Can You Shoot a Grenade Out of the Air? | MythBusters | Discovery

Join the crew as they take on one of Hollywood’s most iconic explosive scenes, shooting a live grenade in mid-air to render it harmless. Can they replicate this daring movie moment, or will reality prove too explosive to handle?
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Can You Shoot a Grenade Out of the Air? | MythBusters | Discovery
• Can You Shoot a Grenad...

[@rocketamadeus3730]

Ah, I remember watchable television :')

[@aleksionas]

You are antique

[@notyouraveragegoldenpotato]

Every day after school before dinnertime. Mythbusters

[@JamesonTimothyDempsey-Brown]

Is was a good time, it was a great time.

[@JamesonTimothyDempsey-Brown]

​@@aleksionasyou live with your parents

[@disgruntled4627]

@@aleksionas Hey, kid. Don't you need your parents permission to be on here?

[@yrguitar1]

This is way better without tv commercial breaks

[@daveo2992]

Life is better without ads which is why I use ad block, KZbin revanced and sponsor block

[@TimSlee1]

I watch it on Amazon.

[@garcipat]

​@@daveo2992good luck on mobile with that

[@darkshadowsx5949]

@@TimSlee1 you have to pay to remove ads on amazon now. which is not cool. having to pay to remove an annoyance is exploitation. you're already paying for prime now you have to pay again for ad removal. i dont use prime music or digital content just take that away.

[@ludvig3242]

@@daveo2992 we're all free-loaders

[@christianellegaard7120]

45 millimetre round!?! That is a hell of a handgun.

[@thomasgentry9624]

It's hand held artillery

[@Mike__B]

That's not a round.... now this is a round

[@thomasgentry9624]

Someone needs to tell Scott from Kentucky Ballistics about this new thing!

[@williamwofford2503]

Yeah i heard that too lol .45acp is not 45 mm lol the GUA-8 on the A-10 warthog is only 30 mm and that is a huge round

[@nightwingaven69]

They have the same understanding of guns as the ATF apparently. I bet that will blow a lung of the body, completely vaporize a deer and fire 1000 rounds a second with a 100 round drum clip mag while in fully semi auto@@williamwofford2503

[@Mp-jw1qg]

the camera guy just standing outside the blast bunker lol.

[@quirin5061]

good thing cameramen never die

[@Fosi94]

I don't know why, since the camera was standing alone in the tripod.

[@mariocueva8700]

Plot armour, He had nothing to worry about.

[@roflchopter11]

Came here to say this.

[@-DM]

It's easier if you use VATS.

[@TurnAGundam]

I did that twice. One of those times was while it was still in the air. 😁

[@alsillman7049]

😂😂

[@peterscott2662]

Yeah. In FO4, I think they even do more damage to enemies if you shoot them near them.

[@TurnAGundam]

@@peterscott2662 I do believe you're right about that. 😆

[@yatox8]

thats no fun

[@scvmbag]

Adam is more dangerous ejecting the shells than he is shooting

[@Lone_Furry008]

At 15 as a Boy Scouts I shot better than that 😂

[@darkshadowsx5949]

@@Lone_Furry008well arent you special. i sent some cookies in the mail for you. if they dont show up the Post Master ate them.

[@logictom7254]

@@Lone_Furry008 do you want a "good job" from your mommie now....

[@HawaiianKong]

Well he's from San Francisco. Guns aren't exactly their forte.

[@jordanhester4821]

@@HawaiianKong I'd imagine Adam has more experience with guns than the majority of people who viewed this clip, so I don't think his geograpical location and your political bias matter very much in a discussion on why Adam might not be a good shot

[@trainknut]

Jamie: "me and Adam aren't friends in real life" Also Jamie: "I'm gonna let you shoot my beret"

[@noobgoestrapping5084]

They dealt with each other. They were work friends. Forced to spend time together, may as well have fun with it when you can, though he was probably not interested in hanging out outside of work much.

[@troydenbrum2979]

and he maintained his professionalism throughout the show. The show is great because of both of them.

[@gottroubletactical]

Work professionalism.

[@RaithSienar]

Work friends and friend friends are totally different. At work, you can cut up and have a great time with your work friend but realistically they aren't your actual friend you aren't going to hang out with them outside of work.

[@incubus_the_man]

basically the classic co-worker relationship. You're friends just to get through the day, but when your work day is over, it's over.@@noobgoestrapping5084

[@ninjapwnsatlyfe]

"Legally bomb techs are the only ones allowed to stand near any live explosives." Camera man standing 3 whole feet away just chillin

[@spectre7529]

The camera man could be a bomb tech himself😁

[@dirtybird437]

Didn't you know, The camera Man never dies

[@grimace8560]

holding grenade by the pin and talking to the camera man 3 feet away!

[@minigunner1218]

The bomb techs are chillin too. After all, they only have one bad day on the job.

