On this episode of MythBusters,
buckle up for thrills,
spills and chills.
I can't feel my fingers.
First, Adam and Jamie go all out for some spy car combat...
Oh I got you, oh yeah. You want some of this?
...testing whether wheels of misfortune...
Ha-ha! That enough for ya?
...and hood-mounted machine guns really work.
Is this what you want, man? I can follow you.
Meanwhile, Kari, Grant and Tory get in a spin...
MythBusters on ice.
...as they find out if a bullet fired into a frozen lake
can really spin like a top.
See, there is no string here.
It's a story that starts in San Francisco...
I don't see any spinning bullet.
...but ends in a bitter battle, as the MythBusters take on Mother Nature.
The next myth is in the Bahamas, right?
Who are the MythBusters?
Adam Savage...
Wow!
...and Jamie Hyneman.
Alright, it's party time.
Between them, more than 30 years of special effects experience.
Joining them,
Grant Imahara...
For science.
...Kari Byron...
Right tool for the job.
...and Tory Belleci.
They don't just tell the myths.
They put them to the test.
MythBusters 9x07 - Spy Car 2 Original air date May 18, 2011
Sync by YYeTs.net, corrected by atrn97g www.addic7ed.com
First up, buckle up for some Spy Car Carnage.
Spy car revenge.
Spy car revenge?
Yeah, the original "Spy Car" was all about defensive weapons
a spy might have in his car that could foil someone who's chasing him.
Spy car revenge is about offensive weapons
a chaser would have to disable a car he's chasing.
What do you have in mind?
I got two things.
The first one: spiky things that come out of the hubs of their wheels
and tear up their opponents' cars while they're driving next to them.
Nice. What's the other one?
Guns mounted on the hood of the spy's car.
That is very cool.
- Let's start with the spikes first. - Okay.
Okay, guys, I'm all oiled up and ready to go.
In "Spy Car" round one, the guys evaluated evasion antics,
with mixed success.
But this time, it's out with escape and in with attack.
But can hood-mounted guns
and hub-mounted wheel spikes really work first time every time?
So, wheel spikes.
There are tons of movies that have used that trick.
We can't do all of them.
No, we can't.
I think we should boil it down and pick two.
Well, there is a classic in "Goldfinger",
it's really simple. We gotta do that one.
And there is a really pretty nicely complex one
in "The Green Hornet" I'd like to try out.
Sounds like we've got a plan.
I think we do.
And it's a plan that starts with a delivery
for MythBusters' very own cue.
This car is gonna be our chase car.
When I'm done with it, it's gonna be a vicious and aggressive car.
In fact, I think I'm going to call it "Slash",
because that's what it's gonna do.
With Slash sitting pretty,
Jamie begins by building the first of the two wheel spikes,
the deadly device from "Goldfinger".
It's pretty simple, really.
All it has is a blender-style blade
like this one that I cut out on the plasma cutter,
attached to the end of the post.
So I will weld on this one here like so,
weld on the hub piece and then sharpen the blades.
As slashers go, it's certainly simple.
Looks about right to me.
But will the chromoly steel be strong enough
to not buckle under pressure?
Auch!
Meanwhile, tire slasher two is anything but basic.
"The Green Hornet" device is a little more complicated.
It has a bunch of spiky finger-like things
that are welded to a central hub like so.
Now I've mocked all this up in wood, so that I can get the geometry right.
And then, all I have to do is cut a bunch of steel pieces out like this,
weld them all together, and I'm done.
In that case, let's cut to the chase, literally.
You ready to do this?
Are you ready to get slashed up?
Ha ha! You just try and catch me.
Enjoy it while it lasts, buddy.
While Adam spins out for no reason other than because he can,
Jamie gets on with the odd job in hand,
attaching the "Goldfinger Slinger".
This blade looks pretty nasty.
And I'm positive it will take out Adam's tire.
But when it comes to meeting something stronger,
like his wheel or steel parts of the body, I'm not so sure,
because this is a pretty long lever, and that means it can get bent.
