjected to a second blow straight away, it'll shatter like honeycomb.

598
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,000
You know, this is probably our best chance at getting an exploding hammerhead.

599
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,000
That's true.

600
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,000
They've got some serious fissures and weaknesses in there.

601
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000
Yeah, this is it.

602
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,000
Here we go.

603
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,000
In three, two, one.

604
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:23,000
That hammer has lost its head, but still no explosive shattering.

605
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:28,000
And if you hit a hammer and you saw a crack like that, you would obviously stop using it.

606
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,000
Absolutely.

607
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,000
You ready?

608
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:34,000
Yeah.

609
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,000
Tori, Carrie and Grant are still trying to make a hammer explode.

610
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,000
They've really been putting their heads together.

611
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,000
But to date, their best result has been a single fracture.

612
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,000
I think they does it for hammer versus hammer.

613
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,000
Yeah.

614
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,000
Maybe, Grant, but fans want one more test.

615
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,000
Hammer versus anvil.

616
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,000
And they want to see a real anvil this time, not the lightweight copy it tried to pass

617
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,000
off in the original story.

618
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:07,000
This is 260 pounds worth of heat treated tool steel that is a real anvil.

619
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Now they're looking for a way to slam a hammer down on it.

620
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:16,000
The sharpest tool in the shed has been struck by an idea.

621
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,000
Decapitation hazard, everybody.

622
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:24,000
This powerful rotating rig was once used to cut a sword with a sword.

623
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,000
What I need to do is rotate it 90 degrees.

624
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:34,000
So that way, instead of doing this, the rig will do this.

625
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:42,000
This new hammer heave and hunk of metal will also be powered by compressed air.

626
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,000
The really good thing about it is that it can be scaled up.

627
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:52,000
We can start out at human pressure, but then it has the ability, thanks to a huge actuator,

628
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,000
to go to superhuman strength.

629
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,000
Tori attaches an antique hammer.

630
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:02,000
Remember, the older and more work hardened the tool, the harder and more brittle the steel.

631
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,000
All right, you guys ready?

632
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,000
In three, two, one.

633
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,000
Did that look like anything happened?

634
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,000
Hammer hits anvil with maximum human force.

635
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,000
795 inch pounds of torque.

636
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,000
Holy crap.

637
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,000
There's a huge crack in the head of this.

638
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:29,000
It's very faint, but you can see right along there is a hairline crack.

639
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:35,000
Maybe, but there are no chips, no steel shards, and definitely no explosion.

640
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,000
All right, let's wrap it up.

641
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,000
Superhuman strength? You got it.

642
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,000
Grant ups the air pressure to 100 psi.

643
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:48,000
The rig will now deliver more than 1500 inch pounds of torque.

644
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,000
Way faster, way stronger than any human could possibly swing a hammer.

645
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,000
Three, two, one.

646
00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:01,000
The God of Thunder himself couldn't have any heart.

647
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,000
Well, the head didn't explode.

648
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,000
Yeah, that was a massive hit.

649
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,000
I thought that was going to be it.

650
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,000
I mean, we took every single factor into account.

651
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,000
Work hardened pre-World War II, real anvil.

652
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,000
Thanks.

653
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,000
Superhuman strength.

654
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,000
You want to stop talking for a sec?

655
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,000
Look at that.

656
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,000
It opened the crack up bigger.

657
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,000
That is no chip even.

658
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,000
That's not an explosive shattering.

659
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,000
I would have thought this would have done it.

660
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,000
Time to down tools, people.

661
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:31,000
This myth has gone under the hammer.

662
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,000
I feel like we really busted this one the first time,

663
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,000
and I think that still stands.

664
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:40,000
I totally agree. Hammer heads will not explode if you hit them against each other

665
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,000
or on an anvil, whether the anvil is real or not.

666
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,000
Yeah, and we've never denied that the chips can fly off the hammer,

667
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:49,000
and those chips can be extremely dangerous and potentially lethal,

668
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,000
as we've heard in some cases.

