What weapons and calibers are best for home defense? 

This!!!

Interesting idea! I’d like to see that.

Better than cardboard, just more costly

I was honestly expecting to see this given the effort they put into building all those false walls. To go even further with this, in an actual scenario, there is also the potential for fiberglass insulation being present inside the walls for various reasons, which - due to its inherently inconsistent density - adds an additional factor to the physics of ballistic behavior. Granted, this mainly applies to commercial/educational environments and not residential due to the insulation serving as a passive soundproofing measure more than anything else, but statistically speaking, it's a far more common scenario one would encounter. Citation: I'm a construction worker and I often wonder about this very concept on the job. Edit: regarding commercial/educational environments specifically, the studs used in the walls are made of sheet metal and not wood. In these cases, the studs will not, in fact, stop movement of a projectile in the same way wood does.

Paul Harrell has an entire video where he did something like that, albeit with his “Meat Target” to simulate a person.

Mounted machine gun with a cannon attachment. Double tap go brrrr

loaded with grape shot

I just keep my tank in the backyard with the barrel in the living room. The muzzle break covers kitchen and floor, which is very convenient.

Just as the founding fathers intended.

yeah like a bofors 40mm

Lmfao

A garden hose defeats your bunker ha

Gonna fart in your ventilation system

Lets test Artillery rounds and Bunker busters just to be safe! You never know when the neighbor next door is sporting a m777 in their backyard!

12 foot thick steel? Good luck with that

Unless you're ATF, in which case that was the intent.

@RawBot Worst advise ever. The whole over penetration argument was created by ammo companies to sell ammo to dipshits. The only reason you are concerned about over penetration is because you intend to violate multiple firearm safety rules and placate these concerns by compromising terminal effect, ironically in the name of safety. If you abide by firearm safety rules; know your target and beyond, never point a weapon at something you do not intend to destroy, then any reasonable level of penetration is acceptable in a defensive firearm, which is good because any projectile with enough ass to adequately penetrate is going to go through quite a few interior walls. As we have seen in this video, drywall sucks at stopping bullets. If the ability to be stopped by drywall is your primary concern when selecting a self defense round, you're wrong. Quite simply, if you can't use ammunition that adequately penetrates, you don't need a firearm, you need pepper spray and a rape whistle. There is no level of penetration that is acceptable to be shooting towards occupied domiciles and innocent third parties.

@RawBot I don’t get why people act like Birdshot would do nothing.

@@Bestgameplayer10 Because a crackhead or someone out of their minds on meth don't actually give a shit about being hit with birdshot.

The primary difference would be exterior walls have OSB sheathing with possibly quite sturdy siding (other than something like vinyl).

Dig my sig p6 German

well your concrete walls dont protect you from being rap.ed by arabs and africans.

Dont worry Nato will protect you

@@bendover6987 I think France and Germany should unify

​@@dingus6317 they did that for a while, didn't go so well

Shut up boomer 😂

Paul has a great method of showing real world effects with nothing but flannel, oranges and pork ribs 😆

That's good because #4 is the minimum recommended for achieving enough penetration in badguys for effectiveness. Personally I like #1. 00 Buck is, imo, suitable for military and outdoor activities but not so much for home defense.

@@offcourseoverland Man, I would love to go to a Paul Harrel cookout. Tangy orange barbeque pork ribs (don't mind the bits of lead in them.)

​@@offcourseoverland those materials are actually superior to ballistics gel if you really want to see what would happen.

Bulletproof plywood? Any idea what it’s called?

@@Finman78He is making up words. You can however buy 4x8 1/2 thick sheets of fiberglass which will stop pistol calibers.

Just line your walls with bookshelves

@@Finman78 probably bullet proof wood

​@@Finman78 there's several different products... plywood (beech), plywood (birch) with kevlar or carbon fiber, fiberglass and some other crap.. google would be your friend on this one because there's several different types made in different places so availability is limited on some.

Drive by scenario

@goud2488 that or, shooting at someone inside and penetrating through the exterior wall.

Actually I was thinking the same thing here. When someone is breaking into the house. Yes we do have internal walls. But eventually it’s going to hit a external wall with insulation, some kind of siding on the outside! I was hoping to see the debate with a ar15 be debunked with internal walls only. However this test was inefficient with home protection!

