1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Do not try anything that we're doing on this episode at home. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,000 We're what you call experts. 3 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,000 I'm not sure what to do with this. 4 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,000 I'm just gonna try to get the best of the best. 5 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,000 I'm not sure what to do with this. 6 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,000 I'm just gonna try to get the best of the best. 7 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,000 I'm just gonna try to get the best of the best. 8 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,000 I'm just gonna try to get the best of the best. 9 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,000 What? 10 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Who are the misbusters? 11 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Adam Savage 12 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Adam Dutcher 13 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,000 and Jamie Heinerman 14 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 That's one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. 15 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience 16 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 together with Carrie Byron 17 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,000 around. 18 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Torey Galachy. 19 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,440 This is going to be so awesome. 20 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:27,440 And Brandy Maharu. 21 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:28,940 Somebody ordered an explosion. 22 00:01:28,940 --> 00:01:41,640 They don't just tell the myths, they put them to the test. 23 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:48,560 Buckle up your bandolier, because this is Bullet Bologna. 24 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:58,040 In a feast of six sensational firearm fables, the team busts out their weapons of mass deduction. 25 00:01:58,040 --> 00:01:59,440 It's for science. 26 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:05,480 To uncover the truth behind the bullets. 27 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:10,160 And the first question on their quest, what's first? 28 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,000 I'm thinking bet barrel. 29 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,280 You're going to have to give me a little more to go on than that. 30 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:15,280 Okay. 31 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:20,440 In a million cartoons, one character grabs the gun of another character and bends it, 32 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,080 hoping to neutralize the weapon, but it still fires. 33 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,320 So we can shoot around in corners and stuff. 34 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,640 Maybe if it works, that might be possible. 35 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:31,520 Sounds like fun. 36 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:37,000 When a cartoon character nonchalantly bends the barrel, the gun always seems to fire just 37 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,360 fine, albeit with an appropriately twisted trajectory. 38 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:46,080 But wouldn't the rifle's finely balanced ballistics actually be, well, all bent out 39 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,760 of shape? 40 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:49,760 So what's the plan? 41 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,480 The plan I think is pretty elaborate, so see if you can follow along. 42 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:57,720 I think what we should do is get a gun with the barrel, remove the barrel, and wait for 43 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,040 it. 44 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,040 We bend it. 45 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:03,040 Woo! 46 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,680 Yeah, I love this problem-solving stuff, man. 47 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:11,720 That's the best part of this job. 48 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:12,720 Genius. 49 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:13,720 Thanks. 50 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:22,440 As Adam Savant Savage said, it's a pretty simple plan. 51 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:23,440 Awesome. 52 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:28,400 And at the Yolo County bomb range, they're all set to bend it like gunbusters. 53 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,640 You got to come to me, man. 54 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:34,720 We already know that it's possible to shoot a gun with a bent barrel. 55 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:38,560 Nazis did it in World War II with the thing they called the Kremlauf. 56 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:43,000 But the Kremlauf was engineered specifically for that purpose. 57 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:48,320 What we want to find out is if we can take a normal gun like this one and bend the barrel 58 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,000 and have it work well enough to shoot around corners. 59 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,600 Yep, with an ad hoc cartoon curl. 60 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:55,600 Loaded. 61 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,000 Range is hot. 62 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,560 Really leave you with a fully functional firearm. 63 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:01,560 Ready when you are, sir. 64 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,720 Well, first up to find out is a straight shooting control. 65 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:06,720 And three. 66 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,320 How far into a block of ballistics gel? 67 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:10,320 Two. 68 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:11,800 Will the bullet penetrate? 69 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:12,800 One. 70 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:14,800 There you go. 71 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,240 That was neat and pretty. 72 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:17,240 Let's go check it out. 73 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:18,240 Okay. 74 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:23,480 And the benchmark is a through and through. 75 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,360 And through again? 76 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:27,640 This is funny. 77 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:31,920 It actually went all the way through it, hit our bullet resistant glass and bounce back 78 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,400 in the ballistics gel about an inch and a half. 79 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:36,960 It went thunk, thunk. 80 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:42,120 So to bend our barrels, we figure we're going to heat it up first to make it more malleable. 81 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,520 That means getting it like red or cherry red hot. 82 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:52,160 And to do that, we've got a sword forge, which for some reason Adam just happened to have. 83 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,080 I didn't just happen to have it. 84 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:58,600 I, since I've always wanted to learn sword making, I've been admiring these sword forges 85 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,800 for a while and I was looking for an excuse to buy one and this episode was a perfect 86 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:02,800 excuse. 87 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,000 So I didn't just happen to have one, I happened to want one. 88 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,040 Of course you did. 89 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:10,040 Let's fire it up. 90 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:11,040 Okay. 91 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:18,760 So what exactly is a sword forge as its name implies it is a forge. 92 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:19,760 Perfect. 93 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:24,920 In an extremely hot oven in the thousands of degrees for manipulating metal for making 94 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:25,920 swords. 95 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:26,920 Here we go. 96 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:32,920 In a few minutes, we should have some delicious gun barrel to eat and it's perfect for our 97 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:33,920 purposes. 98 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:34,920 It's getting there. 99 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,080 It's powered by five gas jets of propane. 100 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:42,760 Once that gets cherry red, we'll pull it out and bend it to the angle that we need. 101 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:43,760 Oh yeah. 102 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:44,760 Oh it's moving. 103 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:45,760 Look at that. 104 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:46,760 All right. 