The Viewer Special: Round 2 | MythBusters | Season 5 Episode 29 | Full Episode

[@skilletborne]

I don't know if this was available knowledge at the time, but broadhead arrows are definitely well understood. Adam was right about bleeding out, but not just for faster death, but for an easier trail to follow. The triangular shape of the head also makes it walk deeper into the tissue causing extra damage as the animal runs Lastly, hunting is a long, hard experience. Even if the difference was as small as Jamie thought, a single arrow fired could be the culmination of days of work - you need that one shot to be as much in your favor as possible.

[@frizzlethecat2084]

Also, the arrowhead is re-usable if the stick gets damaged (by, for example, getting broken off when the animal runs away). Once the animal is dead, you can dig out the arrowhead and use it again on a new stick. That would cut the work-time to nearly none. And, if you were traveling to a different location, you wouldn't necessarily have to carry all your arrows. You could, though, carry a lot of arrowheads in a small pouch.

[@holli987]

The arrow head would also help keep the arrow inside of the animal, while the wooden one would be much more likely to fall out

[@3fast5you]

Let's not forget that if you make a lot of arrows, you're gonna be good at it, and it's gonna be faster to make them lol

[@entropy616]

internet was shit at the time and they were playing dumb most of the time

[@michaelnewswanger2409]

Stone arrowheads have another advantage that many people don't know about. Living tissue will constrict around a stab wound. Stone and glass are sharp at a molecular level and will continue to cut the tissue as the animal moves which means the tissue will not be able constrict and thus the animal will not be able to stop the bleeding. It also causes the animal to want to bed down instead of continuing to move. Stone arrowheads are less durable than steel broadheads, but if your shot placement avoids bone the stone will kill faster than modern steel.

[@KaidenLewis-wy4hd]

The whole arrow thing really wasn't as black and white. They used both types of arrows. Just like a hunter nowadays they simply picked their ammunition depending on the animal they wanted to shoot. It would only make sense to use your strongest arrows for large animals with thick hides to inflict as much damage as possible. But you wouldn't want to waste your valuable stone arrows for small nimble targets like rabbits or birds because you'd miss a lot and a wooden arrow would be enough to kill it anyway.

[@RhinoBarbarian]

Thing with the stones is that unless they nick a bone, they can be used over and over and over. The pointed stick would dull much faster.

[@wonderrob3225]

I think they are making an incorrect assumption in the first place. The prevalence of stone tools over wooden implements does not necessarily indicate a preference for stone. It is possible that wooden tools were more abundant than stone ones, but they have since degraded, leaving only the stone tools behind.

[@RhinoBarbarian]

@@wonderrob3225 They mention this very thing in the episode.

[@wonderrob3225]

@@RhinoBarbarian I missed that part 😆 shows how close i was paying attention

[@NateyC214]

I'm just imagining old school cavemen arguing over these youngins and their new flint arrows that take forever to make.

[@rockid7970]

"It's a gimmick sonny"

[@derrickstorm6976]

"I liked things better back in my day"

[@michaelnewswanger2409]

None of them would argue. It's unfortunate that the mythbusters didn't look for an outside expert on this myth. There are hunters that use primitive weapons. A wood shaft might be deadly eventually but living tissue will constrict around the arrow which means no blood trail and a wounded animal that can travel farther. A stone tip continues to cut the internal organs as the animal moves leading to a significantly faster kill, more blood trail and an animal that wants to bed down instead of running. Stone tips are still the best hunting tips as long as your shot placement is good and will kill faster than modern steel broadheads.

[@PABadger13]

​@@michaelnewswanger2409 Exactly - although I think the notion that stone tips are superior to steel is a fairly bold claim to make! Like I mentioned in a comment above, Jaime and Adam left out a really critical component of the myth - they left out an actual living animal. Ballistics gel does a lot of things well, but it don't bleed.

[@michaelnewswanger2409]

@@PABadger13 I didn't say superior to steel. It will kill faster than steel if the shot doesn't hit bone. The killing effect of stone comes from the fact that it is sharp at the molecular level and the body cannot constrict around it to limit blood loss. It will continue to cut every time the animal moves and cause massive internal bleeding.

[@DeCode343]

Arrowheads - sharpened wood tip: What they could hardly test is the fact that the arrowhead stuck in a moving animal will grind out a pretty big hole over time. That will make it bleed more.