[@KrankyClownFPS]

That one was the dummy bud, they said as much.@@grimace8560

[@flyingsodwai1382]

In retrospect it makes sense. The material of the shell was chosen because it is easily shattered. It makes sense that even low velocity projectiles would shatter it.

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

The shell doesn't need to be easy to shatter, the explosion is going to destroy it regardless of what you make it out of because it has nowhere else to go.

[@Broodjemetbeleg]

@@bobbygetsbanned6049no but in order to fragment better it needs to be kinda brittle

[@dxb338]

@@bobbygetsbanned6049 the goal isnt to destroy the casing, its to break it up into lots of hard fast pieces, so you would want to heat treat but not temper the metal so it is very hard and brittle.

[@MrLochnload]

MM n no m n n min n in jnmmmo

[@guarddog318]

The casings of WWII grenades were made of cast iron, which is very brittle. They were also cast to have break lines in the casings... See the old "pineapple" grenades for an example. Somewhere in there that was switched to a thin steel casing, with a serrated "slinky" inside to act as shrapnel. And yes, I was in the Army, and yes I know how grenades are constructed.

[@ajoricardo]

Ah, my childhood. Thank you for posting these.

[@robertaBooey69]

And to know now that they hated each other the whole time 😂

[@John1045]

@@robertaBooey69 It sure don't feel that way. Maybe they were really neutral while filming?

[@anon9640]

@@robertaBooey69 They don't hate each other tf are you on about

[@lingling5247]

Even first 25

[@zwippie92]

My question is: What would happen if the shotgun was further away, say 30 feet or even 10 feet away. I expect a very different result from that. And I would like to see the difference at those distances with buck shot and slug shot. Too bad that wont probably happen.

[@aleksionas]

Yeah, I was assuming they would retest the results from the greater distance than just one result. Kind of lame...

[@acmelka]

You asked my question

[@CelliniCreations]

Yep...pointless test, and something that plagued the show. Busting myths with unrealistic methodologies.

[@ElonMuskular255]

With my experience 10 ft wouldn’t make a difference with especially with buck shot however the choke used would make a huge difference at 30 feet. And the slug should not even be in the equation at shooting a moving target.

[@anthonyaubuchon765]

Apparently, neither you nor the myth busters have done any quick research. They actually used 12 gauge pump shotguns in World War 1 for this very thing. As the enemy tries to throw grenades into our fox holes, our guys would shoot them out of the air with shotguns. I actually have one of those shotguns that was passed down to me by my step-dad that passed down to him by his grandfather.

[@loganmerryman202]

The US literally had a skeet shooting champ during WWI in the trenches with a shotgun to literally do this thing

[@tsubadaikhan6332]

Did that guy make it home?

[@loganmerryman202]

@@tsubadaikhan6332 I'm pretty sure

[@dasloco121]

I wanna know what they did figuratively

[@feelsbadman1833]

100% a myth, not a single source

[@Evergreen1400]

Yes they did but I doubt they used buckshot especially since the Germans said they’d put down any soldier they caught with a shotgun or shotgun ammunition. If you had a bunch of bird shot on you you could try to tell the Germans your shotgun shells were only for defensive use to shoot down grenades but if they caught you with 00Buck there’d be no arguing. In order to shoot a grenade out of the air with birdshot you’d need as long of a barrel as you could get and you’d want the heaviest load possible. Even with a skeet shooting / hunting barrel and a 1 1/8oz load of birdshot the shot would spread and make it ineffective towards the grenade because you’d have to hit it with basically the whole load to make damage equivalent to in this video. You wouldn’t want to have to rely on shooting a grenade out of the air 5ft from you but I guess if that’s the last option you have. If my only hope of the shotgun being effective against the grenade is at basically point blank range I’d honestly feel better with my chances using the shotgun as a baseball bat to whack the grenade out of the air

[@Dvinyard69]

"In fact, these grenades are incredibly dangerous" *Proceeds to holds grenade by the pin*

[@mattc696]

First, I suspect the grenade he was holding was a dummy. Second, the pins in grenades are made intentionally to be difficult to pull. I've heard that if you were to try the movie tough guy thing of pulling the pin with your teeth that you would be as likely to break a tooth off than actually pull the pin out.

[@Dvinyard69]

@@mattc696 It still is a display of improper explosive handling, period. Just because a gun isn't loaded doesn't mean it's okay to point it at people. Thus, the combination of words and actions are mildly funny.

[@logictom7254]

@@Dvinyard69 dude, if everyone knows it is a dummy which was likely the case, where is the issue?

[@cameronpritchett8300]

​@logictom7254 you should treat all weapons as if they are real. I guess idk I'd pull the pin regardless just because "monkey brain wants to see what happens"

[@njoshua3265]

@@Dvinyard69 Guns are orders of magnitude easier to get than grenades, even the mythbusters had to make their own for this shoot despite all the explosive connections they have. It is absolutely improper but its also a unique case where nobody will ever get one and if they do this video would not be the reason why something goes wrong.

