Mythbusters TV show: Blowing up Guns

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canadian hunter312 said:
ummmm...please explain why you think because it happened to the gun you used, it will happen to all:rolleyes: what you guys did may have been a fluke and likely wouldnt happen all the time.
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Yeah, you are right.

Try it on one of your guns, so you can let us know how it performed. Hold the action close to your face as you pull the trigger
 
BIGREDD said:
I have a great suggestion... why don't you try the experiment yourself with a bunch of different guns and offer a qualified opinion. :wave:
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well, you mentioned you did it with 1 gun only. i was just trying to make the point that you shouldnt assume that it will happen to all guns because it happened to 1 gun that you experimented with. so, try it with a few different guns before you offer a qualified opinion.

i think everyone knows that you cant just do 1 test to come to a conclusion as there are too many variables to say that a cotton patch WILL blow up a barrel. caliber/gauge and style of barrel (heavy, light contoured, etc) would likely have an impact on the outcome. i dont know if temperature or length of the barrel would affect anything though...

btw...because you blew up one barrel, that makes you an expert and im just a "newb". the almighty bigheadred has spoken, it must be correct:rolleyes:
 
I don't watch Myth-Busters very often, but the times I've seen the show it appears to me that if the subject matter involves firearms or explosives these guys usually get it wrong.

Remember the ice bullet episode? The guys at work, after watching the show the night before, said it couldn't be done because myth busters said the ice bullet would melt. To prove them wrong I shot an ice bullet through both sides of a cardboard box with enough energy to tear the vinyl cushion of the chair it was siting on.

Then there was blasting concrete inside a mixer truck. That was just silly. If an explosive can break cement, why wouldn't it be possible inside a steel drum. Drill some holes in the concrete, load the holes lightly so as not to damage the drum, and your problem is solved.

I didn't see the "shoot through the scope" episode, but I'm sure it would be possible if one of those short Chi-Com or Soviet 3X scopes were the target.

I doubt if I'll ever watch the show again - and I don't see the need to teach kids to act irresponsibly with firearms.
 
canadian hunter312 said:
well, you mentioned you did it with 1 gun only. i was just trying to make the point that you shouldnt assume that it will happen to all guns because it happened to 1 gun that you experimented with. so, try it with a few different guns before you offer a qualified opinion.

i think everyone knows that you cant just do 1 test to come to a conclusion as there are too many variables to say that a cotton patch WILL blow up a barrel. caliber/gauge and style of barrel (heavy, light contoured, etc) would likely have an impact on the outcome. i dont know if temperature or length of the barrel would affect anything though...

btw...because you blew up one barrel, that makes you an expert and im just a "newb". the almighty bigheadred has spoken, it must be correct:rolleyes:
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It's not that it makes you a "newb" It just shows you'r "ignorant":rolleyes:

Rich
 
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SuperCub said:
Billy The Kid had a 7600 in 35 Whelen that apparently had the bbl plugged with mud and was fired. It was peeled back like a banana just like in the cartoons.

I just about cried. :(


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You'll be happy to know that Billy's 35 Whelen banana barrel is now part of a hunters education course. It is very popular to this day, from what I hear.

No worries Billy, I didn't give them your real name. :D :D :D

Arch:p
 
RR said:
It's not that it makes you a "newb" It just shows you'r "ignorant":rolleyes:

Rich
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how so? its simple...you cant say that a cotton patch WILL blow up a barrel because of one experiment. "newb" was the word that was used so i quoted it...

do some tests with different styles of guns and calibers before coming to a conclusion. sure a cotton patch may blow the barrel on an old shotgun like bigreds experiment proved, but its ludacris to say that it will blow up barrels in general.

im also curious about how the mythbusters did the tests wrong. is there a special way that you are sopose to block a barrel to see if it will blow when a round is fired:confused: they tested on different guns and its pointless for anyone here to say they did something wrong UNLESS you have done it yourself. i wonder how many cgn members have run multiple tests to try and blow up barrels....
 
A friend of mine had a really old double barrel shotgun that he wanted to make a banana peel wall ornament out of so he bolted the action down in a chunk of old railroad tie, hammered wooden plugs into the end of the barrels, put in a couple of heavy 2 3/4" loads in it and fired both barrels simultaneously by a remote means, he tried it 3 times and each time all that happened is that a couple of inches of barrel disappeared. I am not sure what kind of barrel it was, may have been damascus but I can't remember.
 
