howdy guys and gals welcome to the social regressive where today we have
the usual 32 inches of ballistics gel but it brought
back up as you can see right here we have level
3a body armor so all i have is this pistil caliber
well eh are pistil i don't know how i'm gonna be able to get through that
except that this one happens to be chambered in the body armor tiller
five seven by twenty eight now supposedly
any of the ammo should be able to cut through this armor within some of the
practical distances we're gonna start at seven yards and
we're gonna back up a little bit to see when it stops
but we have three different offerings right here and all these are kind of
mellow compared to the original loadings that were supposed to be specifically
for uh getting through body armor and getting the bad guy on the other side
what we have right here we have the federal 40 grain
american eagle right here it's just an fmj that should have a pretty good shop
at it it's a little bit rounded at the nose but it's it's still pretty pointy
we have the ss 197 sr this is the blue tip the little hornady
blue tip that you might have seen around it's just a v
max pullet a 40 grain and so it should open up quite a bit but
it'll be interesting to see if it makes it through this
and then we also have this kind of newer weird one this is the
ss 198 lf this is a 27 grain bull it that is just going to be screaming out
of here it's a hollow point so hopefully once it does make it through the body
armor it's going to do a good bit of damage to
the blocks back here make sure you don't miss this whole
series because we have more coming up and we have more in the past
see how i spilled the lower for this and check out especially the cmmg
upper kit that you can get before they had the banshee that was kind of an
all-in-one it had all the pieces it had the special magazines
it had a totally different shape to it but this one
is special it can just drop onto your own pistil lower
and you can choose your barrel length so this one here is a 10 incher no excuse
me an 8 incher they have a 5 incher as well if you want
to go smaller this is just a really cool little truck gun
something that's very quick and easy to get your hands on this can fit into a
pretty small safe in your house and it can really work around corners pretty
quickly so let's see what this can do first at 7
yards and then we're going to start backing up
and see when the body armor starts catching these pullets
i should mention that the scope i have up top here normally i'm not going to
run this with a scope i'm just going to use the blackhawk iron sights that you
see right here these things are really cool and they
weigh nothing but to help me get on target today i have the bushnell eh are
optics four and a half to 18 by 44 millimeter scope
great image through here i love it it's a bdc reticle
miller radiant turrets side parallax adjustment which i just love
this is what i use for a lot of my accuracy testing and if you want to see
some accuracy testing with these three loads
check it out here i'll put a link to that video
oh look at that oh look at that
hey buddy i love these wolf spiders they're great
i ate all the bad ones look at this it was caught
man people had been talking about how the american eagle had been kind of
neutered originally they had some pointed pullets that were able to make
it through this 3a armor oh and this one did
not that little bit more blunted tip i guess was or you know maybe it's a
little bit softer who knows but the armor caught it dang
good job all right let's see what the others can do
next up the ss197 with that hornady vmax bull it
i'm not expecting much out of this usually those v-maxes just turn to
dust when they hit at least a prairie dog
so let's see what it does to armor
oh okay it's still there this one might have made it through
let's check it out sure enough
there's our exit and it's pulling trails of kevlar back inside the gel
it's not much of a wound very thin if you go back and take a look at some of
the 223 tests that we've done with a variety of pull its this is closer to an
fmj than a hollow point and you can see that it only made it ah
probably about eight inches in actually i'll revise that i'll say
that's about six and a half inches but still that's
you know it made it through it punched through at seven yards
i don't think this has much of a chance as we start backing up further but we're
gonna find out last one 198 lf which stands for law
enforcement no it's lead free
oh i think that one was good that barely moved the armor
oh yeah all right let's get around here where we can see it pretty well
this is crossing paths with the other so this has made it to almost 15 inches
of penetration and there is our mushroomed pullet
pretty cool all right one down only two rounds made it closer up so
we're gonna have to winnow this down first off v-max that's
the ss 197 and we are at 25 yards now i step things
up a good bit
oh i don't think that one made it
oh look at that it caught the v-max i can feel that it's a
massive mushroom under there that's got to be at last at least a half