With that in mind I did make this out of chromoly steel,
which is very, very strong.
But what it actually does, we're just gonna have to try and find out.
And to do just that, the guys are establishing
some very precise rules of engagement.
This story is all about how much damage Jamie's spikes will do to my car.
I'm not going to avoid him.
I'm going to drive at a constant speed,
while he pulls up and does as much damage as he can.
So from the green flag, the two cars will accelerate to 40 miles an hour.
When they hit the red flag,
Jamie will engage the weapon into the driver side of my car.
He will have 500 yards to inflict as much damage as he can.
My prediction, I don't think his Goldfinger spike is gonna do
much more than carve up the side of my car.
I don't think it's gonna take me out.
Dude, nice Goldfinger spikes.
- Pretty nasty, huh? - Totally.
Are you ready for it?
Absolutely.
With the first spike locked and loaded, let's get the show on the road.
Okay, Goldfinger spike in three, two, one...
Both cars accelerate towards
the red flag of the engagement zone.
And once there, the carnage can begin.
Oh, no.
Jamie's first bump tears through the car door.
The second shreds the tire like a proverbial knife through butter.
And that loss of traction brings Adam's car to a slow stop.
You all right there, little buddy?
You totally disabled me.
Meaning that for the James Bond simple spike,
it's pretty much mission accomplished.
Wow, dude, that is beautiful.
That was crazy effective.
Yeah, it sliced right through the rear of the car
and went into the tire, no problem.
I have never been in a purposeful accident...
especially not one where the person I was driving next to
wanted to cause damage to me.
Oh! That's really scary!
My leg is right on the other side of this.
Check that out.
And it took out this tire magnificently.
I had no idea that this method would be this effective.
Test one's low tech specs was a steely success.
But can its more elaborate counterpart do any better?
Given the success of the Bond spike,
you'd think that this monster would be a shoo in.
But I'm not so sure.
It's much more complicated;
there's more step to go wrong.
Sometimes size isn't everything.
But will this be one of those times?
Right.
Well, let's roll test two.
Dude, from here, those spikes look sick.
Well, are you ready to feel the touch?
I'm ready. Let's do it.
Okay, "Green Hornet" in three, two, one...
Like last time, the guys carefully accelerate,
because they want to know if the weapon works,
not how easy it is to deploy.
All right, I'm at cruise control, going at 40.
Here it comes.
Oh, crap.
Oh, no.
"Oh, no" is right.
Any hope that this weapon sting would be
harmless is immediately abandoned.
Oh, crap!
Oh, come on.
Come on. Let's have some more. Come on!
Despite Adam's fighting talk, one bump later,
and his journey is brought to a premature end.
What did you do to me?
Another successful destruction. Insane!
I think I'm getting a little better at this as I practice.
Yeah, you took that tire out pretty handily.
Yeah, I went in right about here and started to go back
until I hit the tire and heard the bang.
Awesome.
"The Green Hornet" spike made mincemeat of Adam's car,
opening it up like a sardine can, and shredding the tire to pieces.
But Jamie's not convinced.
Personally, I think this one is more showy than anything else, I mean,
It did take out of the tire and it messed up the side of the car,
but it really didn't do any more damage than the Bond one did.
Jamie's got a point,
because both wheel spikes did more or less the same damage.
That felt like I got hit by a power tool!
And both brought Adam to a complete stop.
I lost all power.
But Jamie thinks there is room for improvement.
Both of our movie spikes work pretty well. The thing is,
they are really pretty much just fancy tire poppers,
because who cares if you put scratches or holes in the sheet metal?
It's not really gonna stop the car.
It makes me wonder though what would.
And that's a thought that should have Adam very, very afraid.
Still to come, Jamie's wonder turns to thunder.
You are one sick puppy.
That is messed up.
But next, will a bullet fired into ice spin like a top?
All right, this is a spinning bullet at 42 degrees.
Next up, it's time to spin out.
Okay, so our next myth is
based on a video clip that was sent in by a viewer.
