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It is real simple, all the pressure is going to escape through the weakest point, which is always going to be your finger. Even if the gun banana peels, you are not going to have a hand left.
That's why I've always recommended epoxy. Slow cure being the best. Now, arranging that, that's up to the one getting in front of the gun. A nice tungsten ice pick would do, you'd not get blasted, just an ice pick propelled up the inside of your hand and forearm. Hardened steel lag bolt, perhaps? I'm sure they'll patiently wait. Seriously though, what was historically effective was spiking the barrels of the weapons. Not a facing down a muzzle activity, but it did effectively kill the weapon throughout history. Of course, fingers ain't spikes.
My Dad and his friends experimented with this using a chicken leg in place of a finger. He said the hardest part was figuring out how to fire the gun from 10 feet back; he daid he was surprised at how completely destroyed the chicken leg was. He expected a hole, but the chicken leg exploded.
I always thought this trope was ridiculous, because wouldn't the bullet just go through the finger? But, I never once thought that fingers are too big to be stuck in a gun barrel at all in the first place! Maybe because I've never touched a real gun before, so I've never tested that hypothesis, either way.
even if it didnt, the reason the gun blows up is because it cannot withstand the pressure. if you compare the pressure that your finger can withstand vs a metal pipe, youd realise pretty quickly that you would probably prefer getting shot transversely to having your hand rupture from the pressure and then have the bullet pass right through the exploding part of your hand anyway and possibly all the way up your arm.
I wish you had put more focus on the fact that blockages can make not just the muzzle explode, but other parts that can easily injure or worse the person firing the gun!
A buddy of mine once decided to try a .22 LR bullet in a 2-shot Derringer. It blew the handle covers apart !! It did hurt for a while, and we both laughed at how dumb it was to try it.
When I did my military service in the Finnish Defence Forces, we were taught that the most men in peacetime were shot with an empty gun. Excellent advice. In Finland, almost all men do their military service and for this reason almost everyone has experience in safe gun handling. There is also no gun fetishism in Finland like in the USA, perhaps partly because in the army, guns are just tools.
Years ago, my father sat on a jury hearing a lawsuit brought to court by a farmer who lost his thumb when a shotgun exploded. The farmer had accidentally mixed some 20 gauge shells into his 12 gauge shells. The 20 gauge went down into the barrel, blocking the barrel. A 12 gauge shell was then loaded behind it, causing the barrel to have a piece blown out of the barrel where the farmers' left hand was holding the shotgun when it was fired. The jury found the defendants not liable due to the negligence of the farmer not keeping his shotgun shells properly separated. ALWAYS, ALWAYS make sure you are loading the proper ammunition in ANY firearm! Your safety, health, and maybe even your life depend on your due diligence on this matter !
In an instance of sabotaging insurectionists during the various decolonisation wars, fake weapon smugglers would deliver and sell rifles that had been welded halfway through the barrel. As suchh, when fired, the gas would only find exit by bursting through the mechanism, effectively shooting the bolt at the user's face...
12:23 Dang it, you guys were doing so well with the animations… then someone catapulted an entire, unfired cannon cartridge at the tank. Still great video!
😬 Yea sorry I must of watched that a dozen times and made a mental note to change but it slipped through apologies but glad you still enjoyed the rest of the video! 👍
Ya missed the fact that for some firearms, if pressure is put on the front (barrel with a slide) that it cannot be fired as it locks the hammer back. I know it's not the same as plugging the barrel, but either way
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A better example of a tank barrel blowing up is the German Tiger. The 88mm barrel was too big and powerful for a tank without some serious engineering. The result was a gun without equal at the time, but it came with a heavy burden: it had to be maintained with meticulous care. A dirty barrel could cause a backfire and blow the turret off. Due to their engineering, there was very little room for dirt in a Tiger 88, compared to other tanks not often responsible for blowing themselves up. I'm looking through my books and can't find exact details on how dirty was "dirty," but the crews were told if they were in doubt, don't fire because there was no room for error.
The difference with cannons instead of handguns is that those are likely to use explosive shells. In the case of Indy for example, I think his rock is far morenlikely to have prematurely detonated the shell than clogged the barrel enough to make it explode for overpressure
Ive personally seen an exploded gun barrel. A guy my dad knows was out duck hunting. Tripped and the barrel got jammed in the mud. Either he didnt clean it out, or thought it was clean enough. Later he shot at a duck and the barrel blew up. He brought the barrel remnant to church and passed it around a bunch of the guys. I think i even held and inspected it. Granted, its a shotgun, and not a single bullet, so that may have made the difference
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Happened to me rushing over a snow covered log to get a shot at a deer we surprised 3 seconds earlier and it 'bananaed' my barrel! Filled my farlcenand even my ears with tiny metal shards and there were 5 individual 'peels'. We t back to the house I was hunting at and got a hacksaw, tweezers and a file, tweezers for my shrapnel, other two items for cutting and choking the barrel! Went back out, never found a blood trail, but I know I would've got her had I been 2" taller crossing that damn fallen tree!