[@sdpy15]

Change my mind: The Mythbusters were guntubers before it was cool.

[@freighter1097]

No, they weren't.

[@terrafirma-xb7ts]

​@@freighter1097 heres why i think they were: Both did very fun stuff with explosives, and both talk about interesting things related to what they do. Guntubers appeal to the same feelings that the Mythbusters do at the very least.

[@testermonkey2304]

i loved mythbusters at the end it was all about guns explosives and riscay myths. They knew their audience and catered to it.

[@TheWalterHWhite]

​@freighter1097 how were they not? They disproved a lot of myths within the firearms community. They treated firearms with the respect and safety they deserve. Are you upset that the crew didn't hip fire an M40B at a target 10 feet away while talking about the newest shredder mark 6 round that is guaranteed to not only stop an intruder but also sprays febreeze. Gunfluencers some of the cringiest types around. Out of shape dudes who try to sell their merchandise and chads eat it up. Gunfluencers are the worst. Keep your tacti-cool gear and M-Lok bling.

[@beardedbehr4105]

Except they use terms like “sniper round” showing the gaps in their extensive knowledge base. They’re not guntubers, they’re backyard scientists with a production budget. I don’t say that to degrade or demean them though. I love Mythbusters, and always will.

[@rhyzamvrom5626]

This is the friendliest I've seen Adam and Jamie were to each other.

[@timnossem5538]

Almost like firearms tame egos.

[@DeadManSinging1]

They often got buddy on myths that involved guns. They had ALOT of fun in the "Knife to a gunfight" one

[@cameronpritchett8300]

I know right, it makes me sad that they weren't very close with each other and often didn't along.

[@Ryarios]

Fun fact: It’s common that when a person shoots their first 100 straight in trap, they throw their hat down range and everyone on the line shoots at it. 😁

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

And if you're not wearing a hat??

[@josephblachly8572]

@@bobbygetsbanned6049 they run down range while trying not to get shot

[@Ryarios]

@@bobbygetsbanned6049 it doesn’t get shot… When I shot mine, I wasn’t wearing one so I ran to my car and got the only hat I had for them to shoot - a hard hat…😁

[@Ryarios]

@@josephblachly8572 HA! That would be fun to watch.

[@tsubadaikhan6332]

@@Ryarios So you also myth busted your hard hat?

[@rockhavenfarms7213]

Adam explaining how dangerous the grenade is while swinging it around by the pin....

[@dragonblood0012]

it takes a surprising amount of force to pull a pin from a grenade. also most grenades we had in the army had a saftey tab you had to remove before you could pull the pin. plus he was probably just holding one that was not live

[@doublebackagain4311]

@@dragonblood0012 Key word: 'Probably' 😆

[@Heroo01]

he also played with the dummy nade a lot later on. it's obviously the fake one lmao. he wasn't even allowed to touch the real ones to set it up, they had the techs do it.

[@csn583]

Amazed the dummy is the same color as the live ones. Clearly their armorer was confident in the separation maintained between the talent and the munitions!

[@Xphinity]

Love the toy story reference with the baby rover lol

[@Fluffy_production]

“What happened to the grenades???!?” Bro you shot it with buckshot point blank wtf do you think happened to it

[@lordgarion514]

On the shotguns, the shot cup itself went through the grenade, which means every pellet was still tightly packed against all the other pellets. The shotgun load went through basically like a slug would.

[@johnjay1147]

Pellets do not equal a slug.

[@lordgarion514]

@@johnjay1147 They do if they're still inside the shotcup.....

[@mygirlfriendbeatsme]

This experiment is close but I think there are a few details missing that could drastically change the outcome. 1) They use a Mk2 grenade instead of an m67. Besides being the grenade in service currently, its also what the majority of movies use. 2) They are using practice grenades, which are straight TNT, and are "low explosive" grenades. A real grenade, especially the m67 has about 3-4x the explosive force, and use something called Composition B. Its a mixture of TNT and RDX. The latter of which some of you might know, is shock sensitive and has a much bigger boom. It also means the m67 grenade is much thicker, harder, and doesn't have perforations like its predecessors. Basically, this experiment is a better analog for "can you shoot a 1/8 tnt stick and disarm it" like in old westerns, instead of a grenade out of midair.

[@OngoGablogian185]

TNT is not low explosive, dingbat. A practice grenade is low explosive because it contains black powder, not TNT. Furthermore, RDX is more sensitive than TNT, and in specific 'rifle bullet tests', RDX detonates much more often than TNT, which is why it needs to be mixed with a desensitizing wax. Comp B may have higher brisance (which is irrelevant here) but it will be very similar, if not slightly disadvantaged still, in sensitivity tests.