inch wide right in there maybe not yeah i guess about a half inch
that's pretty darn big okay oh yeah i can hear things
clattering around in there all right so we got some bruising on our
jail but that's about it
there's the lf there in the lower right
oh yeah that's actually a pretty good cut through there
that looks like it gets to almost a half inch wide i think right there
and then it swoops up and exits the gel right out the top of the block
we're not gonna be able to recover that one all right we made it through let's
back this sucker up let's go to 50 yards
i hit the frame i think
there we go
i think that was caught check it out i did graze the frame but check this out
there's the hit and this is the one that made it through
how peculiar especially when you see that shop number two which was just
straight into the armor was totally caught and this
might have been uh due to it maybe not touching the gel
as hard maybe it had a little bit of a chance to uh to slow that pullet down
just a little bit before it it hit the gel
still i'd say that we're right on the edge of what it can handle
we could probably step back a little bit maybe still punch through let's take a
look at the damage we have right here there's the entry right there
still good performance okay look at this
all right it comes in cuts about a half inch cut right there
it's going nose forward i think it may have tumbled right there
it kind of looks like tumbling because i don't know maybe not
it is pretty three-dimensional yeah i still think that it probably tumbled a
little bit or at least wobbled and then it came to rest back
here at probably about yeah it looks like about
12 inches right there
let's step it back 75 yards
good grief can nothing stop 198 lf there it is and
there it is right there it's oh there we go it's
that hit right there pulling some of those strings in
and again it's cutting it pretty decent little chunk i mean it's nothing like a
good uh defensive nine millimeter but
look at that it ended up at about halfway that's about eight inches right
there just slightly past eight inches and it's mushroomed
way to go fn or federal or whoever made this
it was trying to make its way out and here's the
end point so in case uh some of you are wondering if
some of these shops are a little closer together if it might have damaged the
integrity of the body armor yeah probably a little bit
but as you can see here at 100 yards it did
catch that pullet even with it you know possibly compromised
i think that we probably got a good solid hit nothing to really worry about
and uh yeah i'd say that 75 yards is our limit all right i win
i was afraid that this was going to defeat me and i was just going to have
to give up if you were wondering how to ammo up for
the body armor wearing zombie apocalypse now you know definitely go for the fn
ss 198 lf great stuff and it's actually very flat chewing now
this is the one that turned in the largest group of the three ammo
types that we tested back here but it was still decent
and as you can see i was able to make hits at 100 yards but
also the other top tip is to bring this this cmmg
is just awesome and keep in mind that this does have an eight inch barrel this
is going to be longer than whatever you get on your ruger 57
or any of the other pistils the uh the fn uh five seven
they're all gonna be shorter they're gonna have less velocity going on but
uh yeah it's not gonna be huge and you'll probably still be able to get
some decent distance and some good uh penetration with that
uh 198lf here are the projectiles that i pulled
out of the gel first off here is the 197 sr so this is that
hornady blue tip this is pretty much jacket right here
and i did notice some chunks of lead that we're trying to poke out of the
armor so yeah this one it really has torn
apart it's not going to have much retained weight
over here are the ss 198 lf hits so here is the eight inch penetration
this is the one that came in at 75 yards here's the 50 yard one that came in at
12 inches and then here is the close range one at 7 yards it came
in at 16 inches and you can see that the mushrooming through all three
looks very uniform eagle-eyed viewers probably noticed that this was squishing
out like a slug that had some salt thrown on it both of these
blocks have melted not because of the heat it's only in the
70s today it actually feels really nice but because of the light this is acting
like a big lens and it's concentrating it all down there
on the table and it's creating kind of a melted layer
that just keeps expanding i don't think it's messing with the gel
too much and the one that's melting the worst is this back one right here
which didn't actually get any of the pullets in it so
hopefully everything is still pretty representative back through here
i suspect that it is we should expect the same even if the gel were perfect
but just wanted to let you see that there's more on the way guys and gals
not only with five seven but with 243 6'5 creedmoor we're gonna have some
interesting times coming up i have some really fun ideas for the the channel
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