I saw a video of a dude "fishing" in a river using a rifle. He stuck the barrel several inches into the water and when he fired, the barrel was absolutely destroyed. He was lucky it didn't blow out the action and damage his face.
@@THall-vi8cp I once tried to shoot a pike minnow that was just a little below the surface with bird shot. My muzzle was several feet above the water, so there was no danger to me, but what surprised me was that there was no danger to the fish either. It's amazing how much water absorbs the energy of projectiles.
Regarding muzzleloaders: There are instances during the Civil War(and prior wars?) of soldiers loading muskets... and either forgetting to fire or not noticing the weapon hadn't fired. They would then load another round... forget to fire... then another. Not sure what would happen if they managed to fire a rifle with more than one load... but I wouldn't want to find out. Also, muzzle loading cannons were often double or triple charged... which could lead to a burst barrel.
The biggest threat is a squib round. I've been at a shooting range twice when a semi-auto pistol exploded due to squibs. The barrel didn't explode, the gas escaped at the breach, damaging the slide around the ejection port and the top of the frame. Most pistols calibers have much higher pressures than shotguns, so the barrels are thicker and stronger. I had my own squib once, by not putting the powder load in a hand loaded round. Fortunately, the primer barely put the bullet into the rifling and 220gr 300BLK bullets are very long, so the next round could not chamber, and I didn't fire a second round, until I cleared the squib.
My local military museum has a large caliber WW2 anti-aircraft gun with a banana peeled barrel. The story was the crew had to abandon it during a retreat. Rather than let it fall into enemy hands they stuffed an entire HE shell back-to-front in the end of the barrel, loaded another HE shell into the breach, stood back and pulled the lanyard. Later when they retook the position they retrieved the gun which had been left untouched by the enemy.
I got a squib load in a 9mm carbine. The next round ruptured the barrel, about 8 inches from the chamber( also where my face was). the top shroud blew off the rifle with incredible force, surprising me greatly. I was going to get a new barrel but just kept the rifle as-is to remind me of the importance of quality ammo.
In Support You Local Sheriff James Garner said that it would not do his finger any good. The idea was to convince the person to decide to not pull the trigger. Naturally it worked as James had Plot Armor.
It's a little bit more complex than that. What the mode of failure ends up being depends on many factors such as how much powder is in the cartridge, what the normal operating pressures are, the design of the firearm itself especially affecting the strength of the action and barrel, and how far down the barrel the obstruction in the barrel is. If the blockage is close enough to the chamber end where the barrel is generally thicker, it can result in a far more catastrophic failure event where either the barrel splits from the chamber end or the locking mechanism itself that was supposed to support the back end of the cartridge fails. They are usually far more violent and hazardous to the shooter because usually they happen to even higher pressures.
I will say that it depends but if you are talking about practical plugs that are used in real tank cannons to stop dust and other stuff from getting into the barrel they can be shot through though it might destabilise the shot but I think it works even with high explosive shells. It was stated in the manual for the STUG III during ww II that they preferred to remember to take them out not because it ruined the barrel but because they were very important to maintain a good gun and they only had a few with them at any one time
The barrel of a shotgun can really explode. About 20 years ago, my uncle was hunting foxes in the winter and shot a fox. The hit was not good and the fox was only knocked out for a moment and when my uncle approached the fox, the fox would start running again. My uncle fired the second barrel empty, or that was the intention, because the barrel exploded. My uncle thought the barrel of the shotgun hit the snow and since the barrel must have been a little warm after the first shot, the snow melted. My uncle was not injured, except for his ego maybe getting a little hit. I feel sorry for the poor fox the most, who probably got shot in the ass. Life is tough in the dense Finnish forest anyway.
Now I want to watch a video about over loading a shotgun shell. I understand that either too hot (extra powder) or too heavy (extra shot) can get you into trouble, but I have never heard of a specific incident. I am always extremely careful in following recipes.
With tank cannon, they are firing actual shells, usually with explosive charges designed to go boom on impact. When there is a blockage, they would go boom against the blockage
I was hoping for more elaboration on what happens on the other end of the blocked barrel-to the person firing the shot. What got me curious about this video wasn't the countless cartoon examples, but an episode of a show called Midsomer Murders. In that episode, the killer had slipped a shotgun cartridge into the jacket of the victim, who was going pheasant shooting the next day. The round was a size too large for the gun being used, so when the victim fired it, it got stuck in the barrel. Due to being in the heat of hunting, the victim didn't notice the shot hadn't cleared the barrel, and put another round in. That was the last round they fired, as the gun exploded toward the victim. Being that the show is fiction, and also did not show the damage the explosion dealt since it'd be too gory for the show, it left me wondering how realistic that scenario was.
Not surprising this could happen to tanks. Not just from crappy terrain/mud, but also shots hitting and compromising the turret or barrel sufficiently. A hit making the barrel even slightly too narrow (like the example with the sherman in the video) would be expected now and then. Wouldn't surprise me if issues with manufacture caused some % of them too, or too much expansion with overheating causing the barrel to warp a bit (either due to manufacturing issues with the steel or maybe improper use).
