who are we chin
okay hello dukes and duchesses and
swingers of the male persuasion today we
have a fascinating round to shoot from
England
these balls are about 70 caliber or
about 17 millimeters in diameter each
one weighs about 29 to 30 grams or just
a little more than an ounce these come
from the post medieval period which
dates between 1600 and 1800
hello my name's Simon I live in
Staffordshire England and one of my
hobbies what can you guess what it is
it's metal detecting and we find quite a
lot of these than most people's that
varying in age really from the ones that
look like modern or led to the cooler to
the white ones
the white ones are probably more like
four hundred years old and then lady
colored ones one hundred years old
these are pistol balls they're the
smallest ones I've got these are what I
think are musket balls and I put the
small one by that's one of the pistols
which give you comparison and these are
huge these are something they call
grapeshot they've fired out of a cannon
in a wire basket and I'd love to see
Jeff fire well just some of the musket
balls and these are the ones that Jess
got here and that little blob on the top
of the one on the left is where it's
never been fired and it's not been
trimmed off that's British being made
and so I can't wait to see Jeff fire
them Cheers instead of loading these
into a musket we're gonna load them into
a 12-gauge shotgun because they fit
perfectly into a 12-gauge shell at the
very bottom I've put a little bit of
silly putty that'll help support the
ball and prevent it from deforming when
it's fired the muzzle velocity on a
musket using black powder was about a
thousand feet per second with these
shells we'll be sending these downrange
at about 1,200 feet per second thank you
very much Simon for letting us try these
out
hope you enjoy the video welcome back
Tov later folks Jeff and officer Gregg
out here today shooting with you again
hey today we're bringing you some a
musket balls that were sent to us by
Simon in the UK these things are
estimated to be made around the 16 or
1700 s these things could be three or
four hundred years old and what's weird
to think is that whoever made these
things designed for muskets that far
back never knew that here in 2017 we'd
be firing them through a modern shotgun
so we've got a Ming Dynasty vase from
about a 2,000 years ago that we're gonna
shoot and as well as some other fun
stuff so let's get to it
okay
shot one at the ancient urn whenever
you're ready actually I think that vase
came from the early 80s dynasty if
anyone can translate what it says on
there you get a bonus point the shot was
a little bit high and to the right
didn't hit dead center so we didn't get
a good hydrostatic shock reaction so far
the accuracy isn't looking too good for
these musket balls and they do have a
reputation for not being very accurate
now at that distance even I could have
hit that base so I know that Greg's
accuracy is good and it's possible if
the ball was a little bit deformed or
you know it's 400 years old or whatever
so let's keep on shooting and see if we
can get some better shots
fire
governor yep dang it
I asked Simon if he had any requests of
what to shoot at and he said he wanted
to see that clay block getting smacked
so there you go
we normally used the clay block just for
real light projectiles heavier
projectiles just blow it into pieces so
I hope you enjoyed that and there it is
we captured it you can see that that
thing flattened itself out looks like a
lozenge you'd see the fiber marks and
about fibers yeah almost looks like a
rock you know yeah you guys can't feel
this but it's still warm from being shot
right through clays brain and into the
end of the mist pretty cool for 400
years old yeah at least we saved it you
know gosh how will they fare against the
solid lead plate whenever you're ready
oh boy
this was a very accurate shot it landed
right on the black mark looks like the
ball hasn't been deformed from being
shot so my silly putty actually worked
and as it hit it splattered out started
tumbling at a high rate of speed and
that's the noise you heard as it
ricocheted but everything was safe
no cameras were hit luckily no cars so
everything's good
so made a nice little perfectly around
perfectly smooth not very deep
impression in our lid plate and I don't
know if you guys could hear it on a
video but that thing went buzz sawing
back over our heads somewhere so that's
why we we put it in a little angle so
that you can see just a little little
bit of that sharpie box that I had down
there at the bottom so that was pretty
accurate just about right on point of
point of aim very nice
okay ballistic gelatin jelly I'm ready
whoa I set the Chronos high-speed camera
to 17,000 frames a second and we could
see the musket ball going through about
12 inches of gel just without much
hesitation ended up hitting the Kevlar
vest behind it for whatever reason we
could not find most of these balls after
we shot him that was our intent was to
capture as many as we could we only
found one from the entire shoot okay
we're going to smoke the pot hahahaha
okay whatever you're ready
guys are going up yeah well some guys
shoot empty terracotta pots you put some
water in there that you get a really
nice reaction it just breaks it up into
little tiny pieces so far all our shots
have been relatively close so let's move
the target back to about 50 yards maybe
45 yards and see how accurate these old
musket balls really are okay whenever
you're ready
well our TFM crime-scene investigation
shows a high clavicle hit up here come
zapped him right through in the shoulder
oh sorry oh sorry Monica not wearing the
vest on this one probably would have hit
him above the vest anyway yeah
and they pool looking back here this got
a little exit wound right through him
that's why he didn't move very much it
was just a clean through and through
ouch that's pretty good for going
sixteen hundred's on his ass look at
that no not bad I mean it went a little
high for whatever you know but so you
think he looks like Monica I think he
looks like so we in Dion with this okay
he's our little wax job to her but right
while these musket balls were not the
most accurate round we've ever fired out
of a shotgun it kind of gives you an
idea that they were still quite a threat
at 50 maybe to a hundred yards now I
mean it bothered you a little bit to see
us shoot these old relics it kind of
bothered me too
but if I had not shot these after Simon
requests me to I'd be a real heel and
apparently these things are pretty
common and they don't have much value
because there's no serial number on them
and it's really difficult to place them
historically I want to thank Laura Platt
for letting me use her awesome music and
Mikasa Nene bruh oh I know I messed it
up and I'm sorry but he did some English
to French subtitles for a video of mine
I want to thank him for that I was awful
nice of you and thank you for watching
the video if you get the chance please
rate the video good or bad doesn't
matter
I appreciate anyway thanks again