Mythbusters have a Misfire...

Their biggest mistake was using a bomb range as an artillery range. The safety requirements of those to activities are very different.

As an aside... I've no idea how it works for municipally owned/operated ranges, but had they done this on a federal range what they did is actually criminal. In the federal game, for each energetics firing range there is what is called a "siting document." That document determines what activities are allowed to be performed on that site. If the document doesn't mention cannons, then it is quite literally illegal to operate cannons within that facility. Given that we're dealing with a police bomb range, I highly doubt that cannons are mentioned. Mind you, there's no reason to believe that a municipally owned/operated range operates under the same statutes, I merely bring it up to point out that such wrecklessness is already taken into account at the federal level.

And yes, they were wreckless.
 
Does that mean that no one in New York should ever be able to experiment with cannons?
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In the city, probably.

Maybe on a peninsula into one of the rivers.


Building walls that can contain canon fore is s lot harder than containing mist handguns.

Even an indoor rifle range faces some challenges.

Their biggest mistake was using a bomb range as an artillery range. The safety requirements of those to activities are very different.
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This is a significant part of the problem and the reason even bomb ranges have explosive limits.

Set off a large enough blast (or a shaped blast) and you may throw things outside the boundaries allowed.
 
Um, no. I would not expect to see the footage until all the settlements are worked out. Initially, the press was reporting that the show has been put on hold.

Also, don't expect to see any footage of the round impacting things because they would not have had any cameras outside of the range. At best, there is footage of the shot going over the berm.
 
Why not call this what it is? This was a ND. I bet that if one were at ground zero observing, something to do with the basic four rules of smallarms safety was violated. Just a hunch.

Too many professionals and not enough technicians maybe? It would seem so, because while anyone could have an ND, an incident to this scale most certainly required a degree...:D
 
The Mythbusters crew had themselves a close call as they were filming their latest stunt at a California bomb range - and a cannonball wound up crashing through a Dublin home
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Crikey!!! How much blackpowder did they stuff into that?

The Irish must be worried now....:p

Bart Noir
 
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