Interior walls, internal walls are in the chest cavity

@@thomastaylor5239 huh?

Bookshelves are excellent cover too.

Has Papa Thumb done a cover and concealment video? I’d love to see training for urban cover and how different objects and surfaces do

What a piece of sh** country to live in when you have to think things like that.

I highly doubt .223 would be considered a good round to not over penetrate through a standing drywall wall. I personally shot junk cars from 100 yards with 55gr .223 they go through the car. Meaning I shot pass door and comes out drivers door from a 100 yards. Keep in mind it also went through the interior door panels. Sheet rock is nothing for a round that goes over 3000 fps ....

LEO lol😂

I picked up a mobile home, and wanted to shoot the 50 through it long ways. But no way to contain for every ricochet possibility.

@@robertsmith2956 attempted joke alert "I picked up a mobile home" Damn! You're strong! You don't need a gun to defend yourself. BTW shooting through a mobile home is very dangerous, there is a very good chance you'll hit a meth lab Boom!

Back in the day I did a similar demonstration to finally get admin to authorize patrol rifles to supplement shotguns. The over penetration concern of rifles died off when the 40 pistols performed even better in going through all walls.

With the distance between the average suburban home inbetween. Its complicated man. The only way to get a real test os to test in a real neighborhood because in my neighborhood there isnt hoa making evrtyone build the same so spots are all build different and soke dont look like the others and are built with different materials. This is a wall and we have to remember there is things lock block wall, wood fenses, plastic fenses. Some people frame with wood some framed aluminum. I think this video is more applkcable to a situation like an apartment complex where if an m1 garand goes off in a bedroom it might go through 5 bedrooms 😂 or out the back across into the back of another apartment complex. If its ww3 thats what you want to win we need guns that can shoot through walls. Sometimes you need a gun that will shoot through 4 people sometimes you dont want to penetrate fully through one person.

Paul herrel(?) I can't remember how to spell his last name did this test and he had a exterior wall in his test if I remember correctly

How about some form of Kevlar barrier layer added to an existing drywall?

Yeah I was thinking the same thing too. There are a lot of materials that go into houses, it would be interesting to see how they all interact with each other

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That’s not a bad idea but you can also just use hollow tips and not worry about penetrating walls

Sounds it's better to hang family pictures on walls that lead to family and nothing on walls that don't. Minimizes the amount of recognition/identification you need to do. Just turns into pictures=don't shoot and no pictures=shoot

@@PrinceOfTheCity1 Did you Watch the video??

@@PrinceOfTheCity1”hollow tips”

@Narendra He’s commenting on a video that disproves his comment. 🤣🤣

That's easy to fix though, just more expensive. I want to use 2x6 for my exterior and interior walls, and you can make the insides stronger with various materials just more expensive than the average person that doesn't have the fear of shooting through an apartment. Can't say houses because you have plywood, Siding, etc.

@The Ole Otter Now I'm interested what the results would be with insulation, Plywood, and various exterior siding. To add to what you said, last year an entire lot of houses had the sidding ripped off from WA wind, New homes and materials used are inferior.

US stick framing is as strong as it needs to be, and dry wall doesn't actually get damaged that often and is very easy to repair.

@Kelly Moses Nowadays, it's all about how cheap, easy, and inexpensive. We can build these houses while making them as strong as they NEED to be.

@@inskinov412 I hate how cheaply it all feels now. we only value ourselves on how much we produce and consume, its depressing having such an issue be reflected in everything, even my walls.

"This is the AWP from counter strike!" In another life we would be soulmates!

Exactly. No round is "danger" proof. The best course of action is to know your house inside and out blindfolded (wall/door thickness and general layout, where your family is) so you can rely on recall in moments of high stress and the disorientation of being woken up in the middle of the night. Practice so you can act on instinct and have a gameplan. Or at least try. You don't know how things will go when stress kicks in but I think that's your biggest hurdle to overcome if your goal is to neutralize a threat within your home in the safest way possible

Maybe speak to your family about in case of intruder, go to X place that way everyone is at the back of the house and the intruder is always in front of you. Of course not every situation is ideal but it helps if everyone has a plan before hand and knows where to be so in case ammo starts flying nobody is at risk of injury other than the intruder.

Actually Samuel hydek is. Check out his explosion

​@Quit callin me Bill who?

