Birdshot Effectiveness at 100 Yards 

and droll humor. "it was a polyester polo, but still".

and the "yeah, but"s

Cons: - Bearing with the gunfire we hear in the background. - He won't let us try this at home.

..high tech fleece bullet stop

@@raspillade6027 Surely you mean...THE NEW AND IMPROVED HIGH TECH FLEECE BULLET STOP...?

1) Rabbits do not sweat. 2) While I do not know where this location is, Paul is usually in the PNW so I assume this is probably not far from there ... and that's nowhere near the southern border.

300 miles LOL!!!

@David Is this kind of comment really necessary?

David imagine calling other people a snowflake while getting pissed that they made a valid point. I could never imagine being so fragile ❄️

Lesson learned: The meat target needs a fashion consultant - OR - Polyester is an effective addition to body armor.

I laughed for a good 30 seconds after that quip!

Must update clothing to tacky for superior tactical advantage.

@Paul Martin *"penetrate me your gay"

Damn 33 years

How far away was skeet and was he hurt?

With #9 skeet loads, and a skeet choke (or even improved cylinder choke) which is usually used for skeet, your father was about right. Unless those pellets hit you in the eye, you would be pretty bullet proof to #9 shot at 40 yards. Fired at the optimum angle. #9 will only travel about 80 yards before it falls to the ground. If Paul tried his 100 yard test with number 9 shot, the shot would never make it there. As an example...a skeet field is 40 yards wide (120 ft. 9" to be exact) So...call for a clay target from station 1 high house and fire at it when it makes it to the other end of the field (station 7) and watch it sail on, laughing all the way.

@Fman1292 I wouldnt say useless Hitting a guy with a handful of pellets is still better than nothing

@Fman1292 the conversation is usually birdshot for HOME defense, not birdshot in urban warfare. With that said, I don’t know many average homes that have hallways of 40+ yards. 10 yards for home defense is more than enough.

LOL

I'm trying to get that for my ringtone

That's because they know they are in for a treat.

Well it was dirty jobs theme song

@@phennah9mm461 Here is the whole song: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O3JKTPL1H-g.html

LOLOLOL

Still giggling and snorting out loud! My wife asks, “what ARE you watching?”

You know, according to Leviticus chapter something verse whatever, that shirt's an abomination?

You fool! Being educated people we all know that helicopters fly by beating gravity into submission.

I cracked up at that line as well! :D

I saw the womp rats

Hopefully he wont run into the sand people, it'd be ashame for them if they ran into Paul.

If you squint your eyes enough you’d see in the distance a statue of Paul built by the sand people.

two suns?? the sun isn't even in frame here.

Jorda n; dude nor is ther a planet Tatooine. “Just relax and enjoy the show.”

He is an amazing man isn't he.

Must be a tacky crappy pole shirt.

That must be why Bugs Bunny always went drag. The extra layers from the fake boobs and bra were extra protection.

When my great uncle was a kid, supposedly they'd stand 100 yards apart and shoot birdshot at each other using trash can lids as shields.

@@saber-jocky3436 LOL, thanks for the laugh.

Too bad paul takes his M16 clone wabbit hunting. Paul is single handedly holding back the long eared menace, and finding time to teach us about it.

I'd like to see Paul test Aguila's 12 gauge, 1 3/4" "Minishells" next. The first thing to know is that you can only load them in the chamber, not the tube.

Never mind. I found Paul's video on the topic.

Because it IS better than the old fleece bullet stop.

Who needs body armor? Just need 8 layers of "new and improved high tech fleece".

I know someone who was hit several times while out horse-riding, and said it wasn't until the third one that she was sure it was the pellets. Range unknown, but long.

...you need to spend time with different friends.

I shot someone the bird, does that count?

Duck hunting @ a pubic refuge?

I was hit at 50 with some #4 during a dove shot in a corn field that had recently been harvested. Good hunt until the end. I got some tiny bruises but nothing went through!