[@mygirlfriendbeatsme]

@@OngoGablogian185 you missed 3/4 of my post and hot hung up on semantics and terminology. the training grenade is a low explosive version because it DOESNT contain rdx, and has and less than HALF the TNT of a standard counterpart. I didn't realize I had to spell out that its a comparative statement, not a categorization. pop caps and matches have black powder in it too, but you cant blow your finger off with one, let alone send metal shrapnel 15m. You are correct that Composition B has higher brisance, but that measurement is used for effectiveness of the explosive, not its shock sensitivity or insensitivity. In simple terms its how much bang vs how much burn your mixture has. Comp B is more stable, but has a faster chain reaction than straight TNT. It takes more energy to start the detonation, but is much more efficient and self sustaining once it gets going. This difference could play a major factor in the outcome of these tests, as more force would be required to set it off, if it can at all. For a comparison you can find videos of: You can smash, burn, shoot, and microwave C4 and it will NEVER detonate. But induce 12v of electricity into it or use a blasting cap and a soap bar can make a 30ft crater in the ground (C4 is made primarily using RDX as its explosive compound) Conversely, Tannerite can trigger its explosive reaction with any caliber over a .22, but dies off so quick 4lbs of the store baught stuff put in 1 container wont fully detonate.

[@mygirlfriendbeatsme]

@@OngoGablogian185 Also, after doing some research and finding no conclusive answer, I stand by my original statement that m67 practice grenade uses TNT without the RDX as thats what I was taught in the USMC. Not to be confused with bluebody grenades, which don't explode at all, which only use a small amount of black powder to emit smoke to signal detonation, and are meant to be reused. These are what we call dummy grenades, NOT practice grenades.

[@OngoGablogian185]

@@mygirlfriendbeatsme Lol, nice book. You should title it 'in defense of being flat-out wrong'. This has nothing to do with 'semantics' and everything to do with correct terminology, which is fundamental to EOD and explosive engineering. It's quite laughable that you would claim the fault is mine for 'interpreting' you wrong, when you're erroneously labelling something as low explosive. Something with TNT in it is not low explosive. It's high explosive. End of story. Even using it as it's 'low explosive' in comparison to an equivalent amount of Comp B is just wrong. Further, you were the one talking about explosive force; my point was that we are only concerned with sensitivity here. Hence, brisance is 'irrelevant'. It's good to see that you now agree with me in your reply. The rest I think we can dismiss as irrelevant rambling. I hope this has been edifying. Good day.

[@mygirlfriendbeatsme]

@@OngoGablogian185 aah, you're one of those people who just like to start arguments with strangers on the internet without contributing anything of substance or value to the conversation. good to know instead of having an interesting discussion you're only interested in being the little basement goblin you are. Have a nice day.

[@cadenelson891]

25,000 feet per second??!! That’s more than 17,000 mph! Almost escape velocity for the space shuttle!

[@Folkert.Cornelius]

I was just about to write the same thing, that's orbital velocity! I think they added a zero by mistake. 2,500 feet per second sounds more plausible

[@thecommentpolice8115]

it's just one of a few errors. toward the end, the narrator mistakenly refers to the .45 ACP as "45mm", and i'm surprised that Discovery was paying editors so much money to not do their job if so many mistakes ended up in just one episode.

[@Wartija]

​@@thecommentpolice8115 That assumes editors do fact checking too. Or have general knowledge to spot them. Which is a pretty generous assumption to make for Americans :D Also it's not just the editors, someone wrote the script that made the mistake, the narrator read it, all of the filming crew and so on and so on.

[@darkshadowsx5949]

@@thecommentpolice8115 there's a 45mm anti tank round but that wont fit in a 1911. lol narrators can be dumb.

[@martinkrauser4029]

@@Wartija script editors are, in fact, responsible for fact checking, and they are, in fact, also called editors.

[@Gunbudder]

i've heard a pretty fantastic sea story about a US sniper (usually a marine) who sees a bad guy cocking his arm back to throw a grenade, and the sniper snaps off a quick shot and gets a lucky hit on the grenade in the guy's hand, detonating it before it could be thrown. its one of those stories that probably didn't happen (like most sea stories) but its possible. i've also read some stories about soldiers being shot in a grenade during WWII and having them either detonate or stop the bullet and not detonate, saving the person wearing the grenade

[@Astraeus..]

I mean it might be possible, would depend on the type of grenade and whether it could detonate from outside impact like that, but to me a more likely explanation would be he actually shot the guy who was about to throw it, which then caused him to stagger/drop the grenade which then detonated. Wouldn't take much for that story to turn into "yea he totally shot the grenade in his hand".

[@zwenkwiel816]

soldiers getting hit in grenades worn on their body seems likely, that probably happened more than once. shooting one from a soldiers hand as it's about to be thrown sounds like a tall tale though (you'd be better off aiming for the soldier throwing it, much bigger target XD).

