Could a Hollywood Hitman's Shooting Skills Work in Real Life? | MythBusters

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MythBusters — S13 E11 "Supernatural Shooters" — Aired August 15, 2015

Breaking Bad's Jonathan Banks appears in character as the stone-faced, infallible Mike Ehrmantraut to send Adam and Jamie on their most specific assignment yet — finding out whether the seemingly supernatural shooting abilities that Hollywood gives its hitmen have any basis in what a real human being with a firearm can actually do, testing a lineup of the most iconic and most implausible precision shooting feats from action cinema history including shooting through multiple targets with a single round, impossible distance shots, and the kind of split-second accuracy that every great movie assassin makes look effortless, bringing in professional shooters and forensic ballistics experts to measure exactly where movie mythology ends and physical reality begins.

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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.

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