I can say for sure an M-16A1 fired with a section of cleaning rod still in the barrel gives you the banana peel barrel, I have seen the event and aftermath first hand in recruit training when one of the recruits made this exact foul-up at the range.
I always assumed the explosion in Indiana Jones was from the rock prematurely triggering the explosive shell's fuse while inside the barrel and not the excess pressure from the rock sealing the barrel.
Mythbusters BUSTED this wide open, it's very unlikely to happen unless you really shut the barrel altogether in order for a banana peel effect to happen.
Those burst tank gun barrels might happen, because if the barrels are long enough and tanks are driven on uneven ground, muzzles might hit the ground and be clogged. About sabotating cannons - I heard it might be done by throwing a piece of a magnet inside of a barrel.
3:50 anyone handling any weapon knows to clear it, especially when handing it off to someone else! Also, it’d be nice if there were dates on both of those articles or literally a tad bit more information other than looking like someone put them together at the last minute! The date, county, maybe the store name! I’m generally curious when and where!
This happened to a British navy ship back in the 70's. The ship returned to harbour under cover of darkness with the exploded muzzle covered over with a tarpaulin - To avoid embarrasment and bad PR. They'd forgotten to remove the muzzle screw blank before firing. I watched the ship sneak back; and watched when they uncovered the mess. Laugh? I nearly shat!!
i aways thought on doing this, not because i think the gun would just explode leaving me unscathed, but because in my head, the blood that would come out of my exploded finger would be enough to por inside the gun and cause it to malfunction, saving me from a second shot.
take a look at demolition ranch's videos about how they used different things to obstruct a pistol barrel and i think every pistol survived, they used highpoint pistols
If you shoot a gun with the barrel partially submerged in water it will not do the banana peel effect, but it would completly ''Disassemble'' so to say.
I suppose it works for Buggs Bunny after all, because any hunter would know, a rabbit in the hand isn't worth the cost of repairs to a damaged barrel. It was no longer financially fiscal to continue hunting
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A straight finger could save you in that if you angle it just right, the bullet might slow down enough on its tear through your hand that it doesn’t end up killing you.
In the days before widespread LE use of soft body armor, when point shooting a DA revolver with a one-handed grip was still common, some agencies taught officers to place the free hand/arm, across the chest. One reason for this was in hopes of possibly slowing down incoming rounds. (Paraphrased from Scott Reitz, LAPD Metro div. Firearms instructor)
Depends on the what it is blocking that barrel how thick it is its shape as explosions with is how a gun fires take the eisest path posible and if that path is the gun barel be read for your finger to fly away
I watched the episode's myth buster when they tested the cartoon myth of plugging the end of a gun barrel with a finger so I already know it wouldn't make the gun explode but I was wondering about the tank gun barrel.
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You always assume a round is in the chamber until you clear it. Once you clear it, it's a hunk of metal until it is out of sight. Then, you assume there is a round in the chamber until you clear it once again. Its literally the first thing I do every time I pick up a weapon. Of course with mine, outside of mantinance, I'm just making sure there is a round in the chamber. A safety, if applicable, is signifigantly faster than manually cycling the action.
nobody here seems to have mentioned that thermite can and was used to disable tanks on purpose to decommission them. it basically welds the barrel shut. I found this out from a veritasium video on thermite I think
I can't believe the cop was suing the gun store. He should know the 4 rules of firearm safety: 1. Always Keep Firearm Pointed in a Safe direction 2. Treat All Guns as Though They are Loaded 3. Keep Your Finger Off the Trigger until You are Ready to Shoot 4. Always Be Sure of Your Target and What’s Beyond It He violated at least two of these.
A buddy of mine once decided to try a .22 LR bullet in a 2-shot Derringer. It blew the handle covers apart !! It did hurt for a while, and we both laughed at how dumb it was to try it.
It's ironic how you showed a clip from The Crow while discussing squib loads and blockages, as if I recall correctly, that's what lead to Brandon Lee's tragic death.
Yep. It was supposed to shoot blanks, but unfortunately there was a dummy round stuck in the barrel, which was launched towards Brandon when the gun was fired :(
There is an anime called City Hunter. In one of the first episodes, the main character puts his hand up to his own 44 Magnum and fires. He didn't do it to stop the gun from firing... but to slow it down enough that it wouldn't penetrate the windows beyond the target. His shot disarms the bank robber holding a hostage without penetrating the windows to hit bystanders outside. He walks out of the bank calmly, impressing a nearby reporter with his composure. Once outside... he screams in agony. But would that actually work?
In one episode of The Band of Brothers, they disable artillery barrels by putting something inside - this is supposed to be based on real events, so this tactic was used in WWII
Remember the Crazy Canucks during WWII. They where riflemen who regularly fired special STEEL bullets down the canon of German Panzers, jamming the loaded shell. Fire the canon and it explode INSIDE the turret as the shell can't travel down the barrel.
If you are close enough to put your finger or something else in the gun you should just deflect the gun. It is much more safer and easy to do then blocking it.