[@markshark7521]

And they had plenty of time to make arrowheads while watching the Flintstones😂

[@jacquesbarnard3690]

The flint arrow heads are reusable, how many shots will it take to blunt the wooden tip?

[@KandiKlover]

Also he didn't do the sharpened wood tip right. You're supposed to fire harden it until the wood carbonizes for maximum effectiveness.

[@heathermillsphantomlimb9314]

They also help the arrow stay in the animal, whereas a wooden tipped arrow may eventually fall out as the animal moves.

[@hornetscales8274]

Also have to consider the target has bones: Can't imagine the wood tip holding up to that.

[@IvanIvanoIvanovich]

My favorite part of this episode is the idea that anyone would wear jeans to go skiing.

[@logann7942]

I never saw it done on a ski lift; I saw it on the Simpsons when Herman was selling counterfeit jeans out of Homer’s garage.

[@LassetUnsSpielen]

DeWalt should use the last clip for their advertisment. Which drill would survive an explosion?

[@leadslinger]

RIP Grant. You will be missed

[@chrism4841]

Something else they didn't consider with the arrow tips is that they could be made by anyone in the camp, people too old or sick to hunt can knap flint whilst the others are out gathering food.

[@MetalBoozie]

Not just that. I've seen a documentation where an experimantal archaeologist did an arrow tip in something between 3 and 4 minutes. He said something like"If you know what you're doing, you know exactly where and how hard to hit the stone to get the shards that you want." So I think it took our ancestors way less time to create the tips.

[@JP_3912]

Kinda wish we had high-speed film of the bullets from the mini gun tearing through the tree

[@Ma_X64]

The best advertisement of a cordless drill ever! :D

[@thorthewolf8801]

You tested the jeans by sliding on its weakpont. Try grabbing not the two ends of the legs, but the top and bottom part (I know the show has concluded, still I wanted to add my thoughts)

[@RussWoodget]

Tory did it the right way. He wrapped both end to his wrist to make sure he can grab on it. There is simply no way to grab on upper end of jeans

[@EinarEle]

They've made an error in their thinking about arrow heads. They're looking the time it takes to chip out and arrow head and comparing that to sharpening a stick and concluding it takes many times longer, but that's not how an arrow is made. Suitable sticks have to be found, fletching needs to b gathered, the sticks need straightening over a fire, glue needs to be made, the fletching needs to be fixed on and then the arrow head goes on. The time taken for that final step that produces the best arrow is only part of the process. Without the arrow head nearly all the rest of the time is needed and the end result is less effective.

[@Anterwaare306]

Exactly my thoughts

[@RaffyMaBoi]

So, you mean your spending all that time to make the arrow, might aswell go all in and make the arrowhead rather than leaving it as a point?

[@EinarEle]

@@RaffyMaBoi Unlike the version Mythbusters (and subsequently lots of KZbinrs) show making an arrow shaft isn't jut sticking some feathers on a stick. It's finding the best sticks, it's straightening the stickers, it's finding the feathers, finding the resin to make the glue for the fletchings, making the glue, softening and splitting the tendons to make the string that holding the fletchings on. Chipping the arrowhead, especially when you've done it hundreds of times before, isn't five times longer than making the arrow, it's a smallish part of the total. A pointed stick with fletchings might have some affect, but after the time and effort put into making it you'd want it to be as effective as possible, or you've wasted that time. Not getting this equation right is right is the difference between living and starving to death.

[@michaelnewswanger2409]

@@RaffyMaBoi Its more than that. A straight wood shaft won't kill the animal fast enough, its also unlikely to leave a blood trail. A stone tip kills faster than even modern steel broadheads. Hunting is not only about making a kill, if you don't recover the animal all your time is wasted. There were arrows that didn't use stone points but they were used to hunt birds and small animals. People who hunted large animals always used a broadhead.

[@scottm85]

If they included all the things you mentioned, it still takes longer to make the one with the arrowhead, as all the other things have nothing to do with the tip, they're identical. Since this wasn't about what arrow shaft type was used, what they said and did was completely valid.

[@scrivener68]

They needed to test reusability with the arrows. My guess is the pointy stick would require constant resharpening.

