Mythbusters "unarmed and unharmed" in real life

You have to be REALLY sure of yourself to make that shot lol. Its like the one they did with the sniper shooting the other sniper in the eye. It happened but you have to be one heck of shot to even think about it. I mean sure to one side a little you still get a headshot but you go the other way and you'll miss.
 
Speaking of Mythbusters, what is going on with them? They haven't been on at their regular time for a while and this week they are not on at all.
 
cobalt crimson said:
No clue. The science channel has a commercial free hour of them on 4pm eastern time.
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Yeah, but those are repeats going back to the early years. Nothing new has been on for a while and now they aren't on at the regular time. You have to search them out and don't always find them.
 
I love the mythbusters, but their methods really irk me sometimes, particularly when it comes to gun myths. The 'shoot around corners' myth really got my husband annoyed in particular. They just don't have the caliber of weapons training that would allow them to make the sorts of shots that we're talking about (clearly as we have the video clip showing that it is possible to shoot a weapon out of someone's hand and leave them unharmed) and to summarily call it 'busted' without bringing in someone like their buddy from the FBI to see if THEY can do it annoys me.
 
I know what you mean, I hated it when they said the shot through the telescopic site was busted because they couldn't do it. That was a ledgendary shot and to just say it was busted because they couldn't do it, didn't sit too well with me. I'm glad they revisted it and finally figured out what they had been doing wrong, they were using the wrong scope.
 
AJK001 said:
I know what you mean, I hated it when they said the shot through the telescopic site was busted because they couldn't do it. That was a ledgendary shot and to just say it was busted because they couldn't do it, didn't sit too well with me. I'm glad they revisted it and finally figured out what they had been doing wrong, they were using the wrong scope.
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Yeah they got that wrong. There's a really good show about snipers on the History Channel that reruns every once and a while. They recreated that shot with a similar scope and they USMC sniper on the show did it. They said the scopes in use now have a lot more lenses in them. I think Mythbusters used the latter and not a period scope.
 
That situation was in Dublin, OH, on the fringes of Columbus. The sniper used a frangible bullet that disintegrated on impact so there was no chance of shrapnel or ricochets. The shot was made at 50 yards, which is not that far with those rifles or scopes.
 
There's another video out there with a similar event.

There was a guy in an apartment building holding a woman hostage. The guy kept waving his gun out of the window taunting police....Eventually a sniper managed to shoot the gun out of his hand when he waved it out the window.

Ill see if I can find the video.


DS
 
I remember seeing a video years ago of a swat sniper shooting the gun out a guys hand who was sitting on a chair in the middle of the street. He kept pointing the gun at himself to keep them all back, but at one point he dropped the gun down between his legs and the sniper blew it out of his hand and he didn't get hurt. The look on the guys face was priceless. The sniper was the first one to say that it was pure luck on his part that it worked.
 
AJK001 said:
I remember seeing a video years ago of a swat sniper shooting the gun out a guys hand who was sitting on a chair in the middle of the street. He kept pointing the gun at himself to keep them all back, but at one point he dropped the gun down between his legs and the sniper blew it out of his hand and he didn't get hurt. The look on the guys face was priceless. The sniper was the first one to say that it was pure luck on his part that it worked.
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Didn't click on the link, did ya? :love
 
firesprite said:
...but their methods really irk me sometimes, particularly when it comes to gun myths.
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Their methods tend to irk me most of the time.

They just don't have the caliber of weapons training that would allow them to make the sorts of shots that we're talking about (clearly as we have the video clip showing that it is possible to shoot a weapon out of someone's hand and leave them unharmed) and to summarily call it 'busted' without bringing in someone like their buddy from the FBI to see if THEY can do it annoys me.
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Even the FBI guy probably wouldn't be able to do it. Despite what we like to think, law enforcement doesn't really have that stringent training when it comes to firearms. They need people who actually shoot for a living, or do exhibition shooting, like Tom Knapp, who shoots aspirin with a .22.
 
firesprite said:
I love the mythbusters, but their methods really irk me sometimes, particularly when it comes to gun myths. The 'shoot around corners' myth really got my husband annoyed in particular. They just don't have the caliber of weapons training that would allow them to make the sorts of shots that we're talking about (clearly as we have the video clip showing that it is possible to shoot a weapon out of someone's hand and leave them unharmed) and to summarily call it 'busted' without bringing in someone like their buddy from the FBI to see if THEY can do it annoys me.
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That's why they got a thing called, "Myths Revisited episodes." Basically, if enough fans cry foul about their verdict and suggest a different method of getting the myth to work, they will do it. If the shooting around corners myth and the unarmed and unharmed verdicts don't work, and others agree with you, they'll revisit them.
 
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