Can A Ricocheting Bullet Loop Back And Kill The Shooter? | MythBusters

The urban legend claims a bullet can ricochet off multiple surfaces, curve back on itself, and kill the very person who pulled the trigger, and Adam and Jamie took it apart piece by piece — testing single, double, and triple ricochets off different surfaces to measure how much velocity and directional control a bullet retains after each bounce, finding that three ricochets leave a bullet moving too slowly to be lethal, and then going one step further by bending a metal pipe into a near-complete circle to find out whether a bullet could physically travel a curved path and still hit the ballistics gel target at the other end with enough force to matter, because MythBusters doesn't stop at the expected answer when there's a more interesting question hiding just behind it. Subscribe so you never miss an experiment:    / @mythbusterstvshow   Using science as their weapon and curiosity as their fuel, Hollywood special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman spent 14 seasons and 296 episodes testing the world's most popular myths, urban legends, and movie moments. From the Diet Coke & Mentos explosion to surviving an underwater car escape — if it can be tested, they'll test it. #MythBusters #AdamSavage #ScienceExperiments