I never would have thought that the barrel will turn into a banana shape. I knew the gun would explode if it had blockage, but I didn't know it. Actually, you can split like a banana, that's pretty cool. And also I don't know why people think That you could have put your fingers in The barrel to block it, even if that was impossible, you would need to have a hand that is stronger than iron. Well, I mean, I guess it doesn't need to be strong and iron. It just need to be metallic to block in well, I guess I did loot in something new, though. I didn't know that cartoon effect with guns were real. Just not the finger part
Does a blocked barrel cause damage to the target in front of it if it's close enough? And would a hand in the barrel of a gun save your life if you had no other option?
I think the thought process is that the bullet will bounce around the chamber and since bullet is big power bullet is practically obviously just a tiny bomb
There’s a reason officers threaten infantry with having to retrieve their ramrod from within enemy lines when they forget to remove said ramrod before firing.
During some of the movie scenes of tank's gun barrels going bananas, I'd be interested to see how they went about doing it. I mean, I doubt they actually fired the tank guns. Safety wise probably not the best idea and also I reckon it would be rather hard for a film crew to get hold of that particular ammunition and to get the associated permissions to use it. How would you go about faking a tank gun exploding and make it look believable?
In Indiana Jones you don't actually see the barrel itself explode, you see 1 - barrel intact with a rock in it 2 - gunner thrown back from the explosion 3- tank barrel banana peeled So the burst version we see could have been made of any malleable material really I guess 🤔
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It is real simple, all the pressure is going to escape through the weakest point, which is always going to be your finger. Even if the gun banana peels, you are not going to have a hand left.
That's why I've always recommended epoxy. Slow cure being the best.
Now, arranging that, that's up to the one getting in front of the gun.
A nice tungsten ice pick would do, you'd not get blasted, just an ice pick propelled up the inside of your hand and forearm.
Hardened steel lag bolt, perhaps? I'm sure they'll patiently wait.
Seriously though, what was historically effective was spiking the barrels of the weapons. Not a facing down a muzzle activity, but it did effectively kill the weapon throughout history. Of course, fingers ain't spikes.
Nah I'd win.
@@QuackersMcCrackers you would win…
A hospital visit
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@@QuackersMcCrackers maybe
You mean I can't trust the physics of Warner Brothers? I am shocked, shocked!
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"Well, not that shocked"
My Dad and his friends experimented with this using a chicken leg in place of a finger. He said the hardest part was figuring out how to fire the gun from 10 feet back; he daid he was surprised at how completely destroyed the chicken leg was. He expected a hole, but the chicken leg exploded.
Atleast it's better than losing all of the chicken
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I always thought this trope was ridiculous, because wouldn't the bullet just go through the finger? But, I never once thought that fingers are too big to be stuck in a gun barrel at all in the first place! Maybe because I've never touched a real gun before, so I've never tested that hypothesis, either way.
some gun barrels are smaller than others
A finger CAN fit in some of the bigger calibre. Like a 0.500 BMG.
even if it didnt, the reason the gun blows up is because it cannot withstand the pressure. if you compare the pressure that your finger can withstand vs a metal pipe, youd realise pretty quickly that you would probably prefer getting shot transversely to having your hand rupture from the pressure and then have the bullet pass right through the exploding part of your hand anyway and possibly all the way up your arm.
@@jonathanodude6660 Yeah, that sounds horrifying!
finger: bad idea A stone; maybe. a handful of mud? yes but don't stand around to find out.
Pen with chewing gum?
@@supergobgoblin424 depends on the size of the pen and i dunno about the gum...
What. I literally just watched the mythbusters episode on this. Are you living in my walls?
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He is
@@DebunkedOfficialbruh
If you're schizophrenic, somebody is really living inside your walls.
I'm so done for. I first read "walls" as "balls" and laughed like crazy, then realised it's actually walls
I wish you had put more focus on the fact that blockages can make not just the muzzle explode, but other parts that can easily injure or worse the person firing the gun!
A buddy of mine once decided to try a .22 LR bullet in a 2-shot Derringer. It blew the handle covers apart !! It did hurt for a while, and we both laughed at how dumb it was to try it.
Check any weapon that you pick up and always assume it is loaded.
Sound advice 👌
When I did my military service in the Finnish Defence Forces, we were taught that the most men in peacetime were shot with an empty gun. Excellent advice. In Finland, almost all men do their military service and for this reason almost everyone has experience in safe gun handling. There is also no gun fetishism in Finland like in the USA, perhaps partly because in the army, guns are just tools.
Firearm safety 101.
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Years ago, my father sat on a jury hearing a lawsuit brought to court by a farmer who lost his thumb when a shotgun exploded. The farmer had accidentally mixed some 20 gauge shells into his 12 gauge shells. The 20 gauge went down into the barrel, blocking the barrel. A 12 gauge shell was then loaded behind it, causing the barrel to have a piece blown out of the barrel where the farmers' left hand was holding the shotgun when it was fired.