[@thepjup4507]

XD@@zwenkwiel816

[@MrMagnaniman]

There are usually a lot of people in a war. It has probably happened at one point or another. When it did, though, it probably wasn't intentional (despite what the shooter claims). And, if it was, it probably wasn't a consistently repeatable feat.

[@johnharris6655]

Some other Grenade myths, you cannot pull the pin with your teeth. Grenade pins take a lot of force to pull by design so they cannot be armed accidentally. US Army Grenades were designed like baseballs because most kids in America could throw a baseball, as seen in Band of Brothers when Buck Compton, a former Catcher on the UCLA baseball team throws a grenade at a German and it explodes right by his head.

[@doughesson]

One major problem with Jamie is that he wasn't swinging from his hips. If you move the shotgun with your shoulders,you'll always have to re-aim at the target. One WWI soldier using a Winchester 1897 shotgun was cited for having repeatedly hit grenades as they were thrown into his trench. Grenades on the ground throw their shrapnel upward in a v shaped pattern & if you are closer than 5 meters(16.4') you are missed by most of the pieces.

[@Rincevind007]

They did that story as well and while there was more shrapnel going going up there was still enough to kill you or seriously injure, so it was considered busted

[@Buzz407-]

I'm not an expert on potato mashers but I can tell you for certain that grenades on the ground are as lethal at 0-5 meters as they are at 5-10. Shockwave reflections don't have enough energy to alter the course of fragments already chock full of kinetic energy. Newton busted this myth.

[@doughesson]

@@Rincevind007 If you've ever watched Band of Brothers,one scene showing an officer throwing a grenade that hit a German soldier as it exploded actually happened. Buck Compton had been a baseball player (Pitcher)before joining the Army"before it joined him" & he obviously knew how to throw round objects.

[@boombyte8849]

@@Buzz407- Soldiers says the real dangerous of a grenade is just withing 6+-m. More than 6m it's can injure but barely kill.

[@Buzz407-]

@@boombyte8849 I'm not sure which soldiers or which grenades you're referring to but it is all a game of luck and depends on where you get hit. Those fragments start with an initial velocity around 1/2-2/3 the detonation velocity of the explosive. Even if it doesn't kill you outright, it can and will F you up right and proper. An unlucky hit from a piece of schrapnel, while as unlucky as getting struck by lightning, could kill you 200 yards away. Any frag you throw, can potentially kill you. Modern grenades are designed to create smaller fragments which lose velocity very quickly, but you still don't want line of sight with a grenade you just chucked. That is why in training they're thrown from behind berms and timbers (or concrete). "Barely dead" and "Dead" are both dead. A 22LR will just barely kill you compared to a 300 winmag but you won't know the difference when you're talkin to St Peter. Frags aren't as impressive in real life as they are in the movies but they'll still mess you up right and proper.7

[@Heroix.]

I love this condensed version of mythbusters! well done

[@kevinhurley6919]

He pulls the pin and then traps the spoon.. No! He trapped the spoon and then pulled the pin. There is a HUGE difference between the two, such as blaine the bomb tech is alive

[@thefurycu]

that auto ejecting gets him every time 😂

[@TJDeez]

lmao the 12g being "low powered". you have 9 pellets of 9mm in a super tight group at that distance going over 1000fps. it's not surprising at all it disintegrated the grenade.

[@1337skillzor]

yea, just goes to show they didnt actually know that much about firearms..

[@thecommentpolice8115]

@@1337skillzor california moment. though to be fair, 12g isn't low powered so much as it is low pressure, which is why you can get away with making pipe contraptions that fire shotgun shells much easier than ones that fire most proper cartridge ammo, except for obvious ones like .22, .380 or 9mm. they could have meant low pressure, but again, the editors just weren't doing their job.

[@MrMagnaniman]

More than that, even. At that range, the shot hadn't separated at all, so it was hitting like a slug. The shotgun was hitting with comparable force to the .308 rifle. The shotgun load has half-ish the velocity, but twice-ish the weight of the .308 bullet.

[@JacksonKillroy]

​​@@1337skillzor im pretty sure they said it like that to create a feeling of progression, jamie is an ex navy seal

[@1337skillzor]

@@JacksonKillroywhat? Jamie was never in any military, let alone the navy seals lol. why would you think that? he's been a boat captain and divemaster before, and owned a special effects company. I'm sure in hollywood that's close enough to being a navy seal, but not in the real world.

[@TheBobmoorensons]

The shotgun was severly under estimated!

[@animesavedmylife3648]

"And we're hot!" Casually walks away.

[@austins.2495]

Man I miss watching this show back in the day. Core memory type stuff

[@Plump_Nick]

Hearing the narrators voice gave me nostalgia!

