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Skeletonized Diabolo Slugs - Spin baby Spin

Sort of a simple design using solid brass and an allen countersunk screw.   These come from Israel and were made by Saar on his tiny lathe.    I sort of screwed up and had Danny shoot the majority of these through a rifled barrel.   The results of that were pretty bad.   We had one left and Danny suggested we just go smooth-bore.   Amazingly that one was very accurate.  

thanks everyone for your support.  

Whistling Slugs - Long Range Tests

You might recognize these from last year.   These were made by Saar and actually made a screaming sound.  But we never shot them more than about 20 yards away.  How will they do at 100 yards or so?   

thanks everyone!!!

Winchester TrAAcker Technology - Just a gimmick?

Danny shoots a ton of shells in this video and tests out the Traacker technology.   I've never seen these filmed with a high speed camera and Winchester's own video uses cartoon animations to illustrate how the wad is supposed to work.   Well,   it doesn't work like they say and  it is difficult to distinguish much difference between these and standard shells. 

January Goodie-Give-Away!

Congratulations to Brian Armstrong -  winner of the F-111 jet fairing - signed by Danny, Gregg, and myself.    We'll have more F-111 fairings to give away, so keep trying everyone! 

I think for February,  we'll be giving away Danny's soft ball,  signed by everyone too.  I will be making a post for that soon.   

thanks again everyone for your support!  

Brian,  I will be contacting you in a message on Patreon to get ...

Star Blazers - The design of the future! (ish)

YT and homemade firearm projectiles don't mix so we just say we aren't using a firearm and so far that works.   No channel strikes yet!    The Idahoan Show (TIM)  sent us these which are a little oversized for a regular 12ga,  but because they are lead and the bore contact is small,  they swaged through the bore fine.  

thanks again for your support!!  

The Enigma - Shock wave stabilized slug

Let's try this again.   If you got double notifications of this and got an error on the first one,   it is because as soon as I posted it here a copyright claim was put on the video and I had to re-edit,  re-render, and re-upload the video.   

Anyway,   this is a strange homemade slug by Evan.  It's quite light at around half an ounce or 16 grams.   Instead of using spin, fins,  drag,  etc.  for stabilization, &n...

FLITE CONTROL - Is it good for home defense?

We compare 00 military buck with Federal Flite Control 00 buck in a home defense shotgun.   We compare the patterns with a shotgun with a full choke.  

thanks everyone! 

Chinese Circuit Board Body Armor - Test 2

 In our first test we went for broke and tested the Chinese circuit boards with 9mm at a velocity of 1400 fps.   This wasn't an unrealistic speed since that IS achievable out of a pistol or something like an MP5.   In this video we see if a milder 9mm round will be stopped.  Bear in mind this is just another test-point and we still don't know what type of 9mm ammo they use in Hong Kong.   The ammo Gregg demonstrates IS issued to some law-enforcement age...

Are silicone breast implants bullet proof?

Or bullet resistant to be more precise.   Gregg explores the idea that silicone implants might actually stop bullets. 

thank you for continuing to support this channel!

New Tshirt vendor. Cheaper prices

Our old vendor, for whatever reason,  discontinued men's tshirts.   We dumped them and are now starting to list stuff on TeeSpring.    I set the prices a few bucks less than the old place and even TeeSprings suggested price.    I think it was $24  so I set them at $19,99.    I think they will also ship from EU  if I understand the site correctly.   I plan to add more designs in the future but wanted to get somethi...

January Give-away - F-111 Jet Fairing Target

Yet ANOTHER F-111 fairing to give away to a lucky winner.   Gregg and I still need to sign this.    This one has a manufacturing date of 1-31-1986 and if I remember right,  cost to the taxpayers for this part was about $600.  

IF you are interested in this unusual artifact,   just post a comment below.  Open to everyone!    Good luck!    

I will draw a name early Feb.  

MORE HK body armor with ironic surprise

The engineers asked me to leave this video unlisted for a week so they can buy materials in bulk.  May as well share with you too.  

  The engineers made their own fiberglass plates and realized what they made was similar to PCB's from China.    So they wanted us to test those too.   

Congratulations Jess!

Thank you Jess for supporting our channel.   I will be sending you a PM to get your shipping info.