105 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:50,960 And with a barrel pulled to a perfect 45 degrees. 106 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:51,960 Excellent. 107 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,240 Let's let it cool. 108 00:05:54,240 --> 00:06:01,240 Then quenched. 109 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,240 Prepped and remounted. 110 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:08,960 It just kind of feels funny, don't it? 111 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:10,480 It feels funny. 112 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,080 Here's Adam with a prediction and a plan. 113 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,800 I for one think that that bullet's going to come out. 114 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:16,840 There we go. 115 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:21,760 It's very close to the same amount of power as before and if it does, range is hot. 116 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,760 Well, we're going to bend this barrel some more and see how extreme we can bend it. 117 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:26,760 It's still going to bullet out. 118 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:27,760 All right. 119 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:33,760 45 degree bent barrel in three, two, one, go. 120 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:38,760 It fired. 121 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:40,800 Fired but how successful it is. 122 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:42,200 Oh look at that. 123 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,200 It went all the way through. 124 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:53,120 It went all the way through, bounced off the bulletproof glass and look, landed on top 125 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:54,960 of our ballistics gel. 126 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:55,960 That is awesome. 127 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:57,920 Well the numbers are in. 128 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:03,680 Our first control bullet fired from the straight barrel, shot out of barrel at 1216 feet per 129 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:04,680 second. 130 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:11,400 Our second bullet fired out of this, the 45 degree angled barrel, 1131 feet per second. 131 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,120 45 degrees still lethal. 132 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:14,120 Wow. 133 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:18,040 That's a loss of energy of only 7%. 134 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,040 I'm starting to feel real optimistic. 135 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:22,040 Let's bend it some more. 136 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:23,040 Let's bend it some more. 137 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:33,040 Roll up, roll up, the Mythbusters Carnival of Ballistic Carnage continues. 138 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,520 Okay, so what do we got? 139 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,440 Well, we couldn't do an entire episode on bullets without doing another installment 140 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,480 of what is bulletproof? 141 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:47,000 All right, so what's the plan? 142 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:52,200 Actually, we have a carnival style shooting gallery waiting for us at the gun range. 143 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:57,200 Oh, I get to relive my childhood. 144 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:03,800 Yep, no collection of guns and ammo would be complete without a stroll down bulletproof 145 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:04,800 leg. 146 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,200 I can see you. 147 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,080 Over the years, the team has uncovered some life saving surprises. 148 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,400 Holy Cremoli. 149 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,040 But life saving firearm folklore. 150 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:18,040 Find a per shooting gallery. 151 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,040 It's the gift that keeps on giving. 152 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,040 It's the Mythbusters shooting gallery. 153 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,120 Oh my God, this is so awesome. 154 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:26,120 That's crazy. 155 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,200 All right, first item up, cape measure. 156 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:30,200 Who gets to shoot first? 157 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:31,200 Me, me, me. 158 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:32,200 I think he wants to go. 159 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:33,200 I guess I guess. 160 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:34,200 This is so cool. 161 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,720 So I actually have heard of this one. 162 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:39,400 It goes way back. 163 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,080 Contractor has a tape measure in his pocket. 164 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,960 He is shot and the bullet doesn't make it through and protects his heart. 165 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:47,440 All right, you guys ready? 166 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:48,440 Ready. 167 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,420 So we're going to start out shooting this with a 22. 168 00:08:51,420 --> 00:08:54,640 If it does make it through, we're going to increase the caliber. 169 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,080 This should be fun. 170 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:02,240 So Grant steps on up and takes aim to tag one of the moving tape measures and test its 171 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,480 bulletproof qualities. 172 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:12,600 But it takes a few shots before he gets a direct hit. 173 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,800 Now how did it fair at the live ammunition fair? 174 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,000 Dude, you nailed it. 175 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Did it make it all the way through? 176 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,000 No, it didn't go through. 177 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,000 It stopped the 22 caliber. 178 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Right on. 179 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,720 Well, let's move on to the nine and see what that does. 180 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:24,720 Cool. 181 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:26,320 The tape measure saved your life. 182 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:27,760 Success so far. 183 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,040 But okay, ready for nine millimeter? 184 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:31,040 Absolutely. 185 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:32,040 All right. 186 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:42,040 So the material would be expected to stop any handgun, not just a low velocity 22. 187 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:47,560 So what happens when the stakes are up? 188 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:50,320 It went in there, but didn't come out. 189 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:51,320 No way. 190 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:52,320 Nine millimeter. 191 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,320 It stopped at nine millimeter round. 192 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,120 This is absolutely astounding. 193 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,040 A 22 didn't make it through this. 194 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:01,480 And this is a regular tape measure. 195 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,880 A nine millimeter didn't make it through. 196 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,000 This is not a lot of steel here. 197 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:07,240 Here we go. 198 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:08,400 But you know what? 199 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:12,600 Next up is the 40 caliber. 200 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:17,640 And unfortunately, nice shot right in the middle. 201 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,840 I think that's where the tape measure is going to lose. 202 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:21,840 Oh yeah. 203 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:22,840 All right. 204 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:27,280 So it looks like the tape measure stopped the 22, a nine millimeter, but not a 40 caliber. 205 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,280 This one is busted. 206 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:35,520 Coming up on Mythbusters. 207 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,680 Fat cats and bob hits. 208 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:40,280 Crazy cartoon curves. 209 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:41,840 It's kind of handy. 