You've probably seen the warning labels on boxes of 22 long rifle ammunition
saying that they have a range of 1 mile some boxes say 1/2 miles and even some
say they're dangerous within 2 miles and that's just a tiny 36 to 40 grain
projectile traveling around twelve hundred and 60 feet per second so if a
very small projectile can travel that kind of distance what about a 12-gauge
three inch Magnum slug weighing in at four hundred and thirty seven grains
this one out slug has over twelve times the mass of this tiny 22 bullet and is
traveling four hundred and forty feet per second faster logic tells us that
the range of the slug must be three four maybe five miles well we did find some
charts on the internet saying how far a one-ounce
slug will travel though we don't know what brand or type of slug that is but
this chart says the slug will travel thirty-seven hundred and fifty feet now
this charts a little more specific and it says no matter what chill linked or
charged according to this chart the slug will travel thirty-seven hundred fifty
feet at sea level or five thousand two hundred fifty feet if you're at 12,000
feet of elevation where the air is locked thinner so it looks like somebody
actually did some testing because we have some very specific numbers now if I
told you that a golfer can drive a golf ball further than a 12-gauge Magnum slug
you'd probably say I was crazy
you got something a little bit different for you here today we're gonna see if a
man can drive a golf ball further than a what is this one ounce slug out of a
threesome Magnum slug buddy bag three-inch 1700 feet per second yeah
most powerful slug I could find it locally oK we've got a white door at
five hundred yards and we've got our range marked off at starting at a
hundred yards and every 50 yards beyond that and we're gonna start out with a
level shot Lan's start raising our elevation and
see how far we can get it out there yeah curious if this shooting at level
just how far a slug will actually travel to this is good information because it's
it's you know because there's a lot of misinformation out there was a some
documentation that said that up what I'll slug would go 30 750 feet
over over a thousand yards which is absolutely I mean that's that's why
people you know they see cars in the background they're three 1/2 miles away
why they freaked out over there it's because they think slugs travel over a
thousand yards well anyway we're we're gonna either prove or disprove that myth
yeah I was I want to see how far we can I mean that door is tiny down there it
is tiny and you ever get a chance to measure out 500 yards you know that's a
long ways 5 football field Danny will be shooting down this long dusty road that
is closed off there's no people around trust me and he'll be aiming at the
center of the door which is 500 yards away
if carefully marked off the course using 100 yard markers with orange cones as 50
yard markers between those well not only be able to observe the initial impact
but also see how far the slug will skip down the road
aiming at the center of the door using zero holdover in other words the slug
traveled 270 yards before impacting the dirt we expected the slug to continue
traveling down the road but it didn't it got off to the left and impacted at 320
yards before going out of frame we decided to take another level shot
hoping to see the slug skip straight down the road but again after the
initial impact the slug veered sharply to the left kicking up a cloud of dust
at 300 yards and then skipping again to 400 yards before disappearing I'm gonna
bring it up about another let's see 8 feet over the door using 11 feet of
holdover we gained about a hundred and fifty yards but at the cost of accuracy
the slug was way off to the left and remember these slugs only have an
effective range of under 100 yards okay
using an 18 feet of holdover the slug only traveled 410 yards so we only
gained about 20 yards with that higher angle in other words we've pretty much
reached the maximum range these slugs can possibly travel and just angling the
gun up towards the sky even further is not gonna really yield better results
now many people are gonna say that holding the gun at a 30 to 45 degree
angle is gonna yield longer ranges yeah that definitely works in video games
like shell Sh but it does not account for drag the
projectile stays at a constant velocity and never slows down
so in this case yeah they'll go further
since we had no idea where this slug went we decided that's a bad idea we
wanted to keep control of this experiment and that's not how you do it
one very simple way to demonstrate what's going on is using a water hose
the pressure and velocity remain the same and as we angle it up yeah we do
see it increase in range but it's not doubling like some people might expect a
lot of the energy is just being eaten up by just the fact that you're trying to
push it higher and higher into the sky but even this experiment doesn't really
factor in drag very much our shotgun slugs are going from 1700 feet per
second to probably around 400 feet per second by the time they get out to about
300 yards now this is what I would call a semi scientific experiment your
results might vary we use the most common type of foster slug you can buy
and found the most powerful one we could find and remember the chart that I
showed you at the beginning of the video stated that any one ounce slug no matter
what powder load or shell type is gonna travel twelve hundred and fifty yards we
were unable to reach even half that distance even when you're counting how
far the slugs were skipping on the ground so it's a good idea to know how
far your ammunition will actually travel but it's also a good idea to give
yourself a big margin of safety beyond that range now it's no fun at all
shooting Magnum slugs from arrest so we got to get Danny a lot of credit here
for his persistence and toughness Thank You Danny so how does this compare to
how far a human can drive a golf ball well there's some called long drive
competitions where competitors drive golf balls as far as they can down a
what looks like a really long football field and those folks using
just their muscles can drive those golf balls as far as the shotgun slugs that
Danny was slinging down the road but it doesn't in there recently in England
they were driving golf balls down a runway and they reached a new world
record of 657 yards and yes that guy is an amputee I hope you enjoyed this video
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