@drealmerz7 z Unfortunately, if they have a pistol, rifle, or buckshot, you're toast.

@drealmerz7 z If you fire a gun, they are going to see where you are shooting from due to noise a muzzle flash. Anyone with those weapons can easily and accurately land rounds in you. Even a pistol would be effective, but a rifle would make it effortless. A shot in the air would be better than that.

@drealmerz7 z I was in the Army, combat arms, during the wars. I spent 13 years in various armed jobs. I'm just putting reality into your mind.

No, 7 yards definitely not certain death

@drealmerz7 z Do you realize that even a modestly trained rifleman can pull out a rifle and pop you on the head at hundreds of feet away? Easy. Home Alone tactics aren't real. That's what you're advocating. Arrogance is thinking that experience and training don't count, but your video games do

Friends can make mistakes

My grandpas crazy neighbor used to shoot his shotgun at me and my brother when we were kids and it would just sting and bounce off us if it hit us.

what do he do with the meat target after he shoot it.

@@greogebrewer9643 pick out the pellets and make the dogs happy

I think I’ve seen Paul use watermelons & grapefruit for the lung tissue. I think that people at the checkout think Paul like fruit salad.

Orange lung tissue is 99 cents a pound. Just don't ask us about soft drinks. Some guy in a weird jacket with lots of big pockets and ear plugs came in here and bought all our soda jugs. Again.

Paul's grocer believes his entire diet is fruit salad, pork steaks, and Shasta.

Bird is the word...

@@Taistelukalkkuna Word Bird!

@@Taistelukalkkuna Muh, muh, muh, ooo, mao, mao....

hehheh..

Move to Northern Ireland and join a gun club... you can have almost any caliber you want 👍

@@AndrewGibson22 what about semiautos?

@@seirbhiseach yes, anything from .22 LR to .308, if in a gun club.

Me: No longer lives in UK ..... NC isn't quite Arizona, but it's close enough for me! :)

@@AndrewGibson22 I'll be moving to NI from mainland UK, going to do this.

Appropriate time to remind everyone of the time Paul shot rocksalt out of his shotgun to test it

@A Gray You could use a salt weapon: www.bugasalt.com/

I'm not sure you can effectively argue "self-defense" if you shoot at someone 50-100 yards away, unless the other person fired first.

my dog likes them in large yet manageable peices

With a tad of rock salt just because.

"Sorry I thought you were a deer"

@@-a-8423 That would require bourbon. And violating the law by not calling the police til Cheney sobered up

Oh, leave the old man alone. We all know his eyesight's never been that good.

As Paul walks across the " Fake " USA moon landing set that is being broadcast on live TV.

All that good meat going to waste, though...

@@spiff2268 Paul feeds it to his dogs.

@@spiff2268 For Science.

@@shawnr771 as big as those beasts are, it's probably a good thing he does! I would be worried about one of them getting the idea that neighbors might be on the menu! 😜

@@ScottKenny1978 They might be if things get worse.

Up until the end when Paul decided to test personal protection distance. Sorry meat target, but none may be allowed to escape.

@Mike Wilhelmson -- Guess you forgot there were two different meat targets.

I like bird shot in my ribs!

Well, to be fair, it survived the "bird shot at distances beyond home defense", but in the end Paul made sure it paid for that.

I just commented about that before scrolling down and seeing your post.