210 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:42,840 Deep fried guns. 211 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:44,840 Fire gun in the vacuum. 212 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:50,680 And guns in space. 213 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:52,920 This is Bullet Bologna. 214 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,360 Come on down to James House of Bend barrels. 215 00:10:55,360 --> 00:11:01,320 And the Mythbusters are tackling a bumper pack of ballistic mysteries. 216 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,920 And classic cinematic clichés. 217 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,400 So button up your bulletproof vest. 218 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,840 Ow, firing a gun in a vacuum. 219 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,920 Because there's six myths to solve. 220 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:16,520 And with first up bent barrel success. 221 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:17,520 Fire. 222 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:19,720 Adam's feeling real optimistic. 223 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,400 I'm starting to feel real optimistic. 224 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:28,000 Jamie's noticed an interesting, not so encouraging ballistic detail. 225 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,520 Barely inches after leaving the gun, the bullet has started to tumble. 226 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:36,360 So it's being very seriously affected by this bend. 227 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:40,800 I don't know what exactly it's doing, but I suspect that it's going to get worse the 228 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:45,240 more that we bend that barrel. 229 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:49,320 Now our first bent barrel, the one bent at 45 degrees, that was just a dresser hurstle. 230 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,160 That was to test our equipment, our machinery and our technique. 231 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,880 This gun bent at a 90 degree angle. 232 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,640 This is where the rubber meets the road. 233 00:11:58,640 --> 00:11:59,960 That's just wrong. 234 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:03,120 This is potentially a gun that shoots around corners. 235 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,120 And if a bullet comes out, it's still lethal. 236 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:06,880 How cool is that? 237 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:08,760 Also, how illegal is that? 238 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,920 Seriously, does anyone check how illegal this is? 239 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:14,320 Meanwhile, glass half empty, Heinemann. 240 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:16,080 Oh, Jamie, this is perfect. 241 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:21,080 Thinks the right angle will be the last right angle before things go wrong. 242 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:25,920 This 90 degree barrel is the maximum point that I think that the bullet is probably going 243 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:26,920 to come out of. 244 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:27,920 What do we got? 245 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:33,280 Beyond this, what it means is that the bullet's actually having to go down an opposite path 246 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:34,440 that it came in on. 247 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:36,280 All right, here we go. 248 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:40,600 At this point, it's just going off at right angles, and I think it'll make it. 249 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:45,120 Shooting bullets around corners in three, two, one, go. 250 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:49,720 Hey, it hit the ballistics gel and the box jumped. 251 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:55,840 Yep, once again, the block stand jumps as the bullet penetrates the ballistics gel. 252 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:59,840 But does its penetrating power match up? 253 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:01,360 Look at that. 254 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:02,880 That's still a significant hit. 255 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:03,880 It is a significant hit. 256 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,280 It's slightly less than the middle one, but it went all the way through the ballistics 257 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:08,280 gel. 258 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:09,760 That puppy's lethal. 259 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:11,280 And that's a conclusive result. 260 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:16,760 We shot a gun around a corner. 261 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:18,960 Our 90-degree barrel worked perfectly. 262 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:24,600 In fact, the bullet left this barrel traveling the exact same speed as it left the 45-degree 263 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:25,600 barrel. 264 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:27,840 Now I'm feeling real optimistic. 265 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:32,040 On that note, we'll be right back after a short word from our sponsors. 266 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,480 Come on down to Jamie's house of Ben barrels. 267 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,040 We got a gun that'll shoot whatever you want. 268 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:38,040 Duck hunt. 269 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:39,040 Fishing. 270 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,520 Heck, it'll shoot things you can't even see. 271 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:45,480 Only $19.95, curved ammo not included. 272 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:46,480 Welcome back. 273 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:51,040 We're testing the idea that a gun can suffer a bent barrel, yet still fire its bullets 274 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:52,040 effectively. 275 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,040 That is awesome. 276 00:13:54,040 --> 00:14:00,080 And boldened by these results, we went then to a 90-degree bend and found that it absolutely 277 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,680 shoots with only 7% less energy than a straight barrel. 278 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:05,760 You shot a gun around a corner. 279 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:06,920 But this isn't enough for us. 280 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:08,240 No, no, no, no. 281 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:14,720 We now want to bend this barrel even further and find the limits of how effective a bent 282 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:15,720 barrel can be. 283 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:16,920 I'd say that's good. 284 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:18,720 It's a nice, gentle bend. 285 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,360 Or how bent an effective barrel can be. 286 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:22,860 I guess both. 287 00:14:22,860 --> 00:14:24,360 135 degrees. 288 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,520 That's a serious bend. 289 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:33,840 Yep, with a muzzle facing a comical 135 degrees away from the barrel's base. 290 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,440 I'm confused. 291 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,880 If the bullet makes it out with lethal intent... 292 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:39,880 Range is hot. 293 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:44,480 ...the myth will have exceeded even the most optimistic expectations. 294 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,600 135 degree bent barrel in three, two, one. 295 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,200 I saw the bugs jump. 296 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:54,520 I guess I mean to came out. 297 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:55,520 Whee. 298 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:57,640 Came out, went in... 299 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:01,760 Oh, it went all the way through the gel. 300 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,840 And proving its deadly force came out again. 301 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:07,080 That's astonishing to me. 302 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:11,880 I thought that by the time we got to 135, it was going to be going halfway through. 303 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:16,600 To remind you, with a straight barrel, the bullet was coming out at 1200 feet per second. 304 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:22,720 Now with the barrel bent at 135 degrees, the bullet's coming out at 1050 feet per second. 305 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,920 Now that's not a whole lot of reduction. 306 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:26,440 Who would have thought it? 307 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:33,360 According to an earlier prediction, not Jamie, question is, can the gun confound all expectations 308 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,400 and go the full comedy curve? 