And it's kind of weird.
You still have the video?
I want to see it.
Okay, not like that.
There is a guy on a frozen lake bed
with a bunch of his buddies, shooting a nine mill into the ice.
And somehow, they get their bullets to just spin like a top.
Now that sounds like a myth.
That is exactly why we're testing it.
It's no myth that a bullet fired from a handgun
spins at over 80,000 RPM.
But can a bullet fired into a frozen lake really spin like a top?
See, there is no string here.
In other words, is this video the real deal or is this myth on thin ice?
Look, I gotta say I got my doubts about this one.
Yeah, I know this looks pretty bizarre, but I think it's worth testing.
I agree.
But where are we gonna find a frozen lake bed?
It's the middle of summer.
Yeah, I've been thinking about that.
And I think we've gotta build our own frozen lake.
We've done crazier.
Yeah, we should definitely try two different shots.
Maybe we shoot one directly into the ice, and then one as a ricochet
and see if one of those gives us a spinning bullet.
Okay, let's do it.
But before anyone spins out,
Tory's getting to grips with a gun-grip, or ransom rest,
because for this myth, geometry is key.
Now if this myth is true, the key element here is finding out
which angle to fire the gun into the ice.
So I have my gun, I have my ransom rest.
Now what I need to do is build a holder that is
adjustable so we can fire at the ice at different angles.
Finding the right angle is vital.
Too straight and the bullet will deform, and not spin.
Too shallow, and the slug will skip off the ice and be lost forever.
Now, I found out a little bit more about the shooter in the myth.
He was about six feet tall, and shot about six feet in front of him.
So since Tory is six feet tall,
I'm going to have him stand in for the shooter...
Okay, Tory, put your feet right at the line.
...and have him hold the gun and aim at six feet.
Here is a laser pointer to help you find the six foot mark.
Then I'm going to check the angle of the gun,
and the distance it is from the ground.
Okay, that is about 42 degrees.
And let's see what the height is...
about 44 1/2 inches.
With that information, we can put our ransom rest in the right place
to get the results we are looking for.
Now, we know where to set the ransom rest.
- Well, at least where to start. - Yeah.
Knowing where to start is a start.
And with a shooting rig ready to fire,
they are off to take aim at this myth.
We are on the rifle range at Chabot Gun Club,
so we can recreate the circumstances of the spinning ice bullet.
In the myth, this event takes place
on a frozen pond in the middle of winter.
But because it's the middle of summer and we're in Northern California,
frozen ponds are not in plentiful supply.
All right, bring in the ice.
But what we're going to do is create our own,
using nine forty inch by twenty-four inch by ten inch thick solid ice blocks.
Okay, there we go.
"MythBusters" on ice.
All right, maybe not.
Putting those all together, and hopefully
that amount of mass will be enough to create a spin.
It's certainly a large slice of ice,
and the next best thing to a frozen lake.
Is it bad if you can't feel your fingertips?
They said this would be a cool myth.
I didn't believe them.
Look at that, instant frozen lake.
- I wouldn't say instant. - Good point.
So you'll notice that we've set up a frozen lake
with a smaller ice cube in front of it.
Now that's because if you watch the video,
it's hard to tell if the bullet spins on the direct hit on the ice
or via ricochet.
In other words, does it hit and spin,
or does it hit, bounce, land somewhere else, and then spin.
Well, in search of said spin,
the team is first going for the direct hit approach,
firing straight into the ice cube with this...
What I have here is a Glock 9 millimeter.
Now this is the gun apparently used in the myth.
We are about to fire a bullet
into the ice to see if it'll actually spin like a top.
I can't wait to see what happens.
The Glock is positioned in Tori's angle finder to 42 degrees
and then it's go time.
Okay, so, we are gonna fire,
and then look and listen for any sort of spinning bullet.
All right, this is spinning bullet at 42 degrees.
In three, two, one...
The gun fires.
The ice shatters.
But what happens to the bullet?