[@Kolfonik]

yeah but then you just sharpen it. *shop shop* and you're done. But if the stone break! 😱

[@thrillerdill]

Arrow heads cause ripping and tearing on the way in. A simple point just makes a whole that can clot around the arrow. That is why bow hunters use broad heads

[@tomthomas3499]

​@@thrillerdillAlso imagine pulling out arrow with an arrowhead, that would've been hurt if not fatal while on pointy stick, while it still hurt, probably won't do further damage

[@thrillerdill]

@@tomthomas3499 I had a stroke trying to read your comment

[@IvanIvanoIvanovich]

Neither would be particularly reusable, thus the importance of replaceable fore shafts. Also worth mentioning that an experienced and specialized craftsman could make an obsidian arrowhead in 15 minutes.

[@PexiTheBuilder]

There is good reason hunting is allowed only with proper cutting hunting tips. "Pointy stick" would only stuck into prey blocking wound and take days to weeks to kill it, when with cutting tip example deer bleed out under minute. Bad idea to use jeans that way, maybe weakest point of them. Better put both legs over and grab ancles and waist for best strenght..

[@johnowens8992]

Also the tip can be continually reused

[@reaganharder1480]

@@johnowens8992 Assuming you're able to recover it, which is not a guarantee.

[@kikixchannel]

@@reaganharder1480 Yes, but many times you will be able to recover it. If not, then that hunting method wouldn't have been useful in the first place. Besides, I assume there are some animals whose hides are too hard for wooden-tipped arrows to begin with, that stone-tipped arrows may be able to penetrate. Though I don't think those are animals humans would want to hunt in the first place, I'd imagine it's better to have arrows that can hurt them in case you need to protect yourself from said animals.

[@DepressyDuck]

Problem with the gunpowder keg. It's only about a foot off the ground. If someone's carrying it, it's either by their hip (around 3ft) or on their shoulder (just under 6ft). Meaning there's more vertical the flame will have to go up before hitting the barrel and kaboom.

[@Justgregular88]

It’s based off cartoons, calm down

[@basis7089]

btw with the arrow heads, the reason the arrow heads are whats found is because the stone remains, wooden arrows would degrade over time even if they did use them

[@terrydarhk]

*Survival Bias

[@basis7089]

@@terrydarhk precisely just as inanimate objects

[@samable7724]

Jamie mentions it in the episode

[@nikolaiiscoolguyproduction4807]

Conveniently Jamie mentioned that exact thing

[@nugboy420]

They SID just say that.

[@eline8087]

Perhaps the glass arrowheads take longer to make, but then, if if the arrow breaks or something, you can recycle, costing you less time in the long run? I also imagine you'd have to resharpen the point less often with the glass.

[@KandiKlover]

Also with sharpened wood tips you're supposed to fire harden them until the wood carbonizes. Also this is not an either/or type conundrum or even a conundrum at all. It's normal in archery since it's inception to use whatever arrow the situation and need dictates. The only reason you only find stone is that all the wood has disintegrated over time so they came to a false conclusion based on a poor and unscientific observation.

[@IvanIvanoIvanovich]

With stone and wood, depending on the (pre)historic context, fore shafts could be used. This allows damaged heads to be replaced or different types to be switched out in the field depending on circumstances. The same goes for the older technology of atlatl darts.

[@AND-od5jt]

13:28 With the arrows w/o tips you actually prolly could... the size of the wound is the main issue (you want it as big as possible)

[@Zorothegallade-rpg]

Having the arrow become lodged so that the target either can't pull it out or has to enlarge the wound to do so is also a great advantage.

[@andrewjames2932]

Why did no one think to roll the jeans like a cable? Put one leg in the other, even it out, then twist the jeans into a cable.

[@BassFlapper]

Adam really loved up to his name this episode! Adam SAVAGE Hillarious.

[@RamenHutt]

With the sharpened stick the arrow plugs the wound, especially on large game. Without the cut in the wound channel you would have to turn your prey into a porcupine to kill it unless you hit something extremely vital.

[@TheHutchy01]

One advantage no-one seems to be mentioning about the sharpened sticks is that it's the only tool that could be used for hunting vampires.

[@Forastero011]

Such a great show

[@joshmartin6464]

That chain saw must have been dull as hell. Cutting through a pine that size should have taken less than 45 seconds. I've cut through a walnut tree about that big in about 30 seconds. And walnut is much harder than pine.

