hello everyone this is Jeff of TAOFLEDERMAUS. today we have a really cool 12 gauge exotic
slug to demonstrate this is the Rio Royal armored slug this is a slug I've wanted to
test for years and never been able to find it but luckily a viewer named Mike Burcke
was kind enough to send some of his stash to us so we could share it with you thank
you Mike for your generosity this is a one and one eighth ounce slug with a muzzle velocity
of 1510 feet per second check out the nose of this thing it looks like the intake of
a jet engine very cool the lead slug is attached to the gas seal and it all flies together
as one piece at the nose we have this pointed penetrator pin that goes all the way through
and extends out to the back of the wad it's actually a screw upon closer examination of
the slug we can see if the lead portion the fins and all that are a little rough looking
this is how it looked pulled right out of the shell I didn't smash it up or anything
like that should get the job done but just not as beautiful as some of the Slugs we've
tested let's get out to the testing ground and see what the Rio Royal mg armored slug
can do don't you think they could have simplified the name a little bit I do welcome back to
health later folks bullsey Library here with Penelope and today we're going to be shooting
the Rio armored sent in by Mike Berkey and we're going to be testing out this ultra strength
burp pad and see how it helps my shoulder hold up to The Recoil right yep we're going
to see what these do against soft body armor so yeah pretty new vest here so should be
quite interesting and we are 10 you 20 yards away 20 yards see where these things fly we
get we start out with a nice big Target that if these things the tend to fly left right
up down whatever we can get a pretty good idea of that without missing the target yeah
hopefully yeah first we're going to try shooting through a full rifling
let's take a look at the high speed camera footage here comes the slug and it is not
flying very well in fact it just ripped the red plastic gas seal right off the back of
it but fortunately after the two pieces separated the lead slug continued on rather stable and
hit nose first Brianna did a great job keeping it on Target still hit rather close to their
point of aim but the big question is did the Rio armored slug penetrate our Police Issue
Kevlar vest
happened well I don't
know nicked the tape a little bit right there and then if we take our vest off we got oh
it's wow it's really in there yeah it pulled the Kevlar through the it went through surprise
I did go through yeah even though it it was kind of out of control that I it definitely
does not like rifling
but it still worked and then it came out there there is an exit wound and then hit the back
of the vest here but I don't know where the the slug went is it did maybe we'll find it
give us a minute here this is the boring part I found it we found it indeed took a little
digging but we have recovered the slug and the little penetrator pin screw thing look
how long that is yeah there you go that's crazy yeah I can't believe you found it that's
good where are my lost keys
no rifling did not make it
make it
[Music] Brianna's point of aim was right in the center of the lead plate here comes the
slug really stable this time and it hit just a little bit high and right but hopefully
now you can see that these slugs are optimized to be used out of a smoothbore shotgun and
that's a good thing because most people own smoothbore shotguns not rifled shotguns I
think smoothbore makes things better at least in the case of this yeah okay okay what happened
well still a little high
are you sure you're from California I know right
it's all still here though yeah you can see the screw protruding out the back yep okay
flip it around and see if it made a I don't know if the nose is sticking out oh little
a little crack there a little cracks all right y'all up next we have this big block of wood
[Applause]
whoa
1467. I I believe that yeah no that's bullyable and more and The Recoil would confirm that
right yeah it still feels okay we're done with that thing okay we got a good reading
[Applause]
whoa now this is the second shot using the smoothbore and here comes the slug and again
a little bit High and a little bit right so we are seeing some consistency now but as
you can see the slug easily blew through this big chunk of wood
it should be flying at 1300 feet per second and we'll compare the two okay same point
of aim let's see if it still shoots high and right okay I'm ready
now normally I would edit out this big gap of where Brianna is taking her time to get
things right she is never in a rush to shoot
now recoil wise was this more or less a little less okay
using the same point of aim the Foster slug hit high and left and of course the point
of this exercise was to demonstrate how different slugs have completely different ballistics
12 gauge shotguns when you go from one type of ammo to another the point of impact will
change radically you'll see the same thing using other Firearms but nothing comes close
to demonstrating this like a 12 gauge high and right yeah oh and you can see a hole through
it you can you can and let's look at the back oh can you stick your finger through there
like a little peephole
nope the amazing part is she went walked down range down there and found the slug on the
ground
[Laughter] [Music] okay the video over it we've done everything and she found the slug
yeah emits all in more or less one piece just a little mangled up all right well folks this
one was high and left instead of high and right I was still aiming well I aimed at this
one the first time this was the second time and we now have two pieces of wood
that gives you an idea of the hell two different types of slugs have completely different ballistics
and a lot of people don't understand that eat it that much variation at only 20 yards
because the ballistics are so exaggerated in a in a shotgun Okay so we've got a flower
pot filled with water and we're gonna try to attempt to blow the pumpkin up so I want
