THE HISTORY OF THE PENN & TELLER BULLET CATCH

Bullet

Catch

THE HISTORY OF THE PENN & TELLER BULLET CATCH

I have been and it has been brought up on other networks “ How much input did Banachek have on the Penn & Teller Bullet catch ?” First let ’ s say , as Jamy Ian Swiss correctly notes , P & T call it the “ MAGIC BULLET ”. That alone should tell you how much . But back to that later .

I first performed my version of the bullet catch around 1985 . At that time I worked with a partner . The idea came as a brainstorm while in a fishing store . I had been playing around with an idea of how to do a 100 % safe bullet catch . Looking at some items there , I knew I had it . Three factors were important , one : it had to be safe ( unheard of in previous methods ), and two : it had to fool everyone and three : I wanted a sheet of glass to break with no gimmicks .

Shortly after , my then stage-partner and I began to perform the catch in vari-

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THE HISTORY OF THE PENN & TELLER BULLET CATCH

Bullet

Catch

THE HISTORY OF THE PENN & TELLER BULLET CATCH

I have been and it has been brought up on other networks “ How much input did Banachek have on the Penn & Teller Bullet catch ?” First let ’ s say , as Jamy Ian Swiss correctly notes , P & T call it the “ MAGIC BULLET ”. That alone should tell you how much . But back to that later .