DemoRanch already did something like this weeks ago

Yea right after Matt!

Paul Harrell did this 3 years ago as well.

Ok so 9mm HP went right through.... Ok next up .308...

You would also have to live in Brazil...

CBC Ammo is such good Brazilian made stuff too. Is it all taxes?

Ive seen some homes have exposed bricks,which showed there being concrete inside the bricks too. So,depending on the house,you might as well say ".50 BMG no balls" lmao

So every house is effectively a pill box. Neat.

How are Brazilian gun laws btw ??

that’s a good point, some people like putting birdshot and buckshot in the tube in a specific order

Birdshot, buckshot, birdshot, buckshot, slugs for the last few, how ever many your shotgun can carry. Just know you target and what's behind it always.

20Ga Birdshot will not kill a man.

@@Lefty217 you're right, getting shot with birdshot within 10 yards is a fate worse than death.

​@@Lefty217 would you wanna test that theory out by standing in front of a 20ga loaded with bird shot? Cus I sure as hell wouldn't 😆

This comment had me dying 😂😂 the freaking Roomba claymore lmao

​@@bmr7776is he serious bro? Isn't that overkill

Claymores are a part of any reasonable home defense plan.

​@danLT if it was good enough to keep Charlie out it's good enough for me

I install showers in track built neighborhoods and I can confirm that a framed house with no drywall is a lot more opaque than people assume.

Very true

It would be really hard to set up a perfectly realistic scenario.

FPS Russia :P ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6pVDbc5BXlg.html

every time i stand in a hallway the view is obstructed by a stud

Good point

That's actually a really good point. Plan on adding dampening effects in critical areas.

Paul Harrell did a video using cars as cover and nowhere was safe. Even the engine block didn't stop most rounds, though it had the most success. I doubt furniture is going to do much.

Tactical bookshelves 😂

22 supersonic>+p

& still make the hit on a coke can at 710 yards?

@@sonofnone116 I came here to say this but knew in my head it had already been said….

22 TCM lol

Same I just got a .22 Lr from Mossberg love it superb zero from the box

I have 12 gauge shells loaded with 20k steel pellets. Will not penetrate, but if fool is wearing a face shield it will become opaque instantly blinding them. Know your enemies tactics, and use them against them.

He did birdshot too, to good effect. Inside the home, 12ga with either #4 buck or even #4 birdshot is simply terrifying under 30ft. But will still slow down by the time you hit the walls.

#4 buckshot is to be avoided. It was popular in LE for a very short time but it has issues stopping reliably. While it penetrates well in gel and will be a lethal hit, the issue is that bone like the ribcage tends to deflect the pellets so you don't get as fast of a stop as a handgun would provide. I would stick to an AR in 5.56 with a ballistic tip like vmax instead, or regular 00 if one only has a shotgun.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qw8IiRgSMFQ.html Paul Harrell's test from 3 years ago.

​@Dave Smith if the ribs stop a few, the other twenty something should still get'm 👍

The only truly important knowledge is the Gospel bloke, that Jesus died to save sinners.

I was thinking the same thing about frangibles. I carry that in my 9mm bed side gun. the selling point for me was that it wouldn't go through 2 sheets of drywall.

I'm really curious how V-Crown JHP would hold up, since for 9 they only used MHP

Better video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e5KzAA7JME4.html This is why I use these frangibles for self-defense 5.56 and 9mm. Nasty wound channel, not affected by clothing like HPs, and doesn't go through drywall after exiting ballistic gel.

@@GospelFire I dunno man, I think "how to not accidentally shoot your 4-year-old" ranks pretty high.

Love my M&P 2.0 Metal

I want to see the 27 grain hollow point, i have that loaded in a few mags. I've seen videos of it going through bullet proof glass.

Was a little disappointed not seeing it on here.

5.7 ignores wood. It is a very fast round which was developed to pierce through body armor. The difference to the energy between rifle 5.56 and 5.7x28 is only proportional to mass, so unless you have some serious thickness of wood 5.7 will just go through. It has less stopping power, but it penetrates hard. Do not consider it to be a safe ammo to use in terms of home defense. It only stops on several layers of wood (round becomes unstable, yet still might cause a serious injury and it makes 5.7 even a less suitable ammo for home defense, since you don't know where your bullet will fly after a 2nd wall ) and it can't penetrate a brickwall

answer: its drywall

Vigilance elite did some testing like this a year or more ago with stuff in front/behind and inside the wall if I recall

@@stevexracer4309 Idk if you can't read, but I literally just said I've seen drywall stop a 9mm hollow point at a low angle.