The jury found the defendants not liable due to the negligence of the farmer not keeping his shotgun shells properly separated.
ALWAYS, ALWAYS make sure you are loading the proper ammunition in ANY firearm! Your safety, health, and maybe even your life depend on your due diligence on this matter
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In an instance of sabotaging insurectionists during the various decolonisation wars, fake weapon smugglers would deliver and sell rifles that had been welded halfway through the barrel.
As suchh, when fired, the gas would only find exit by bursting through the mechanism, effectively shooting the bolt at the user's face...
Interesting stuff! Thanks
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@@CST1992not necessarily the case.
@@Red_Eagle definitely the case uwu
It works in cartoon because Bugs Bunny according to him never learned about physics and because of that the laws of physics don't apply to him.
In Looney Tunes universe, physics is a religion or a philosophy. Compliance is optional.
12:23 Dang it, you guys were doing so well with the animations… then someone catapulted an entire, unfired cannon cartridge at the tank. Still great video!
😬 Yea sorry I must of watched that a dozen times and made a mental note to change but it slipped through apologies but glad you still enjoyed the rest of the video! 👍
Ya missed the fact that for some firearms, if pressure is put on the front (barrel with a slide) that it cannot be fired as it locks the hammer back. I know it's not the same as plugging the barrel, but either way
You missed the fact that facts are less relevant than clicks, clicks are more relevant that true and true is less relevant than money. Debunqed knows, today is the day, and tomorrow.
Short recoil tilting barrel pistols can be pushed out of battery, but that's still risky.
Yeah. Wouldn't cause the gun to explode, but would prevent it firing at all. Not very good for cartoon comedy though.
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I mean, they don't look like they're hurt. are they?
Agreed
A better example of a tank barrel blowing up is the German Tiger. The 88mm barrel was too big and powerful for a tank without some serious engineering. The result was a gun without equal at the time, but it came with a heavy burden: it had to be maintained with meticulous care. A dirty barrel could cause a backfire and blow the turret off. Due to their engineering, there was very little room for dirt in a Tiger 88, compared to other tanks not often responsible for blowing themselves up. I'm looking through my books and can't find exact details on how dirty was "dirty," but the crews were told if they were in doubt, don't fire because there was no room for error.
The difference with cannons instead of handguns is that those are likely to use explosive shells.
In the case of Indy for example, I think his rock is far morenlikely to have prematurely detonated the shell than clogged the barrel enough to make it explode for overpressure
You beat me to it. I would imagine that most moders explosive shells have a delayed arm because of this.
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Ive personally seen an exploded gun barrel. A guy my dad knows was out duck hunting. Tripped and the barrel got jammed in the mud. Either he didnt clean it out, or thought it was clean enough. Later he shot at a duck and the barrel blew up. He brought the barrel remnant to church and passed it around a bunch of the guys. I think i even held and inspected it. Granted, its a shotgun, and not a single bullet, so that may have made the difference
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Bugs wins on account of being a protagonist, while Tom is basically meant to lose on the episodes...
Wouldn't it be Sylvester? Tom and Jerry is a different franchise. Id put early Daffy duck up against Bugs.
Needs to be Silvester v Tom to be fair
Tom often loses to a mouse, and Bugs often beats a hunter with a gun. It'll be a Tom and Jerry episode except more unfair to Tom.
If you put a shotgun barrel tip just below the water line, and fire.... it will definitely banana.
Happened to me rushing over a snow covered log to get a shot at a deer we surprised 3 seconds earlier and it 'bananaed' my barrel! Filled my farlcenand even my ears with tiny metal shards and there were 5 individual 'peels'. We t back to the house I was hunting at and got a hacksaw, tweezers and a file, tweezers for my shrapnel, other two items for cutting and choking the barrel! Went back out, never found a blood trail, but I know I would've got her had I been 2" taller crossing that damn fallen tree!
@@Dirtydetective that's a WILD story! Glad u were ok, that could have gone way worse.
I saw a video of a dude "fishing" in a river using a rifle. He stuck the barrel several inches into the water and when he fired, the barrel was absolutely destroyed. He was lucky it didn't blow out the action and damage his face.
@@THall-vi8cp I once tried to shoot a pike minnow that was just a little below the surface with bird shot. My muzzle was several feet above the water, so there was no danger to me, but what surprised me was that there was no danger to the fish either. It's amazing how much water absorbs the energy of projectiles.
Glad this video addressed squib loads--that's immediately where my mind went.
Regarding muzzleloaders: There are instances during the Civil War(and prior wars?) of soldiers loading muskets... and either forgetting to fire or not noticing the weapon hadn't fired. They would then load another round... forget to fire... then another.
Not sure what would happen if they managed to fire a rifle with more than one load... but I wouldn't want to find out.
Also, muzzle loading cannons were often double or triple charged... which could lead to a burst barrel.
The biggest threat is a squib round. I've been at a shooting range twice when a semi-auto pistol exploded due to squibs. The barrel didn't explode, the gas escaped at the breach, damaging the slide around the ejection port and the top of the frame. Most pistols calibers have much higher pressures than shotguns, so the barrels are thicker and stronger.