Opening day of pheasant season....Wisconsin....pen raised birds....hordes of “ hunters “ on small parcels of land....Pepper City...you made sure to wear super safety glasses.....ah fond memories

I whole heartedly agree. What is not considered, possibly because there are a wide variety of shot, is the shot that lies between buckshot and bird shot. If and when I ever get my 20 ga. shotgun that I ordered from my local gun store ( long story...just buy American is the lesson ), I have a cheap shot shell press and reloading supplies to load up some HD shot shells with a more suitable sized shot. BB sized, which is about 17 caliber, which isn't bird shot and isn't buckshot. A 17 caliber round at 25 yards may do some damage. However, I intend to use it on home intruders with the intent to neutralize the intruder and limit the amount of damage done by the shot that goes long distance. I use lead BBs because of the worry that steel BBs would bounce back at me. If a shotgunner was in a situation where he or she is shooting a bad guys at 25 yards, they should have buckshot rounds, "at the ready" on a holder on the stock of the shotgun. In a HD situation, in suburbia or city, that won't be necessary. In open country, it may be necessary to carry a selection of shot shells with different loads for up close and distance.

😐

@@mu99ins You must be on all kinds of drugs.

Nice.

Don't do that again. Stoppit.

Thanks.

After work 1.6 k.

@@PaulHarrell So the channel still gets ad $$$ ? I thought that all channels like this weren't making $ for the creators.

As one of the crew I down vote it to keep Paul humble. ;)

@@bobroberts2371 as I understand it, it may not make Paul Harrell money, but it increases exposure on RU-vid, according to the algorithm YT uses.

Desert Paul doesnt even have his own action figure

And moisture content.

Hahahahha. Yeah!

My favorite was the caleb rebuttal.

I'll never forget the mattress at the shooting range.

@@Stu650Zuk You forgot the SpongeBob pajamas

Yes

..multiple times, too!

Ha ha just a little delayed

The Central Oregon High Desert Plateau stretches from about the Nevada Border in the South to the Columbia River at the Northern border.

The eastern half of Oregon is that way.

@@artiefischel2579 I wouldn't put the whole eastern half in that, IMO up near Enterprise it looks very different.

@@artiefischel2579 Eastern Washington is also.

Oregon has a bit of everything really

Watch your language

@@shainshartershwate7421 Stop crying or GTFO!

@@xDIRTYSOUTHx nirvana is complete trash and Kurt cobang is being bummed and gaped by satan

I started wearing a new & improved, high tech, fleece backstop.

@@konagolden3397 Gets too hot for me. I much prefer 8 tee shirts during the summer, which I can drop back to 6, maybe even 4 on 90+ degree days. In the winter time, it's the new and improved high-tech fleece bullet stop with a leather sofa skin.

Does commenting for the algorithm help Paul? Just wondering.

@@bertg.6056 Viewer interaction increases the chances of the video being recommended to others.

Me too!

It's offical. Paul's awsome

@@openhueblue6661 You be the judge.

I also think of bird shot for Pistol calibers. 22lr, 9mm, 45mm shooting rats at the hog farm when the bar closed. Turn the lights on & commence to firing. The lights can't come on soon enough. Not just for the target practice. If you seen how many rats were there. Gives ya chills the first time. I hate rats. They eat their own. Kind of like Politicians. LOL

My grandfather was a market hunter for years, going after waterfowl and upland game. His preferred shot size was #4, he didn't use anything else in the Model 12, 12 gage. Smaller sizes did not have the penetration out to 50 yards. So that hard core preference was handed down to my dad and myself. Decades of hunting waterfowl and pheasants has proved grampa's experience countless times.

I shot myself once with 7.5 birdshot, um not on purpose, stupid kid stunt, I was in an old 'dump' just a place local people tossed things since it was way out in the country. A leftover plastic shower stall was laying in the debris. One of those wrap around ones, thick fiberglass or whatever they made them out of in those days. So being dumb as a post I stood it up, facing me, and walked forty feet back and shot it thinking it would fall down from the impact... Fortunately I was shooting low power reloads, bird shot out of an 18 inch barrel. The shot went down one side, skidded across and came right back at me. Hit me in the leg, arm and chest, but none of it penetrated my denim jacket or jeans. Did sting like a bee sting or something. Small welts. The hard part was explaining to my at the time girlfriend how I got those bruises. She still thinks it's funny 48 years later. Always wear glasses.