Not necessarily true for connected units like townhomes or condos though.

trash construction..... wont even stop your bed "squeeks"

​@@goudawgs partition walls usually require fire rated drywall on walls and fire rated plywood on roof above walls. Dont know how much of a difference itll make but FR drywall is some hard shit...like aarons weiner

@@TheAhirishman FR drywall is just 1/8" thicker drywall. You should generally insulate the walls and have a minimum 1" air gap. FR drywall is not that hard. I have built a few duplexes, and condos. I wouldn't bet my life on the firewall.

Also what about insulation? I feel like that would slow down hollow points

#4 buckshot FTW

4Buck is excellent for HD, but it's still gonna go through all that drywall.

The "magic" load is don't miss what you're shooting at. Yeah that's easier said than done and not everyone is trained to that degree, but as far as I'm concerned shooting a home intruder is better than hitting a family member or neighbor due to firing wildly into the dark.

Paul Herrel has a video doing that

# 7 lead birdshot followed by 00 Dropped & Finished 😉

And don't forget random change of direction as bullets pass through stuff. Illustrated in the video above.

That's a lot of thinking and training for the average gun owner, who has literally zero training of any kind.

@@dazzling3237 Yeah I'm thinking just get the job done with as much accuracy as possible and pray on the rest.

if you had experience with “residential construction” you would know these walls are only wooden frame and drywall, these walls are incomplete and it doesn’t simulate a bullet going into a house rather as a bullet being shot inside an incomplete house

@@ilykeey9827 So what else in a US house would stop the bullet?

fr pull the trigga on a nigga

I'd like to see a 27 grain and 40 grain 5.7

I want to see a No. 4 turkey load or a No. 2 duck load.

I think people underestimate just how devastating birdshot loads can be up close. It's essentially a slug coming out of the barrel still packed inside the wad. Edit (talking about the total power of the load, not the individual energy of each pellet)

@King Of Crunk I spend a lot of time in Mexico and they build exclusively out of cinder block here. I have yet to see anyone build and shoot at a cinder block wall. I can image how it would do but is like to see it.

You forgot an Oxford comma between "buckshot" and "and slugs."

Same power per pellet really in a 20, just less shot

Well when a big ass bear or a mountain lion is your biggest worry instead of people I’d want a .300wm too

Well yeah, why let the threat get within 800 yards of your home? 🤣

300blk sub, supressor

these materials arent even designed with penetration in mind. You can slap a piece of drywall and it will snap. anyone that has worked with basic home materials should know that even a a ramset can shoot shit through a wall. Thats a .22 firing a nail

Good thing I saw this comment before making a fool of myself by asking lol

What about that duraROCK insulation. LOL

I would like to see them test old plaster walls that had chicken wire and thing fiberglass insulation. they made those in my home state ALOT as the walls on outside were brick it let them put in wiring in the house/pipes to keep them from freezing

asbestos are good for your neighbour’s dog

It's not enough of a difference, thick,strong drywall is still drywall. Concrete, gravel, masonry, etc will stop bullets much more readily. Free standing "gabion wall" outside would stop pretty much anything.

Myth Busters did a show about this but it was to prove if the assassin shooting through the wall to take out the target was possible. They did every wall imaginable with plumbing and electrical etc. but the only thing able to stop a bullet was a big square steel electrical junction box. Everything else, even studs let the bullets right through. That show I thought was pretty eye opening. Plus it proved that it isn't just Hollywood fantasy to take someone out through a wall if you can't get a clear shot. Stay happy my friend. 🤘😁👍

When it comes to one brand of NIJ rated IIIA kevlar backpack panels against another… there is no difference. They stop what they are rated to stop. The NIJ govt standards Are just that. There is testing at labs to be certified.

There are literally hundreds of those videos already

European here. We do actually have guns, ranking by country for civilian-held firearms per 100 population Finland sits in the 10th place with 32.4 guns in a survey made in 2017. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country

I love the smell of freedom in the evening!