Well, we hit the ice, but no spinning bullet.
Look how much it fractured!
I bet it's right in there.
Kari is spot on.
The bullet hit the ice and simply embedded itself deep inside,
where a spin is out of the question.
But undeterred, the MythBusters decide to try again.
All right. The gun is loaded. We're hot.
Let's do this.
Round two, three, two, one...
It's another 42 degree hit...
...but with the same result.
I don't see any spinning bullets.
But all is not lost.
Ok, we are 0 for 2.
But you know what? That is fine.
Because it doesn't always work in the viral video.
Not every shot yields a spin.
So we can't call it just yet.
In three, two, one...
Test three also has nothing akin to a spin.
But when they recover the round, there is cause for cautious optimism.
Oh, my gosh.
Look at this.
The bullet has not deformed,
which means there might be some truth to this myth.
That could potentially spin.
But with test four...
Where is the elusive spinning bullet?
...five,...
It's not here.
...six and seven also failing to spin out, that optimism soon melts away.
The sun is coming out.
The lake is melting, still no spinning bullet.
Meaning it's time for a plan "B".
So the direct hit experiment isn't really giving us anything.
So we're going to change our firing angle and try for the ricochet.
We are going to fire into the ice block
and hope to catch a spinning bullet on a larger frozen lake.
This is not going to be easy.
Coming right up in "Spy car - the revenge"...
I think that would hurt another car if you drove into it.
...will Jamie be psyched by his spike?
The slasher.
In three, two, one...
So far in the spy spike department, we tested the Goldfinger spike...
...which did this kind of damage.
We have also tested the Green Hornet spike...
Oh, crap.
...which did this kind of damage.
Now, apparently, Jamie has rigged up some kind of special Hyneman sauce
to come at me with one last time.
Even though Adam was psyched by the spikes...
I'm going home.
...Jamie saw room for improvement.
I don't think he's gonna make it very far.
So he slipped back to the shop to conjure up a wheel of misfortune
straight from the Hyneman House of Horrors.
I think that'd hurt another car if you drove into it.
And back at the runway, with nuts tightened,
it's time to put it to the test.
This design is about the worst thing I could come up with.
What's different about it is that
the other designs all had relatively long skinny shafts
with a cutting blade on the tip.
And those shafts could bend.
The little blades around the tip could also
bend or go relatively easily, and they did.
Whereas this has this massive base, that's very strong,
so I reckon this will go right into the car and just keep on cutting
without damaging itself.
- Are you ready? - I am.
Okay, the slasher, in three, two, one...
For the final time, the MythBusters motor down the runway,
until the red flag signals the bullish Jamie to charge.
Straight away, he takes out Adam's rear tire.
Then he slices and dices along the whole side.
Come on, Jamie, I can take more!
With Adam at his mercy, Jamie goes in for the kill.
Not enough for you?
...and rips the entire front tire clean off...
Had enough?
...leaving only one possible outcome.
That was too much fun.
That fulfills like a deep childhood fantasy.
I want another car.
I want to do this again.
It was a heavy metal massacre in the truest sense of the word.
I got to see this.
I think I messed your car up a little bit.
I'm sorry about that.
I don't know what I was thinking.
That is a horror sight.
Where's my tire?
My tire... is not... oh, there it is!
I'd say my spike was pretty effective.
I mean there is not a whole lot more
that you can do to the side of a car.
Not only did I pop the tires, but I completely removed them.
The car can't move at all now,
because the chassis is sitting on the ground in fact.
It worked a little better than I thought it would.
With spy myth one a slashing success,
it's time to bring out the big guns.
Is this firearm's film the real deal,
or just bullet baloney?
Can a slug really spin like a frozen top?
Three, two, one...
Well, the MythBusters direct hit approach was shot down.
I don't see any spinning bullet.
So it's time to modify the method.
So far, the direct shot did not work.
So we are going to move on to the ricochet,
which brings into play our larger frozen lake bed.