309 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,560 This barrel is going all the way. 310 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,160 180 degrees. 311 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:44,320 This gun that we're about to put together will shoot the guy who's holding it or someone 312 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,320 standing behind him. 313 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,320 Almost, almost there. 314 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,320 That's it. 315 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,320 Pretty nice, yeah. 316 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:54,320 That's beautiful. 317 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,320 Beautiful, sure. 318 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,320 Absurd, without doubt. 319 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,840 It's kind of handy. 320 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:03,840 But will it be deadly? 321 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:11,800 After witnessing the 45 degree bend, the 90 degree bend, and the 135 degree bend, I 322 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:13,560 think this is going to work. 323 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:18,000 I think a lethal bullet is going to exit this barrel when we fire it. 324 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,200 And that's pretty amazing. 325 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:25,800 Gun is hot, but let's find out. 326 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:27,800 This is it for the money. 327 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:29,400 Here we go. 328 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:36,400 The gun that shoots its owner, 180 degree turn, and three, two, one. 329 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,400 Nothing jumped. 330 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:45,400 A lack of visible physical impact is not a great sign. 331 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,400 Jamie, it went all the way through. 332 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:52,400 Wow, who knew? 333 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:58,960 This is now my officially new favorite artifact we have ever made on the show. 334 00:16:58,960 --> 00:16:59,960 That's excellent. 335 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:02,840 I was optimistic, but now I'm speechless. 336 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:04,840 This is amazing. 337 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:08,960 So there you have it. 338 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,440 This, I believe, is an awesome day's work. 339 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:17,640 Four barrels bent at 45, 90, 135, and 180 degrees, with ballistic stealth showing all 340 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:19,640 four of those shots being lethal. 341 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,680 That is a completely astonishing result. 342 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:29,920 To mention an unexpectedly confirmed and comical conclusion. 343 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:30,920 Let's get out of here. 344 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:33,200 I want to mount this on the wall of my office. 345 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,920 Well, are we even allowed to transport that? 346 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,760 Well, if it fits in the gun case. 347 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:39,760 Fair enough. 348 00:17:39,760 --> 00:18:04,560 When you're slow on the draw, an innocuous everyday object might just save your life. 349 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:11,960 But are the many life-saving urban myths the miraculous real deal or unrealistic rumor? 350 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,960 Next up, has a wallet really got your backside covered? 351 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:16,320 Oh, yeah, I've heard this one. 352 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:21,280 A guy gets shot in the back pocket with a 9mm round, but the wallet stops it. 353 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:22,280 That's it. 354 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:23,280 Okay. 355 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:24,280 All right. 356 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,280 So, Carrie lines up with a myth-specified 9mm. 357 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,400 All right, this is 9mm versus wallet. 358 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,040 But what isn't known is what was in the wallet. 359 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,760 So, we're going to shoot a regular wallet filled with credit cards and money. 360 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,280 All right, shoot them in the butt. 361 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:40,480 A fat cat wallet. 362 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,120 How do you even get that in your pocket? 363 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:52,560 And finally, a duct tape wallet because let's face it, we love duct tape. 364 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:53,920 I think that's all of them. 365 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:55,360 Let's go see which ones are bulletproof. 366 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:57,320 Yep, the bulletproof proof. 367 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:59,480 My shooting techs is in the pocket. 368 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,480 The first step, regular. 369 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:02,920 And that is clean through and through. 370 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,400 All right, regular wallet, not bulletproof. 371 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:06,400 No, busted. 372 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,480 All right, here comes the fat wallet. 373 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:16,080 Interance, exit, and it got shot a couple times and it didn't stop any of them. 374 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,680 Let's try duct tape. 375 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:20,680 Straight through the butt. 376 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:22,160 Ooh, clean through. 377 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:23,160 There's some fries there. 378 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,880 Duct tape wallet, busted for the 9mm. 379 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:26,880 They're all busted. 380 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:32,040 Later on MythBusters. 381 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,680 If you're an astronaut in the vacuum of space and you've got a handgun, can you even fire 382 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:36,680 it? 383 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:37,680 Ow! 384 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,680 That's what we're going to find out. 385 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:44,880 Ooh, alien blood. 386 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:51,640 Sit down, strap in, and stand by. 387 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,720 Bullet Bologna continues. 388 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:58,160 All right, this one is a fan favorite, the shotgun spear. 389 00:19:58,160 --> 00:19:59,960 What do you mean from the movie, the gray? 390 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:00,960 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 391 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,000 There's a bunch of guys hanging out in the forest. 392 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,920 There's wolves that want to make dinner out of them. 393 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,000 They've got a bunch of ammunition, but nothing to shoot it with. 394 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,880 Yes, and so what they do is sharpen some sticks. 395 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:14,600 They harden the tips in a fire and then they duct tape them to the shotgun shells with 396 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,880 the tip pointed at the primer. 397 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:17,880 Big stick. 398 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:21,320 Right, the idea is when the wolves come into the camp, they poke the stick, the shotgun 399 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:22,320 shell goes off. 400 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,320 Enduring the beast, then the animals take off running. 401 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,840 All right, who wants wolf burgers? 402 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:30,040 This should be a pretty simple plan. 403 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,480 We copy their technique, see if it works. 404 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:33,480 Boomstick. 405 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:38,680 So, for the simple setup, it's down to the bomb range with a lifelike Lupine target 406 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,560 and a movie accurate shotgun shell on a stick. 407 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:44,560 That is one pretty wolf. 408 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,920 Now, for this myth to be plausible, we need to see two things. 