I had my own squib once, by not putting the powder load in a hand loaded round. Fortunately, the primer barely put the bullet into the rifling and 220gr 300BLK bullets are very long, so the next round could not chamber, and I didn't fire a second round, until I cleared the squib.
My local military museum has a large caliber WW2 anti-aircraft gun with a banana peeled barrel. The story was the crew had to abandon it during a retreat. Rather than let it fall into enemy hands they stuffed an entire HE shell back-to-front in the end of the barrel, loaded another HE shell into the breach, stood back and pulled the lanyard. Later when they retook the position they retrieved the gun which had been left untouched by the enemy.
I got a squib load in a 9mm carbine. The next round ruptured the barrel, about 8 inches from the chamber( also where my face was). the top shroud blew off the rifle with incredible force, surprising me greatly. I was going to get a new barrel but just kept the rifle as-is to remind me of the importance of quality ammo.
"Don't try any of this at home!"
People pointing a gun at me at home:
In Support You Local Sheriff James Garner said that it would not do his finger any good. The idea was to convince the person to decide to not pull the trigger. Naturally it worked as James had Plot Armor.
The animations and video clips are amazing. 👏
You need fingers powered by cartoon physics...
I wouldn’t want to fire a gun with a barrel full of water.
I remember debating this subject a good while back... Great job Stu 👍🏻
Thank you 😊
It's a little bit more complex than that. What the mode of failure ends up being depends on many factors such as how much powder is in the cartridge, what the normal operating pressures are, the design of the firearm itself especially affecting the strength of the action and barrel, and how far down the barrel the obstruction in the barrel is. If the blockage is close enough to the chamber end where the barrel is generally thicker, it can result in a far more catastrophic failure event where either the barrel splits from the chamber end or the locking mechanism itself that was supposed to support the back end of the cartridge fails. They are usually far more violent and hazardous to the shooter because usually they happen to even higher pressures.
I saw someone on Reddit try to use a potato as a silencer. The guy in the video ended up with a banana peel
I will say that it depends but if you are talking about practical plugs that are used in real tank cannons to stop dust and other stuff from getting into the barrel they can be shot through though it might destabilise the shot but I think it works even with high explosive shells. It was stated in the manual for the STUG III during ww II that they preferred to remember to take them out not because it ruined the barrel but because they were very important to maintain a good gun and they only had a few with them at any one time
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10:06 love the guy pointing the gun right into his own eye.
The barrel of a shotgun can really explode. About 20 years ago, my uncle was hunting foxes in the winter and shot a fox. The hit was not good and the fox was only knocked out for a moment and when my uncle approached the fox, the fox would start running again. My uncle fired the second barrel empty, or that was the intention, because the barrel exploded. My uncle thought the barrel of the shotgun hit the snow and since the barrel must have been a little warm after the first shot, the snow melted. My uncle was not injured, except for his ego maybe getting a little hit. I feel sorry for the poor fox the most, who probably got shot in the ass. Life is tough in the dense Finnish forest anyway.
A lot of this is just common sense really, but common sense is rare these days, so good video.
Now I want to watch a video about over loading a shotgun shell. I understand that either too hot (extra powder) or too heavy (extra shot) can get you into trouble, but I have never heard of a specific incident. I am always extremely careful in following recipes.
"See recruits, this is why you must stay back for the next 6 hours and clean your weapons..." -every BMT sergeant ever.
It'd be interesting to repeat the ballistic gel finger experiment with a bone density material inserted into the ballistic gel.
With tank cannon, they are firing actual shells, usually with explosive charges designed to go boom on impact. When there is a blockage, they would go boom against the blockage
I was hoping for more elaboration on what happens on the other end of the blocked barrel-to the person firing the shot. What got me curious about this video wasn't the countless cartoon examples, but an episode of a show called Midsomer Murders. In that episode, the killer had slipped a shotgun cartridge into the jacket of the victim, who was going pheasant shooting the next day. The round was a size too large for the gun being used, so when the victim fired it, it got stuck in the barrel. Due to being in the heat of hunting, the victim didn't notice the shot hadn't cleared the barrel, and put another round in. That was the last round they fired, as the gun exploded toward the victim.
Being that the show is fiction, and also did not show the damage the explosion dealt since it'd be too gory for the show, it left me wondering how realistic that scenario was.
Your videos are so cool man keep it up
Thank you so much 😊
Not surprising this could happen to tanks. Not just from crappy terrain/mud, but also shots hitting and compromising the turret or barrel sufficiently. A hit making the barrel even slightly too narrow (like the example with the sherman in the video) would be expected now and then. Wouldn't surprise me if issues with manufacture caused some % of them too, or too much expansion with overheating causing the barrel to warp a bit (either due to manufacturing issues with the steel or maybe improper use).
HUUUUH you guys are showing an entire ammunition and not just the shell at 12:20. That's kind of a gross mistake IMO lmao
Doh! Watched that a dozen times and meant to make a note to change it 🤦♂️😬 Apologies, hope you enjoyed the rest of the video?