​@MyBoys D AND you guys can easily own short barrel rifles and silencers if im not mistaken? Here in the US we can own them but have to pay a $200 tax, wait up to 18 months for approval and go on a federal registry, which I refuse to do. It boggles my mind we aren't allowed to buy silencers over the counter for hunting purposes.

​@@cvdubya5774 js nfa items are down to about an 8 months wait time now. Just did the forms for a can yesterday

@@cvdubya5774 Depends on thr Country. In Germany everything is strongly regulated. Im not a hunter so it is impossible for me own a silencer. Oh and we aren't even allowed to use a flashlight on our guns, or nightvision.

Not unless you wanna burn your house down to show your invader it ain't worth it lol

🤔🤨

almost as good as the Musket + Flintlock + Cannon at the top of the stairs loaded with Grapeshot

@@SoggiestBread Tally ho!

the classic 1.6 home defense..

we’re all on eco round though. i’m not force buying an awp

I was about to mention this. Shotguns are great for home defense

#4 buck will generally stay in your house depending on the distance, not making it through exterior walls, but it will damned sure remain lethal after passing through 2-3 interior walls. If you live alone that's fine. I've put all sorts of ammo through drywall, including setups with ballistic gel behind them, and inside your home a light softpoint .223/5.56 is best for minimizing collateral damage. The Winchester 64gr power-points I keep loaded up in my AR have consistently fragmented on their way through a single mock interior wall. Unimpeded they easily meet FBI/IWBA standards, bu run though a wall the resulting fragments have generally penetrated less than 4" of gel. In perspective, a .177 BB traveling 590fps should only penetrate 3.7" into proper calibrated gel.

@@CzechSixTv if you have a reduced #4 buck, you wont go through that many walls, same with a reduced 223. Kinda comparing apples to oranges

@@CzechSixTv I’m skeptical of that claim given Paul Harrell tested even rounds that don’t penetrate sufficiently to FBI standards and they still went clean through his setup, including the exterior wall. Even the 5.56 rounds that fragmented here only did so after a few walls.

@@blackhawk65589 Even the reduced recoil #4 buck I've tested has penetrated 10-12" of gel after passing through a single interior wall. The 64gr Power-Points I mentioned aren't 'reduced loads'. They are full power loads that meet FBI/IWBA standards, stopping right around 14.5" under normal gel testing procedures.

Look at me I have tiny arms

The G9 9mm that he tested is copper. Poly would probably break up on the 2nd or 3rd stud but wouldn't care about drywall. Frangible could be pretty good. By over-penetration, they mean after it's hit somebody first...

It’s all bullsh*t, anything other then a .22 will kill your neighbor.

@@Tap02 That is a good thing if it was your neighbor breaking in.

Frangible 5.56 is probably your best bet but if it's only drywall it's hitting it'll still go through a few before stopping.

These are usually talking about over penetration -IF- you hit a soft target

Especially Stone wool (roxul) being pretty thick compared to fiberglass

Insulation does nothing. Paul Harrell did a demonstration video on this already. It makes sense that it does nothing since insulation’s entire purpose is to trap air as a barrier to the transfer of energy. Naturally, small pockets of air do nothing.

I mean they did build to code? Maybe there is some insulation in there?

@@xavierwilmerng6317 insulation isn't code for interior walls only exterior

It doesn't make any difference. Paul Harrell has shot bullets thrown entire roll of insulation and it did nothing to the bullet.

Good idea

truth

How much ammo do they let you have?

@@Saku19 they dont give you ammo and only one magazine. That doesnt stop you from buying more of both though :)

#4 bird-#4 buck

I did research on this about 20 years ago, and if I remember straight, #4 buckshot passes through only 2 pieces of sheetrock (1 wall). I have always had it loaded in my home shotgun for that reason. It will devastate an intruder but very low risk of over penetration through walls.

@@Steven-gv1ke I just play it safe with #4 bird less penetration than buck but at home defense range it will shred tissue up bad

I'm a fan of #4 or #5 Turkey shot myself.

I'm also confused why they didn't test any birdshot. In one of their previous videos, they demonstrated that birdshot is lethal at 5 yards. I don't know about y'all but I don't have too many spots in my home with open space greater than 5 yards. I'm confident birdshot would have been the only thing to pass their test.

