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Dan, I've seen people race, horses, cars.
Never seen bullets race.
Not really a spectator sport, though, is it, to be honest?
- Not for humans, anyway. - No, but in actual fact, there's a huge difference between different projectiles that come out of different weapons.
So today, in the safety of our little canyon here, we're gonna be shooting against some sand four different guns and see if our high-speed footage can help us differentiate the different speeds between each round.
( music playing )
What guns have we got here?
We got four weapons. First one starting here, we got a nine-mil semi-automatic pistol, tiny little round.
This one's much fatter. It's a .45.
- Looks fatter. - It is fatter.
All right, this one is your classic AK variant,
762 short.
And this one is our beefy .416 Barrett, although, only reason it's not .50 caliber
is 'cause we're in California.
- Illegal. - Yeah.
Still plenty beefy enough, though.
I tell you, I still wouldn't want to get hit by it.
Absolutely not. I mean, I wonder which one's gonna be faster.
- Hmm. - Can we place bets?
Yeah. ( laughs )
We've also got these foot markers here, so we can actually determine the speed, based on the high-speed footage and we're gonna be using the v2511,
at 100,000 frames a second.
As you know, terrified of guns, so I'll just get out of your hair.
- See you later. - All right.
( gunshot )
Whoo.
( grunts )
- Bit ahead of me there. - Yeah.
- I'm usually the first one in. - Should have gone "three, two, one."
- Now I have to cross over. - This is awkward, isn't it?
So, all right, we're good.
- Gav: Lovely. - Dan: I love the flame at the bottom there.
Release of gasses. That flame probably lasts...
...not very long. ( chuckles )
Dan: This 45 is much beefier, but slower.
Gav: Oh!
Dan: It's like a little sonic boom.
( slowed gun shot )
Dan: Whoa!
Gav: That is out of there.
( chuckles ) Look at the barrel, wibbling. I can't describe it any other way.
You can see the whole thing just jiggle.
like it's, like, made of liquid or something.
There's flex in all of that metal.
What was it like firing that?
Similar sort of hit in the face by the boom?
Yeah, pretty much. You feel it more than hear it.
- Oof! - Wait.
That one's a different story altogether.
- It just disappears. - ( laughs )
Wait a second, is that the same speed?
- Dan: Whoa, and it's gone. - ( Gav laughs )
- Gav: My money's on that one. - Dan: Yeah.
Gav: That one is booking it.
- It's just surrounded by... - Dan: Where's the bullet?
...a fat explosion.
All right, so we've seen each gun.
That is crazy. I've never seen different speeds of bullets in relation to each other like this.
Dan: The main difference is between rifle and pistol.
You know what's interesting is, the AK round has caused more damage to the melon it seems, whereas the Barrett just goes straight through it, like, makes a hole in it.
( thunk )
Just waiting on the last bullet now.
( chuckles ) "Guys, wait up."
( thunk )
Dan: Looks to me like the Barrett is clearly the beefy winner there.
- Gav: Yep. - Dan: Uh, closely-ish followed by the AK, which is miles in front of the 9-mil pistol round, and then, bringing up the rear, got the .45.
But the .45 looks like a brick compared to the...
- ( laughter ) - ...the, uh, Barrett.
- The Barrett is just like a sharp pointed thing. - Yeah.
And the .45 is just, like, you might as well just get a piece of chewing gum, it looks like.
Dan: Barrett is actually going 3,132 foot per second in that shot there.
- Gav: Woof. - Dan: Which is ridiculously fast.
Gav: Compared to the slowest one?
Dan: The slowest one is the .45,
which is going 846 feet per second.
So that's over 2,000 feet per second difference.
- Gav: That's such a massive difference. - Dan: It's a huge difference.
Over 2,000 feet per second, which is massive.
If I was to throw a rock or something at 75 feet per second, right? - Right?
That pistol's only going less than 800 feet per second faster than my rock.
So if you chucked a rock, the difference between the rock and the slowest gun is smaller than the Barrett, - and that gun. - Way smaller.
I've got to say I'm glad we didn't film you throwing a rock at 90,000 frames a second. - ( chuckles )
- We'd be here for about 40 minutes. - It's true.
- That was an interesting race. - It was indeed, and very sadly, four melons lost their lives - during the making of this video. - ( sighs )
But it's okay, we made smoothies again.
Hopefully you enjoyed that video and found it interesting.
- ( imitates robot ) - There's no need for that. There's no need for that.
Why not? ( laughs )
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Over here somewhere, I think.
It's just-- there? Yeah.
Maybe... there?
Yeah.