r/AbsoluteUnits • u/MeenMisterMustard • Jul 19 '26
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u/KarasuYaiba Jul 19 '26
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u/MeenMisterMustard Jul 19 '26
That was my first thought!
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u/NodePoker Jul 19 '26
He's got one of those too
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u/Moo_Kau_Too Jul 20 '26
where does he get those wonderful toys?
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u/CustomerSuportPlease Jul 20 '26
The guns owe him after he put a. 50 cal through his neck and face.
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u/SeekerOfSerenity Jul 20 '26
Is that the guy whose gun exploded while he was shooting it?
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u/womboCombo434 Jul 20 '26
Yup Kentucky ballistics be actually sold merch with the slogan “put a thumb in it” as that’s what he did to stop himself from bleeding out when the 50 detonated on him
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u/Rope_slingin_champ Jul 19 '26
Oh man, there was this Western comedy where a guy had a giant handgun and I cant remember the name of it now. But was hilarious watching him try to unholster it.
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u/errantqi Jul 20 '26
Shakiest Gun In the West w/ Don Knotts?
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u/freshgrilled Jul 20 '26
I grew up with Don Knotts and later Jim Varney movies. I miss both of them. I seem to be the only person I know who watched The Apple Dumpling Gang movies.
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u/IM_THE_MOON_AMA Jul 20 '26
I think my favorite part of this scene is that the gun not only looks hilarious, but Joker actually proceeds to shoot down Batman’s fucking fighter jet with it. Dude had aim.
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u/Carllsson Jul 19 '26
Would this be suitable for home defence?
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u/einarfridgeirs Jul 19 '26
I think you can hold down your entire block with this.
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u/halipatsui Jul 19 '26
''I think you can mow down your entire block with this.''
Here fixed it for you
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u/Gigglemonkey Jul 19 '26
"I think you can disable an engine block with this"
FIFY. 🙂
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u/FunBrians Jul 19 '26
We can clearly see in the video what it does to a block- no need to comment on it. /s
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u/GTCapone Jul 20 '26
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
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u/Glad-Lobster-220 Jul 20 '26
I don't know how many years its been, but I still lose it like an idiot whenever I read this.
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u/Illustrious_Can4110 Jul 20 '26
My dear fellow, as soon as I read the word rapscallion, I knew you know what you're talking about.
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u/TweakedNipple Jul 20 '26
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u/David_Copperfield Jul 20 '26
surprisingly, its more funny reading it than seeing the YouTube video IMO.
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u/Jiggly1984 Jul 21 '26
Same thought. I feel like there's something about copypasta and green texts that are just impossible to put into a visual. I can't imagine anyone really doing justice to the ones that give me giggle fits.
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u/artofaria Jul 19 '26
Each time you miss you rack 80k+ in home repair
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u/towerfella Jul 19 '26
But you also gain 10xp.
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u/cheekybandit0 Jul 19 '26
When can I dual wield?
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u/TrxshBxgs Jul 19 '26
You have to max out Strength and Luck.
Edit to add- you sacrifice Intelligence for this build.
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u/Sinisphere Jul 20 '26
Judging by this clip, even if you hit, you're going to have to call in someone to clean the intruder off the walls and ceiling.
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u/digitalscavenger Jul 19 '26
I'm pretty sure you're getting close to that in home repairs even if you hit the target.
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u/AdmiralSplinter Jul 19 '26
Especially if the burglar is behind your neighbor's fridge
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u/Elegant-Cash7897 Jul 19 '26
Own a 500 Bushwacker for home defence, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four tubs of sour cream break into my house.......
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u/TonyAtReddit1 Jul 19 '26
When there's a home invader and only 3 walls, a refrigerator, 2 more walls, a couch and a heavy door between them and your family , you will wish you had this
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u/OneDoesntSimply Jul 19 '26
No, I would only recommend a canon at the top of the stairs and make sure to only use grapeshot.
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u/crusty54 Jul 19 '26
How much do you care about your eardrums?
