Videos tagged with Impact Velocity

This episode of the Gunwerks Long Range Pursuits Podcast features a deep dive into the 'Tiny A.F.' rifle, part of the Skunkwerks Project. The discussion, led by industry experts, focuses on the rifle's impressive ballistic performance despite its compact 11-inch barrel. They analyze bullet weight testing, powder combinations, and the cartridge's ability to maintain supersonic velocity at extended ranges.

This episode delves into the science of bullet selection for hunting, emphasizing that effective kills are achieved through exanguination (blood loss) by creating adequate wound cavities. The discussion categorizes bullets into expanding, match, and controlled expansion types, explaining their distinct performance characteristics based on upset distance, cavitation, and penetration. The importance of understanding a bullet's behavior at various impact velocities and ranges is highlighted, guiding hunters to make informed choices for ethical and successful harvests.

This video provides a detailed comparison between the 350 Legend and 450 Bushmaster cartridges, focusing on their performance against steel targets. The host, demonstrating high expertise through empirical testing, uses a custom 'Steel Sled V3' target holder and chronograph data to analyze impact velocity and penetration. The results highlight that while the 450 Bushmaster has higher muzzle energy, the 350 Legend's higher impact velocity at certain ranges can lead to superior penetration on specific steel thicknesses.

This "Daily Defense" episode delves into rifle ballistics, focusing on external ballistics and their impact on AR-15 platforms without complex math or graphs. It explains how gravity, air resistance (affected by temperature, altitude, and humidity), and height over bore influence bullet trajectory. Key concepts like initial intersection, maximum ordinate, and terminal intersection are detailed. The video also touches on terminal ballistics, highlighting how bullet velocity at impact and bullet fragmentation affect wounding capability and lethality in self-defense or hunting scenarios.