409 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:52,720 One, we need to see the point of the stick actually fire off the shotgun shell, get 410 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:53,720 ready for the pain. 411 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:58,880 And two, we need to see some kind of damage that would cause a wolf to be repelled. 412 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:00,760 My feeling is this isn't going to work. 413 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,640 I would just poke at it with a stick. 414 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:03,640 Do, do, doink. 415 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,880 Kids, that's what you call forced perspective. 416 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:07,960 How's that for science? 417 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:12,680 For this definitely do not try at home myth, the blast shields are raised. 418 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,280 That looks stable. 419 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,800 With a boomstick shape hole to poke through. 420 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,480 Well that ought to do it. 421 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,000 Down for it. 422 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,520 And Grant is all set to stick it to the pooch. 423 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:29,360 You know, as much as I want these to work, I'm kind of rooting for the wolf. 424 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:34,360 In three, two, one. 425 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:39,880 A lot of anger, a lot of anger, not a lot of bang. 426 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:46,280 Yep, a clean hit and the shotgun shell remains decidedly undetonated, but Carrie decides. 427 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,640 In order. 428 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,880 Grant just wasn't desperate enough. 429 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:55,080 Okay, okay, imagine angry wolf coming to eat you. 430 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,080 He wants to eat you. 431 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:57,080 You're his dinner. 432 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,080 Get him. 433 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:02,880 Oh, that was a really good shot right to the chest. 434 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,400 That was a solid hit. 435 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:12,200 You can't get any better than that and still the shotgun shell didn't go off. 436 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,080 It's time for Plan B. 437 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,280 B for Back to the Shop. 438 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,360 All right, I'm going to be trying something a little bit different. 439 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:21,840 Now the primer of a shotgun shell is made of brass. 440 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,080 Now normally to deform it you would use a steel firing pin. 441 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,280 But for this myth, we need to use wood. 442 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:33,440 Now brass has a Brunel hardness of 60, so we need a wood that is harder than that. 443 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,080 I have to sharpen it using a steel grinder. 444 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:37,680 What I have here is e-pay. 445 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,280 Now this is a Brazilian hardwood. 446 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,280 It has a Brunel hardness of 80. 447 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,480 This is the hardest wood I've ever worked with. 448 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:49,080 So this theoretically could be used as a firing pin. 449 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,480 Back at the bomb range, Tori with his hardwood in hand. 450 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,480 Oh yeah, it's my boomstick. 451 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:55,980 It's to make it work. 452 00:22:55,980 --> 00:23:00,480 Attaches the shotgun shell to the spear and he's ready to fight for his life. 453 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,480 All right, this is e-pay hardwood boomstick. 454 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:09,480 In three, two, one. 455 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,480 You hit it hard enough to break your stick. 456 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,480 That was a good hit, man. 457 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,480 A good hit, but still no fireworks. 458 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:19,480 The primer's dead to it, but it wasn't enough to set off the shotgun shell. 459 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,480 But the team isn't ready to give up just yet. 460 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,480 In keeping with the MacGyver-like myth, they're going to improvise. 461 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:29,480 So there's one last possible scenario that's in the realm of reality. 462 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:34,480 Say they found a little sharp piece of metal or a screw or a nail or something from the plane. 463 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:35,480 Ready to nail it? 464 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,480 And then use that to try to hit the primer. 465 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,480 Here we go. In three, two. 466 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,480 It's kind of like playing pool. 467 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:46,480 One. 468 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,480 Woo! 469 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:50,480 It worked! 470 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:51,480 It worked! 471 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:55,480 Just like it says on the tin, the boomstick went boom. 472 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,480 Groovy. 473 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,480 But did it do any damage? 474 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,480 It didn't make it actually through the fake fur. 475 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:08,480 Without the gun barrel to contain the blast, the energy disperses, 476 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,480 and the ballistics gel is unscathed. 477 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:17,480 So for protection from the pack, save time and stick to a pointy stick. 478 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,480 I mean, if I had a choice, I would have gone with just the plain spear, 479 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,480 because this is just going to make him angry. 480 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:23,480 The spear might actually kill him. 481 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,480 Spear's a great weapon. It's worked for thousands of years. 482 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,480 Busted. Busted. 483 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,480 Do not try what you're about to see at home. 484 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,480 We're what you call experts. 485 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,480 Next up, Adam and Jamie hit the ballistics bunker 486 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,480 for a physics and fiction face-off in space. 487 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:57,480 Dude, I think we should test how much of a deterrent that sound is. 488 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,480 It's pretty distinctive. 489 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:00,480 Totally. 490 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:01,480 So what's next? 491 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,480 Well, apparently it is impossible to fire a gun in space. 492 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:06,480 You mean like in a vacuum? 493 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,480 Exactly. I think we've got to test it. 494 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,480 I've always wanted to go to space. 495 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,480 Me too. Guns in space. What could possibly go wrong? 496 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,480 Although Hollywood would have as believe otherwise, 497 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:26,480 the prevailing theory is that a gun will fail to fire in space for two reasons. 498 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:32,480 First, the lack of air and atmospheric pressure in the vacuum of space 499 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,480 may cause the slug to deform. 500 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:39,480 Second, without oxygen, the primer can't ignite the propellant. 501 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:45,480 And to test these theories, Adam and Jamie need to fire a gun in space. 502 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,480 Down here on Earth. 503 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:48,480 That looks good. 504 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:49,480 It's going to be beautiful. 505 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:53,480 To do that, they're building a bulletproof vacuum chamber. 506 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,480 And once Jamie inserts a pressure gauge, 507 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:03,480 their soon-to-be-sealed chamber is ready to have all of its air removed. 