What we are going to do is lower the angle of the shot,
hopefully allowing the bullet to skip off the ice on to our frozen lake bed,
and we'll see if we can get that bullet spinning.
We actually have information from the guy who supposedly did this.
What he told us is that every time he tried it, the bullet landed between
two and eight feet from the point of impact with the ice.
We have a ten foot slab of ice out there.
Sounds easy?
It won't be.
Well, to find out, they are starting
by using a ricochet-friendly angle of 30 degrees.
Hoping this works.
In three, two, one...
It's a clean hit.
But the bullet's gone AWOL.
It's not on the pond, nor in the cube.
Wait a minute, that's good news,
cause the bullet isn't in there.
It did ricochet, I don't know where it went,
but at least it popped out.
Right.
The high speed confirms that on the one hand, they did get a ricochet.
But on the other, the bouncing bullet did not land on their lake.
So, they reset for try two.
All right, let's go before spring comes.
But again, the bullet disappears.
The good news is, we got a ricochet.
The bad news, we can't find the bullet anywhere.
It's nowhere on the lake bed.
So that's why we have this.
This back board with the white paper is going to tell us.
If the bullet hits this, we'll know exactly where it goes.
Alright, we are hot.
That's the theory.
Is this the magic formula?
But in practice...
One!
...even the ricochet catcher doesn't catch the ricochet.
So it must be firing way over our back board.
So next, the team wrangles the angle.
But where it be high...
- Alright, we are loaded in 45 degrees. - One!
...low...
31 degrees.
...or somewhere in between,...
All right, we are locked and loaded at a 38-degree angle.
...the ricocheting round never lands on the lake.
And... I don't see a spinning bullet.
I don't see the ricochet at all.
- Anything? - The back board is clean.
You know, we can be here all day.
We have been here all day.
And what a frustrating day it's been.
But without finding a single ricochet,
it's just not possible to call the myth one way or the other.
We have been experimenting all day to find the perfect conditions
to create the mythical spinning bullet.
Now we have the right temperature of ice, the right hardness.
Unfortunately, we have an extremely unpredictable ricochet.
We can't find where the bullet lands.
Now, we've created the biggest frozen pond
that we possibly could in summer with
all of the available ice that we could source.
We need to go bigger.
We need something a little more naturally huge and frozen.
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In "Spy car - the revenge",
wheel spikes were a rip roaring success.
Is that enough for you?
So now it's on to secret agent anecdote number two.
Car mounted guns?
Yes, I have been saying this for years.
The car mounted guns for a spy car don't make any sense to me.
They are fixed.
You cannot aim them except by driving.
That's got to be a huge inefficiency for a machine gun.
Well, I have seen some that are remote-controlled and aim-able, though.
Those are in the minority, but I have seen them.
So I think we should build a rig that gives us both.
I chase you with fixed guns on my hood,
and then we can do a second one where I chase you
with a remote-controlled aim-able gun mounted to the hood of my car.
Sold.
The hood mounted gun is a staple for any spy car.
But is it a viable weapon?
Can such a device, fixed or movable, really guarantee an accurate aim?
Well, to find out, Adam has already selected his wheels and his weapon.
This is a former police car.
And this is a super high-end ten round per second paint ball gun.
I'm going to join these two things together
to make two great tastes in one candy bar.
Fabricating the fixed firearm will be a weld in the park.
But the remote-controlled firer is a much tougher task.
So for the aim-able gun, I need to first build a mount
that will let the gun move in three dimensions,
so I can fire at Jamie's car wherever it might be.
There's the basics right there.
Up, down, side to side.
Then I'm going to add a joystick system
so that I can control the gun's aim from inside the car while driving.
That is X-Y control.
Next comes the all important trigger,
so I'll be able to shoot 600 rounds per minute.
I press this.
It ought to fire.
That is remote firing.
Finally, I'm going to add a camera onto the mount
and a monitor under the dashboard, so I can see exactly where I'm aiming.
This camera is what turns this from something cool into something awesome.
Jamie, come here. Check it out.
In your face!