[@jtn191]

*harmonica & blues music

[@JRischill]

I love mythbusters, those were the days. And when I got older I discovered that they didn't really like each other which is a quite surprise for all of the fans

[@MrMacavity]

I miss Mythbusters, those times were amazing on TV

[@RwP223]

Camera angle makes it seem like that camera person on the corner of the shipping container is in the line of shrapnel.

[@sgtepic4659]

Adam holding the grenade by the pin gives me cosmic amounts of anxiety

[@notyouraveragegoldenpotato]

"These are supernm dangerous" holding it hanging by the safety pin😂

[@airplanenut89]

They also often have the end of the pin bent down to insure the pin doesn't work its way free. Current US grenades also have a clip to keep the pin from moving. Removing this clip is step 2 of 5 when the Army teaches grenades in BCT.

[@jjd997]

Exactly what I came to comment and yours is on the top of all comments. I guess we all noticed that huh 😂

[@Phage116]

It was surely an inert grenade he was handling

[@bryonm4980]

It was FFE.

[@dbzcollector9963]

@@jjd997 guess you didn’t notice that the one he’s holding isn’t real lol. If you keep watching you see him pulling the pin on the one he was holding and he even said it was a dud.

[@paulpease8254]

I love that Adam’s hand is wrapped up from some undisclosed injury.

[@sithlordzach8418]

"Lightweight" and "low power" are interesting descriptors for 00 buck. Like, sure, if you said that of bird shot, no one would argue.

[@zwenkwiel816]

yeah especially at this range where all the pellets will hit the grenade. that's like being shot with 9 .38 rounds all at once XD

[@marcusjosefsson4998]

And at point blank range...

[@hansiminator69]

I searched for this episode for so long, because i saw it on TV back then and now finally its here! :)

[@swivels]

That steel used in the grenade is intentionally weak to cause maximum shrapnel. Not surprising that a shotgun totally destroyed it

[@bloppaveli161]

Them not liking each other in real life but having a legendary show together, is amazing lol

[@RipperTips]

The golden little moments of jamie and adam just laughing together

[@julienlamberto9857]

I think firing the shotgun at a further distance would perhaps have yielded a different result because there would’ve been a bigger spread and thus, fewer rounds making contact with the grenade.

[@LoveLestat]

The baby bomb disposal is literally a sleep paralysis monster

[@ravenzyblack]

It’s something Sid would have made in Toy Story 1 and 2.

[@LoveLestat]

@@ravenzyblack yeeeeaaaahhh!!!! haaaa

[@animesavedmylife3648]

Casually handling a grenade while talking about how even the nomb squad is scares.

[@bryanciacco4181]

Mythbusters were the original youtubers that everyone else copied.

[@ArsonalTech]

Adam holding the grenade by the pin, the only thing preventing the spoon from activating the fuse, made me nervous

[@Eralen00]

Those pins require quite a bit of force to pull out. Its NOT going to fall out just by holding it like that. You can't pull it out with your teeth either like they do in action movies, it would probably break your teeth if you really bit down on it and tried to pull it out

[@mikehawk6918]

@@Eralen00 Materials degrade, defects happen, assumptions kill.

[@myboysd5772]

Probably a dud

[@Heroo01]

it's obviously a dud lmfao. he literally plays with one later and says it's a dud. they also hit one with an ak they ALSO weren't allowed to touch the live nades and had the bomb techs set them all up.

[@wastelander89]

I remember watching this when I used to have cable 10 years ago. Mythbusters was one of the best shows on TV hands down

[@anthonyjaparks]

When I was stationed @Ft. Hood Tx. Back in the mid 80’s, I was a (AI) on the grenade range and at least half of the grenades the soldiers through that day were duds. We had to call EOD to destroy them each time, so it was taking a very long time for EOD to get to the range each time. So at the end of the day there was one more that didn’t go off, so we decided to throw a grenade at that one to hopefully destroy the dud. Well we actually got it next to the dud and the one we through exploded. But upon further inspection the dud had gotten blowed some 10 meters away from the explosion and there was shrapnel marks all over that dud. So instead of trying that again we called EOD to come and do their job. This time when they came out they had their Captain with them. He started asking questions about why that dud had divot marks in it. I think we gave him some kind of lame excuse. There was an investigation into the incident. Thanks to the good Lord no one got into trouble. We all told the same story. So in this case the one grenade did nothing to the other one except toss it several meters.

[@ItsMeSteve-]

Anyone else remember going to school and then coming home and either just making it in time to watch MythBusters or being early and waiting for them to come on. Back then, television was so much more.... fulfilling. Today everything is streamed or made so poorly that it's not fun or entertaining to continue watching. Time is one thing we will never get back :-(

[@ItsMeSteve-]

@@gstein123 You had one of those big, bulky tv's too! Oh gosh I remember How its made, that was such an entertaining show, well opened the world up to how everyday items are made, such a great concept for the time! I too enjoy engineering because of these shows, so amazing how they have affected those that watched it all over the world, truly inspirational!

