hey everybody adam savage here and i'm surrounded by a king's ransom of ancient
and wonderful mythbusters props for a reason these props have been traveling around the us
for the last decade as part of the mythbusters explosive exhibition which is now finished
now these get a second life hopefully in your home because they are being auctioned off by prop store
to benefit the grant yamaha steam foundation and i'm doing show and tells about each of the pieces
and today's piece is this book um this was part of yeah just maybe you look at the back and you see a
hole here with a bit of sharpie writing on there 22 yes this is a book that we shot up with a gun
in order to test what is bulletproof and i think this is part of the very first what is bulletproof
episode which would be season i think maybe season two uh we filmed that out at the shabo shooting
range in the east bay of san francisco and while this book so i'm thinking here i see at least
two no i see at least three bullet holes wow so there's a 22 a 22 that looks like a 45 and this
looks like the exit wound of a book um look i will be honest with you we were taking as our myth the
oft told story of someone who said i was shot by a stray bullet and the bible in my pocket protected
me this is like a classic story and we brought one to the shooting range in order to test this and it
was explained to us by the owners of the shooting range that we would not be shooting a bible
on their watch we apologized we did not mean to offend we immediately sent someone out to a thrift
store to buy a thick book that would suffice and we found the new dictionary of thoughts which i
think is a phenomenal title for a book yeah so when i look at a book like this when i look at
an artifact like this two things are coming first of all a prop store who is doing this auction is
people that i've known for well over a decade i have many pieces from them in my collection
and so it's very funny for me to see a prop store label on a piece that i produced mythbusters tv
book with bullet hole yeah that is the descriptor um but i also think of the day right like
i totally remember sending a runner out to get this book and then running back it's 5.99
literally from a thrift store over there in the east bay i remember setting this up in
the stand each of the what is bulletproof days were really absurd but also because we kept on
shooting so many different things and i mean shooting not shooting but shooting because we
were firing bullets at so many different things um that required us to be extra careful because
you don't know how everything's going to respond and because of that you've got to like kind of
reassess where you are with each thing you're putting in front of your of your uh of the gun
yeah so it's like i'm remembering both the the fun right the like the hilarity of shooting
these things and seeing how they respond but also that like that careful methodological approach we
chose to do these dangerous things safely it's like all of that is extant here in this book
i just want to show you this one thing bullets are meant to do what's called this is a little
gruesome but bear with me bullets work by doing what they call mechanically coupling with you it's
disgusting i agree but what it is is that the lead bullet spreads and takes out as much of you as it
can and you can see it really clearly in this book right here you can see the entrance of the
22 caliber bullet and then you see this triangle as it's moving its way through the book pages
that's because the mechanical coupling between a lead bullet and a book is actually quite excellent
so you can see that that exit wound is much larger than the entrance wound yeah gruesome i agree but
you get this little extra bit of mythbuster science for free the address is propstore.com
mythbusters get yourself some mythbusters props to benefit the grant yamaha steam foundation
put them in your house exalt about their damage and i will see you guys next time