A Western Showdown! | MythBusters | Season 7 Episode 4 | Full Episode 

Every time I see Jamie having fun, my heart grows a little warmer.

Mythbusters are rare, and sadly even more rare today. R.I.P. Grant and Jessi ❤ from a lifelong Mythbusters fan.

For the first time ever I can enjoy mythbusters without commercials and randomly selected instead of the network showing the same few episodes over and over for some reason.

I’m watching mythbuster with my 9yo son right now. And for sure they are helping us making core memories together! Someday when he hears about a myth, just a random myth, he’s gonna think about me, as I’ll think about him whenever new episode comes up! Thanks a lot for uploading these!

Thanks so much for the full episodes. I love this show. Miss it.

The "shooting a gun out of a hand" myth has ben done in 1993 by Officer Mike Plumb from the Columbus PD. He shot a .38 revolver out of the hand of a guy who threatened to kill himself. Done from a prone position 82 yards away, almost head on. The guy was unharmed, the gun in three pieces. Yes, there is footage.

I think a big part of the gun dropping myth, is the scare from the shock. You tend to drop things when they suddenly get a massive shock. Even if you could of actually held on to it.

the grin on jamies face just before he hits the target gun with the base ball bat is is priceless . this show is going to always will be a part of Americana . an yes i think mythbusters need a star on the walk of fame . thanks for posting the full episode's i pass them along to the groups on facebook that love this show as much as i do .

Jamie really hammered Adam with that bat lol

RIP Jesse and Grant

I especially love it when they address the crew on set, the camera and mic people, the editors _and the insurance folk_.

I actually own the first prototype of the "bus" that Tory made at the 7:00 mark. That thing is pretty epic!

God, one of the best shows of all time. This was my childhood. RIP GRANT and RIP JESSIE ABSOLUTE LEGENDS.

4:30 “Perfect” sounds EXACTLY like that old street fighter perfect/adlib

5:24 I can't believe they actually got Sandra Bullock to do this skit

The impulse from hitting the gun with a bullet is much higher than that from shooting a bullet, because it takes place over a much shorter time.

15:47 I would argue "no damage to the hand" is a pretty bold statement given what happens to the 'index finger' and how much shrapnel is flying around... so I appreciate the editors immediately following Adam's words with the high-speed footage, making sure we understand how overconfident he was ;)

Tory: "Aren't there any massage therapy myths?" 🤣

Thanks so much for another full episode. It's a good day whenever that happens.

I wish they had extended cuts that could explain why the steering was so sensitive or why the bus was so hard to control

They missed the obvious reason why Adam could hold onto the gun. While he didn't know WHEN it was going to happen, he did know that it WOULD happen.

In the 90’s a sniper shot a handgun right out of a guys hand sitting on a lawn chair in a intersection on live tv. He was unhurt.

Recoil is definitely different than impact

It’s like this channel sparked to life over night.

You, anonymous person who upload those MythBusters videos on RU-vid... I love you so much

This is one of the coolest episodes, because of the remote bus.

They should have used a live camera with a low ms-delay placed inside the bus at the front screen, as grants heading when driving... makes it way easier when your view is centered for what you trying to stear, instead of constantly trying to counter after the fact from behind. and back around 2010.. the FPV tech for RC where quite decent, so weird they don't use that approach with a screen..

You guys are comparing the force of a primer propelling a bullet, versus absorbing all the expelled force of a bullet. It's 2 VERY different things. The “Newtons Law” was just shooting a gun sideways, a lot like a corner shot. If you guys did the math, you'd know its absolutely NO comparison. Except for backing up your theory there's literally no reason to let go, Adam sure saw through it and he's the smaller of the two. I also think his test with the bat was way more plausible just based on the stats alone

Just by watching Jamie prepping to whack Adam's target pistol, grinning under his mustache and Adam bracing himself for the worst as always and our Mr. Super Mythbuster finally whacking it out of his hand with Adam feeling the jolt and freaking out, how perfect can you get? That's pure comedy gold! If the Mythbusters sent any clips of moments such as that to America's Funniest during their tenure, THAT would've been at the top. I cracked up as all living hell after seeing that again, it was THAT FUNNY! 🤣 Also, on the bus jump myth, Grant, Jessi, and Tory got that one nailed; there's no way anybody can defy gravity to pull off that jump from what we've seen during the small scale experiments and from result replications with the bus falling extremely short on the results of what Speed showed even when taking the factors at play into consideration. Also, given that they wrecked another fence during the making of the episode, did they have the fence guy on speed dial during that time?

