- Hello, I'm Gav. - I'm Dan.
Welcome to "The Super Slow Show."
Dan, I've seen people race, horses, cars.
Never seen bullets race.
Not really a spectator sport, though, is it, to be honest?
- Not for humans, anyway. - No, but in actual fact,
there's a huge difference between different projectiles
that come out of different weapons.
So today, in the safety of our little canyon here,
we're gonna be shooting against some sand--
--four different guns--
and see if our high-speed footage
can help us differentiate the different speeds
between each round.
( music playing )
What guns have we got here?
We got four weapons. First one starting here,
we got a nine-mil semi-automatic pistol,
tiny little round.
This one's much fatter. It's a .45.
- Looks fatter. - It is fatter.
All right, this one is your classic AK variant,
762 short.
And this one is our beefy .416 Barrett,
although, only reason it's not .50 caliber
is 'cause we're in California.
- Illegal. - Yeah.
Still plenty beefy enough, though.
I tell you, I still wouldn't want to get hit by it.
Absolutely not. I mean, I wonder
which one's gonna be faster.
- Hmm. - Can we place bets?
Yeah. ( laughs )
We've also got these foot markers here,
so we can actually determine the speed,
based on the high-speed footage
and we're gonna be using the v2511,
at 100,000 frames a second.
As you know, terrified of guns,
so I'll just get out of your hair.
- See you later. - All right.
( gunshot )
Whoo.
( grunts )
- Bit ahead of me there. - Yeah.
- I'm usually the first one in. - Should have gone "three, two, one."
- Now I have to cross over. - This is awkward, isn't it?
So, all right, we're good.
- Gav:
Release of gasses. That flame probably lasts...
...not very long. ( chuckles )
Dan:
Gav:
Dan:
( gun report )
Frame by frame on this bad boy.
Gav:
just has like a nice flame on it.
Dan:
( Gav laughs )
Look at the ring.
Dan:
- Gav:
That's what's causing it.
It's not just flat.
The more you know.
Dan:
( slowed gun shot )
Dan:
Gav:
( chuckles ) Look at the barrel,
wibbling. I can't describe it any other way.
You can see the whole thing just jiggle.
like it's, like, made of liquid or something.
There's flex in all of that metal.
What was it like firing that?
Similar sort of hit in the face by the boom?
Yeah, pretty much. You feel it more than hear it.
- Oof! - Wait.
That one's a different story altogether.
- It just disappears. - ( laughs )
Wait a second, is that the same speed?
- Dan:
- Gav:
Gav:
-
...a fat explosion.
All right, so we've seen each gun.
Now, let's see 'em all side by side
and see which bullet won.
( whispering ) I think we know the answer.
- ( whispering ) I do, too. - Yeah.
Gav:
- Dan:
Dan:
Gav:
Dan:
and Barrett's already destroyed its melon.
( thunk )
That is crazy. I've never seen
different speeds of bullets
in relation to each other like this.
Dan:
You know what's interesting is,
the AK round has caused more damage
to the melon it seems,
whereas the Barrett just goes straight through it,
like, makes a hole in it.
( thunk )
Just waiting on the last bullet now.
( chuckles ) "Guys, wait up."
( thunk )
Dan:
is clearly the beefy winner there.
- Gav:
which is miles in front of the 9-mil pistol round,
and then, bringing up the rear, got the .45.
But the .45 looks like a brick compared to the...
- ( laughter ) - ...the, uh, Barrett.
- The Barrett is just like a sharp pointed thing. - Yeah.
And the .45 is just, like, you might as well
just get a piece of chewing gum, it looks like.
Dan:
- Gav:
Gav:
Dan:
which is going 846 feet per second.
So that's over 2,000 feet per second difference.
- Gav:
Over 2,000 feet per second, which is massive.
If I was to throw a rock or something
- at 75 feet per second, right? - Right?
That pistol's only going less than
800 feet per second faster than my rock.
So if you chucked a rock, the difference between
the rock and the slowest gun is smaller than the Barrett,
- and that gun. - Way smaller.
I've got to say I'm glad we didn't film you throwing a rock
- at 90,000 frames a second. - ( chuckles )
- We'd be here for about 40 minutes. - It's true.
- That was an interesting race. - It was indeed,
and very sadly, four melons lost their lives
- during the making of this video. - ( sighs )
But it's okay, we made smoothies again.
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- ( imitates robot ) - There's no need for that. There's no need for that.
Why not? ( laughs )
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Over here somewhere, I think.
It's just-- there? Yeah.
Maybe... there?
Yeah.