508 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,480 Every single atom. 509 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,480 But first, a test fire. 510 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,480 This is a real pistol and we're about to fire it in our shop. 511 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:15,480 Now, setting up a gun to be fired by remote control is always fraught with some dangers. 512 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,480 And we are removing those dangers in the following way. 513 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,480 One, our entire vacuum chamber has made a bullet-resistant plastic. 514 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,480 Two, we have an extra piece of bullet-resistant plastic 515 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,480 at the end of this chamber for the bullet to land. 516 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,480 And three, we're going to have a piece of steel behind that extra piece of bullet-resistant plastic. 517 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:35,480 Four, our gun is mounted firmly in a gun rest meant to hold it. 518 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,480 Five, we are only using one bullet. 519 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,480 All right, Jamie, I'm ready to load. Are you ready? 520 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:40,480 I'm ready. 521 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,480 There's a couple of others, but they don't really matter. 522 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,480 Before we pull the trigger on this gun in the vacuum, 523 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:52,480 we're going to fire the gun in the vacuum chamber without a vacuum to be able to compare the two. 524 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,480 In three, two, one. 525 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:05,480 There it goes. 526 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:07,480 That was a bang. 527 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,480 Well, it seemed to work pretty well. 528 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:12,480 Indeed. 529 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:16,480 They've tested the remote firing mechanism, captured it on high speed, 530 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,480 and have a slug impact on the backboard to compare. 531 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:22,480 It's time to reload. 532 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:23,480 Gun is hot. 533 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:25,480 Range is hot. 534 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,480 And suck some air. 535 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:32,480 And Adam for one is confident that in this instance, Hollywood has it right. 536 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,480 We're waiting for our vacuum chamber to come up to a full vacuum, 537 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,480 and then we're going to pull the trigger on our revolver. 538 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,480 And I am here to tell you that I think it's going to go bang. 539 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:45,480 I don't think the vacuum is going to have any effect on the gun powder's ability to propel the bullet out the barrel of our revolver. 540 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,480 This is it, with the chamber evacuated to a full vacuum. 541 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:50,480 Are you ready? 542 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:51,480 I'm ready. 543 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,480 At Adam's remote finger on the trigger, 544 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:54,480 All right, here we go. 545 00:27:54,480 --> 00:28:00,480 Will Hollywood have its day, or as the myth suggests, will the gun misfire? 546 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,480 Fire the gun in a vacuum. 547 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,480 Three, two, one. 548 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:12,480 There it is. 549 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,480 There it is, successfully shot. 550 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,480 That gun fired in a vacuum. 551 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:17,480 It did. 552 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,480 The images are spectacular. 553 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,480 Wow. 554 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,480 And the details, fascinating. 555 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:30,480 I swear, if I just saw this footage, I would totally believe that it was a special effect. 556 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:31,480 It doesn't look real. 557 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:32,480 Yeah. 558 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:33,480 Amazing. 559 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,480 But exactly what happened? 560 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:42,480 Cue forensic duo doctors Heinemann and Savage. 561 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,480 Now that we know a gun can fire in a vacuum, the question arises, 562 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,480 does the bullet behave any differently in the vacuum than in the air? 563 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,480 We might posit that the bullet would move slower in the air 564 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,480 because the air provides resistance where the vacuum provides none. 565 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,480 And in fact, we did find a very minor difference. 566 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:02,480 The bullet in the air traveled 5% slower than its partner in the vacuum. 567 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:07,480 That's not a big result, but it is also borne out in a tiny way 568 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,480 by the bullets that we found embedded in the glass. 569 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:14,480 The bullet in the vacuum made a slightly larger pressuring in the glass 570 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,480 than the one in the air. 571 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:20,480 It's a tiny difference, but an interesting one nonetheless. 572 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:25,480 We chose a revolver for this test, and you'll notice in the high-speed footage 573 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,480 that a fireball is created around the gun when it fires. 574 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,480 Now that's because of the gases coming out of the cartridge to escape. 575 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,480 If you look at the vacuum, that fireball is much, much larger. 576 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:41,480 And that is because a gas when it's exposed to a vacuum is going to expand more. 577 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:45,480 And that makes me think that if you had an explosion in space, 578 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,480 like you've seen in countless sci-fi movies, 579 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:55,480 that explosion would be much larger than it would be under normal atmospheric pressure. 580 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,480 So, the myth that guns cannot be fired within the vacuum of space? 581 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:02,480 It's totally busted. 582 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:03,480 Yeah, it's busted. 583 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,480 Let's move on to the next gun myth. 584 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:06,480 Okay. 585 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,480 Up next, Torey sets his sights on the lights. 586 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,480 All right, Torey, see you brought us to the gun range. 587 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:21,480 What's the myth? 588 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,480 Now, you've seen this in so many Hollywood movies 589 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:27,480 where somebody shoots out a neon sign and sparks go flying everywhere. 590 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:28,480 Yeah, just like this. 591 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:30,480 Oh! 592 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,480 All right, so that was pretty Hollywood. 593 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,480 Good old special effects. 594 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,480 I think we're going to have to make some more neon signs. 595 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:37,480 We're going to test this one for real. 596 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,480 And get some real guns and then we can shoot them. 597 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:41,480 This is going to be awesome. 598 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:51,480 A Hollywood downtown showdown wouldn't be complete without obligatory neon sign fireworks. 599 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,480 But is this light show a complete fiction? 600 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:59,480 With it really fizz and spark without special effects fakery. 601 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:05,480 Now, the way they create sparks in the movies is by using a paintball gun and a paintball round 602 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,480 that has zirconium and an abrasive substance. 