[@charisanna4914]

They should have gotten an expert flint knapper if they truly wanted to time making arrows. Have you seen Phil Harding knap flint? There wouldn't have been that much difference

[@Zorothegallade-rpg]

But how much flint could a flint knapper knap if a flint knapper could knap flint?

[@Canadian_Zac]

Yeah, they tested the time with a guy who's never worked with Flint before. They'd have spent a lot of time and gotten good at making them well, and quick. Plus, its not like they had super limited time. You couldn't really go wandering around after night fall. So you could spend several hours after the sun goes down in the cave by a fire, just making arrowheads for tomorrow's Hunting.

[@Zorothegallade-rpg]

@@Canadian_Zac And that's how we lived before Netflix. Sheesh.

[@Kaeseloch]

Stoneheads could have been wider in diameter causing a greater wound than woodarrows. And maybe they were favorable in things like sliding through bones (ribcage) and ligaments (joints)

[@Matthew-h6e]

We're all ignoring the fact that on the zipline jean eascape, the sliding guy would just slide down to the very next chair behind him?

[@TheShieldery]

U got anymore of those Pixeles?

[@giannisksanthopoulos4300]

pause exactly at 27:16, i thought at the moment "WTF are they drawing here"..i was so confuse at first 🤣🤣🤣

[@double-h-farms]

In the Navy we used jeans as a flotation device, you knot both ends of the leg and then jump into the water holding onto the waist end and just like it fills with air and your pants float..

[@borntoclimb7116]

I love the fan theory episodes, lot of interesting and nice ideas.

[@lu4414]

Best ad possible for that drill

[@humaux]

I can confirm when I was a much dumber teenager, years and years ago, I used a semi auto shotgun to cut a pine tree down. It took lots of shells and some time but it is possible.

[@andygeary3531]

Kari's face looked so serene while firing the minigun 😅

[@DrBarbequeSauce]

Yay! Symmetrical sound

[@RootedHat]

Stereo*

[@PyccoloSantos]

its weird to know adam is just 3 year old than Tory and Grant.

[@Okurka.]

Grant stopped aging.

[@FreakGeSt]

@@Okurka. oof

[@pepe6666]

given a long distance, i think the stone would have a much better penetration power than wood as shown here, because the stone has momentum. tho that would depend if the entire arrow weighed more with a stone tip. just like why bullets are heavy as possible.

[@digdugbingo]

I know that there is a lot of information in this show. However, Kari just blows all that shit away. She just turns a show starring a bunch of nerds into something special. Something actually not so nerdy. Sometimes... This episode, when she gets to fire a freakin machine gun is so fu@%#! damn cool. I mean holy shit, I haven't had the chance to fire a machine gun yet. Anyhoos, and she is super cute too. Which I think Adam and Jamie obviously exploited. I mean, the Mentos myth when she was wearing a red bra and a lab coat was just smoookinnn fuc#$@! hot!!! I mean damn... That more or less made the entire show...

[@ScottFunk-us6ro]

taking out a tree with a gatling gun is incredibly expensive. Bad idea!

[@RenanDavidSoriaAhumada]

this is professional level, even had chapters!

[@chriswiththehoodie5660]

Wish they tested the arrowhead against bone because wood likely wouldn’t penetrate

[@michaelnewswanger2409]

I cannot imagine a scenario where the fire on the trail of gunpowder would surprise the person holding the barrel.

[@saucierboar260]

Another good reason to use stone arrow heads it that they are more reusable than sharpened sticks.

[@Nuzzyfu]

Had to check some dates for that AirPod Adam had in

[@Teabag-jt]

The most unrealistic myth, the Thompson didn’t jam once in that. That’s unheard of, they jam if you tuck it back into the case correctly that night. That is infuriating.

[@badad0166]

I wanna see Jamie and Adam re-unite and hug. Just once.

[@Okurka.]

Adam said too many bad things about Jamie.

[@Joker-ik1sp]

​@@Okurka.They had beef?

[@beehambonio3378]

The tendrils of Jamie's moustache reaching out to embrace his former colleague

[@Schulzffw]

This Chainsaw must be so blunt

[@draco84oz]

You'd be surprised how hard it can be to cut through a tree depending on what type of wood it is - hardwoods do take longer to cut through, and you don't want to force it in case it disrupts the course of the chain. Also, pro tip - never use a chainsaw on a palm tree. Not unless you like cleaning out the chain and the guide for an hour or so afterwards...