669
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:55,000
But as far as an explosive shattering, it's just not going to happen.

670
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,000
The only thing we could do to put this to bed once and for all,

671
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,000
and that would be to take our second backup trombone

672
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:31,000
and solder or weld the mouthpiece so that no air can escape from it.

673
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:35,000
Our mustachioed maestro takes their one remaining mouthpiece,

674
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,000
and with all the delicate skill of a good drummer,

675
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,000
bashes a bolt of metal into it.

676
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,000
What I've done is plugged this up physically,

677
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,000
and we're going to actually solder it into the end of the trombone,

678
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:51,000
so there's no other way for the gas to escape other than through the slide.

679
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,000
Then Adam takes over with solder and flame.

680
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,000
I put a bolt in there, and it's solid solder,

681
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,000
and it's soldered right into the body of the trombone.

682
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:05,000
This mouthpiece and this trombone never shall be rent asunder again.

683
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,000
The trombone is now sealed shut.

684
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:11,000
Will that be enough to give the fans the result they're looking for?

685
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,000
Good to go.

686
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,000
Adam's mug is looking smug.

687
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,000
I do think it is part of due diligence to put this thing to bed,

688
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,000
but I don't think it's going to do anything.

689
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:26,000
It's not going to send this slide out towards Buster.

690
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:27,000
Just no way.

691
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,000
Molder's brass is neat.

692
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,000
Alright, let's see what happens.

693
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:35,000
This is mad trombonist final test, final revisit,

694
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:42,000
welded shut mouthpiece in five, four, three, two, one.

695
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,000
Ha-ha-ha-ha.

696
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,000
Bang!

697
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,000
Well, the trombonist is down

698
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,000
and Buster hasn't budged,

699
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,000
but hang on a cotton-picking minute.

700
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,000
The slide came off our trombone.

701
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:05,000
Where'd it go?

702
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,000
Jamie!

703
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,000
It's up there, dude.

704
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:17,000
That's right, a full 70 feet away on the side of a hill.

705
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:18,000
Only on Mythbusters.

706
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:24,000
There's a lot of people cheering at their television sets right about now.

707
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,440
I was all arrogant and saying, no, it's not going to work.

708
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:28,440
This is just stupid.

709
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,080
I can't believe we're doing this.

710
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,040
That's right, he did say that.

711
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:38,240
It's not going to send this slide out towards Buster.

712
00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:40,240
There's no way.

713
00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:46,240
The slide took off like a stinger missile, somehow missing our conductor all together,

714
00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:48,240
but probably knocking out the doorman.

715
00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:50,740
Well, that's it, it definitely did leave during the explosion.

716
00:46:50,740 --> 00:46:55,640
Go right past Buster.

717
00:46:55,640 --> 00:47:02,080
You know, it's weird having a job where you really like being wrong.

718
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:03,080
That's true.

719
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:06,920
But I mean, that's just awesome.

720
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:11,920
Despite that spectacular result, the guys aren't about to change their tune.

721
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:13,920
This doesn't change the status of the myth.

722
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:17,920
We've already shown that a person whose lips are basically tied to the mouthpiece

723
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,920
didn't put enough back pressure to cause the same result.

724
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:26,920
So, only if you had a metal person whose metal lips were welded to the mouthpiece

725
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,920
would you have had the same result.

726
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:30,920
It's still Buster.

727
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,920
But it goes to show the fans are right to make overtures

728
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,920
if they think the mythbusters are off-key.

729
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,920
Based on what I've seen, the complaint the fans had about our diligence

730
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,920
the first time we did this test seems to be correct.

731
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,920
Well, I still gotta say the myth is busted.

732
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:46,920
Oh, no doubt.

733
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:51,920
I still put this easily in the busted category, but I am very pleased to see

734
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:58,920
that the fans' concept and theory about the reason this slide could have left is actually correct.

735
00:47:58,920 --> 00:47:59,920
Yeah, well, we're done.

736
00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:00,920
All right.

737
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:05,920
Let's go.

738
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:44,920
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