That looks great.
Actually, I should say, it looks like crap, but it works great.
And with those words of encouragement,
Adam gets on with the final part of his firearm.
A frame that should feed a plethora of paint balls into the gun.
It's not pretty, but will it work?
I got you.
I got you! Oh yeah!
You want some of this?
You want a piece of this?
You want some more? Hey, do you want some?
You so wish you were me right now.
All right, so where do we stand?
Well, we have got two issues.
One, we can't get a spin from a direct hit.
And two, we can't find the ricochet.
Not only that. This is supposed to be easy.
I mean, in the video, the guy shoots and gets a spinning.
That's not what we found at all.
Not so fast.
Check this out.
You are not gonna believe what we found.
Now, the cameraman was going through some of the footage.
Now listen.
Can you hear that?
I don't know what that is, but it could potentially be a spinning bullet.
I mean, we can't see it, but we can definitely hear something.
Ok, well, that brings this myth back from the dead.
I think we should definitely stick to our plan.
And the plan being,
we wait until winter and try this again on an actual frozen lake,
where we might have a chance of this working.
All right. Let's reconvene in six months.
From the San Franciscan sun to a blizzard in the Sierra Nevada,
this winter the team is going that extra mile.
Save yourselves.
Rumor has it, there is a lake out here.
I think it's over there.
This looked a little more picturesque in the brochures.
All right, so what we have behind me is a frozen lake.
I know it doesn't really look like it.
It looks more like a snow field.
We are at 7900 feet.
The temperature is 10 degrees.
This is exactly what we need to test this myth.
The only problem is we're in the middle of a snowstorm.
And I'm freezing my %$& off.
- Our next myth is in the Bahamas, right? - Yeah.
Despite Tori's optimism, the temperature of his... nether regions
is certainly not the only problem.
Looks like building our own frozen lake was problematic.
But compared to this, it was child's play.
Here is what we are up against.
Our blast shields, which we left out overnight,
are now buried under six feet of snow.
Our paramedic can't get here because the road is closed.
And worst of all, the lake is buried under three feet of snow.
Which means, before we do any shooting,
we've got to dig to get down to the ice.
And as the weather goes from bad to worse...
I have already dug two feet and I haven't seen ice yet.
...that digging gets harder and harder.
So I could keep digging it out,
then mother nature just keeps filling it back in.
So Kari brings in reinforcements.
Since we're digging at high altitude
and fighting 40 mile an hour gusty winds,
we've decided to bring in a few... helpers.
Like the sheriff who lives up here, and maybe a few others.
With all hands on deck, the team exposes enough ice
before anyone gets exposure.
So the good news is, if you can call anything good news
in these kinds of conditions, we found the ice.
So now we are ready to start testing.
Now, remember, this myth is about shooting a nine millimeter
into a frozen lake bed and finding the bullet spinning like a top.
Seems kind of counter-intuitive to...
fire into the ice that you're standing on,
but, I mean, this isn't Logic Busters.
We've gone to great efforts to make this myth work,
including getting high-tech hearing devices, low-tech ear trumpets,
but, as you can see by the horizontal snow zooming past the camera,
there is a huge amount of wind.
And that is all we are gonna hear in those hearing devices.
So, we're going old fashioned.
We're running.
We're listening.
But will that technique be good enough to locate the mythical spin?
All right. This is spinning ice bullet in three, two, one...
Next up, Adam unleashes the beast...
...peppering Jamie with spy agent arms.
I might have got hit. I'm not sure.
At an abandoned military base,
Adam and Jamie are about to unleash the beast...
- It is a perfect day for chasing. - And shooting.
Indeed.
...as they test whether a spy car's hood-mounted howitzer can ever be accurate.
Oh, yeah. Great, baby.
But first up, like all good spy scientists,
they are starting with a control.
As long as we are shooting between cars,
we thought it would be a good idea to start with a baseline.
The most common way you see people shoot between cars in the movie,
in which during the car-chase, the driver of the chasing car
will start firing at the person that he is chasing.
