[TheForge] Just watched the Mythbusters try to shatter hammers

[Larry Brown]

I tend not to agree with all their results, as they are called Myth Busters 
they need to bust myths, so some must be unproved. I have had and seen 
hammers chip with out hitting a hard surface such as another hammer, but 
they have been in use longer than a tv show shooting.

I watched them prove that a bullet won't kill someone when it falls. They 
proved it will tumble and not have enough impact force to kill when it 
lands. Of course they need to find the bullets so they shoot straight up so 
the bullet reaches a zero point and all they are measuring it the falling 
of a small metal object. I understand they have no way to figure out how 
much impact and force a bullet will have after being fires at an angle over 
long distances where it doesn't reach a zero point and tumble. People have 
been hit with these types of shots and been injured or died. All they 
proved is that if you shoot straight up you won't get killed when the 
bullet falls and hits you.
Larry Brown


At 12:10 AM 11/30/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Mostly they were using claw hammers, set up in a rig to smack two hammers 
>face-to-face.  They even tried hardening the hammers, and at the end they 
>aimed a hammer at Chinese Anvil-Shaped Object.  No shattering, not even 
>any chipping.
>
>They concluded that hammers don't shatter, even if abused.
>
>Comments?
>
>
>--Justin Fisher,
>generally avoiding hitting my hammers with other hammers.