[TheForge] Just watched the Mythbusters try to shatter hammers

[debmiller at fuse.net]

Ditto!!!!
Their "science" in many cases is lacking.....

Ray
Cincinnati


---- Ron Childers <munlaw2 at hcsmail.com> wrote: 
> A falling hickory nut can break a windshield- on my car. I wouldn't want
> that falling bullet to hit anyone's head...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Larry Brown
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:17 AM
> To: Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Just watched the Mythbusters try to shatter hammers
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
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