In this case, I will be that driver
and this will be my handy service revolver
and Mr. Hyneman, well, he will be my grizzled partner.
And last but not least, police driver Brian Fraiser will play the target.
OK, this is shooting the gun out the window.
Brian, you may escape when ready.
Oh, it's on.
Okay.
Adam will have one clip or 14 bullets to take down the target.
It's hard to drive one-handed, I'll tell you that.
As Brian dodges and weaves, Jamie keeps a tally of how many rounds
Adam's let rip...
...and how many have hit their target.
Come on, 12. You haven't even hit the car yet.
It's fair to say that this is a lot harder than it looks.
Firing the hand-held gun out of the car proved to be far from ideal.
It was more difficult than you would think.
Now, not to say that it couldn't be done,
but we were not able to stop the car or kill the driver.
Which begs the question, can the spy-inspired
front-facing machine gun do any better?
This test is with a machine gun in a fixed position.
What do I think is gonna happen?
Well, I've actually been saying this for years
and it's the reason I always wanted to do this test.
I don't think I'm gonna be able to be very effective in hitting Jamie.
I've always thought that fixed machine guns on the hood of a car was a stupid idea.
Stupid, because as target Jamie explains, they only fire straight ahead.
Now, Adam's goal is to take me out, and that means
that he has to hit me in the head, or he has to hit the tyre of the car.
Now, given that he has got no subtle control,
it's only done by aiming the car,
I think it's going to be almost impossible.
All right, Mr. Hyneman,
you may start whenever you think you're ready.
Okay, fixed gun in three, two, one...
Like the last test, this trial will also end
when the gun runs out of ammo.
Come to papa.
But unlike the last test,
this time, Adam has got 400 paint balls to fire.
Here we go. Let's see what you got!
At first, things pan out just as expected,
as Adam fires miss after miss.
Yet, slowly but surely, he starts to get his eye in.
I might have got hit. I'm not sure.
And pretty soon, the occasional hit
turns into a relentless barrage of bullets.
There are bullets all over the windshield right near me,
so I'm feeling pretty shot at actually.
No matter what moves Jamie makes,
Adam nails him every time.
Until he is out of ammo.
What a horror show.
I think I achieved my double "O" status on this round.
Agent Hyneman has successfully been neutralized.
Not only have I taken out the mud flap,
not only have I taken out of the trunk,...
I'm feeling the spray!
...with extreme prejudice,
I've also got a clean hit to the back of his seat,
a clean hit to his helmet...
I might have got hit.
I'm not sure.
...and I've destroyed his windshield and several of his side windows.
Well, one hit the windshield.
So, given that the gun itself couldn't move,
how did Adam end up doing so well?
For the first third of the test,
as I catch up with Jamie and he is swerving,
it always seems that my bullets run over his car.
And I have this epiphany, if I smack on the brakes,
the front of the car goes down,
and I can actually aim that way.
And it turns out I can aim plus or minus like ten degrees that way,
it's fantastic!
I coupled that with swerving back and forth.
And somewhere around half way through this test, I found my level
and just started laying paint balls into the driver's cabin of Jamie's car.
It worked far better than I imagined
it possibly could without having physically tried it.
Coming right up, will the team finally spin out?
It is spinning!
And going in for the kill:
a moveable feast for Adam's aim-able gun.
Aw, the aiming is awesome!
Here we are on the Caples frozen lake
with winds up to 25 miles an hour straight in your face.
We got temperature lows of about negative 30.
And let me tell you, it does not look like it's going to let up.
All of which is making for some seriously challenging testing.
So given the terrible conditions,
here is our plan.
We positioned our gun at a 42 degree angle.
We are triggering it with a string pull, and we are going to rush in
to see if we can find the bullet.
And given the whiteout, I think we are also going to montage the results.
Sounds like a plan.
All right, this is spinning ice bullet in three, two, one...
Run like the wind!
But, unfortunately, it's another montage of failure.