603 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,480 When they fire through the gun and it hits its target, it creates a spark. 604 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,480 But we're going to see if we can create a spark without the help of special effects. 605 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:22,480 So, first up, Carrie goes into the light store for a little light learning. 606 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:23,480 This is Shana. 607 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,480 She's going to help me make a neon sign. 608 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,480 Now, a neon light is not that different from a fluorescent tube. 609 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:29,480 Woo! 610 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:30,480 You ready? 611 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:31,480 I think so. 612 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:38,480 A neon light uses high voltage to propel a current through a tube that's filled with low pressure noble gases, 613 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,480 like neon, which gives us that sort of orangish red glow. 614 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,480 Different gases will give you different colors of light. 615 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,480 Oh my God, I love this. 616 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,480 This is so cool. 617 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,480 Yep, it's physics fireworks. 618 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:56,480 High voltage causes electrons to flow through the tube, bombarding the gas atoms. 619 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,480 The resulting energy is given off in the form of light, 620 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:04,480 and the color or wavelength of that light is specific to the gas in the tube. 621 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:07,480 It's gorgeous. 622 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:17,480 And with her two-themed neon signs sealed, Carrie delivers them to a familiar and warranty-voining location, the gun range. 623 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,480 Are you guys ready for this neon sign versus nine millimeter handguns? 624 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,480 Let's see if it sparks. 625 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:26,480 In three. 626 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,480 So will the combination of high voltage vacuum sealed neon gas, 627 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:31,480 Two. 628 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,480 and live ammo provide the spark the myth requires? 629 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:36,480 One. 630 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:39,480 Eh, no. 631 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,480 Well, we hit it, but no sparks like Hollywood. 632 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,480 No, it's absolutely nothing like the movie. 633 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:46,480 A result? 634 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:48,480 Shaka. 635 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,480 That's double busted. 636 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,480 It's for science. 637 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,480 When the guys pull out the big guns. 638 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:56,480 Alright, we're hot. 639 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,480 In three, two, one. 640 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:01,480 Get the... 641 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:02,480 Woo. 642 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,480 Alright, it doesn't matter if you have a shotgun or pistol, you fired a neon sign, 643 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,480 you're not gonna get the sparks that you get in a Hollywood movie. 644 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,480 Coming up on MythBusters. 645 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:12,480 There it goes. 646 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,480 If you can't stand the heat, don't fry guns in the kitchen. 647 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,480 Let's go eat some gun. 648 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:26,480 To give their neon nightmare one last shot. 649 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,480 We're gonna have to do something a little more myth buster-y. 650 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:34,480 Carrie Grant and Tori filled a new sign with highly flammable hydrogen. 651 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,480 And lit it with the worst firing job possible. 652 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,480 That's right, I've created several Jacob's letters, 653 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,480 which are just basically traveling arcs. 654 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:46,480 Alright, we are hot. 655 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,480 12,000 volts each, there are three of them. 656 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:50,480 In three? 657 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,480 36,000 volts. 658 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:53,480 Two. 659 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,480 If anything is going to ignite that flammable gas. 660 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:57,480 One. 661 00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:58,480 This is it. 662 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:03,480 Despite the enriched set of circumstances, not one single spark sparked. 663 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,480 I know why they do it this way in the movies, with all the sparks in the plane, 664 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,480 because in real life, it's boring. 665 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,480 You shoot a tube and the tube just goes out. 666 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:13,480 But you know what? 667 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:14,480 That's okay. 668 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:18,480 Hollywood, you keep doing what you do, and we'll keep busting the myths. 669 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:34,480 For the final round in the Bullet Bologna Chamber comes a myth best served hot. 670 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,480 Okay, we got a story about a guy running from the police through the back kitchen of a restaurant, 671 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,480 when he decides to ditch his gun into a hot deep fryer. 672 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,480 Don't tell me it goes off. 673 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:46,480 Exactly. 674 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,480 I think we need to deep fry some guns to find out. 675 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,480 Sounds tasty. 676 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:56,480 For a not so lucky fleeing fugitive, this fast-fuelled firearm fable 677 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,480 is a high-calorie catastrophe. 678 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:07,480 But Adam and Janey want to know if a gun firing in a fryer is a high-fat fact or deep-fried fiction. 679 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:11,480 To find out, they've hit the bomb range for a fryer fight. 680 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:12,480 Ready for some deep-fried guns? 681 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:13,480 You betcha. 682 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:14,480 I'm hungry. 683 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,480 When you want to shoot a gun in controlled conditions, as we've done countless times on the show, 684 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,480 in general, you go to a shooting range. 685 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:32,480 But when you want to shoot off a gun in uncontrolled conditions, i.e. dropping one in a vat of boiling oil, 686 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,480 well, then you want a place that's a little more remote. 687 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:39,480 And that's why we've come to this, the Yolo County Bomb Range in Davis, California. 688 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,480 They've got a shooting range with a very wide exclusion zone. 689 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,480 That means we can conduct our experiments safely here. 690 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,480 And as experiments go, that's good. 691 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,480 This one's as simple as it gets. 692 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,480 A deep fryer. 693 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,480 Ah, not pretty. 694 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,480 A 9mm handgun. 695 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:00,480 Perfect. 696 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,480 And soon to be hot oil. 697 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:09,480 So the major components of this experiment are pretty straightforward, and they're all right in front of you. 698 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,480 We've got a 1-foot cube made of steel that holds 8 gallons of canola oil. 699 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:20,480 We've got a pistol mounted solidly in a machine rest on a slider that allows us to safely and carefully lower it down into the oil. 700 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,480 Which will be heated up to frying temperature with my propane torch. 