What kind if rifle rounds? Because the most common rifle caliber is 5.56, which penetrates less drywall than common pistol rounds.

​@TheManOWrath I used to do construction work for a living for 40 years. I've punched thru a wall before. I knew where the studs were. It was during demo work. Drywall isn't that strong. My pellet gun shot thru 5/8" plywood too. Air and 177 cal pellet!

Yes sir I agree. And then I see these 10. 20 year old trailer parks with all the single wides lined up in rows and I'm like oh man some starts shooting it could go really bad for the neighbors. 🤔🥃🤘

@@TheManOWrath Someone didn't watch the video.

00 buck shoots almost the same velocity and is almost exact same diameter so technically they did

@Jak Cummins sorry not true. 00 buck travels over 1300 fps which is over 300 fps faster than most .380 and 400fps faster than. 32 auto. But thanks.

Nobody has those

@99machinist99 1100 for federal vital shok. But please, oh snarky one, tell me more 😕

@@_boondock_9158 nobody has .380 auto? 🤣

Yeah that answer would be totally surprising..

Given that most European walls are alot more solid wouldn't be much of an answer. I mean most Europe builds houses our of brick, stone and concrete. USA builds out of wood.

Soviet walls =))))) Because they mostly made of reinforced concrete =)) Friend of mine made a negligent discharge in such kind of wall with a 5.45x45 (bullet without steel core - just a lead core) - and the result was a just a small dent in the wall =))

for the states, it would depend on the state and the age of the home. but euro walls will probably hold up better regardless. the most they have to worry about is rain. besides, they build strong and small, we build large and cheap.

@@Po6om_Bepmep I would gladly accept an eastern block style concrete wall as cover, but I would feel different behind a chinese made "reinforced concrete" wall. The difference between cover and concealment highly depends on the quality of the "concrete".

Frangible rounds are less lethal, not moreso.

​@@MiaogisTeasexpanding hunting rounds Are more lethal and will dump all their energy into someone.. do your research before talking

​@@Elias-xu7uwThe Vmax still penetrated 2 walls but did did the best.

Shooting a gas line would make things interesting....

I’d assume unless you are a really good shot that at least some shots would miss. I don’t think the bullets that are on target would have too much of an impact after exiting a body

@@rpk675 you’re more than likely correct, some shots would probably miss. It’s the shots that don’t miss that I’m curious about. I would like to see the velocity that different rounds have after dumping some kinetic energy. Would a ballistic tip dump most of its energy in the threat and not penetrate much after as apposed to a bonded round that tends to zip through most medians without extreme kinetic energy loss?

@@lanepollan477 That would be interesting for sure

Like you will hit every round? But still interesting I agreee

Right? Like lemme see the results after it passes through a dummy torso first.

Yup

Glad I could use a .50 if guns were legal here cuz the ceilings are made out of half a meter of steel concrete

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Lathe and plaster walls with a brick exterior stops .308. Barely. Anything more than that and it's gonna send through but it'd prob be broken up

while i agree that people should be trained in the ways of firearms... for me it is absolutely mindblowing that people can actually carry weapons, or use at their own properties. I've never met, heard or had any info about anybody who ever had to use a gun (but yeah I've always lived in European countries where even having a knife its considered an offense) hell the only altercation I've seen in more than 30 years was a punch in a bar....:D

Paul Harrel has a good one where he shoots through bookcases and the like

@@CK-xz6wv Thank you I will check that out.

Cheaper to let the guy just rob your house

Yes but get manufacturers to send a wall sample. Or partner with a build show.

True, but that also assumes you make every shot you take.

@@kaiudall2583if you train semi regularly hitting a 5’5-6ft x 24in target shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

@@dustinwatkins-vj1sx oh definitely. Shooting a non moving cardboard target is no problem.

​@@kaiudall2583FR what a joke. "I'm sure I'll never miss a shot on a home intruder, I dont need to clear MY back drop".... 😂

.50ae. A blunderbus filled with various objects. Bus stuff. Blunderbus stuff

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Frangible is made to break up when it hits metal. Not ideal for that purpose and suboptimal terminal ballistics, too.

Several other folks have tested frangible 5.56 rounds with drywall and it performs really well. Rapidly begins tumbling and fragmenting after the first wall it hits. The speed alone causes it to still pass thru however with much smaller fragments and highly destabilized.