Here at Aperture Science we fire the whole bullet (that's 65% more bullet per bullet)!
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@@Drunkencrono We do what we must because we can.
It's a pretty gross mistake calling it an "ammunition" rather than a "cartridge"....
Watching these videos is time well spent.
I can say for sure an M-16A1 fired with a section of cleaning rod still in the barrel gives you the banana peel barrel, I have seen the event and aftermath first hand in recruit training when one of the recruits made this exact foul-up at the range.
Thanks for sharing your story 👍
New banger just dropped???? Cant wait to watch
I can now confirm that it was indeed another banger, keep up the good work
Thanks so much 😊
One comment, the scene from The Crow isn't Eric Draven trying to stop the gun firing but demonstrating he will heal to intiidate the gun holder.
I always assumed the explosion in Indiana Jones was from the rock prematurely triggering the explosive shell's fuse while inside the barrel and not the excess pressure from the rock sealing the barrel.
Mythbusters BUSTED this wide open, it's very unlikely to happen unless you really shut the barrel altogether in order for a banana peel effect to happen.
Those burst tank gun barrels might happen, because if the barrels are long enough and tanks are driven on uneven ground, muzzles might hit the ground and be clogged. About sabotating cannons - I heard it might be done by throwing a piece of a magnet inside of a barrel.
Mythbusters reference made my day 👍
3:50 anyone handling any weapon knows to clear it, especially when handing it off to someone else! Also, it’d be nice if there were dates on both of those articles or literally a tad bit more information other than looking like someone put them together at the last minute! The date, county, maybe the store name! I’m generally curious when and where!
This happened to a British navy ship back in the 70's. The ship returned to harbour under cover of darkness with the exploded muzzle covered over with a tarpaulin - To avoid embarrasment and bad PR. They'd forgotten to remove the muzzle screw blank before firing. I watched the ship sneak back; and watched when they uncovered the mess. Laugh? I nearly shat!!
2015 for that Demolition Ranch video? And i remember very specifically when that video came out. How time flies
i aways thought on doing this, not because i think the gun would just explode leaving me unscathed, but because in my head, the blood that would come out of my exploded finger would be enough to por inside the gun and cause it to malfunction, saving me from a second shot.
if you do it, the entire solar system explodes apart from you
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take a look at demolition ranch's videos about how they used different things to obstruct a pistol barrel and i think every pistol survived, they used highpoint pistols
If you shoot a gun with the barrel partially submerged in water it will not do the banana peel effect, but it would completly ''Disassemble'' so to say.
I suppose it works for Buggs Bunny after all, because any hunter would know, a rabbit in the hand isn't worth the cost of repairs to a damaged barrel. It was no longer financially fiscal to continue hunting
An interesting point 🤔
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what spoilers are there to avoid in a video like this? "oh no now i know he told stories of guns bursting!"
@@goodgenes0 no he'd say banana peel barrel is real and that's spoiler
This was nice, I am helping keep it on top
Your job is well done sir.
Damn, thanks for looking out, bro!
Time to get educated yet again ! :D
Nice to see you early viewing as usual! How are you? Hope you enjoyed this one? We'll have our next video out much sooner!
@@DebunkedOfficial On my way from CERN and I overestimated my accessibility to the Internet so I'll watch the video in full quality a bit later :D and I'm glad the next one will be coming sooner !
@@uncommonsimon5775 CERN?! What are you up to?
@@DebunkedOfficial making anti matter :D (that's a joke I just was there for a visit after years of wanting to) bit I did get to see the antimatter factory you could make a video about it and whether a bomb made from it is even possible (I got the info that it's not possible apparently) :D
@@uncommonsimon5775 Fascinating!
A straight finger could save you in that if you angle it just right, the bullet might slow down enough on its tear through your hand that it doesn’t end up killing you.
In the days before widespread LE use of soft body armor, when point shooting a DA revolver with a one-handed grip was still common, some agencies taught officers to place the free hand/arm, across the chest. One reason for this was in hopes of possibly slowing down incoming rounds. (Paraphrased from Scott Reitz, LAPD Metro div. Firearms instructor)
Depends on the what it is blocking that barrel how thick it is its shape as explosions with is how a gun fires take the eisest path posible and if that path is the gun barel be read for your finger to fly away
I watched the episode's myth buster when they tested the cartoon myth of plugging the end of a gun barrel with a finger so I already know it wouldn't make the gun explode but I was wondering about the tank gun barrel.
I wonder if in the case of cannon blockages the shell doesn't explode upon hitting the obstacle, thus this significantly increases the damage.
The finger in the gun would never work: bunny rabbits don't have fingers.
🤣 why didn't we think to say that!
@@DebunkedOfficial aw, man, you changed the thumbnail. :-(
@@TylerKnight There's a feature now when you upload a video to add more than one Thumbnail, TH-cam then assess which one works best over the first few hours and opts for the most successful one 👍
@@DebunkedOfficial Hah... A.I. technology is everywhere.