@@lucastrask2838 my uncle nearly blinded himself with birdshot doing something similar as a kid. He was shooting cans on an old fence at close range, and one pellet ricocheted just right and hit him in the eyelid just undet his eye. He had to go to the doctor to get it out.

@@Mister_Belvidere He's lucky to still have the eye, ouch. That can happen to anyone, really, ricochets happen, guns are dangerous tools. In my case it was double plus stupid, after I shot I could see the tracks of the pellets as they went around and came back, like something from a cartoon, it seemed so obvious, afterwards. The stupid hurts.

No, you didn't.

He shot a lawyer. Highest ever approval rating for a vice president.

Lol

BB shot in my shot gun, same kind of environment. I want to stop the bad guy, not kill my neighbors. I didn't learn it from Mr. Harrell, but I like that he confirmed it. My favorite channel.

Nothing makes a criminal rethink their life choices like the sound of a pump-action.

@@christophertstone Only if they're of sufficiently sound mind and unsound resolve.

@@Bubben246 Exactly, many don't consider a crazy person/suicidal maniac or someone dopped out of thier mind. If they are on a mission in their heads, racking a shell or even shooting a shell up into the air might not always deter them.

Use #4 buckshot........trust me, you'll sleep better !!

We used to drink beer back in the woods owned by some guy.He get passed off and fire shot at us from 100 yards plus. Knowing it couldn't hurt us we thought it was cool . Being shot at like the

Why do grandpas always steel watermelons? What's with these guys?

@@benjaminarmstrong7047 No internet back then - had to get your kicks somehow, LOL.

Took rock salt in the ass for doing the same thing.

he has videos on the first 2 things you mentioned

@@MikeOxlong1027 can you tell me how to find them ?

Type anything you are looking for in the search box, hit enter.

Iv8888 has a great video about .22 LR at long ranges. It’s called “How far will a .22 kill” i think

Paul has 9mm at 50 & 100 yards: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sgmUmbb78l0.html .45 ACP at 100 yards: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--hXR21Z-QOo.html Several .22 videos, and others have done the comparison.

Exactly! I have been shooting skeet since the early 60s and sporting clays since the 80s. Now everything seems to be about "tactical shotguns" and I have a feeling not many of those people understand the gun at all.

Watch slow motion videos of shotgun pellets. They spread out in a long train as they fly. That is why it is better to lead a flying target too much rather than too little. I have had many shot "tails" break the clay bird.

Stay safe and take care of yourself.

Depleted uranium when exposed to oxygen for a long period of time would start swelling to a point where the shell would not chamber. Yes, I’ve worked with depleted uranium before. Not fun stuff. Guess they could be copper plated to prevent the oxidation.

Hope to have the chance to see it one day. The older I get the more I get the itch.

I live in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. I love the High desert.....in the summer.

Steimy Stein yup up there right now it’s hot

M1A1 Abrams get up to the Pacific Northwest. I grew up in Alabama and was in an awesome Boy Scout Troop. We traveled all over backpacking. I then was an outdoor guide for about a decade. I’ve been to almost every state backpacking, mountaineering, and rock climbing. There is nothing like western Washington. It’s the most beautiful part of the US, maybe besides Alaska. Parts of Alaska look very similar. Below 4000’, it’s lush green, super wet, and reminds me of the Smoky Mountains. above 4000’, it has rocky, jagged peaks with huge glaciers (the biggest in the lower 48). I now live up here. I don’t miss the heat of the south

Zogy yea Oregon is pretty much the same way

Fear and loathing vibes for sure

just make sure to have a high tech fleece backstop

Yeah, those guys at places like Federal who spend their lives using ballistic gel to inform how they should construct their ammunition must really know nothing...

Ballistic gel is consistent. It eliminates one variable in the mix. Also, iirc ballistic gel was formulated after a hell of a long series of live animal tests (Fackler?).