How Strong are Bullets? Hydraulic Press Test!

How strong are bullets? We are going to use our 150 ton Hydraulic Press and 150 ton force sensor to find out. In this viral video we are going to crush .22, 9 mm, 10 mm .222 remington, 7.62 mm / ak47 bullet, .308 rifle bullet and .338 Lapua Magnum sniper rifle bullets.

All things that are crushed in this video are just bullets. Not any actual ammunition or guns are involved on the video in any way of form. Don't try this at home, crushing metal objects can be dangerous.


Do not try this at home!! or at any where else!!

Music Thor's Hammer-Ethan Meixell

[Fubo]

Seeing the copper jacket rip and the lead squeeze out is so satisfying.

[remirussin]

I’ll never get tired of watching metal behave like play doh

[juststeve]

Now go throw them round a crime scene and confuse the hell out of the forensics team! :-D

[YTDaimera]

There's something oddly enticing about the jacket splitting and the lead oozing out, like some sort of forbidden metal candy.

[CrispyToast]

It cost $400, 000 to crush tiny baby bullet... for 12 seconds.

[The_Keeper]

7:17
Imagine being a Forensic Ballistics Expert, and seeing that at a crime scene.
You'd be wondering just what the in the hells happened there.

[anoninunen]

3:30 - "For hunting small animals like bears"

[bluedog]

“Don’t try this at home”

Well, I couldn’t even do it if I wanted to. I don’t have a hydraulic press lying around

[sivathenu]

Now armies don't need bulletproof vests but HYDRAULIC PRESS 🙄

[ReverendTed]

The reason they're soft is to maximize energy transfer (and tissue damage) while minimizing overpenetration. A rigid round is more likely to just drill a hole right through the target and continue on, potentially through walls and objects that may have non-targets behind them. A soft round will deform and squish on impact. If it stays in the target, then you know transferred all of its kinetic energy. Further, when it flattens out it creates a larger internal wound, though this is more pronounced with rounds designed for that purpose like hollowpoints. Finally, a soft outer coating allows the round to engage the twisted rifling in the barrel, imparting a stabilizing spin to the bullet.

[tomcat]

When the world needed him most, he returned

[knifetoucher]

unless they are armor piercing, bullets aren't made to be strong, they are made to be dense and soft so they deform on flesh and cause maximum damage

[ollilaine]

Next video: "How Strong are Tank Shells? - Donation link if you want to help with the damage caused"

[MrBern]

Not gonna lie... When the lead breaks out of the jacket it looks pretty damn delicious! xD

[semibreve]

Hahahaha the hard cut after the failed vertical attempts and then just "ok COMPROMISE"

[neisseriagonorrhoeae]

that creamy lead filling looks so yummy indeed

[bubbajenkins]

I hope you saved all the gunpowder and primers for something fun for the Beyond the Press channel

[spudhead]

And to test these rounds were going to use the hydraulic press. Now for those who haven't seen it before it's a vertical fluid driven shaft, hardened steel upper tool, steel lower tool, a table to simulate shock absorption and all this followed by the new and improved high tech force sensor.

So how'd we do? Well one projectile flew out of the press onto the floor and I couldn't find it. But you can see from the ones I did recover, that we got some excellent expansion.

[Dsdcain]

Imagine this happening in fractions of a second when these are fired at steel targets. They just hit and splash out more or less in all directions.
Pretty good seeing it happen slowly for a change. 😊

[daveangels]

Nice to see the oxidation peel off the 22 in the first crush