Here's the bullet, but it's not spinning.
Not at all.
As hit...
...after hit...
I don't see any spinning bullet.
...misses out on the spin.
I can't feel my fingers.
And I can't see any bullet.
As the temperature dips to 5 degrees Fahrenheit,
morale is just as low.
This myth sucks!
But Tory wants to try one more thing.
Now there is a couple of things that we think are happening.
One is, maybe the bullets are hitting the ice
and skipping off into the snow.
Or maybe that the bullets are hitting the ice
and actually bouncing back into the snow.
So what we are going to do is change the target area
closer to the center of our ice path,
take a shot and see if we can find the bullet
and see exactly what is happening to these things.
With hypothermia a very real possibility, it really is now or never.
Will giving the bullet room to ricochet backwards,
rather than forwards, finally spin out?
OK, this is spinning ice bullet with room to bounce backwards,
in three, two, one...
Come on!
It's spinning.
It's spinning!
Look at that!
We got a spinning bullet!
Holy crap! It worked!
It's the shot that brought this myth back from the cold.
I can't believe it worked.
I can't believe we got a spinning bullet.
At last, after countless attempts, they got the spin they were after.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
If we get one spinning bullet, that was successful, let's do it again.
In three, two, one...
It's spinning!
That's the second one in a row!
And when it's three for three...
It is spinning!
That is continued success.
We have got one after the other to spin!
...you might say they are on a roll.
It's spinning again!
We've done this over and over.
This myth is confirmed!
Confirmed!
I cannot believe how well this is working.
We tried creating an iced
lake bed that we could shoot into back at home.
But it really did take this sort
of extreme weather for us to get a spinning bullet.
It was all worth it,
the 70 mile an hour winds, the 10 degrees, the frozen toes, and...
ah, the Grant-sickle.
And with that, it's time to get warmed up.
Where is that rescue party?
We are the rescue party.
At spy car mission control...
Come to papa!
...the forward facing firearm just took out its target and then some.
That worked beyond my wildest dreams.
So, what's next?
Now it's time to unlock what
I thought was going to be the secret potential power of this rig,
which is, from inside the car,
I can control an X-Y axis wherever this gun fires,
I can put paint balls where I want to put them.
Adam did pretty well with the fixed gun.
And it makes sense that he should be able to do even better with an aim-able gun.
But the thing is, this adds a little bit of multitasking that he has to do,
so it might actually have the opposite effect.
Okay, aim-able gun in three, two, one...
For the final time, the guys put their pedals to the metal.
Here we go!
Do your best, buddy.
Come on, Hyneman!
You are mine!
Rather than unleashing bullets from the get go,
on this one Adam bides his time...
Oh, listen, Hyneman!
...lining up the target, thanks to his gun's camera,
and the dashboard's monitor.
I'm so on you!
And only when Jamie weaves into the cross-hairs...
Weave all you want, man.
I can follow you.
...does Adam unleash hell.
It is awesome!
I totally got you.
Look at that! I took out your wheel!
With radar-like precision,
the bullets are propelled to do maximum damage.
I'm hit!
So much so, that this time, Jamie gives up the ghost...
Oh, yeah!
...with Adam having fired off just 60 rounds.
So, was making my hood-mounted machine gun aim-able more effective?
I think the entire story is told from right where I'm standing.
If you look at this car after this test
and compare it to what this car looked like
after my fixed machine gun test
when it was riddled with paint, you can just see that this is a far more
surgical and effective way to take somebody out.
Ain't that the truth?
Using fewer bullets to chalk up more kill shots, the aim-able gun
is the winner of this cold war.
Well, I think from all this testing, we can conclude that a machine gun
on the hood of your car equals good.
As a secret agent weapon, even the stationary machine gun was
far more effective than I thought it would be.
Yeah, but their effectiveness seems to be largely due to
the sheer volume of bullets they are able to spew out.
I mean, sooner or later, they are going to hit something.
Okay, but isn't that always the point of a machine gun?
Indeed it is, mon frere!
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