hello everyone this is jeff of taofledermaus day we're gonna look at
the d duplex broadhead line of shotgun slugs now many of you know these already
as the hexyl at thirty twos but it appears that d duplex felt that
broadhead was a little more memorable name than hexyl at 32 or du po 28 so
they've kind of remarketed and rebranded these as the broadhead now if you've
never seen this slug before and i just took it out of the shell and hand you
the slug itself you probably wouldn't even know what it was you probably think
it was a armature out of a motor or something heck even looks like a little
pulley that would drive a bee belt but what this is is a an expanding steel
shotgun slug and really it does more than just expand it expands and then it
fragments like I can grenade inside your target through hydrostatic shock the six
very sharp little teeth break off and become their own projectiles spreading
out throughout the wound cavity and cause even more damage while the slug
hasn't really changed the packaging has changed a little bit still a nice bright
yellow box but more of an emphasis on the name broadhead rather than hexyl at
32 now these are pretty much what we would call a universal slug meaning you
could shoot it out of a fully rifle shotgun or shoot him out of a smoothbore
shotgun with pretty much the same type of accuracy the other slug we'll be
demonstrating today is called the broad head do po 28 now the biggest difference
between this and the yellow hexyl at 32 is this only weighs one ounce the heck
slit weighs one in an 8 ounce and you will fill just a little less recoil
using the du po 28 now let's look at the specifications and this is where it gets
interesting the du po 28 actually shoots at a higher
velocity than the hexyl at 32 the heavier hexyl at 32 has slightly higher
muzzle energy but there's only a difference of 80 foot-pounds now these
are very similar slugs as you can see but the du po 28 costs $9 for a box of 5
and the hex a--let's costs $10 for a box of 5 I would have thought they'd cost
the same we have the broadhead
excellent 32 32 grains and then grams grams I guess I don't want to miss those
up and then the du po 28 and I'll let you guess how many grams that is so they
are not expanding they're actually fragmenting rounds as you can see there
on the picture we're gonna give them a try yellow and red
okay du po 28 find out hexa lit 32 okay out ready all right here comes our depo
28 the notice the slug oscillates a little bit as it's flying along however
that didn't seem to affect its accuracy much we had a nice dead center hit and
look at those teeth just expanding it break off and fragment and the rest of
the slug just kept on going for about 150 yards now let's compare that to the
hexyl at 32 here it comes still a little bit of oscillation as
we've seen it with the du po 28 and whammo again the same fragmenting action
the teeth on the hex lat 32 are larger and heavier and we seem to have a little
more violent reaction to our gel target
all right oh yeah of course no test is complete without a shot at the 20 pound
LED plate the impact caused all the teeth to break off and also knock all
the plastic off the slug to the crater at left is what you would expect to see
with a 1 and 1/8 ounce lug traveling at 1,400 feet per second now we were
expecting all the teeth to impact our backboard kind of spreading out in a
45-degree cone of destruction but the angle was actually much wider than that
probably around 70 degrees so you can imagine how many more vitals those teeth
would hit inside the target so we don't know where we hit the ballistic loaf the
good news is it's still in good enough shape we can take it to Christmas dinner
however over here you will see that some pieces of fragmented off this is exactly
how it was supposed to come apart at least in these little shards like this
this little triangular chart here is embedded in our little piece of masonite
board and another triangular shaped piece hit right here but has bounced out
somewhere so only two of them and of course that was where the vast majority
of the mass went through
okay yes the fragmentation means what you heard and here comes our hexyl 832
biggest servants I see is a larger temporary wound cavity that's big enough
to put your piston by the way again the teeth fragmented at a very white angle
which would just drop a deer in its tracks both rounds are very impressive
but we do see slight differences in the you know amount of energy on impact
in typical Thao fledermaus fashion our Green Works is actually blue now our
targets are only about 20 inches in front of our backboard which is about
two feet by two feet again the teeth spread out very wide and pretty much all
of them missed our backboard completely and that's a wide angle of destruction
cats everywhere yes okay I'm ready Wow
here seem to tear out the right side look at that see that that could be a
shard coming in yeah yeah there's one back here too okay where is that the
main body I don't know this this is punctured as if it's got some stress
marks to it yeah again a very good example of hydrostatic shock but just on
a larger scale the slug just ripped open that five gallon jug again we see a
couple teeth flying off in different directions to some devastating impact
folks yeah I would I would go for the hydrostatic tactical beats whenever
you're ready I'm ready oh boy I got nailed with a piece of
something did you blow up everyone Wow terrible how did it blow up everyone I
don't know but you'll have the evidence right there oh so this was the beat's
can which oddly enough blew into pieces and flew right off the top the other one
hit right in between these two home tomato cans what the hell are plum
tomatoes and just look at this destruction just wrinkled that metal
like a train and then you can see the blast against Baedeker
oh there's a shirt though we capture them we captured an additional shard
that we were not able to capture before so are you sure that's not this one that
we we because we moved it didn't we no that one's not okay okay okay are coming
apart we just don't know where the hell are those parts right yeah it's but this
is some nominal damage you gotta say that's a pretty impressive shot one slug
taken out three cans not too bad Greg and when you have old expired cans of
vegetables in your pantry instead of risking botulism why not shoot them now
we got to wash it down Wow Wow one thing we've learned is you save the bottle of
soapy water for less to wash off the table and everything else
and to prove that even a small stack of wet napkins caused the slugs to fragment
there you go very impressive round now we had a
couple boxes left over so I just hand them to Greg and let him go for it okay
he's gonna just take some sequential shots see where his grouping is go for
it there you go all right so he thanks to mountain goats for the target first
of all it's a pretty damn cold we're ready walk around and kind of show that
thing off see it is very sturdy man-portable as long as you're walking
only about ten or fifteen feet yeah it's a little heavy but it is fully
you know it protects itself looks like a little goat it kind of does like a ram
or some point it downwards so everything hits the ground nice heavy steel plate
and up here on a spring so yeah it's nice only cow and I always put I put the
link to his Facebook page there if you're interested in that and as a
testament to this ar500 steel this is the 458 SOCOM that you saw a shooter
earlier and made little dinky puck marks in there however those duplex slugs we
just shot completely because he was it was around the welds
maybe I don't maybe not I don't know well it's completely smooth where those
slugs at that thing so that's that's some pretty serious deal right there
yeah I have to build a house out of this stuff
not too bad not too bad hopefully duplex will be happy that we film it
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love me rain keeps falling rain keeps falling down down
will you recognize call my name mana walk on by rain keeps
falling rain keeps falling down
don't you try to pretend it's my feeling will will at the end I won't harm you
but touch your defenses