The 360 Degree Ricochet Test! | MythBusters | Season 7 Episode 6 | Full Episode 

Finally the narrator in surround sound. They let him out of the room to the left

The way Adam pauses before saying "I bet you can't" like it took him a second to realize what Jaime was saying, and then quickly trying to calculate if he could.

"Not his trigger finger, but the one he uses to advise fellow motorists"

I am so happy these are full on RU-vid. Such an iconic amazing show

If you guys are releasing every episode in full, thats awesome for getting kids in science. I bought every season on Amazon so of course this would happen, but I'd rather a show like this be available to the public.

Not questioning why Jamie has a sabot for 45 that fits those specific ball bearings. No questions.

RIP Jessi And Grant. I was watching these episodes the other day and found out Jessi passed in 2019... not to be insensitve, but going out at 522.7mph is badass and wont be broken for a long time

Yes PLEASE upload all the full episodes...there is literally no reason not to at all.

If this channel keeps coming out with full episodes it should have 500k subscribers by the end of the year

I want the cutout of Jamie holding the gun so bad

RIP Jessi and Grant :(

So excited to see that they're uploading full episodes for free. And judging by the 25+ currently unlisted videos in each of the 3 season playlists, they won't be stopping anytime soon! This is really bringing me back to the good old days and my favorite routine after coming home from middle school: a glass of milk, a stack of cookies, and Mythbusters re-runs on the DVR. Good times :) And of course, RIP Grant. Brilliant, charming, funny, innovative, just a wonderful human taken way too soon. But his memory will never die thanks to this amazing show and his legacy of inspiring kids to pursue STEM careers

I used to watch this on the Discovery channel after school, my parents were strict so this was one of the few shows we got to watch without supervision. Brings back a lot of memories. ❤

Man, they were really cranking that tree without eye or head protection and just barehanding those lead plates. It's a miracle the only thing lost during filming this show was Adam's eyebrow back in season 1

Believe it or not, this was peak television.

40 years of studying medieval history. Pine trees? Catapults: yes. Trebuchets: yes. Pine trees?

im so happy these are all coming to RU-vid

This show was my entire childhood. This show taught me so many things that people thought I was smart but no, I just watched this show. And learned a lot.

6:03 there's actually an old police training video that explains this phenomenon pretty well. It instructed officers not to take cover behind cars in between the wheels, because of a suspect fired at the ground in front of the car, the rounds would skim along the ground and hit the person hiding behind the vehicle in the legs. Same guess for standing right next to a wall or peeking out from around the end of one; a round that strikes that wall will skim down the wall and hit you in the face, Rather than ricochet off at the same angle it hit the wall at. All because of the deformation of the bullet.

Thank you Banijay Ent. for releasing all those episodes at the maximum quality possible. For those who have already watched them in the past This is actually worth re watching because this is a slightly different and longer edit than the original Discovery TV one. Clearly the episodes were edited to 42 minutes in order to fit the 1 hour slot with 18 minutes of commercials. It looks like there was some extra meat in the episodes , and this is why it's now closer to 50 minutes. Very cool

Matt over at Demo Ranch did a remarkably good job at both the ricocheting bullet and the bullet in the pipe thing....

I remember watching this episode way back in 2010 when i was finishing my last year of vocational school in metal industries. This season 7 onwards reminds me of a freedom from awful, awful school and happier time.

These uploads are amazing! Like a lot of people my age, I grew up with this show, and as I got older, it was the only TV I was ever interested in watching. The memories of Mythbusters are a major part of my life and it brings me so much joy to relive them.

RIP Grant and Jessi, you all will be remembered. 😢😢

Hahaha Adam calling Jaime out that he can't throw a 72 mph ball is hilarious

moment of silence for the conifer's sacrifice for our entertainment

As an arborist, the lack of safety gear around trees and winches is painful to watch 😱🤭😊

Its nice to be able to support mythbusters official channel. No more needing to support random people uploading episodes

I laughed way harder than I should have at "tree hugger". lol

I couldn’t be happier that these are posted as full episodes, thankyou so very much

I am living for that tunic hoodie Jamie was wearing

I remember this episode, a classic

these 2 myths are outright fun to watch . over the years mythbusters took on some great myths that sort of self busted the dead body one was just that but they had a bunch of fun taking it on . the 360 ricochet myth was one of those movie myths that had a maybe sense to it an when adam an jamie took it on i was very glad they did . rest in peace Grant an Jessi

@10:10 Jamie got shot on the finger that he occasionally uses to advise motorist 😂😂😂

Classic animation error of showing the whole cartridge case flying around and not the bullet. Not to disparage, Mythbusters will always be great!

one of the greatest shows, thank you

I appreciate so much these uploads !

