Shooting Through a Windshield 

On a side note Hollywood has taught me that is perfectly safe to discharge from within a car with the windows up, including carbines and rifles, with no ear (or eye) protection whatsoever.

"Through the window! Through the wall!" Polenar Tactical probably

Any bug can hit a windshield.. But it takes some guts to stick.

"Conversation" 😆 At least you can recall the conversation

Interesting to see the difference between FMJs and HPs.

I've heard that if you are seated in a car and firing, you get sprayed with a bunch of glass

Interesting results. the reason for the flatpoint bullet's diviation is probably "normalization". They used this in WW2 with tank shells (normalizing cap), so when it hits angled armor, it has a lower chance of ricochet.

The tire result doesn't surprise me. The range where I shoot IDPA has rubber curtains in front of the backstop and forbids shooters from using hollow-point and flat-nose ammo for this exact reason: it prematurely degrades the curtains.

The open tip of hollowpoints/OTMs is why if you use self sealing polyurethane targets and someone puts a HP through it, they get to buy the next batch of targets.

When I was a mechanic, I had a customer that had a tire shot. The aluminum wheel was punctured which caused fast deflation. They didn't realize their car had been shot, and it was in the middle of one of the busiest roads in that city.

In an interview one sniper said: "If you shoot through glas anything can happen. That is not a secure shot." I guess he was right.

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Fun fact I learned in a guns-and-vehicles class - extermal hollowpoints like Underwood's Xtreme Defense deflect to the right when fired through class. My theory is that the edges of the round push against the glass as it goes through and gives it a push to the right because that's the direction the round is spinning.

The glass deflect down from the outside. And up from the inside. At least with balll'ish ammo...it's like tank rounds hitting armor, it turns the round to dig in or at a high angle bounces off.

I know that this is an ammo comparison, but it is always interesting to see how glass impacts a bullet. Its almost acting like a strikeface.

A few years ago, i had like half a day of shooting in, around and trying different spots of shooting a target through a car. It's quite amazing to see in person, what bullets do through different (multiple) surfaces and angles. Like making one bullet sometimes in 2 or 3 different holes. Then the instrucor was giving an extreme example of, why to try and peek up to see could be a bad thing sometimes. He did say it might take a few shots, but right away on the first one. He ricochets it off the hood hitting the target in the neck/head area.

I’ve always imagined it would be similar to shooting in water- it could change the angle of the bullet, or I guess it is actually maybe refraction showing the target in a slightly different spot when looking through water at an angle. You all know what I’m talking about. Good video

it's based off where the bullet tip hits the windshield. a round FMJ from outside touches the bottom part first and goes lower.

2:29 *extremely* valuable information. Thanks for testing this!!

Gah. Please don't smell me! 😊

Ziga, this is where that fancy gas mask technique would've come in handy

Great vid from Canada thanks

Interesting stuff. Thanks.

Polenar you need some thick frame glasses and you could totally pull off that Freeman drip.

Good test, thanks for sharing the fun video

I remember during "weapons instructions" in my conscript time long ago, one thing they told us: it's useless to shoot at the tires mostly as the deflation will take too long as the 5,56 FMJ rifle rounds make too little holes in the rubber. Looking at your video it makes me think about something: Back then more cars used steel wheels than today. Would be interesting to see, if the rubber of the tire slows a 5,56 rifle round down enough to not crack an alu wheel! That the steel wheel won't crack or be punctured i can imagine due to the properties of steel and the tyre thread. But here i am wondering if shooting at an alu wheel might cause it to deflate (or even disintegrate while driving due to the forces involved) easier than a steel wheel thanks to the material properties.

Another great and interesting video.

Good work. Interesting

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Great video! The deflection fron the glass is very interesting. The effect of the "cookie cutter" bullet on the tire is really impressive; but now I'm curious about alluminium wheels, do they resist pistol rounds and if not, how much faster is the deflation?

Awesome thanks, any plans to do this with 556 762x39?

i wonder if the first shot would shatter the windscreen completely if you filled a hollowpoint with a shard of sparkplug ceramic otherwise known as (aluminum oxide ceramic or porcelain)

As a seasoned professional in ny field of all things gun related i get asked alot.. "Hugh whats the best truck gun setup" I say... "Well, what kind are ya trying to kill? Fords? Chevies? Golf carts!? This always catches them off gaurd. I know know to also recommend S+B ammo for said evil vehicles! Thanks!😂

@PolenarTactical two things I have seen done is A) ramming the muzzle to the glass, firing a round to make a through hole, drive the barrel through the hole and then fire as normal. B) firing three rounds within a 4 inch or so group then driving the muzzle through to fire as normal.

Reload, Dr Freeman! I've seen somewhere long ago online that when shooting thru a windshield from the inside, keeping the muzzle as close to the hole in the glass as possible to the point where the front sight is touching the glass (but not pushing into it to push out of battery) helps avoid a lot of the deflection.

Great video! My apologies for being late; I work a full-time job AND I'm a full-time Dad; not a lot of free time, but I'm glad to have your awesome content to enjoy when I do have "free time"! 😎👍

I did most of my vehicle training in and around 1980s or earlier US made vehicles. Glass dust was never something I noticed, but those old one would chew up anything not fully jacketed. Now days the skin of the car is weaker than the front windscreen, it didn't used to be so.

That's why you use a crowbar to smash thru the windshield first before shooting.

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I thought the hollow point would open up but seems like it got filled with glass and didn't lwt it expand

Love the shirt

Very neat test. Is it possible the glass being at an angle and not perpendicular to the bullet path causes this deflection?