The original myth they were testing was, would a gun blow up like a Bananna peel, by sticking your finger in it, just like Elmer Fudd and Bugs bunny. They tested it with the geletin hand made over a skelton hand. It did not blow up as in the myth.

The original myth did not include a barrel stuffed in mud, cleaning patches or other objects. However, since the barrel did not blow up with the hand they started stuffing other things in the barrel until it blew up.

I don't remember them stating at any point that its "safe" or "ok" to stuff anything in the barrel.
 
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mylesrom said:
I don't remember them stating at any point that its "safe" or "ok" to stuff anything in the barrel.
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They did not....in fact they repeatedly said not to do so ! :)

I think maybe some of Us just have sour grapes cause we don't get paid to do cool stuff like Blow up gunz and $hit :onCrack:
 
canadian hunter312 said:
well, you mentioned you did it with 1 gun only. i was just trying to make the point that you shouldnt assume that it will happen to all guns because it happened to 1 gun that you experimented with. so, try it with a few different guns before you offer a qualified opinion.

i think everyone knows that you cant just do 1 test to come to a conclusion as there are too many variables to say that a cotton patch WILL blow up a barrel. caliber/gauge and style of barrel (heavy, light contoured, etc) would likely have an impact on the outcome. i dont know if temperature or length of the barrel would affect anything though...

btw...because you blew up one barrel, that makes you an expert and im just a "newb". the almighty bigheadred has spoken, it must be correct:rolleyes:
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Why is it that on this side of the street your description is "Big Mouth" instead of "Big Mouth, Small..." ?

Maybe if you experiment on plugging the barrel with your tongue, the escaping gasses might expand your other shortcomings? Please post video. :popCorn:
 
cariboo_kid said:
Why is it that on this side of the street your description is "Big Mouth" instead of "Big Mouth, Small..." ?

Maybe if you experiment on plugging the barrel with your tongue, the escaping gasses might expand your other shortcomings? Please post video. :popCorn:
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that was almost a good one:rolleyes: some of you people are ####ing idiots and cant have a discussion without bringing in personal attacks. grow up you little pussssay;)

do us a favour and put a brrel in your mouth and see what happens when you pull the trigger. tell your boyfriend to let us know how it went:evil:
 
You can't disprove the hypotheses "Something is possible".
Mythbusters conveniently ignores this. If it doesn't work after 1 or 2 attempts, it isn't possible.
It is entertainment, as factual as Michael Moore .
 
canadian hunter312 said:
that was almost a good one:rolleyes: some of you people are f**king idiots and cant have a discussion without bringing in personal attacks. grow up you little pussssay;)

do us a favour and put a brrel in your mouth and see what happens when you pull the trigger. tell your boyfriend to let us know how it went:evil:
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Now that was the most ignorant jackassed reply I've ever read. First, grow up. Second, if you actually got granted a PAL, perhaps your parents might catch a glimpse of that post and be so kind to the rest of us as to remove it from your childish hands. You make us all look bad.
 
pharaoh2 said:
Now that was the most ignorant jackassed reply I've ever read. First, grow up. Second, if you actually got granted a PAL, perhaps your parents might catch a glimpse of that post and be so kind to the rest of us as to remove it from your childish hands. You make us all look bad.
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no, idiots that start throwing personal insults when people are having a discussion make the community look bad. go back and read the posts and you will see that there was no reason for buddy to try and insult me. its all too common on here for the armchair warriors to make unnesessary comments when people are having a discussion.

sorry pal but my parents taught me to stand up for myself and speak up instead of cowering into a corner like most of the spineless people in todays society. i havent broke any firearms laws yet and dont plan on it in the future.

now if the peanut gallery will kindly go back to playing dungeons and dragons with their mothers, we could get back to the original discussion.
 
Well, I know firast hand what a plastic shotgun wad in one barrel of a Baikal side by side 12 guage will do.
Happenned many years ago, I used to trip both barrels as a stunt quite a bit. Well, one of the old Cannuck shotshells didn't quite go off, leaving the wad in the barrel . The next shot made a hell of a bang, and left a nice ring about half way down the tube.
you'd think the air column moving ahead of the shot would have moved the damned wadd out. Didn't though. I was lucky it didn't blow a hole in the barrel..
 
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