![]() The Build Team acquired a bus with the same dimensions as that used in the film, then built a small-scale model of it as well as the stretch of road in question. Owing to the difficulty of hitting the small target of the revolver, the high risk of shrapnel injuries, and the unpredictable reactions of the person holding the weapon, Adam and Jamie classified the myth as busted.Ī bus can jump over a 50-foot gap in a roadway, land safely on the other side, and continue driving. Jamie dropped it in “draw” and “hostage,” but not in “shootout,” while Adam held onto it in every situation. Each man held the gun in all three positions (“draw,” “shootout,” “hostage”) while the other triggered it remotely at a random time. This rig did not work properly, so he removed the side barrel and attached a second grip upside down on top of the revolver frame, mounted on a swivel. He attached a short side barrel to a revolver, intending to fire a bullet out of it so that the recoil would match the kick of a bullet in flight hitting the gun. Adam built a paddle with a gun butt and allowed Jamie to hit it with a baseball bat, delivering roughly the same kinetic energy as a bullet he dropped it on impact, but Jamie was not satisfied with the result. They then devised separate methods for determining whether a person would be startled enough to drop his gun if it were hit. Only the “hostage” position allowed them to shoot the gun away while not injuring its holder due to bullet shrapnel. They placed the guns in three different positions – drawing from the hip, pointed ahead for a shootout, aimed sideways at a hostage – and fired at each. It is possible to shoot a pistol out of a person’s hand without injuring him.Īdam and Jamie made several plywood cutouts and equipped their hands to hold a revolver with the same amount of force that a typical person would use.
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