It's a little crazy to see two people who would go on to die tragically in just a few years from this episode, in the same frame, alive and energetic. Like some kind of surreal preservation of their life.

Conifer Catapults are awesome. People still use them when up to mischief. But hurling plague corpses? The stories about lobbing plague victims over walls arose from a siege in 1346. The Golden Horde army (Mongols) _was laying siege to Caffa, a Genoese trading center on the Crimean Peninsula. But as Janibeg, the ruler of the Golden Horde, waited for Caffa to surrender, his fighters began to succumb to a mysterious ailment. "It was as though arrows were raining down from heaven to strike and crush the Mongols", a notary from the city of Piacenza in present-day Italy wrote. According to the 14th century account, the beleaguered Mongol commanders had one final move: to hurl their plague dead over the fortress walls."_ Brutal.

There is a reason the eye protection you wear at a gun range is just hard plastic. You're eyes are the only thing soft enough for a ricochet to really do anything to. I've even had a round hit me off of a plate and the only reason it really hurt was because of how hot the metal was. A bigger round might do more, but a handgun round just doesn't have enough energy. (Unless you are doing something really weird/dangerous. Then the ricochet is the least of your worries.)

like thanks giving marathon anytime

Seeing this ricochet myth retested with something like 9mm or something faster and using a brass or copper solid would be awesome. Someone should make that video

the danger in ricochet actually comes from the cratering of targets that are both too soft and too close to the shooter, essentially boomeranging the bullet (or large enough fragments of it) directly back. Higher energy rounds like from a rifle will absolutely ricochet back off of mild steel instead of shattering. Interesting that they used a .45 for this as well since that's a large, heavy subsonic bullet so there isn't much energy to lose from the jump. Using a 5.56 or even a 7.62x51 would have been fun to see!

Grant and Jessi deserve to have the hard work they put into this show available for free. They were fantastic for this show and gave us a much needed break from the Jamie Adam situation which became weird at one point. Thank you for posting these

Can you upload the Shop till you Drop special? That's one of the few episodes that can't be bought digitally.

Okay, don't get your panties in a bunch, I am a BIG fan of Myth Busters. I mean, how can you NOT love a show whose basic premise is blowy-uppy? HOWEVER, there are SOOOOOO many things wrong with their so-called scientific methodology. In the first myth, Jamie and Adam are far too focused on the projectile, and not at all on the possible (even probable) inaccuracies of the base myth. As a veteran and a mechanic, i have seen mechanical objects/devices perform some absolutely MIRACULOUS events. Their second mistake is having such a compact bench test. They are literally firing from point-blank range. What was there FIRST mistake? Assuming the points of ricochet HAD to be ONLY 4, and that at 90° to each other. After all, who's firing steel ball bearings out of their pistol, other than these 2 knuckleheads? It is far more likely that there were multiple (as in more than 4) points of contact, with far lower angles of attack, which would greatly reduce the loss of momentum at each point, and (thus) greatly reduce the deformation of the projectile. In the second myth, the item which comes BLARINGLY to mind, is the simple fact of HANDLING A DISEASED CORPSE. Medicine and understanding of disease was HIGHLY misunderstood a thousand years ago, and they certainly had no realistic means of proecting themselves from contagion like bubonic plague. How would they manage to get a diseased corpse loaded, without risking contamination of the loaders? Just as in recent events, people were absolutely TERRIFIED of disease. Especially one that killed half the population of Europe. If i were an enlisted man back then, and threatened with death by execution or chancing a slow, torturous death by plague? Id take the quick execution.

In WWII the Germans had an attachment for their rifles that allowed them to shoot around corners without exposing themselves to return fire. If I understand correctly they were developed for use by tankers to shoot at people who got close to the tanks without exposing themselves to enemy fire. They were awkward to use from a tank and not super effective because of fragmentation of the bullet but they did work and saw some use in urban fighting. They were called the Krummlauf. They came in 30-, 45-, 60-, and even a 90 degree version. They weren’t good for very many shots with the higher the angle the quicker it would wear out and the more the bullets would break up and deform but they did work.

Conifer catapult might work if you construct more of a slingshot using two trees, you get double the amount of spring, but are at the mercy of luck... if no pair of sufficiently similar trees are so positioned as to make the slingshot viable, it simply won't work. However... might be more effective to simply cut down the tree and use it to build a conventional siege engine. I also somehow doubt that any sane general would have commanded his soldiers to physically handle a corpse infected with smallpox or various other diseases. Might have launched bodies (without smallpox or other), or parts of bodies into the castle and this would have roughly the desired effect of spreading disease.