[@The5rude]

Why am i so reminded about austin powers?

[@Okurka.]

Why am I so reminded about Rosie Jones?

[@saucierboar260]

It should be pretty obvious that ANY gun can cut down a tree if you shoot it enough.

[@Weinertroner]

13:56 🤦🏻‍♀️the spines are too flexible to test for accuracy. Second arrow heads do take longer to make but only because the objective is to lodge and penetrate the vital organs and do more damage than poking holes hoping it will drop.

[@dirtrider88]

close your eyes 30:11

[@richardcurry366]

You should have tested what angle it would have taken instead of stopping at the 25° angle .

[@MADExCLEARxMEDIA]

As for the diff in arrow heads, a sharp stick will just fall out or be pulled out, the flint head anchors itself and continues to cut,

[@AtomicHaze]

Do we know if stone age arrows actually had feathers as stabilizers? Quite a lot goes into doing that. Not only getting a good feather, but you need some kind of adhesive (they could use pine tar) and then you want to wrap it with string or some long thin fiber. So if you've gone through the long process of attaching feathers and making sure the distance between them is equal and everything. Then attaching a tip isn't going to be the deciding factor in what takes too long. But if stone age arrows didn't have feathers in the back for stabilizing. The arrow head would definatly help in the accuracy department.

[@IvanIvanoIvanovich]

We have historic examples of stone-pointed arrows from the 19th and even 20th Centuries in North America. Not to mention atlatl darts that predate the introduction of bows, some of which are also fletched as preserved in caves. From a functional aspect, a straight and well balanced stick and fletching is a time sink but can be made to last longer with replaceable fore shafts.

[@DoRullings]

This was by far one of the episodes I had most issues with when it was aired. The arrowheads were made for because they served an important function and it is highly unlikely that a stone age man made arrowheads for decoration. We find many preserved arrows made of wood here in Norway now that have been preserved in a glacier for hundreds to thousands of years including arrowheads made of a variety of different materials, including as bone, shell, mussel, bronze, iron, etc. This is found in Jotunheimen, a mountain area named after the home of the jotnene, the giants in Norse mythology. The glaciers melts fast now and uncover a lot that has been lost in the snow and has been preserved in the ice. I have searched and tried to find out if they have found an arrow without an arrowhead or a splinter for where the arrowhead was attached, but so far I have not found any. They used arrowheads of hard material all the time. If you want to watch the archeologists uncover old Norwegian arrows and other stuff you can go to the channel of the archaeologists who works there called: "Secrets Of The Ice".

[@Druguaer12345]

They don't say they made them for decorations. They say that having the (Technology) in this case the arrowhead would have been seen as 'bling' and impressed the cave ladies. Because you were more advanced. 😢🎉

[@Druguaer12345]

I bet you had issues with it considering you didn't understand what they were talking about

[@michaelnewswanger2409]

@@Druguaer12345 Thats stupid, and a very modern biased view. If you are surviving hand to mouth you cannot waste time on luxury. Survival is hard. The stone provides an advantage that the mythbusters could've understood if they had put some thought into the test. Stone has molecular sharpness and will continue to cut anytime the animal moves. Stone is still used by some modern hunters because it kills the animal faster than modern steel broadheads. The animal shot with stone also travels less distance than the animal shot with steel. The use of stone was about efficient hunting and survival. It wasn't some bling that you showed the ladies.

[@noodlelynoodle.]

​​@@michaelnewswanger2409it's not just a modern view though because that goes back to the animalistic roots, it's the same with a lot of animals the ones with cool "accessories" have a higher likelihood of reproducing be it things they've collected or things they have naturally built in like male peacocks where the more impressive feather get the mate so while the arrowheads were definitely functional for hunting they could have been status symbols of a sorts as well with different materials being seen as more impressive cause at the end of the day we are just animals too

[@storrentMC]

Now THIS is television

[@sarah258595]

Another element i'm not convinced about for the arrow thing: they kept going on about the efficiency of making the arrowheads, but efficiency _to what end?_ did they have a quota? were people's stone age bosses getting on their cases about stone age quarterly reviews? it feels like a very modern perspective. the arrowheads perform better and don't take a starve-to-death amount of time to make, which means they help you survive better, so why _wouldn't_ you spend the time? or do it while chatting, or make a tween work on it, or etc

[@SpookyWatcher]

Rip old buster

[@codyhughes4472]

Who else saw that explosion and thought the drill made it for sure?