You always assume a round is in the chamber until you clear it. Once you clear it, it's a hunk of metal until it is out of sight. Then, you assume there is a round in the chamber until you clear it once again. Its literally the first thing I do every time I pick up a weapon. Of course with mine, outside of mantinance, I'm just making sure there is a round in the chamber. A safety, if applicable, is signifigantly faster than manually cycling the action.
nobody here seems to have mentioned that thermite can and was used to disable tanks on purpose to decommission them. it basically welds the barrel shut.
I found this out from a veritasium video on thermite I think
I can't believe the cop was suing the gun store. He should know the 4 rules of firearm safety:
1. Always Keep Firearm Pointed in a Safe direction
2. Treat All Guns as Though They are Loaded
3. Keep Your Finger Off the Trigger until You are Ready to Shoot
4. Always Be Sure of Your Target and What’s Beyond It
He violated at least two of these.
A buddy of mine once decided to try a .22 LR bullet in a 2-shot Derringer. It blew the handle covers apart !! It did hurt for a while, and we both laughed at how dumb it was to try it.
It's ironic how you showed a clip from The Crow while discussing squib loads and blockages, as if I recall correctly, that's what lead to Brandon Lee's tragic death.
Yep. It was supposed to shoot blanks, but unfortunately there was a dummy round stuck in the barrel, which was launched towards Brandon when the gun was fired :(
I actually always wondered, nice video
Thank you 😊
There is an anime called City Hunter. In one of the first episodes, the main character puts his hand up to his own 44 Magnum and fires. He didn't do it to stop the gun from firing... but to slow it down enough that it wouldn't penetrate the windows beyond the target. His shot disarms the bank robber holding a hostage without penetrating the windows to hit bystanders outside.
He walks out of the bank calmly, impressing a nearby reporter with his composure.
Once outside... he screams in agony.
But would that actually work?
In one episode of The Band of Brothers, they disable artillery barrels by putting something inside - this is supposed to be based on real events, so this tactic was used in WWII
Yes, but it has to be air-tight and resilient enough to withstand the pressure. So, not with your finger.
Imagine thinking that your fleah finger would force the pressure to build up and blow apart the metal barrel and not just your finger. . . .
I mean, I am curious about this assuming you stick something like a steel rod. Or something very strong. Not a finger.
Can you do a video about calling the fire department to get cats down from trees?
Remember the Crazy Canucks during WWII. They where riflemen who regularly fired special STEEL bullets down the canon of German Panzers, jamming the loaded shell. Fire the canon and it explode INSIDE the turret as the shell can't travel down the barrel.
Thanks for answering my old question 🙏
It was a popular suggestion! Thank you. I hope you enjoyed the video 😊
@@DebunkedOfficial I will. I can finally rest in peace *dies peacefully in bed*
"Don't try any of this at home folks". Don't tell Kentucky Ballistics that 😁
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If you are close enough to put your finger or something else in the gun you should just deflect the gun. It is much more safer and easy to do then blocking it.
I didnt know this fact! Thx (:
Wow this is so cool!
Thank you 😊
Pressure against the barrel of a striker fired semiautomatic pistol (e.g. Glock, 1911) will usually put it out if battery and unable to fire
1911s are not striker fired
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12:12 Why is the rear quarter of the M4 Sherman missing?
I never would have thought that the barrel will turn into a banana shape. I knew the gun would explode if it had blockage, but I didn't know it. Actually, you can split like a banana, that's pretty cool.
And also I don't know why people think
That you could have put your fingers in The barrel to block it, even if that was impossible, you would need to have a hand that is stronger than iron. Well, I mean, I guess it doesn't need to be strong and iron. It just need to be metallic to block in well, I guess I did loot in something new, though. I didn't know that cartoon effect with guns were real. Just not the finger part
Well time to try all of that at home i guess just to make sure you know
I've got your premature explosion right here
Does a blocked barrel cause damage to the target in front of it if it's close enough? And would a hand in the barrel of a gun save your life if you had no other option?
I think the thought process is that the bullet will bounce around the chamber and since bullet is big power bullet is practically obviously just a tiny bomb
There’s a reason officers threaten infantry with having to retrieve their ramrod from within enemy lines when they forget to remove said ramrod before firing.
Saw a barrel of a rifle where a guy tried using a potato for a silencer. He didn't drill a hole through the potato & it definitely damaged the barrel
now we need to sell barrel gun jammers, like some soft but dense gum
🤔 a gap in the market maybe?
a useful video! who knew
During some of the movie scenes of tank's gun barrels going bananas, I'd be interested to see how they went about doing it. I mean, I doubt they actually fired the tank guns. Safety wise probably not the best idea and also I reckon it would be rather hard for a film crew to get hold of that particular ammunition and to get the associated permissions to use it.
How would you go about faking a tank gun exploding and make it look believable?
In Indiana Jones you don't actually see the barrel itself explode, you see
1 - barrel intact with a rock in it
2 - gunner thrown back from the explosion
3- tank barrel banana peeled
So the burst version we see could have been made of any malleable material really I guess 🤔