Castle defender #1: "What are those guys doing with that tree?" Castle defender #2: "Who cares, I want to know why our archers aren't pepper potting them with arrows!" * And......! The tree benders are dead.*

The bullet myth is amazing, so funny nowadays youtuber are doing this and even more stuff.

Hmm, don't like how they discounted the steel bounce by bouncing off a thick steel plate. It's definitely mechanically significantly different to an I beam as on construction sites, especially under load.

When i was a kid we used fir to make our lobster traps...fir is strong but bends well. Myth busters is fun!

if only mythbusters had the high speed cams of today

I've never heard the pine-tree catapult-myth in relation to the Middle Ages. I would think they had access to an actual catapult more often than a conveniently placed tree. This is much more of a cartoon-trope in my mind

The cartridge in the animation 😂

The whole cartridge lol

Imagine if that line snapped 😳 im glad it didnt but its a real possibility

Soon as the lead bullet failed, my first thought was "brass solid". Though to be fair, 3 tests later they did get to the hardened steel ball bearing which is better than the brass solid.

41:44 every pierced person rn: "surely I can shove this into my septum (ect. )"

Thanks appreciate when its in HD and the audio isn't in my left ear

Love this

I never realized it at the time but they were way more confident in the build quality of a shipping container than they should have been. Shooting guns, setting off a scuba tank and launching a rocket in the shop inside of one to name a few.

The tree catapult one is kinda silly. Any castles and such would have a good distance cleared out around it, making it highly unlikely for any trees tall enough to be in range, even if it were to launch a moderate distance.

I somehow never saw this episode and the biggest thing blowing my mind was that forklift with the mecanum wheels

That's why you don't stand right against the wall when the shooting starts. Well documented.

The puns on this episode by the narrator were golden

My childhood has returned

steel core? maybe they can't get them where they are.

Since when was my favorite show of all time on RU-vid to watch for free???

For the bouncing off walls, the specs of the actual gun on the steel plates is like a cannon sticking in a room firing at the first wall. but i get that they couldnt make a small good substitute for a gun/bullet.

That ricochet bullet myth remembers me of a forensic files episode (called "the magic bullet") where a distracted projectile killed a boy near a shooting range hitting 4 intermediate targets. Sad story.

2:06 Ah! Another one of those Cave Johnson bullets, which you shoot *with* the shell!

46:48 One word: Warwolf

Anyone else pick up the "According to Jim" reference while they were at the tree farm? It was subtle but you had to know it was another sitcom that was being aired while this show was.

god i miss this show, good times

They tethered the tree too close to vertical, the elasticity of the rope allowed the tree to release the dummy at a nearly horizontal angle

Watching this episode and growing up and then visiting Asia made me realize that "catapult" thing can be plausible. I've seen Asian men in the coconut industry climb and saw very tall coconut trees on the top and make that coconut tree swing like crazy.

Ricochets don't travel in 45 degree angles, they tend to follow the line of the surface that has been struck.

Grant at 32:50 catching the fasted boob glance I think Ive ever seen 😂

reminds me of demo ranch's stupid metal pipes rerouting the bullet path. and it worked.

aw man right in the feels. i miss having grant and jessi on the show. rip

would like to see more typical farm videos

I don’t remember the initial angle but I think it was like 40 degree angle with a shotgun at a hard surface like concrete or black top is supposed to give you a ricochet of 20 degrees. This will allow you to hit someone hiding behind a car above the ankles which will cause the hidden person to move to where you have a better shot at them.

28:29 270° kill shot, 3 90° reflections. gottem

I think i can I think I can

Tree myth could've worked better if they only flung a torso, or maybe just the limbs and head?

the tree catapult could have worked. The tether didnt seem to work on the last one. and they also cut it too low i think.

Hehe he hit the back wall lol

RIP Grant RIP Jessie

Am I the only one who saw the pipe bender and thought 'Please insert girder'?

RIP Jes and Grant😭😭

All the tree gods have left is one mythbuster to take out they already got brain blast boy and wreck it girl.

Its all in the angle with the gun myth demo ranch some years ago did a pretty good video demonstrating how it works.

A few guns with curved barrels were actually made, so they could shoot around corners. Not that curved, of course😅 They didn't get used much, though, because a lot of the time, the bullets would end up eviscerated, and the pieces that came out the end were too slow and small to hurt anyone

6:22 maybe a brass solid round would work better than lead.

Anyone know what kinda tires are on the forklift

10:54 yea but how fast did it leave the barrel? we will never know

You could obviously do some tillering to the tree. 🌲

Anyone notice that every ten pounds of resistance on the trees gave a foot of extra distance?

I feel so bad for the trees.