Hello everyone this is Jeff of Taofledermaus.
First of all, I want to thank all our patreon supporters for making this video possible.
We're gonna do an experiment utilizing these Lehigh Defense...
.50 caliber fracturing bullets.
Normally used for .50 Beowulf or .500 Smith & Wesson but never tested through a shotgun.
These were generously donated to us by Tim Hamilton The Ballistic Machinist.
Not by Lehigh Defense.
So understand this is an uncertain sanctioned video
just utilizing Lehigh Defenses bullets.
Now, it's very important understand that there is no loading data for this particular setup
like how much powder what type of powder and all that stuff.
Now, since the bullet is so much smaller than the bore of the shotgun we have to use this sabo.
The sabo is not the projectile the sabo is the part that goes around the projectile.
It takes a little bit of effort to snap this bullet into place.
I've heard that some people that use these sabos have better results when they spread those fingers out
and allows for a cleaner release but we're gonna try it without any modifications.
We'll be using 40 grains of Hodgkins long shot and that should get the velocity up to about 1700 feet per second.
All of the components that were using are available on Ballistic Products.
Gas seal, sabo, and even the primed hull.
Once the components are loaded we put a roll crimp on it and now it's good to go. Let's see how these perform.
How we doing Taoflederfolks ? O.G. here with Jeff. O.G. stands for old guy.
Oh, okay.
[Laughter]
[Groans]
Today we're gonna try out these Lehigh Defense...uh...
it's a copper bullet, it's a 50 caliber...
designed for the...uh...
Beowulf and...uh...
.50 Smith & Wesson.
It's a hollow-point...
it's segmented into four pieces.
Controlled fragmentation I think it's called...
Yeah, there we go.
Something like that it's definitely gonna come apart.
We want to see, you know, if how viable they would be out of a shotgun with a...
twist rate of...Maybe it's a 1 in 35 twist rate ?
1 in 35, I believe it is.
Pretty slow twist rate compared to...
And on their website they said, you know, you need at the minimum one in 27 so that's the...
that's the...uh...
wild card here.
We're going to try them out here at ten yards...measured yards.
And we're gonna see if our chronograph will be reading better today. We got an overcast day we don't need the shades on there.
I mean there's, I don't know what could go wrong with that but we had some weird readings last time.
Probably because of the lighting.
Lighting is the biggest problem.
Yeah.
All right let's see what these things will do downrange.
Okay.
Alright.
This things sighted in with slugs. So these are a little light, so I'm gonna aim...uh...
...uh...inch-and-a-half low see if they fly high.
Here we go.
That's got a good thump to it.
Well, we got a good reading. What did it read ?
Uh...sixteen seventy nine.
See, that's a pretty normal reading. I believe that.
Well, it looks like the 1 in 35 twist rate is more than sufficient to give this bullet enough angular momentum for stability.
So it's looking good.
Well, we were anticipating these to shoot a little bit high but...
that's pretty much point of aim right there. So...uh...
No, no...uh...rise in the elevation oh
Ooh.
Look at that. Look you can see where the the teeth actually spread out there.
You got four...little channels here.
Yep...We didn't recovering anything but...
it is a good clue it really messed that up.
We didn't stick one on the table that time.
[Laughter]
Whenever you're ready. Ballistic gel.
15 yards.
Eighteen twenty...three.
Now, using this small rabbit sized block of gel you could see that there was enough
fleshy material there to cause the petals to break off...
and the main body of the bullet kept on going without really slowing down very much.
Alright.
Not where I wanted it to be.
Point of aim was here and i felt like it was, held it on pretty good when i pulled the trigger.
But we hit up here this time.
So now they're shooting high once we pulled it out a little further.
Yeah, brought it back another 5 yards from those first ones.
It went through, huh ?
All the way through.
Wow.
Made toothpicks.
Ha, that's some hard wood there.
Danny's still trying to figure out the ballistics of these things. Where to aim and where the bullets gonna actually land.
And often we'll blame the shooter for misses or inaccurate shots.
But there's a lot of factors that go into this, you know...
Like I said we may not begin a clean release from the sabo or the powder load may not be ideal.
Whenever you're ready.
Ooh ! Very good.
Now, there seemed to be an impressive amount of energy transfer from these bullets into this gallon jug of water.
If you look closely you can also see a fragment of the bullet shooting off to the left.
The bullets are definitely functioning as advertised.
Looked like it was right on target.
Well, we blew chunks out of the plate.
Wow.
That's pretty much on target.
It even deformed the base of the bullet.
It definitely was hitting nose first.
Yeah.
That's a good indicator there.
Had to use some of that Buffalo windage.
Yeah.
Those things to shoot a little high so my point of aim was actually down here.
Okay.
But, yeah.
Let's uh...
Oh !
Very interesting.
Blew out a big chunk.
Yeah, we had a little area there that was still solid so that's where we put the dots on.
That's interesting. It looks like it expanded pretty well in there.
It did.
Let's see if it'll pop out of there real easy.
Aw, I don't know...I don't know
Looks like it might be just a shell.
I mean it's, oh look at that.
There it is, it's moving.
That lead kind of acts like a liquid when it when a bullet hits it.
There we go.
Wow.
There's what's left.
First in the shot we could hear things zinging off in the distance.
Little lead fragments and stuff, yeah.
That was probably the copper petals.
Could be had they look like they're gone.
They're gone.
Wow.
Nice shot.
Now let's try a 50 yard group. We have 3 left.
Alright.
See how that works out.
After several shots Danny has finally figured out where to hold the gun in order to get the bullet where he wants it.
And he's definitely right on the money now...
at least at this range.
Unlike the extreme penetrators that just kind of blast through everything.
These transfer a lot of energy, so...
we weren't really surprised when the bullet did not go through the lead plate.
Okay. 50-yard accuracy test.
Alright, let's see where this lands.
High right ?
Looks like it.
That one might be on the white.
On the bulls-eye.
Oh, was it ?!
Top left of it.
Okay.
And there you go.
Not sure on that one.
Well...
[Laughter]
Not the best grouping in the world but...
Nah, no.
it could be my powder load you know maybe I just...
jacked up somehow loading it.
Well, we got a little breeze and that's a light...
light, uh, projectile.
[Laughter]
Anyway...
Yeah, yeah, yeah it's the sun in your eyes
Yeah, using that Buffalo windage...Kentucky windage.
First shot I was holding about here it here.
Compensated.
Got it here. And this one i'm not sure what happened there.
[Laughter]
No excuses for myself.
We're getting some varying pow...or uh...
velocities, you know, from like sixteen to eighteen hundred FPS.
I mean, you know, maybe my loading it wasn't ideal, you know, there's always human error there.
There's the wadding's went as far as the slugs. There's another one right behind you.
[Laughter]
Walking on it.
Those travel 50 yards.
That's a pretty good hard chunk of plastic I wouldn't want to get hit by that.
Yeah, yeah.
There's the other one over here...couple more over here.
Yeah, because all the wadding...
They all traveled about this little area here like a 10-foot circle, very bizarre.
Yeah, even our 15 yard shots the waddings were landing out here.
Yeah.
Alright, well there you go.