[@DepressyDuck]

Problem with the arrow one. Does the shorter bleed out time of the arrowhead counter the extra time it takes to make it? I would do this test hands on table, start timer, make an arrow, run 25 feet, fire the arrow into a target. Pointy stick gets a 2 minute penalty for bleed out time, arrowhead gets 30 seconds bleed out time. They said the shorter the bleed out time, the sooner you're eating. But are you if even the longer bleedout of a pointy stick still makes the target drop faster than if you had to craft and arrowhead out of stone before heading out to hunt?

[@RandallChase1]

Would the cable being frozen (in winter) be different than it being warm (in summer)?

[@noodlelynoodle.]

There would be a bit more sag cause of the cable expanding but I doubt it would matter much

[@joelepack938]

The thing is flint head arrows will continue to do damage causing the target to bleed even more while it’s running away. The head keeps cutting.

[@douglashill6125]

I want them to test the Green Hornet car that is hidden on a revolving garage floor. I want to see if a Lincoln town car will run after being stored upside down.

[@greenfox7657]

22:33 is eye black a baseball thing? I thought (American) football immediately

[@BJWanlund]

I think it’s the same concept, the reflected light/glare effect is extremely similar.

[@seanfoltz7645]

They actually did the powder keg routine in a movie - the guy has a large barrel and is attempting to race it to the castle gate as the burning powder follows him but the burning powder reached the barrel before he reaches the gate - Flesh and Blood was the movie.

[@spacemandan7971]

WTF kind of drill is that that survives 2lbs of gunpowder exploding?? I want that drill.

[@Wanton110]

What if the arrows hit bone, would the wood point do as much damage as a flint end?

[@yourmuse4461]

Wonder if you could use your belt instead of the jeans. Put it around the line, buckle it up and then use the buckle since its metal, not the leather part

[@Lee-At-Green-Pheonix-Rc]

The first gatling gun the grandfather of the mini gun were mainly owned by rich or the aristocrats used to cutt trees down to entertain guests at parties

[@vic137]

I think for the arrow it's just that the cavemen thought stone tipped arrows are better so thats what they used.

[@d_pete361]

The flint napped arrow head won't come out as easily. If the game runs after being hit, the arrow head will stay in and continue to cause damage as the animal runs whereas the pointed arrow would just fall out.

[@redneckinfantry5059]

A Thompson submachine gun fires a pistol round so it is considered a submachine gun. A SAW is a light machine gun and fires 5.56 rounds (around the same size as a 223) and the mini gun uses 7.62 which is the same round as used in a m240 medium machine gun so the mini gun is only considered a medium machine gun. A heavy machine gun fires .50 caliber or higher round also known as the round fired by the m2 browning (ma deuce) heavy machine gun

[@redneckinfantry5059]

They should've used a ma deuce for the finale

[@logann7942]

Those aren’t trees, they’re logs. A tree would be taller and wider, and therefore more likely to fall over when fractured than a short log with no top.

[@jonathankamysek7998]

43:34 needs more research and man it's been a long time since i last saw this show i think i was a kid at the time

[@SteveWoodford-yz8dc]

With the trees the gun was a handheld GE M 134 mini gun

[@VeggeMight]

Every episode this was my favorite expulsion

[@zakariyasuleman9961]

to be fair cavemen didnt have perfect knives to sharpen sticks with

[@AliZafarshah]

Adam is hilarious!

[@Valfaun]

the minigun is horrifying and now i wonder how long it would take to cut a body in half

[@Megoover]

With that caliber - a few or even a couple of bullets and fraction of a second

[@RamenHutt]

For the question "can you cut down a tree with a gun" any answer other than, YES... with enough ammunition. Is completely false. There are even videos of people cutting down trees with slingshots.