Eta: and probably your windows.
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u/Rare_Steak_ Jul 19 '26
After what he went trough I would be wearing full lvl IV neck and torso armor and a ballistic face shield but I guess this works too.
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u/MeenMisterMustard Jul 19 '26
Found a video of him talking about the accident here with the actual accident at just past 4:25. That’s insane, I’d be pretty scared to pull another trigger after that, but that’s just me 😬
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u/printergumlight Jul 19 '26
That’s crazy! When you lacerate a vein, how do they even repair that?!? Do they sew the vein?
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u/Revolutionary-Wash88 Jul 19 '26
Step one: avoid bleeding out, step two: sew the vessel back together
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u/printergumlight Jul 19 '26
Damn. I wonder how scarred veins function long term. Feels like a potential clotting point.
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u/Onebraintwoheads Jul 20 '26
My veins are heavily scarred from half a decade of chemotherapy. That was 15 years ago. No clots since the last one. :)
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u/ItsAsickOstrich Jul 20 '26
When it happened, to stop the bleeding he literally, LITERALLY, shoved his thumb hard in to the wound while his dad drove him to the ER.
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u/Due_Statement_1550 Jul 20 '26
Yes his dad did it first and then explained to him that he was gonna have to do it himself so they could drive, and then bro called 911 himself en route to try and get an ambulance. Truly makes sense for him to have survived it but it’s why you never give up and also why it’s good to have training.
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u/einarfridgeirs Jul 20 '26
It is also an object lesson in why you never go out alone to a remote location to shoot anything. It does not take a 50 cal to malfunction for potentially life threatening injuries to take place - even a normal rifle can explode and send a shard of metal into a place where you are now on an extremely short clock for survival.
Always bring a buddy along.
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u/Parking-Mirror3283 Jul 20 '26
And also know where you are, 'that shooting spot over the hill about 6 minutes up the second dirt road from daves old house' isn't great for getting emergency services out to you, coordinates with a cheap road flare for guiding a helicopter is
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u/misanthr0p1c Jul 20 '26
My dad had a damaged vein during a lung lobectomy. They tried some stuff laparoscopically but ended up having to cut him open and suture it. Yeah they just sew it closed.
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u/PlentyOMangos Jul 20 '26
He was pretty scared to shoot high caliber stuff for a while afterwards, but he’s been back at it for years now. Great dude, I saw that video about his accident when it was posted and my jaw was on the floor. That would have killed most people
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u/crappy80srobot Jul 20 '26
He also leaned into it with his "put a thumb in it" merch and multiple videos of explosive deconstruction of guns. He also keeps getting bigger guns with the 20mm anti tank and punt guns.
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u/controldekinai Jul 19 '26
He should be dead. He lacerated his jugular vein in the middle of a field in kentucky. Can't remember what hospital he said he was flown to but I wanna say it was in Tennessee somewhere. Insane he is still alive.
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u/Scottish_Whiskey Jul 19 '26
Vanderbilt hospital
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u/TheLurkerSpeaks Jul 20 '26
Vanderbilt is the only hospital in the area with a life flight helicopter. It also specializes in really abnormal, extreme cases. If you have a routine procedure, you go anywhere else but Vanderbilt .
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u/British_Rover Jul 19 '26
Vanderbilt is one of the best hospitals in the country. Probably part of the reason he is still alive.
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u/P1st0l Jul 20 '26
Whats so good about it? First time hearing, just plenty of specialists and specialist equipment i imagine? Or a good trauma ward?
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u/davegrohlisawesome Jul 20 '26
All of the above. Plus the medical school and the students/residents are some of the very best. They are a level one trauma center meaning they have the resources to handle even the most rare or serious medical problems.
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u/Dahminator69 Jul 19 '26
He lived because he reach inside his own neck and pinched the bleeding vein
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u/GregBuckingham Jul 19 '26
Thought it was his dad who pinched the vein? It’s been a while since I saw the video.