[@Coconutscott]

Now the commercials go on and on, a half hour show is more like 17 minutes.

[@ItsMeSteve-]

@@Coconutscott Yup! Commercials every 10 minutes, and most shows use fillers or repeatedly go on about something for like 5 episodes.

[@acatrineivalentin8135]

well.. now we get Naked and Afraid :D

[@garavonhoiwkenzoiber]

wait so he DIDN'T say Adam could keep it before he threw it?

[@sidleyparkhermit6391]

I came here to say the exact same thing! That was all Adam, Jamie was just being extra chill and agreeable for once and look where it got him. @Tested GIVE HIM HIS HAT BACK

[@evanlee93]

that shotgun should be further back, it's basically point blank

[@Mr0Tubby]

Send an email and maybe they'll reshoot it for you!

[@fsj197811]

That was a really good episode. In hindsight I'm not surprised that the grenade shattered with the shotgun. The grenade has a thin shell and it's made to fragment. Thanks for sharing.

[@lordphullautosear]

Small technical point: 00 buck shot are closer to .32 cal. than .38...but the end result is the same.

[@eldandonsmith5372]

Yes, .330

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Lucky y'all survived considering the duds and live were all painted the same red.

[@MarlosCartinez]

The narrator is peak childhood memories

[@lucianotesta5019]

That was so funny, the clay pigeon sequence.

[@thomasgentry9624]

Finally, a video more and 3 min!

[@Semper_Iratus]

Thank you for answering that question.

[@bloodlove93]

military footage proved it years ago, most modern explosives are like this, I've seen apache missile pods take on rpgs and laugh it off. they need certain conditions to detonate, it's just a safety feature so not every attack that hits an explosive makes it go boom.

[@Heisenberg2002]

I love how he’s holding the grenade BY THE PIN’S RING 😂😂😂😂

[@cammycakesgaming]

Yes

[@benhess3052]

that pistol was not actually 45mm it was .45 of an inch

[@chasebob8327]

Hey @discovery being back Mythbusters, and more over, science in general

[@willswords7373]

Wow! Glad I caught this! Thanks

[@TomHanks2723]

“Has the bomb techs nervous” I would be nervous too if you was holding the grenade by pinching it only by the pull pin.

[@PaidInBoredom]

I'm surprised they didn't think the 00 buck would obliterate it like it did. It's like a bunch of 38 bullets at once.

[@doughesson]

Nine pellets of 00 Buck,each pellet being .33 caliber.

[@Alewort]

Yeah, at that distance they haven't spread apart much.

[@garrett5974]

Just a point worth noting... you shot the grenade with buck shot at damn near point blank range... if someone threw a grenade coming at you it would more likely be shot at when it was 20 yards away from you in the air. Worth testing a ranged shot and not a point blank shot.

[@matthewmeredith297]

That bomb baby crawled out from under Sid's bed😂😂

[@dhickson79]

Love this show

[@Maugli42]

I've heard anecdotes of US troops in WWI shooting german grenades mid-air with their shotguns, it was one of the very useful things about the "trenchbroom". Therefore, I kinda expected the shotgun to do well :D

[@drumset09]

Of course the 00 buck destroyed everything, it was like 2 feet away from the muzzle. I would have liked to have seen them shoot from 10 yards, not point blank.

[@RastaRider]

Yay Mythbusters

[@gooding1044]

I have never seen this scenario in a movie before. But love watching good old TV shows.

[@corvaxblackfeather6529]

I would love to get the entire series on BlueRays ^^ I binchwatched them from first to last episode with glee and joy back in the days ^^

[@kevinhurley6919]

I wonder if a sniper has ever shot at the grenades hanging on an enemies belt

[@williamwofford2503]

yes and they will go off

[@sheldonjunior7467]

Thats not happen in real life

[@nfrontier78]

@discovery PLEASE the world needs more mythbusters, for some reason this clip I've never seen before, but the show was so good,

[@tc6818]

My learnings: 1) Snipers should shoot the grenades worn by the enemy and take out multiple combatants. With a silencer, they'll never know what hit them. 2) Even if you don't hit the grenade in the air, if you shoot it on the ground next to you with a shotgun or handgun, you still stand a chance of disabling it. (assuming the 5 second fuse hasn't gone off by then) 3) Batting the grenade away like a baseball or cricket probably has a higher percentage than shooting it out of the air if you don't have a shotgun. 4) In the classic movie scene were the good guy walking into a group of bad guys holding a grenade with the pin pulled. This would be an interesting plot twist where one (or more) of the bad guys proceed to shoot the grenade out of his hands. 4B) Or the cop/security guard who pulls that move on the bank robber who displayed a grenade with the pin pulled.