If they had hit the ramp properly, the bus might have kept going a good bit faster. The drive wheels lost their grip on one side and the undercarriage scraped on the side-edge of the ramp, both of which probably slowed the bus down a lot.

Nostalgia at its finest I loved this show the first time and and loving rewatching these episodes ha thanks for uploading full episodes

10:54 💀 damn bro, thats back to the future type of "too soon"

When you think about the bus jump myth as the bus needing to clear that distance from a 2ft tall, 1.2degree angle ramp... it becomes immediately obvious that it's completely impossible, no matter the speed. You put that ramp on a flat surface and you can just tell by looking at it that the wheel would just drop a few feet past the edge of the ramp. It's like expecting the bus to just keep driving on a flat surface after you take away the surface. It's not just gonna magically float at the same height for several seconds.

"Well the failsafe works" - Bus drives on throught the fence.

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I never thought I'd say this but this makes driving a bus look kinda fun.

I love how the orange cowboy is behind Grant in the Speed lead up

The myth-bus-two. Not even mad 😂

“However, I’m not gonna be done until I see what the audience is wanting to see” I love this show so much

RIP Jessi and Grant. Gone way too soon. They will never be forgotten

Most likely the shooting the gun out of someone's hand thing... Even if it doesn't straight up knock it out, it's going to be one painful jolt to the hand which would be likely to cause a person to just drop their gun on the spot.

We miss you Grant.

Some of our current gun channels could re test these gun myths with modern ammo, like fmj's and brass solids

Looking back on this, one flaw I saw in the initial shooting tests is the conclusion the other cowboy would be harmed. The shrapnel would be hitting thick, hide pants. That might offer some protection from injury. Not much (some scraps or shrapnel embedding itself a smidge), but some. Still, the merit is that harm would be done.

Yeah.... the recoil of a firearm kinda breaks Newton's law. You actually feel only a small percentage of the impact strength because one is a compressible gas and the other is a solid going very fast coming to a sudden stop. This is one of the many reasons that a 4 year old child could fire a 357 magnum and not drop it but a .22 can break bones on impact.

6:05 That look of genuine terror on dude's face!🤣

The speed gun Grant has is the Hotwheels brand one, I recognize it because I had one experience growing up.

In high speed footages delay between of shot and recoil looks funny.

I appreciate you guys uploading British episodes of mythbusters but PLEASE upload more episodes that aired in the US. There are so many good ones.

85 mph swing is pretty good there Jaime 😂

I'm dying. Adam's hairs at 19:24 :-D

I mean they could have given the bus an alignment 😅 and a deadzone for the steering, since with this rig there is no other way for the self-aligning effects of caster angle, scrub radius and king-pin angle to actually happen, since it‘s holding the steering wheel like a lock.

This was the first episode of Mythbusters i ever remember seeing

As someone who has experienced a comparable situation would say that something in the hand impacted by a round in flight versus the recoil of firing a round is incredibly different. All due respect to Newton I must insist that the final testing method is flawed, the bat was much more comparable

Grant is on fire in this one

I wonder why the failsafe didn't kick in with the bus. I mean I assume he did what they normally do which is that the break engages if the signal falls away.

Honestly unbelievable that these don't have more views

Accelerating a bullett is not the same as stopping one though

was they proximal end of the skyway a bit at an upward or upramp angle?

Just think of the improvements for if the bus was done now... easier streaming of a good detail camera from the drivers perspective to the remote driver allowing easier steering.

A police sniper shot a gun out of the hand of a man sitting on a park bench, threatening suicide. Didn’t hurt him. True story.

The model rebar is a nice touch

25:42 What a weird forklift tire 😮

The side shooting pistol is a neat idea in concept, but whilst it does captures Newton's 3rd law, it fails to take into account the mass and force of impact from the bullet itself. In this scenario, the blowback you're getting from the gun firing off is only from the force of the gunpower, and doesn't take into account the additional force added by the bullet impacting. Kinda weird they didn't consider this, especially since the baseball bat to handgun, they calculated the force of impact there, but I guess overlooked it when designing the actual gun idea.

NASA said no for 1 reason. xD

the rc car was already leaning forward

32:53 I thought it was a cat on the ramp then I saw it was crane in the background xD

The real problem with the bus jump is they didn't consider the obvious reason it worked in the film.......it was Keanu Reeve's wholesomeness that let the bus soar over the gap!

Were all 4 wheels on the ramp? REDO!

24:30 ngl, that shot goes hard.

Regarding the gun one, I wonder if the force felt is really the same between shooting a gun and holding something that is hit by a bullet. When you shoot the gun, the force is spread out over a longer period of time as the bullet accelerates down the barrel. When a bullet hits something, that force is felt at once. I'm not sure how much of a difference that would make, but it might make some.

