YouTube channel TAOFLEDERMAUS encourages its viewers to send in handmade ammunition to practice shooting with. Posted on 07/21/2017 5:56:09 AM PDT by w1n1
YouTube channel TAOFLEDERMAUS encourages its viewers to send in handmade ammunition to practice shooting with.
In one of their videos, one viewer called Sam came up with the idea to create glass shotgun slugs and sent them in. Basically they wanted to see whether the glass slugs would survive the intense shock of being shot out of a gun and hit what they’re aiming at.
You might think that firing something made of glass wouldn’t work very well. The creator of these glass slugs did a great job and to add to its destructive capabilities, there’s a nail hidden inside it.
TAOFLEDERMAUS put these glass slugs through the ringer up against a block of clay and a Kevlar Level III vest. The slugs totally shattered the block of clay and the pulverized glass went through the vest. See the full glass shotgun slugs video here
Sorry, I goofed on the title, should read
Glass Shotgun Slugs are Devastating
Mr. GG2 makes cheap and deadly slugs out of wax. They work great.
Just FYI. . .
An X-ray can’t see glass fragments in a body.
It’s been known for quite a while that glass projectiles could hurt/kill and making things worse was the fact docs couldn’t see the pieces parts inside a body. That is why Geneva Conventions prohibit during war the use of glass projectiles.
I alternate 00 buck with sabot-loaded Barnes solid copper hollow point slugs. Never had the chance to test that loadout in a social situation, but the way things are going...
bfl
Yeah, and try to 'splain to a jury of "dindu nuffins" why you used glass bullets to an aspiring rap star. Use what your state police use and say "If its good enough for them....."
Interesting. . .hollow-points are also prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.
Note these restriction apply in war, not police.
Makes sense. . .sorta. . .well. . .maybe not.
There’s nothing in the Geneva Conventions about ammunition or bullets, and there’s nothing in the Hague Conventions specifically prohibiting hollow points or glass bullets. American snipers long have used open-tip match projectiles (such as the Sierra MatchKing), which is a hollow point (albeit a small one) that has been deemed by the Judge Advocates General of the US Army and the Marine Corps not to contravene the Hague Conventions’ rules on ammunition. Snake Eaters have been approved to use full-fledged hollow point handgun ammunition since ca. 2010 and the JAGs are re-evaluating whether it might be lawful also to arm conventional forces hollow points.
When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, one of the major things that shocked the high command was the Russian's excessive use of explosive rounds (dum-dum bullets). In certain captured Soviet units it was found that 20% of Russian soldiers had this type of ammo on them.
These rounds caused huge wounds on German troops and were responsible for higher than normal KIA among the Germans.
Nope.
The Conventions were more about hamstringing the UK than making sense. Portugal had a lead-tipped bullet, and nobody cared.
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