to hit the tape so I'll be aiming low and left okay and we'll see if that works out
see if it our plan goes to it may be a complete failure but hey that's how science goes sometimes
yes it is
okay where did that go left I missed the pot now as we often say the high speed camera
does not lie the wad and the slug came apart on this shot yes there was a defect there
and it makes you wonder how many people bought this slug went out tried to shoot a deer with
it or something and missed and they blamed it on just uh their own skill when it was
possibly the slug itself that failed
oh nice nice
now fortunately we had enough water in the pot still to do our little experiment and
we wanted to show The Power of hydrostatics Now imagine that pumpkin is a ship and our
slug is a torpedo detonating underneath the ship it doesn't even have to hit the ship
there's so much hydraulic Force there that it'll actually lift the ship out of the water
break its Keel and probably blow the bottom out of the ship but just that slug hitting
that water was enough to lift that pumpkin nearly two feet in the air really cool well
the water apparently was being controlled by Aquaman inside Aquaman forces okay and
forces blew the bottom out that's kind of what I was hoping to do is show how much force
that water has I mean there's enough to blow the pot apart but then the had enough Force
to blow up into the pumpkin spaghetti anyone that's science for you
okay Russian East German Helmet whatever the heck it is laughs home intruder home Invader
with a helmet on okay I'm ready [Music]
wow
so what would have happened at home invader he would have gone bye-bye okay so you went
in one side and out the other side the other side I think we got him much bigger hole went
through his head I think that helmet's done I think we've gotten the service life out
of that helmet I'm yeah that's that's impressive I didn't think it would go through both sides
I yeah I wasn't sure about both sides yeah I thought one side and bounce off the inside
of the other one and believe it didn't but nope yep no no way you'd survive that shot
and the guy standing next to him probably would die too probably
[Music]
[Music] thank you
[Music] ballistic gummy bear all right in the belly we got a blue dot on there [Laughter]
never mind the horn God it's Penelope just saying hi say don't screw it up Mom
wow that is very reactive
wow okay it's all washed off so what happened well I aimed a little low and left finally
figuring out where these things are going not bad right there not really sure what happened
inside though flip her around and uh okay see we hit it with that cut shell there a
few weeks ago hey that's probably the exit wound there that yeah right there yep in my
torch which I used to heat it up and clarify it is out of gas it leaked out darn it dang
it dope
well what happened inside is quite extraordinary because I did not expect this that's slug
blew up inside the gummy bear you can see all the lead fragments flying out in multiple
directions and of course in the process it dumped a lot of energy you normally don't
see the gummy bear react so violently to a slug that just passes through it this look
really surprised me because it went through soft body armor like butter it went through
both sides of a steel army helmet and it blows up inside soft targets
a little different shooting off hand I know it feels weird having my hand out here because
I'm used to having it back here
foreign
whoa okay what happened Brianna well it did fragment it really did a lot but it's really
shallow it is it only made it so this is a point of impact it made it to right here but
look at the look at the the fragments he went but oh about nine inches in there yeah and
then if we come back and then there's one little track and one that comes out down here
and what what came out the little tip the little screw the little screw came out
so that impressive that it traveled that far yeah but I did not expect it to blow apart
like that I didn't either yeah it looks really cool I was telling her it's oh it's just gonna
go all the way through the block you know yeah yeah just based on our earlier stuff
so
so we had that little Dart or that little screw go all the way through somehow it made
it you know it managed to find its way out one of the tracks is that screw there yeah
oh what a mess I know and you know where that block came from where Mike he also sent the
block thank you Mike yeah much appreciated is that cool or what very cool especially
because I can actually see it yeah I was I was planning on dressing up with a heat gun
or a torch so there's still some lines from the wrapping on their ballistic clear Bliss
hasn't figured out how to ship this without getting a bunch of wrinkles in it I have ideas
but they who listened who we haven't asked you wrap it in toilet paper you know or something
I don't know but anyway what did you think of these I mean I think they're really cool
yeah I don't know that I would use them but just because if a you know of a intruder came
in your house wearing an army helmet you know you could take care of it definitely I don't
know I don't know what I'm aiming at his head that's true it holds still sir yeah holds
the whole snow so I can hand for your head looking for the piece of tape on your head
so anyway that's it thanks again Mike uh for sending not only the Slugs and other slugs
yes but uh the block of Jill too and the butt pad thank you very much it was fun what are
these guys doing
anyway if you've made this far in the video I appreciate it
uh if you take the time to rate the video give it a thumbs up or thumbs down doesn't
matter but uh we always appreciate your comments and all that stuff but the Rio armored slug
was really a big surprise to me it did stuff that I never expected it would do now the
question is whether or not you could even find it in stock good luck it's sold out everywhere
but at least you know what it'll do and what it can't do I hope you enjoyed the video thanks
again and thank you Mike and Brianna for your help