Busting the MythBusters
at around evening time on Saturday, the 12th of January 2008 by Tina
Mythbusters: Firearms Folklore 2006 episode.
I have to scream when something is done so wrong, and this episode was done soooo wrong.
I do love Mythbusters, well i did, seems they have fallen down hill in a major way over the years, what a shame.
Anyhow they were testing a story from the Vietnam war where a sniper (Carlos Hathcock) shot through the enemies sites (clear through and into his head). They managed to get the correct rifle by failed to get the correct sites, they used a multi-lens scope instead. So go figure the shot could not be made as per the story they were testing.
NOTE: the sites used by the Vietnamese were tiny sites typically a 2 lens simple “scope” not a modern 10 lens hunting scope.
so they busted the story.. sigh!
Anyhow those things make me scream & I had to share! I wish they would do their research correctly seems they are doing things half arsed anymore. shame.
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January 13th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Found this at the wikipedia page. The best part is the last sentence in which there is a photograph of what happened!
One of Hathcock’s most famous accomplishments was shooting an enemy sniper through his scope, hitting him in the eye and killing him. Hathcock and John Burke, his spotter, were stalking the enemy sniper in the jungle near Hill 55, the firebase where Hathcock was operating from. The sniper had already killed several Marines, and was believed to have been sent specifically to kill Hathcock. When Hathcock saw a flash of light (light reflecting off the enemy sniper’s scope) in the bushes, he fired at it, shooting through the scope and killing the sniper. Surveying the situation, Hathcock concluded that the only feasible way he could have put the bullet straight down the enemy’s scope and through his eye would have been if both snipers were zeroing in on each other at the same time, and Hathcock fired first, which gave him only a few seconds to act. In theory, the two snipers could have killed each other simultaneously. The enemy rifle was recovered and the incident is documented by a photograph.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Finished reading the wikiepdia page and found they did a second episode about this since so many people flamed them on it:
In an episode of the fourth season of the television show MythBusters (29 November 2006, Episode 67), hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman attempted to test the feasibility of shooting through the scope of another rifle, citing the confirmed Hathcock incident of shooting a North Vietnamese sniper through his victim’s scope. They were unable to replicate the results in the story using the modern equipment they had on hand, so they declared the myth “busted.” However, they did not replicate the exact conditions of Hathcock’s combat incident. The MythBusters did not take into consideration powder loads, bullet weight, muzzle velocity, angle, or variations in air pressure and density. On the show, they conceded that they were not shooting at the same scope that Hathcock shot at and stated that under the exactly ideal conditions and with extreme luck, the shot may have been possible. In the episode aired on March 21, 2007, the MythBusters revisited this myth and confirmed that it was possible, however had to use armor-piercing rounds to fully penetrate the scope. They used a vintage scope this time, which was smaller than modern scopes, and Jamie successfully fired a bullet through the scope. The bullet penetrated the ballistic gel dummy’s face to a depth of two inches, which would be lethal to a human. However, it should be noted that on the March 21, 2007 episode, that Jamie used an M1 Garand, whereas Hathcock used a Winchester Model 70 chambered in .30-06 Springfield, and utilized armor-piercing ammunition.
January 20th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Couldn’t they get a hold of a Model 70? Heck the Discovery show that looked into the Single Bullet Theory was able to get its hands on a box of ammo for the Italian rifle Oswald used from 1963. They used those bullets to prove the theory in one of the best cases of “myth busting” I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately it wasn’t the Mythbusters who did the show.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:16 am
If I remember, Hathcock was using match ammo with 172-grain Sierra bullets.