701 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:28,480 As everyone knows, it's vital when deep frying to know the exact temperature of your fry oil. 702 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:33,480 And we will know that using this thermocouple, whose wire travels all the way back. 703 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:38,480 Behind these blast shields, where we'll monitor everything in perfect safety. 704 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:39,480 How'd you get here so quick? 705 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:40,480 Move your magic. 706 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:41,480 You ready? 707 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:42,480 Yeah. 708 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:43,480 All right. 709 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,480 It's time to get down to business. 710 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,480 And the job at hand is cooking a loaded gun to see if it will fire in the fryer. 711 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,480 Now there are many different temperatures that restaurants keep their fry oil at. 712 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:59,480 But at the top end, it's about 390, just shy of 400 degrees. 713 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:00,480 So now we wait. 714 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,480 That's hot oil. 715 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,480 That's the temperature we're going to be looking for to drop our gun. 716 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:09,480 And temperature is the key to the whole shooting match. 717 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,480 Way back when the guys baked bullets. 718 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:13,480 Hot bullets! 719 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,480 Get your hot bullets here! 720 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:20,480 They found the heat from an oven could get a gun to go back. 721 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:25,480 But now the question is, will the wet oil dampen that detonation? 722 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:26,480 All right. 723 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:27,480 That's 390. 724 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,480 I'm going to shut off the gas. 725 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:30,480 All right. 726 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:31,480 The gun's free. 727 00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:32,480 You ready to lower? 728 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:36,480 I really feel strongly that the moment we lower that gun in there, it's going to go bang. 729 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:37,480 All right. 730 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:38,480 Dropping a gun into hot oil. 731 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:42,480 I don't think it's going to take much more than 10 or 15 seconds. 732 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,480 Three, two, one. 733 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,480 There it goes. 734 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,480 There it goes. 735 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,480 And there it doesn't. 736 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,480 The range is most definitely hot. 737 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,480 That heat's working its way towards the bullet. 738 00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,480 But the gun is clearly not fast food. 739 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,480 I was thinking it would go in the first 15 seconds. 740 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,480 And as 30 seconds rolls into several minutes. 741 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,480 Come on, do something. 742 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:14,480 Confidence that the myth will go off with a bang has cooled. 743 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,480 You sure there's a bullet in there, right? 744 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,480 I'm sure there is. 745 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,480 There it is. 746 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,480 Awesome. 747 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:23,480 That worked. 748 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,480 Very well done. 749 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:27,480 Let's go eat some gun. 750 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:32,480 Dinner is served. 751 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:37,480 Once again, proving that heat, ammunition are dangerous ingredients in the kitchen. 752 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:45,480 Well, I just hope this goes to show you kids who like to play it fast and loose with a deep fryer that this, plus this, do not make for a tasty meal. 753 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:46,480 Oh, no. 754 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:52,480 You got to be careful when you bring guns around the food processes because you don't want to get shot in the fish and chips if you know what I mean. 755 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,480 I'm not even sure what I mean. 756 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:59,480 What Adam actually means is the gun went off real sweet, just like the myth. 757 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,480 But they're not done yet. 758 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,480 They're going again and this time they're starting cold. 759 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:12,480 So our gun went off in the vat of boiling oil, but that begs the question, what's the lower temperature threshold for setting off a gun? 760 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,480 So that's what we're going to figure out. 761 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:18,480 We're going to refill this tank with some cold oil, lowering it in. 762 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:24,480 And heat that oil until the gun goes off. 763 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,480 It's all information at this point. 764 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:30,480 So what are we up to? 765 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,480 Just over 160, climbing steadily. 766 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:41,480 You know, waiting for things to go off like that while you're feeding them up slowly, waiting for a failure point is always nerve-wracking. 767 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:42,480 This is no exception. 768 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,480 Well, we're up to about 260 degrees. 769 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,480 Got a long ways to go. 770 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,480 We're sitting there passing the time as the temperature is climbing slowly. 771 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:57,480 So at the point it's rounding 300, we're kind of feeling a little bit bored and lax. 772 00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,480 So what's your favorite fried food? 773 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,480 Fish and chips. 774 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:02,480 Fish and chips? 775 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:03,480 When they're done right. 776 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,480 Not really paying close attention, but just keeping tabs on it. 777 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:12,480 Then, around 340, we know that we're in the zone and I literally was in the middle of saying to Damien, 778 00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,480 all right, I guess we better start paying attention. 779 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:16,480 Whoa! 780 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,480 It totally just went... 781 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,480 What temperature was it? 782 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,480 It was right around 344 degrees. 783 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:30,480 This is a rare time when the experiment happened long before we expected it to happen. 784 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,480 Wow, that's lower than I thought it'd be. 785 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:34,480 Me too. 786 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,480 It was surprising. 787 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:44,480 But with two successful fryer firings, what's not surprising is the result. 788 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,480 So I knew this was probably a little obvious, but it's time to call it. 789 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,480 We don't need to call anything. 790 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:50,480 Just drop that sign on the ground. 791 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,480 The camera guy will take care of the rest. 792 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,480 All right, here we go. 793 00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,480 Why do we always park on the other side of the hill? 794 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,480 I don't know, it's stupid.