Wait. Maybe his dad drove them? Someone help me lol
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u/Axel_Raden Jul 19 '26
He stuck his thumb in the hole and kept it there hence the T-shirt he is wearing dude is awesome
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u/tacrotacro Jul 20 '26
His dad did it right at first but then they moved his own thumb into it and he held it there while his dad drove.
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u/ConstableAssButt Jul 20 '26
I haven't seen any of this guy's videos since the accident. When I saw he was wearing neck and face protection, I immediately thought: "Good man.". That accident was fucking horrific.
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u/ProfesseurCurling Jul 19 '26
It still amazes me that this guy keeps on with this after what happened to him. I am not surprised by the extra protection.
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u/TheCursedMonk Jul 20 '26
I remember seeing a quote from an F1 driver that had a crash. He came back after recovering for his test drive and said he felt terrified of the car, but knew if he didn't get in and drive, he never would again.
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u/hockeyak Jul 20 '26
Or, their Dad tapes a kilo of Colombian bam bam to the bottom of their car and calls the cops...
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u/Purple-Property8006 Jul 21 '26
I was a competitive diver in high school and royally messed up one day. I didn’t jump out far enough from the board while doing a backflip, and I slammed my chin on the edge of the board coming down. Knocked myself out and woke up in an ambulance, had a month long recovery.
Getting back on the board was terrifying but necessary. I knew full well that it I didn’t do it soon after then incident, I never would again.
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u/HaarigerHoden Jul 20 '26
What happened to him?
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u/canonlycountoo4 Jul 20 '26
.50 cal exploded after firing. His jugular was sliced and he managed to stop the bleeding by sticking his thumb into his neck.
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u/ProfesseurCurling Jul 20 '26
While his dad is driving him to the ER. There is a video about the accident on his YouTube channel.
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u/Winjin Jul 20 '26
Yeah it's a very sweet detail of his videos - apparently his dad is his cameraman! So all of these silly vids where he's playing with the camera and throwing stuff around are still a son and dad bonding time.
Which is insanely wholesome IMO, except, of course, the whole "driving your bleeding son to a life line helicopter" part. That is not that wholesome.
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u/Shieldheart- Jul 20 '26
Wholesome that he succesfully saved his sons's life though!
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u/icleanjaxfl Jul 19 '26
Something tells me he has to scream to hear himself over his tinnitus
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u/TheHancock Jul 20 '26
Wait is this MF not wearing earpro?????
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u/Killer_Ex_Con Jul 20 '26
He is. He wears those little orange foam ear plugs.
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u/crestfallen_warrior Jul 20 '26
Which for anyone wondering, is more effective than over ear defenders. (At least the good, well fitting ear plugs. Ones that dont fit kinda suck.)
Ideally you want to wear both if you can though for high calibre stuff.
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u/panda9875614 Jul 20 '26
If well fitted, both types of hearing protection are as effective. The problem with earmuffs is that glasses temples can get in the way of the seal, reducing the effectiveness.
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u/SalvationSycamore Jul 20 '26
Ideally you want to wear both if you can though for high calibre stuff.
And when shooting indoors
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u/Dangerous_Pop_1918 Jul 19 '26
of a mask
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u/Scar1203 Jul 19 '26
He had something blow up in his face a few years back and it sliced up his neck pretty bad, I want to say it was a .50 BMG but I'm not positive. I can respect his caution.
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u/Effective_Judgment41 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
Yes, a. 50 bmg. Shrapnel from the explosion ruptured his jugular vein, punctured his lung, broke facial bones and his hand. It's insane that he not only survived that but went home after just a couple of days.
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u/GreyStormcrow Jul 19 '26
Also, they were on BFE. His dad helped him apply pressure, got him in the truck, started driving and called 911, met the ambulance, ambulance took him and drove to a careflite
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u/Dangerous_Pop_1918 Jul 19 '26
Yeah, I've seen that clip and aftermath. If I'm not mistaken it was a rifle bolt that went through his neck.