I wonder how Grant could have gotten the steering more calibrated. And how reliable an 2008-2009 radio control transmitter would have been to do that.

Back when there wasnt 3D printers and they were excited to have "vacuum form"

"Forgot to carry gravity" Hahahaha 7:50

10:54 It is ominous that Grant says he and Jessi "didn't survive the crash", considering that both have sadly passed on.

We miss you Grant and Jessie

Torie and the gang sounds like an old episode of Archie

RIP Jessie. Fastest woman on earth.❤️

Anyone else notice how front heavy the small scale test bus was? If you look at the wheels, front and back, and compare them you can see its front heavy. Now that doesn't mean the myth wouldn't be busted, of course it would, but that bus didn't stand a chance being that heavy up front.

Thank you Grant....if there is a Nerd heaven, you've already been there.

"you forgot gravity".

Did Adam sketch that Cowboy on the fly? O.o ( 2:33 )

With a "mechanical" hand there is no allowance for reflex action even an airgun pellet at 12lb sq inch will elicit a reflex reaction (anticipation + surprise + realisation = reaction - gun dropped!). However, to hit a pistol from most angles would take an extraordinarily accurate shot (unless electronically aimed) so I would suggest the hit rate would be somewhere above one in sixty.

Even channeling the spirit of Keanu Reeves …… so I’m building an ouija board for the living to get this experiment to work .

I need more!!!

I only just realised that Adam is wearing a nostromo shirt from alien specifically either kane or dallas (Parker didn't have the patch on the right sleeve and Ash had a blue shirt

That bus thing annoyed me a bit. Did they not account for the input lag? Why not put a camera on the front of the bus also?

Imagine they had used a drone fpv camera for steering the bus

Bus and crew to moon for experimentation. NASA: no Space X: how soon?

The western myth was interesting. 2:55 in Germany we call this Klett. 20:10 poor Adam. Sad the bus jump was not that big success.

A camera in the bus acting as the busdriver eyes would maybe have worked?

I think the way they built the RC bus was incorrect. They didn't have proper weight distribution. For example the weight of the engine being in the rear like a real bus.

Rip grant and jessi, we will never forget them

What I don't understand is why they didn't just put a video camera on the front of the bus so that the remote driver could guide it that way using a TV screen on the chase-car; if they had it set up that way instead of just watching the rear of the bus, the driver might have hit the ramp more squarely, since he could actually see where the bus was heading.

The issues they had with the bus are what airplane engineers call pilot induced oscillation... Happens when the delay between action and reaction of the system is getting too long

I had a thought about this. Jamie said that jumpiness plays a part in dropping the gun. You know what makes you jumpy? PTSD, I know from personal experience and research. You reckon there was a significant amount of PTSD in the wild west? I do. I feel the lawless culture these guys existed in could contribute significantly to dropping the gun upon impact.

I think you're missing a fundamental principle of physics here; impulse. For example, I can swing a hammer and feel the transfer of momentum from my body to the tool, and it is completely different from the same hammer, same speed hitting my shin, or thumb, or ankle. The same amount of energy is imparted, by the duration of time during which that transfer occurs has a great impact on the system. If your logic here is carried on to ballistics, the gun should cause sever tissue injury, penetration and risk of death for the one holding it when they fire it, or is it your theory that guns are not dangerous, because it has the same energy on impact as it does for the one shooting, which is negligible? On with my argument; the pressure builds up in the firing chamber, and the bullet does not accelerate instantaneously, but relatively gradually as the pressure increases and pushes it down the barrel. Notice how it doesn't shatter the bullet into tiny fragments in the barrel? When it strike your target pistol, the bullet accelerates a lot more quickly, so much so that the momentum of the trailing edges of the bullet overtake the leading edge, smashing the bullet into a mushroom. you're absorbing that impulse over 0.2s, while the target is doing the same over 0.00002s.

I seen a swat video with some poor guy that was holding himself ''hostage'' if you catch my meaning, they shot the gun out of his hand, swat guys used a riffle, the poor guys handgun just came apart.

Memories, of a better world, a better future (which is now, and quite crappy) and the confident belief that Hyneman and his friend was... Friends. But here we are now. Alone, in an apartment in a suburb, drinking homemade wine. Looking back.

How do they calculate scale speed. I cant wrap my head around what a speed of 1:2 is. It cant be 50% of the speed since we are dealing with 3 dimensions. You can calculate how fast the small bus would need to make the jump bit that itself is not scale speed.