Gav and Dan leave the 4K phantom at home and spend the day slinging metal at other metal for a surprising range of results.
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For the shots on the round target, you can see two chunks of metal fly off: the lead bullet and a sliver-colored piece of similar size and shape. Is that a part of the plate, or the bullet? I've never heard of steel-tipped rounds before
This was so cool. Good job guys. Love your channel.
Deadeye Dan his new nickname
Perhaps you could have Cleaned and Polished the plate to a mirror finish!?
Hello Guys! Video idea:
Can you show what happens to a whip in slow motion? Did you know that a whip makes this sound because parts of it break the sound barrier? π―
You guys should really hook up with Brandon Herrera and test different types of ammo through the same guns, different guns, different targets, etc. With your abilities/interests and Brandon's knowledge/arsenal, you could make some incredible videos showing a variety of results. Throw in some analysis from somebody like AlphaPhoenix, and you'd have an unbelievably good video that appeals to a ton of different people. That would certainly be a dream video for me!
And this is why I love this channel so much. I have no doubt you guys have helped many understand a bit more 'science' of things with your Slow Mo.
13:40 That's really impressive that you see the shockwave of the bullet. I wonder if they do something similar to test out other kinds of bullets out there. π€
you should go to DriveTanks and record a 76mm round hitting a thick steel plate to see the spalling that wouldve been common of tank on tank warfare back in ww2
They found either a what I'm gonna call a 3 rack target plate, or a Texas Star plate and just went to town on it? Love seeing how hardness affects ballistic damage π
I'm surprised you don't collaborate with Matt from Demolition Ranch. He has a ton of guns and shoots a lot of targets that would be fun to see in super Slow Motion.
Bullets that did not pass through left imprints similar to craters on the moon
That was awesome and amazing to see! I would absolutely love to see how steel cored rounds would do compared to the lead cored rounds you guys were using.
I used to shoot steel with 7.62x54r and some old super hard, super thick mower blades would actually "catch" the steel cores, depending on the angle, they could penetrate or get stuck in the metal, sometimes bent, or even once or twice stuck halfway through the metal.
Also used to find steel cores littering the ground from ricochets when shot at the right angle. Would be amazing to see that happening in super slow motion. For reference, 7.62x54r is the only easily available steel core ammo I know about, and pretty much any Russian Milsurp ammo you get is steel core, so if you guys can get access to it would be super cool!!!
I'd recommend doing this again, but with bulletproof glass
But for the camera or target, I hear you ask
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9:41 i think thats a steel "scab" or fragment you knocked out of the plate, the center of the "shock cone" of energy transference.
The rear hole is cleaner because it Sheared off; the front hole is messy because its an impace crater where Everything got ejected back out.
This is Literally the basis of many WW2 anti-tank wepons.
Would have liked to see you guys shoot rounds with longer jackets that rip apart in a star formation to do the old video justice.
50 cal.
If yβall got with scott again and dod this with the REALLY large calibers it would be cool
guns underwater in slowmo like your old vids but maybe you could explore it more and maybe the underwater explosions aswell
twice the speed at same weight would mean 4 times the energy but the bullet is even bigger so it's probably heavier, if it's twice as heavy, that means 8 times the energy for the long one.