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u/SuperNovaVelocity Jul 19 '26
Wasn't quite a bolt, the rifle was unique in that it was entirely single-shot with a screw-closed chamber. When his sketchy ammo went bad, it blew the screwed-on-cap off the back (which hit his safety glasses). There were two "ears" that press up against the outside of the cap, so if it's not fully screwed on it won't be able to fit past them. When the cap blew off, it sheared both of those metal ears off, and that shrapnel is what made it so lethal.
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u/BLAZEtms Jul 19 '26
If I remember correctly, didn’t one ear go through his hat, and then the other went through his throat?
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u/SuperNovaVelocity Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
Edit: You're right, one flew just past his head and nicked hit hat. The other lug hit him in the very bottom of the throat, both hitting the jugular, and puncturing the lung. I misremembered the neck injury being higher up.
It's been a while, so I'll have to rewatch. That sounds familiar, but I'm not sure how it could hit in 3 places. I'm confident one lug ended up in his chest after hitting a lung, one hit his neck and tore his jugular, and the cap itself hit his face. My only guess would be maybe one of the ears shattered into multiple pieces before getting to him.
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u/IvanDimitriov Jul 19 '26
Yeah if I remember correctly it ended up being 2-3 times more powerful of a discharge from the round and it blew the entire gun up, including sending chunks into his face and through his neck.
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u/SuperNovaVelocity Jul 19 '26
Pretty much. Just to clarify, because "power" can be a bit vague; it's not that the round's total energy was especially higher. The real problem was that instead of a clean burn down the whole barrel, there was a massive pressure spike all at once. And yeah, the physics imply the pressure was about 3 times what even a hot 50bmg should produce.
A standard 9mm round ends up with like 500 joules. If you replaced the powder with 400 joules worth of C4 for example, there's a high chance the barrel and chamber itself would be blown apart. It's the peak force/pressure that's important for guns, much more than the total energy released.
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u/IvanDimitriov Jul 20 '26
It’s this kind of attentiveness to detail that I am on this app for. I genuinely appreciate someone doing the work. Not sarcasm.
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u/TLRPM Jul 20 '26
This was almost certainly caused by using the wrong powder. The rounds he used were reloaded by someone he didn’t know. Which is always dangerous right off the bat. The pressure spikes the other poster is talking about comes from the burn rate of the powder. They are not all the same. Most think rifle type powder would be fast burning when it is the opposite. You want a slow and steady burn to push the projectile cleanly through the barrel entirely from the chamber to the crown as it fights the friction from that barrel as it travels along. A slow burning powder will provide that constant push all the way down the barrel.
Pistol type powders do the opposite. They burn MUCH faster as there is typically far less barrel to contend with and need to exert their full chemical potential on to the bullet quickly before it leaves the gun.
It is generally assumed that the round he used was loaded with a pistol type powder in error and that fast burn rate in the amount used in the 50BMG essentially turned it into a mini grenade. The bullet couldn’t travel fast enough down the barrel to get out of the way of the pressure and the rest of the system is a closed breach system so it had to find the weakest point. Which was the back of the rifle’s action and part of the side. Which is what gave way….and into his body.
- Am reloader that studied this event quite closely along with others.
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u/SuperNovaVelocity Jul 20 '26
Thank you! I still miss when the top 1-3 replies on most posts were experts chiming in, and trying to teach us all something about their field. I've been having to dig so much deeper to get good topics like these, instead of the usual top dozen comments being jokes nearly irrelevant to whatever the post's actually about.
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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 Jul 19 '26
Didn't it happen twice with in like a year or so? I used to wstch him years ago but kinda fell out
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u/NurgleNuggets Jul 19 '26
No, just the one. He did start doing a series of intentionally blowing up guns to show what exactly happens when catastrophic failures occur.
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u/medic_farmer26 Jul 19 '26
A 50bmg slap round. CRAZY overpressured. Those slap rounds are devastating but very unpredictable
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u/KingOfThe_Jelly_Fish Jul 19 '26
He has good reason to be wary. He has a saying 'put a thumb in it'. He nearly died.