We have another F111 panel for January which was pierced with the Tabasco bottle in the last video.   I just need to get Gregg to sign it this week.   

MRE Tabasco bottle shotgun slugs

Youtube HATES improvised shotgun videos like this so we just didn't show any guns in the video.   Danny does really well shooting these goofy projectiles but they were surprisingly effective,  especially the last shot that was actually very stable.    

We'll be drawing a name very soon for the F111 panel and we have another one for this month too.     Stay tuned,  and thanks again for your support.

Ebay Kevlar vs REAL police-issued Kevlar

In this video we try to answer some of the questions viewers had about the sketchy ebay body armor.   How does it compare to what the police use?   Many people also thought hollow points were more powerful than FMJ's,  and that short barrels were more powerful than the 10" barrels we used in the first video.   Thanks Hollywood.    

thank YOU Patreon supporters!   

Breast implants and heavy recoil from guns

First, I want to thank Patreon supporter  "Free" for this idea and for sending the implant.   I could not get Danny to do this test,  but  Gregg happily volunteered.   We test to see what effect heavy recoil has on a breast implant to see if there is a bursting risk, etc.  

thanks again everyone!    

Rare vintage Taylor Cutlery Arrow Slingshot

Danny shows off his arrow shooting slingshot.   We can't pin down when this was made and what name it was actually called. 

thanks everyone!  Hope your holiday season is going well so far.    

Warwolf Ordinance's HOG BALL - These really deliver

These rounds have two .60 cal lead balls with a combined weight of 40 grams  (1.42 oz).   Danny does an impressive job showing the accuracy of these.

thanks everyone!!   

Danny tests out the Pocket Shot Pro

thank you Patrons for your support!  

December Patreon Give-away

Hi everyone.   We have another real F-111 (jet) fairing to give away.    This has been signed by Gregg,  Danny and myself.    This was shot by Gregg using the exploding Heavy Hitters a while back.  

If you are interested in winning this,   just leave a comment below.   I'll draw a name early in January.  I will ship anywhere.   I do have more of these panels,  so if you don't win this one,  yo...

Australian viewer comes by and shoots a bunch of guns

Thanks everyone for your support!

Testing ROPE DARTS from The Idahoan Show channel

Slugs that deploy paracord tails to help stabilize them?   Tim from The Idahoan Show wanted to see how they fly!

thank you again Patrons!   

Testing the sketchiest body armor on ebay for Hong Kongers

Thanks everyone for your support! 

Teflon Slug from Russia

Alexey in Russia sent us some teflon slugs.   

Anyone play The HUNTER - Call of the Wild?

Othias from C&Rsenal talked me into playing this game a week or so ago.   It's actually pretty fun to play with other folks.   Mae plays,  Kevin from Moss Pawn pawn plays with us,  as well as others from around the world.   The graphics are pretty nice,  but the game has a few bugs and glitches.   Nothing TOO bad though.   The game has a lot of annoying "pay to play" upgrades,  meaning you if you want certain maps or gu...

Polyshok IRP - Frangible 12ga slug

thank you patrons!  

12 ga. slug that expands to 30mm before it hits the target?

This is one of the strangest flukes we've ever filmed.   These are 1oz expanding slugs but in our tests,  the petals expanded out to about 30mm from centrifugal force as it left the barrel.    Of course is not how they are supposed to work of course,  but  it was fascinating to see.   

Super Paradox Slugs - They whistle!

Steve from Fortunecookie45lc was kind to send us some of his Super Paradox slugs to test out.   He had found a good recipe through a lot of testing and had good results through full rifling.   I used Long Shot,   a powder he didn't test so we were starting from scratch.  But  we also tested the slugs through cylinder bore and rifled choke.   

thanks everyone for your support.  

SUPER dragon's breath filmed at twilight

War Wolf wanted us to test their original super dragon's breath which they claim goes 400 feet.   Both Danny and I thought this was VERY optimistic and thought it might go 100 feet with a strong wind.  However,   through a full choke,   we can confirm it went close to 400 feet.    

thank you everyone for your support!   

How they ejected from SR-71s at Mach 3

I've been working on this for two weeks and I hope you enjoy it.   thanks everyone!