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But why do the bullets go higher when the window arces down

So you need to know your round's "index of deflection"?

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Interesting video. God bless you and your beautiful country 🙏

Love that lambda shirt, I had no idea Polenar liked half life.

Try hornady critical duty for the glass.

From the inside of the vehicle, I was taught to make a hole through the windshield with my rounds then shoot through the hole. So, lots of rounds fired. I saw an entire squad miss the driver when shooting 5.56 through glass.

Now we all want to see that private jet!!

Iam curious about Hollow point ammo and Magnum ammo. Ofcourse if you shoot out of car glass thisckness/angle makes bullets miss most of times..

You got me with the thumbnail. I click on this thinking, "all those body cams I've watched say otherwise."

Other than being busy with his private jet, how is Samo? We haven't seen much of him recently...? Also, how are Mança and your tiny-person getting on? -Updates please? 😊👍

im more suprised that the winshield didnt just shatter, and yes i knew they are made to not do that but i was expecting it to give out eventually

I would like to see how hard cast lead performs through the windshield.

As a former car mechanic I can tell you that when a ~1.5 Tonne Car is pushing down on the tire, even a single FMJ entry hole will deflate the tire within minutes, especially if someone is driving the car. But I would be interested in how modern Self-sealing tires would perform, I have seen those Tires withstand multiple punctures from enormous nails without loosing any pressure, so they might even withstand the XRG, or not the projectile could also rip out a large part of the rubber/glue shit inside the tire.

Can a buckshot pellet bounce on metal object ?

Surprising results, new gun channel 😅

there really wasnt as much deflection of the bullets bullet path as i expected when shooting in from the outside, as compared to out from the inside. though after seeing it it makes sense

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Studied this specific topic on the JFK assassination at length. Windshield ballistics is very very important in understanding deflection in either direction depending on angle, caliber, so on and so forth. There are not a lot of specific videos and studies of windshields and ballistics out there. The few that are tend to be generalized. For those possibly interested in the JFK assassination, windshield ballistics side, first shot is a south knoll sourced shot from the rear of the box truck position as observed on commerce Street. One can observe this on the zapruder film, to take note of the box truck at the bridge when zapruder pans. It's an elevated and concealed snipers hide. Then apply small unit tactics to the plaza. You can see this described view as approximate to line of sight up elm, Google street view height plus or minus a few feet. Shot hits the windshield, intended headshot, drops, caused the throat wound. This is give or take, a 6-8 inch drop from the point of impact to the third row. The only reason the head shot was later successful is because the limo continued down elm and provided a better shot over the entire windshield with little to no correction to the sight picture required from that location. Small entry right side of JFK's head, large fist sized exit wound. Small team tactics and a mocked sixth floor 'snipers hide'. Fifth floor and sixth floor were controlled. It's known they are controlled because the testimonies in the WC do not explain static movements and whereabouts of certain personnel working on those floors for the two weeks prior. Owner of the TSBD was Harold Byrd, oil tycoon and friend of Lyndon Johnson, and civil air patrol founder. These were all war hawks that wanted the Vietnam war for money and profit.

Surprised you didn't move the camera back after those first few shots out the windshield

That’s why the acorn foo never hit

Would you say that XRG is a better general purpose ammo?

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You know it's a science video because he is wearing his science shirt. "For this expirament I'll need a mass spectrometer, HEV suit, crowbar, Glock17, MP5 w/ 40mm launcher and a Gauss rifle."

Slovenia has UNO?! HAHAHA

Just noticed that Źiga is pregnant too! Congrats 🎉

the Gopro sweatin bullets

Would shooting through the door cause it to deflect as much as shooting the window?

What pistol is this? Katera pištola je to? Slide izgleda vrhunsko hudo

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No need to, I am watching this in my bathtube 😂

I've been unable to log onto your shop it keeps coming back with a 500 HTTP error Seems to only happen on Chrome though

New mythbusters is looking good

You real comfortable putting your GoPro at risk with these deflecting shots lol. Plus with shooting into the wheel, you clearly ran the risk of it circling around and hitting you. Im real glad it didn't.

Sure and quiet! i put the like BEFORE i see the video!

Great video with interesting results. Thanks for the non scientific approach. Job well done! 👍💯

Great test! I've wondered about this too, but my wife wouldn't let me shoot her windshield. She is sometimes selfish like that.

Looking at the quality of the experiment and the amount of variables that exist, it seems to me that the first round would hit where you would want it to the rest of your rounds will not go where they want to because the glass is broken and molded into different and Unmeasurable variables therefore your third fourth and fifth round will not go where you want it to because the glass is bent and curved after the first round entered and exited.

Tires: put weight on tires for more of a real life situation.

This is a weird question, but do you guys like smell of tire air? I mean air that came out of an inflated tire? I kinda do.

Ever been bow fishing? Shooting through angled glass is the same.

Nice shirt. ;)

RAD!

That tummy tho

Would you be willing to try this again with rifles?

I understand this is product advertisement, but I wonder how Other hollow points would compare. like Law Enforcement HST, or Speer Golddot.

my 50 bmg raufoss says that missing is unlikely

so all that badycam footage of shooting through windshields, all those rounds are flying into the sky lol

I'm going to show this to my dad. He, for whatever boomer-ass reason, adamantly believes that 9mm will just ricochet off a windshield because it's "going too fast". Yes he carried a 1911 when he used to carry.

I got a blackrock ad before watching this video 😳

I like the half-life gaming shirt. 😁👍

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Should really be wearing a N95 mask doing that. That powdered glass in your lungs cant be good