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Lighting Matches with a Bullet in Slow Motion

Lighting Matches with a Bullet in Slow Motion

Over a decade ago, Destin from Smarter Every Day and his pal John Henry tested the idea that you could light a match with a bullet. Now that he’s got a much better high-speed camera, he and John wanted to revisit the experiment. Once they dialed in the aim, they captured some incredible slow-motion macro footage at speeds up to 380,117 FPS.

Bullets vs. Steel in Super Slow-Motion

Bullets vs. Steel in Super Slow-Motion

More than a decade ago, a grainy black-and-white video turned up of a bullet hitting steel at 1 million FPS. The Slow-Mo Guys were inspired to replicate the experiment using a modern Phantom TMX 7510 camera. While Gav and Dan’s footage is “only” 800,000 FPS, they did capture full-color shots at 400,000 FPS. The explosions looks like tiny fireworks.

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Can an Explosion Change the Path of a Bullet?

Can an Explosion Change the Path of a Bullet?

If you set off an explosion next to a bullet, would the shockwaves affect its path? That’s the question that The Slow Mo Guys and the Colorado School of Mines sought to answer in this fascinating experiment. It took several tries to get the timing right between the explosion and the passing bullet, but it gave them an excuse for more explosions.

Lynx Bullet 6-Sided Dice

Lynx Bullet 6-Sided Dice
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Lynx makes all kinds of cool accessories for tabletop gaming. Among our favorites are these D6 dice that look like bullets. They’re cast from 100% brass with a baked-in copper tip. They’re designed to roll evenly on their six sides, but we think you should earn bonus points for landing one on its flat rear end. Sold in a six-pack with a metal storage box.

Elephant Rifle vs. Ballistic Gel in Slow Motion

Elephant Rifle vs. Ballistic Gel in Slow Motion

The Slow Mo Guys were joined by Scott from Kentucky Ballistics to test how destructive a .577 Tyrannosaur rifle cartridge is by firing it at close range into thick blocks of ballistic gel. It’s amazing (and terrifying) to see how the bullets deform the gel and the destructive forces at work. No wonder they say these things can stop an elephant.

Crashing Two Bullets Into Each Other in Slow-Motion

Crashing Two Bullets Into Each Other in Slow-Motion

Inspired by a pair of Civil War-era bullets that collided and fused together, Destin from Smarter Every Day wanted to see if he could replicate the unlikely situation on camera. It took an impressive amount of planning and engineering to set up the shot and perform the experiment in a safe and precise way.

Testing a Bulletproof Pipe Vest

Testing a Bulletproof Pipe Vest

Wearing a Kevlar bulletproof vest is a good idea if you’re in a place where bullets might be flying. But Ryan Kung wanted to see if you could provide a similar level of protection by curving bullets around a body with a vest made out of bent pipes. It holds up reasonably well to handgun fire, but bigger ammo is a bit more of a problem.

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Firing a Bullet with a Tiny Bullet

Firing a Bullet with a Tiny Bullet

The Slow Mo Guys offer up a brief lesson on how bullets work, then show us what happens when you fire a projectile from a tiny pinfire gun at the primer from a normal-sized bullet. It’s fascinating to see how a bullet behaves when it doesn’t have a gun to contain it.

Bullet vs. Glass in Slow-Motion

Bullet vs. Glass in Slow-Motion

The Slow-Mo Guys do their best How Ridiculous impression by testing how many panes of glass they can shoot through with a single bullet. But it’s not that answer that’s the most interesting thing in this video; it’s the amazing high-speed footage of each bullet’s path and the destruction left in its wake.

Bullet vs. Newton’s Cradle

Bullet vs. Newton’s Cradle

Those Newton’s Cradles are endless fun… if you’re a cat – but the novelty wears off pretty quickly for us humans. The Slow Mo Guys thought the desktop toy might be a bit more entertaining if they shot at it with ball bearings and bullets.

Bullet Burr Brainteaser Puzzle

Bullet Burr Brainteaser Puzzle
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BecomingBetter’s puzzle consists of six interlocking bullets which come together to form a pointy, abstract sculpture. It’s easy to take apart, but challenging to reassemble. Choose from a .308 caliber or larger .50 caliber BMG rounds. While we wish they were made from metal, they’re 3D printed from metallic PLA filament.

Turning Bullet Casings Into Brass Coins

Turning Bullet Casings Into Brass Coins

If you’ve been to a firing range, you’ll see countless shell casings littering the ground. Seth over at Robinson Foundry wanted to put these to use, so he melted down the brass casings and turned them into custom coins. He created the shapes by 3D printing coin models, then placed them into a sand mold for casting.

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Shotgun Shell Thermos

Shotgun Shell Thermos
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The perfect thermal bottle for hunters and other firearms enthusiasts – this 25oz. insulated stainless steel container looks just like a giant 12 gauge shotgun shell. Guaranteed not to be filled with pellets and gunpowder.

MecArmy Bullet Flashlight

MecArmy Bullet Flashlight
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An LED keychain light designed to look like a bullet casing. Offers 130 lumens of brightness, and is IPX-8 waterproof. While the two-toned brass and copper version is more authentic looking, it’s hard for us to resist anything made of titanium. Guess we’ll just have to buy both.

Bulletproof Shot Glass

Bulletproof Shot Glass
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These unique 1.5oz. shot glasses have a real bullet embedded in them, so they look like they’re being melted by the heat of the traveling projectile. Each handcrafted glass is made by Wisconsin glass studio BenShot. They also make a cool slanted glass and a tumbler.

Bullet Disposal

Bullet Disposal

We’re not sure why you’d need to get rid of 2000 bullets, but this footage shows exactly what happens when you get set off all that ammo using fire. It starts and ends like a bag of popcorn in the microwave, but escalates dramatically in the middle.

Slow-Mo Pistol Shot

Slow-Mo Pistol Shot

While filming the latest episode of Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie’s Phantom high-speed camera grabbed this jaw-dropping footage of a pistol being shot, capturing the bullet-sized explosion at an astounding 73,000 frames per second.

Artya Son of a Gun Watches

Artya Son of a Gun Watches
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While rumor has it that the TSA won’t let you through security with Yvan Arpa’s precision Swiss timepieces, they’re still pretty awesome, with components made from real bullets. In stainless, PVD, technical resin or 18K gold.

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