[@Goalsplus]

What type of arrows do "natives" use nowadays? There's still a few tribes around the world who hunt with arrows. And why all the talk about large animals? Small animals and birds are much more abundant and wood or flint would work equally well as far as killing goes. A rabbit with a wooden arrow through it isn't going far. Accuracy over distance may be a factor.

[@unfortunately_fortunate2000]

29:11 I feel like the only thing this myth would actually accomplish is degloving peoples hands...

[@xJokerzWild]

Man, i wish they used 30-06 for the Machine guns or 8MM mauser. Most of the WWII 'machine guns' were chambered for those, and would definitely take a chunk out of a tree with just a few shots. & the zipline theory is still plausible. They used cable car lines, which are notoriously thick & dont exactly have a lot of slack to them.

[@williamgray8104]

It's so the flint would break off inside the animal and tear it's way around every time it moves

[@spunn_co]

I'm going to tell you right now snowboarding or skiing in denim jeans is the worst idea ever you will be frozen by the time you hit the slopes

[@ShadowManceri]

Size of the game also matters. Pointy stick is fine for rabbits. But try that against a bear and you only make it angry. It's hard to make draw strong enough for the just wood stick not to shatter on impact. It's well worth the time making the arrow head against bigger game. Doesn't really matter if it takes a week to do it. And reason why stone tips are found more is because stone just preserves better.

[@markshark7521]

How did they know they put feathers on the shaft of arrows, and any bowhunter will tell you that you rarely shoot a animal from 10ft away, as a arrow would tumble trying to shoot any distance! So they should have tested firing arrow from 15-20 meters away and they would have gotten there answer why arrowheads work

[@wrightyy]

Love the show. Adam's voices add nothing.

[@SirHorned19]

I would say they actually retract from the show. Thank god you can skip it on youtube.

[@Okurka.]

It's the same as Rosie Jones in a quiz panel.

[@rafaelsodre_eachday]

Jeans these days are not near as good and resistant as in the good days.

[@daemonburns-waight2421]

Is this channel official? Or have the first 5 seasons become public domain or something? I'm wondering because this channel and another one have been releasing episodes of season 5 recently.. I'm not mad, love the show. Just think it's odd.

[@daemonburns-waight2421]

Just read channel description and it turns out this channel is owned by Banijay, and I read a comment on an episode on Banijay Science where someone said that Banijay now owns the rights to season 5.. Makes sense.

[@andrewgalati3406]

@@daemonburns-waight2421 You arent alone in being confused... They have been buying up the rights to a lot of things but I cant really get a grasp on what they are doing* with them? Also why put mythbusters on two separate channels? One of which is completely absent of their branding? What even is there branding? Somebody make Banijay make sense to me.

[@linuxgemini]

Falling into the rabbit hole of Mergers and Acquisitions, this _is_ an official channel operated by current rightsholders; Banijay bought Beyond Productions (the producing company of the show, other than Discovery) in 2022

[@jefo2405]

Someone who is good at flint napping can probably produce 100 arrowheads in a day. Look at how fast Phil Harding (Time Team et al) knocks out a spearhead from flint. I would even go as far as to say that someone with the right knowledge and tools can craft a decent arrowhead in 3-5 minutes. Stone arrowheads increase reuseability, especially if you miss your shots (unless you hit rocks) whereas a wooden arrowhead will break no matter what you hit. Of course you can resharpen it just as fast.

[@jesser9134]

How do I get a j man poster?

[@BobSmith-xe8we]

All they had to do is ask a bow hunter and they would have gotten the answere is so they do bleed out faster and makes it easier to track the animals blood trail

[@Justgregular88]

My question is, who wears jeans skiing? If you’re stuck on a ski lift wouldn’t you be wearing waterproof ski pants that are smoother

[@splatninja9447]

I have that sword!!! The thing weighs a metric ton. The sword in Jamie the barbarians picture.

[@jeffburnham6611]

The jeans technique was all wrong. They should have folded the jeans horizontally on top of each other, then put it over the line. This way you have no seams that can rupture or catch on the line.

[@thni1703]

What if you wring the pants and only use the legs where they are not sewn. The would be harder, have less surface to get stuck and should thereby go smoother

[@kcnichols8968]

I wish they'd have gotten an M2 to use on the tree because I reckon it'd cut down a tree real nice

[@treehuger1978]

Chainsaw was blunt, small size compared to log and not used by a professional.

[@derrickstorm6976]

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