[@nfts1544]

Nice experiment

[@patheddles4004]

Good stuff as usual. My one issue is in that fun little outro, where Adam's flagging himself with what looks like an AK (with mag). That's breaking two of the four basic rules: always treat every gun as if it's loaded, and never point a gun at anything that you're not willing to destroy. I mean I'm sure they made sure the chamber and the mag were both empty, but it's still a dangerous thing to do and a seriously irresponsible thing to show to their audience.

[@Heroo01]

it's just a fun little outro bruh, I'm absolutely certain they know and fully respect firearm safety with how many times they've probably been lectured by insurance and various ranges

[@jonathanh761]

Looked like it was an airsoft gun to me, not a real firearm.

[@eamonia]

Dude, _every_ theorized result? Absolutely awesome. This was one of their best. Definitely top 20.

[@Svensk7119]

I miss Mythbusters, but I don't miss their long-winded, intertwined episodes. Also, I don't miss when they deliberately misinterpreted the conclusions, just to say, "busted!" Case in point, the bulletproof phone book episode. It stopped the pistol and the birdshot (which to me is all that one truly expected from "bulletproof" material, at least at the time), and then they shot it with every rifle they could get!

[@othernamesweretaken1871]

Apolitical, whimsical, educational, and entertaining TV. Truly the last good era of TV. it’s now a dead media.

[@Ste_Brit]

Detonate, divert or disrupt. That should’ve been the title of this 😂

[@user-mq3lj9jc3t]

What I learned from this video: when someone throws a grenade at you, hide behind a go-pro.

[@cristiandiazbasualto]

wow...I´ve never seen Mythbusters in HD before, that was awesome

[@Sunprism]

Jamie emptying the buckshot out of his beret to put it back on, he's a real life action hero

[@randomjeffthings]

This is a show that should never be stopped. It's educational and fun. What else could be better on TV.

[@jarnojansen2077]

since someone pointed out they arent friends, just 2 strangers that happen to have the same interests, its really sad to watch

[@aaronawoodard]

The fuse is not 'shock sensitive' it is just that the bullet ignited the grenade before the blasting cap could, it has penetrating power as well as has an incendiary effect when shearing through the steel casing of a grenade. The previous two used what is known as stopping power to essentially destroy the casing. If anything was learned it was to target explosives if you are a sniper. With the new 380 blackout it'll sound like you snap your fingers and BOOM.

[@armandocardona6975]

That’s because the metal used in grenades is purposely brittle to allow as many fragmentations as possible. A malleable metal would stretch and bend leaving only large mangled pieces flying. I wish they tested this at range with the shotgun

[@darkblade51224]

Basically what I'm learning is if I'm ever in war and a grenade lands right next to me while I have a gun just f****** shoot the grenade until it's no longer a grenade

[@ClaraCleary2005]

well of course if you shoot a grenade with a shotgun that close, it's going to destroy the casing. The realistic scenario is a few more feet out when the grenade is still coming in and the pellets have spread out much more, transferring much less energy to the grenade. I think that a pinecone style grenade that has intended fracture points will still be too weak along those fracture points to not break and let the powder fall out before detonation. Though, a grenade with a smooth inside and outside like the one used in the video could go either way, being just strong enough to not be destroyed and stopped/slowed down midair, or broken apart. Another possible scenario, although unlikely, is that one or a few pellets have enough energy to penetrate but not shatter the outside of the grenade, and the powder ignites, but cannot build up enough pressure to cause an explosion.

[@NikoMikkanen]

There was a Finnish officer (a lieutenant or a captain, IIRC) during WWII who had a grenade in his chest pocket and was shot from ambush by a Red Army soldier. The bullet hit the grenade, which shattered, but stopped the bullet. Rumour has it it took half an hour for colour to return to the officer's face. :)

[@williamhenderson9535]

I can't believe I missed this episode! Lol

[@apenza4304]

Jamie using his rifle like a bat seems like the best bet to “shoot away” a grenade. While I never had a grenade thrown at me while in Vietnam unless it landed in my lap I know I would dive for cover and not even think about shooting it.

[@TARINunit9]

Funny that this should be on Mythbusters, because there's a common myth about World War 1... Some American GI's were issued shotguns as specialist weapons. There's a persistent legend about one American crackshot who saw a German lobbing a grenade, and his instincts of skeet shooting back home kicked in, letting him dispatch the grenade with his shotgun and save his whole squad. To my knowledge there's no record of this ever happening, but it's fun for military historians to talk about

[@ContentNot]

Show must be at least 15 years old and still it easily gets over 1.000.000 views. That's awesome.

[@dominickriegle8447]

I remember some of the crazy explosions they had on MB.......the cement truck has to be the biggest. That truck literally evaporated. Also good to see old clips where they were both happy and having fun and didn't hate each other's guts.