Mythbusters: Shooting fish in a barrel

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Anyone else catch that new Mythbusters episode about shooting fish in a barrel? :D
Seeing Jamie shoot up the barrel at the end of the show with a Minigun and seeing how happy it made him was truly a great thing to see. I don't know about anyone else but I want that suv they had with the Minigun turret that pops out of the roof, how cool is that!!!!:evil:

Couldn't find a video from the episode but here's a video showing the car that they used.

http://splodetv.com/suv-minigun-surprise

I don't know how many gun myths this makes for this show up to this point but it seems like they've done quite a few by now.
 
I am sure it is just a metaphor, not to be taken literally. ;) Although the fish are in a confined space and unable to escape, hitting a specific fish would be difficult, I would think. The fish might not be exactly where it appears to be (due to the light refraction from the water), it would be swimming around (making it a moving target), and there would be some bullet deflection when it hits the water, although probably not very much since you are shooting straight down.

Next: what caliber for fish in a barrel?
 
Don't have tv, gotta know...is it easy to shoot fish in a barrel?
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Short answer, it's easy to kill fish in a barrel, but it's hard to hit them with the bullet.

I did like the "exhaust port" on the minigun. It looked like somebody turned on the faucet and brass came out.:what:
 
Next: what caliber for fish in a barrel?
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Same answer as for everything else:

.223 M4 for the purists, and 12 ga with 00 buck for the less sportsmanlike among us.
 
I watched most of it and enjoyed it quite a bit. The only thing I was curious about the safety of shooting at water like that. I know I wouldn't get a barrel full of water and shoot a pistol into it inside my garage but that's just me.
 
Perhaps their next myth should be 'gun control is a good idea'... especially considering what state they're in ;) Of course they would have to come up with a visually spectacular way of testing it, involving at least two of: explosives, guns, highly flammable fuels, big engines, exotic machinery or electronics.
 
I did watch this one. I thought it'd be harder than it seems, since, in another episode, they discovered that water is surprisingly bulletproof.

What caliber was that minigun using? Looked like .308 to me, but I could be wrong.
 
What caliber was that minigun using? Looked like .308 to me, but I could be wrong.
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That particular gun was 7.62x51mm NATO.

There have been some made in 5.56x45mm.

I believe the MH60s have three barrel .50BMG door guns.
 
Awesome, I was right! Assuming 7.62x51mm NATO is the same as .308, which I think they are. All in all, a fun episode. I do love how they take some of the myths to the absolute extreme, like they did here.
 
No one ever seems to address this: are the Mythbusters demonstraby pro- or anti-gun?

Jamie seems to know what he's doing for the most part, but it's a different story when he talks about them - lots of "guns kill people" and "we have to be verrry careful" stuff. He gives the impression that he's afraid of them and thinks they're capable of "just going off" and all that.

I want to believe he's a "gun guy" as he seems the type (quiet, stubborn, confident, likes things his way) but I just don't know.
 
Jaimie strikes me as a guy who's cautious by nature. In every experiment, guns or no guns, he's like that. Mythbusters is neutral. Not everything is pro-gun or anti-gun, sometimes they fall into the middle.
 
I too have been wondering whether or not they are pro or anti. They don't seem to have a problem with owning or buying guns, but who knows whether they think we should be able to. There is nothing wrong with being careful and assuming that they can just go off, but he does seem to think that they do just go off all the time.
 
Jamie seems to know what he's doing for the most part, but it's a different story when he talks about them - lots of "guns kill people" and "we have to be verrry careful" stuff. He gives the impression that he's afraid of them and thinks they're capable of "just going off" and all that.
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Building excitement into the show. The more dangerous/bizarre, the more exciting. It's marketing, not a political opinion.
 
I don't think they are anti-gun. I've seen every episode up to this point and they always seem to enjoy shooting guns. Adam made reference on a recent show where they were using old west guns Adam chambered a round into the Winchester he was holding and then looked at the camera and said "I love that sound!"

Who knows maybe they both own guns themselves and enjoy shooting on their own time. It would be interesting to know they're perspectives but I also would rather just assume they are pro gun, or at the very least not anti.

As far as their behavior around guns I think they are just being cautious because they are on a set with lots of people around and the last thing they want is an accident to happen. I respect the fact that they treat every gun as being loaded, they also seem to have fairly good gun handling skills. Although some of what they do might be a little reckless and dangerous, I think they take every precaution they can to insure the safety of themselves and the crew.

My feeling is that if they were both anti in any way they would refuse to do gun myths. Also it my understanding that Jamie owns a lot of the guns they use in the episodes, in particular the Sig 229, M1 Garand and I think he has a .357 revolver also. I could be wrong I'm just assuming.
 
someone email them and find out, tell them where your from, where the question arose (thehighroad.org) etc.

I bet you he'll reply, or a representative for him.
 
Ohio Rifleman said:
Not everything is pro-gun or anti-gun
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Trust me, I'm the last person to engage in the ultraparanoid "xyz = ANTI??!?!??!" witchhunting that some THR members enjoy. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, as they say.

I was just wondering if anyone had heard something one way or another. Adam and Jamie both do seem to enjoy the gun myths that they do, and I agree that Jamie is cautious by nature (it's obvious from some of the behind-the-scenes episodes they've done; he's a neat freak/safety freak) - just irks me that he seems to single out guns specifically, out of all the dangerous equipment they work with, as being imbued with the magical power to "just go off" or cause harm without human manipulation.
 
Jaimie strikes me as a guy who's cautious by nature. In every experiment, guns or no guns, he's like that. Mythbusters is neutral. Not everything is pro-gun or anti-gun, sometimes they fall into the middle.
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Which IMO is how it should be.Guns are nothing more than tools and it's perfectly fine to respect that they are by design and purpose dangerous,but so are many other,machines made by man.I would rather them appear overly cautious in their handling than to look like yahoos but c'mon,has it ever looked like they weren't having anything but fun when actually shooting them?
I HARDLY think anyone other than a dyed in the wool anti would watch an episode they have done with firearms and think "see how dangerous and horrible guns are?".If anything,they've done quite a bit to demystify the power of guns: depressurizing a plane,knocking someone though the air,shooting through water.All in all,they have done more to show guns in a reasonably positive manner than any non outdoors show that I have ever seen on TV.
 
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