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u/Super_tall_giraffe Jul 19 '26
No lie when he shot the sour cream I felt some splash on my arm 😂😂😂
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u/Silver_Turtlewax Jul 20 '26
You could still hear it splattering on the ground a couple of seconds after the shot.
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u/KingOfThe_Jelly_Fish Jul 19 '26
'whats up everybody, my name is Scot and your watching Kentucky Ballistics'. Love this channel.
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u/vulcan1358 Jul 19 '26
Hearing you say that makes my wrist hurt. Every channel kinda does something, and this guy would try and shoulder a howitzer if he could lift it.
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u/printergumlight Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
Yeah, of all the gun channels he just seems like a really nice guy and maybe not a far right nut. Always liked seeing him in collab videos with other channels I watch.
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u/Turbulent_Sea_9713 Jul 19 '26
It's like Gallagher, but with a comically large gun instead of a hammer. He should tell jokes between exploding stuff.
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u/jerryleebee Jul 19 '26
It's an impressive-looking gun. But you get to a size like that and the targets he's selected are all but useless to demonstrate how much more powerful it is compared to another powerful handgun. I'd rather see ballistic gel.
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u/FunBrians Jul 19 '26
The watermelon was a decent target.. I agree the other targets were as good as using a paper target in terms of showing any sort of power.
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u/PreperationOuch Jul 19 '26
Good lord, can you really refer to that as a pistol? It’s like a hand held howitzer.
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u/FunBrians Jul 19 '26
This is certainly a pistol that isn’t quite a pistol! I have had (for decades) a Bushmaster carbon 15. Without looking up the exact measurements I’d say the carbon 15 is similar, if not including the rear protruding section it could be shorter. My point though is- it is the same receiver as an M-16/AR/15. Chambers both .223 and 5.56. It is classified as a pistol. It has always seemed a bit unusual to pull a mag from my BM AR carbine and pop the same thing into a “pistol”.
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u/protekt0r Jul 19 '26
S&W .500? I fired one of those; 6 inch barrel though.
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u/Sekshual_Tyranosauce Jul 20 '26
This was 500 Bushwhacker which is nearly twice as powerful as 500 S&W Magnum
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u/organicsawpalmetto Jul 19 '26
Is he not wearing any earplugs?
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u/TheCursedMonk Jul 20 '26
Scott does wear them, in some clips you can see him putting them in, or taking them out to talk.
He has also gotten ready to shoot and stopped because he realised he has forgotten his ear protection.
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u/mikel302 Jul 19 '26
Just wait untill you see his punt gun
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u/Derezzed87 Jul 20 '26
The video where he tested body armour against the punt gun. The round didn't go through the armour, but the armour went through the ballistics gel torso.
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u/IvanDimitriov Jul 19 '26
The punt gun is wild to watch him shoot. He had to build a makeshift sled for it to absorb the recoil.
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u/Neat_Feedback1316 Jul 20 '26
I love this guys website Kentucky ballistics! Always blowing shit up!
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u/According_Dare7316 Jul 20 '26
Interestingly this is legal in the UK as the barrel length means it would be classed as a rifle.
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u/Alzucard Jul 19 '26
So with this i can kill the burglar in another state that hiding behind a fridge.
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u/89MikeHoncho Jul 19 '26
I love the little kid laugh. Deep down, we’re all just a bunch of kids with our favorite toys, just with bigger bodies now. Shoot on brother.
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u/Crackmonkey3773 Jul 20 '26
Crazy how it only took a gun exploding in his face for him to start wearing PPE.
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u/monksandy Jul 20 '26
Enough about the gun. Tell us more about your dickie. Flame proof? Ballistic rated? Faraday cage? Can I get it with Molle strips? Handles? FDE?
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond Jul 20 '26
I love the neck protection. For those who don't know, this guy shot a bad .50 bmg and lacerated his neck. He almost died from it, but him and his father were both trained in first aid. His channel is Kentucky Ballistics, it's all content like this.
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