Mythbusters stunt goes awry

[mikec]

Wonder what the total distance traveled was? Regardless, that is badass!

[Lason]

LOL I saw this part and was reminded about a thread in the armory where a guy in his back yard was hit by a stray bullet that allegedly came from a near by range......

Officials said Mythbusters had been using the firing reservation for the last eight years for similar experiments, but none had gone awry.

According to some of the folks in the armory, its the stupid homeowners and minivan owners fault, they shouldnt have built their homes or parked their vans there.

[VaderTT]

Sounds far, shit Dublin might even be in a different county (Contra Costa possibly). Even if it was in Alameda county, I would like to know when the site is. Dublin is super far from Alameda (the island Alameda at least). It's like 20 something miles away.

[Big A]

Sounds far, shit Dublin might even be in a different county (Contra Costa possibly). Even if it was in Alameda county, I would like to know when the site is. Dublin is super far from Alameda (the island Alameda at least). It's like 20 something miles away.

It's in Alameda County, and isn't that far from Alameda, but not close enough for a cannon ball to reach.

The video in the pic forum shows a quick overhead shot, and the bomb range is right next door to this neighborhood.

As an aside, I drove through Dublin on the way to and from Monterey a few months ago. I had no idea at the time that it's where Mythbusters bkows shit up.

[Big A]

The plus is the bomb disposal range. In looking at the map, I don't understand why the loaded cannon was ever pointed anywhere but due north.

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=37.7201386&lon=-121.8817308&z=15&l=0&m=b

[Binky]

They used to shoot cannons and stuff out at the naval base. not much to hit out there but water in the bay

[2165 Turbo Rail]

damn

[CJ]

LOL I saw this part and was reminded about a thread in the armory where a guy in his back yard was hit by a stray bullet that allegedly came from a near by range......



According to some of the folks in the armory, its the stupid homeowners and minivan owners fault, they shouldnt have built their homes or parked their vans there.

Damn right. But honestly with this kind of firepower they need to get the hell out of the city.

[mstng86]

[David]

On a few episode they use a standard US 6lb artillery piece. It has a range of up to 1500yds by the books with a 1.5lb charge pushing the round. If it skipped a berm or cleared it, who knows how far it could really go.

We always stuck to military installations to fire our artillery as it was nothing short of easy to lay a round in on target at 2200m and hell further if we could see. People who insist on shooting those things in their back yard or somewhere within miles of a city have a tough concept of what's really happening.