I mentioned the results of a 5.56 frangible interceptor round through ballistics gel and walls in the overpenetration video I made. Surprisingly, it penetrated more than regular defense 5.56 rounds. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GmDsqPih6uw.html

great point

Not sure that it will make that much of a difference, but there will be some. the problem is there is still so much old construction out there, that it would take a lot of $$$ to make this right i.e. lathe & plaster walls, gypsum rock, brick walls, CMU walls, fiberglass shower walls, tile (bathrooms/kitchen), etc; and nevermind putting in the utilities that go inside them, i.e. plumbing (copper, CI pipe, ABS, CCPV), Cu/Al Wire, EMT/RMC conduit, sound deadining insulation, fire blocks, data (Cat5/6e) cable bundles, etc. This video was informative as it was, they were just going for a ball park sample data video; I give thumbs up

@@MR-nl8xr the insulation is all I’m curious on considering I spray closed cell foam for a living and know it will stop a 9 mm hollow at 5 inches thick

Insulation has little to no effect. There's other videos showing a 22lr going through a compressed role of insulation.

@@toddk1377 have you ever felt closed cell spray foam? It’s just as hard as wood plus we spray it 5 inches think up here in Maine it has a massive effect and 2 inches will stop a .22lr easily and sometimes bounces right off like metal and 5 inches will stop a 9mm

Depends on the barrel firing the round. Not saying it is the best but it can kill at distance.

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Free RC, he didn't do anything wrong! ✊

Hey kid wanna see this bullet wound from Bosnia?

Was gonna comment this but then saw your comment. Bump this comment up and let’s see them re-run the test!

@@stevexracer4309 true. Anything that can go through a bad guy will most certainly go through the wall after. But it would be interesting to see how much energy and damage the bullet is capable of after the fact.

Presumably, you're going to miss a few rounds. And random things like TVs are more of a best-case scenario, when you really want to think about the worst case scenario. If your entire wall is covered with books in a bookcase, that's one thing. But the odds you happen to hit that single, 900-page calculus book edge-on while point shooting at a random intruder at 3 AM aren't really worth considering.

@@GeekOfAllness IDK, you might hit that wire running through your house when you shoot at the guy's knees.

Maybe a ballistic dummy of a dog too ya know 😂

@@mortekaieve4729 my buddies uncles cousins dog was saved when a round hit the lead pipe in his plaster-on-lathe walls. Sadly the cat wasn't so lucky as it got the ricochet of the already tumbling 7.62 which put it on its 4th life.

ALL of the interior walls of my house are fully insulated. Unless the house is old, in the South most new construction in the last 20 years has insulated interior walls if the home is built by a reputable builder.

1000%

Just ran across some the other night that have a silicone bead in the tip to stop fowling, 100% guaranteed to expand in the bad guy. Price wasn't to bad either. $35 for 20 rounds.

@@robertsmith2956 You can also just fill the hollow point with hot glue, it will do the same for a lot cheaper. Especially if you handload.

5.45 will sail through like 5.56

There's an enormous difference between accuracy at a one-way gun range with your buddies and accuracy against a moving target trying to kill you in the dark, 5 seconds after you just woke up. Also, you've got people like me who simply can't afford the ammo to practice as much as we need to. A couple weeks ago, I ran through two mags of one pistol and one mag of a second pistol, aiming at 4-inch targets about 7 yards away. I hit about 75% with the first pistol, and got surprised because I forgot to modify my grip on the smaller frame, so my first round threw me off a bit and it took a couple seconds to remember. My nightstand gun is a full-frame pistol I wouldn't have that issue with, but it's still something I need to work on with my carry pistol (the one I was actually shooting). I hit about 50% on the second pistol, but it's also missing a rear sight so I'm not as worried about that one (I mainly wanted to see if it worked, since it was a piecemeal thing with all aftermarket parts). At 25 yards, I was hitting a 4-6 inch circle with an M4 (it literally says "M4" despite being what most would call an "AR15") while standing. That's enough to hit a bad guy in the house, but I used to shoot that well at 100 yards. The lack of practice over the last decade or so has gotten me rather rusty. My shooting is fine for typical self-defense, on paper. But that doesn't mean I can mag dump in a real fight without missing a round.