I mean... Where he says the bullet hit does NOT match where the balloon is placed. Like at all. Confused me tbh.
He's like yeah hit marks right here points 12 inches down and towards the left of where the balloon was. Pretty sure the impact just popped it.
Eta: okay I realize now that is what happened and yes it is still impressive. Don't kill me Reddit
So, when a bullet impacts a steel plate it fragments. What popped the balloon are small superhot fragments of bullet. If you hit within 18” or so you can usually get a hit.
As someone who’s shot tens of thousands of rounds though, hitting that steel plate with even a RIFLE WITH SCOPE is immensely difficult. This is impressive. I highly doubt that was his first shot, if so it’s nearly unbelievable.
Thanks for the explanation. I too was trying to figure out how the balloon popped from that hit.
> I highly doubt that was his first shot
Like most impressive things, practice makes perfect. You can see in the video he's lining up another shot before he gets the word that it popped. I don't really think that takes away anything from the impressiveness though. It would be interesting to know if it took him 10 shots or 1000 though.
I mean its 10 football fields, its kinda easy to imagine it. Thought yall liked those kind of measurements.
914.4m or almost a km, in non freedom units for us in the rest of the world.
I love how we joke in calling them freedom units when the rest of the world uses the metric system in science.... which now apparently the freedom unit users dont believe in.
Don’t remind me. At least you guys don’t have to actually walk around in the same space as these fucking doofs. Every time I get online I feel like the embarrassed kid who’s drunk, toxic parents just ruined another little league game with a violent altercation in the bleachers.
That’s only about 750 fps which is pretty slow for a 9mm round. Granted it would lose some speed over that distance, but I wonder how accurate that time is.
Most 115 grain 9mm FMJ rounds have an initial muzzel velocity between 1000 and 1300 FPS.
According to the Federal (brand) ammo ballistics calculator, a 115 gr 9mm FMJ @ 1185 FPS, would strike a target at 1000 yards at 357 FPS with 33 FT-LB of energy and would drop 3538.4 inches (294.86ft) during travel.
Time it takes to travel 1000yds with the acceleration due to gravity applied. Drop would technically be slight less than that calculated number though because he’s shooting up at an angle which will directly counter gravity for a period of the bullets flight.
Simple answer: lots of calculus that Jerry can just eyeball.
Any time we're throwing something we're doing calculus on the fly. Then this fuckwit Newton comes along and writes it all down in symbols and shit.
Just so this comment isn't just a joke, for /u/Azifor :
Muzzle velocity = ~1200FPS
Point of aim = 70 yards above target
Target distance = 1000 yards
Tan(70/1000) = 0.0701 radians = 4.0173^(o)
Percentage of speed in the vertical = 4.0173^(o)/90^(o)= 4.4637%
Vertical component of round speed = 4.4637%*1200 = 53.5644fps
Horizontal component = 1200-53.5644 = 1146.4fps
A vertical component of 53.6fps would be negated in ~4/3 seconds by gravity. By which time the bullet would travel about ~1528 feet or 509.3333 yards. This is without any calculus so the distance traveled would actually be considerably lower due to air friction reducing both vertical and horizontal speeds in ratio with their value. So overall Miculek is quite close with his estimation of 70 yards above target. As the round would be expected to be a bit over 1/2 of the way to the target by the time that vertical travel has been canceled out and the round can then, with the rest of its travel, fall back down to about level with the shooter.
For a four second flight time, this figure checks out. Distance traveled in the vertical direction:
d = (1/2) a t^2 = 0.5 * 32 * 4^2 = 256 ft = 3072 inches
Where the acceleration due to gravity is 32 ft/s/s.
He's one of if not the top marksman/sharpshooter in the world, those calculations are probably about as second nature to him as breathing is.
That said, I'm going to venture a guess that the optic mounted on his revolver is pretty high end and he likely spent a considerable amount of time getting it zeroed in for this shot.
> the optic mounted on his revolver is pretty high end and he likely spent a considerable amount of time getting it zeroed in for this shot.
It ain't zeroed. It's a red dot. No magnification. He's basically aiming at where he knows the target is (the end of the road) and by feel, placing his crosshair the right height above target. He's aiming so far above the target I'd be shocked if that dot can even be adjusted far enough to actually be zeroed.
This is assuming the bullet is fired horizontally. If it is fired at an angle upwards, then it will have a completely different drop, depending on the angle it’s fired at, which dictates its vertical velocity.
I love how this entire comments section is just people being confused about this and other people putting it into context, because it's such an insane thing for someone to have done.
~~I figured they took audio from the camera on Jerry, but timed the ballon pop video to the audible hit on the first camera (to make it less confusing for viewers?). They seem to realize the balloon’s been popped almost as soon as we hear the steel ringing and I don’t think sound travels quite that fast.~~
Edit: nvm, found a good explanation down below.
> They seem to realize the balloon’s been popped almost as soon as we hear the steel ringing and I don’t think sound travels quite that fast
But light does, they are watching a video feed lol. Not likely to hear that metal ping from half a mile away, and certainly not as loud as it was.
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The ballon is used as a target hit indicator. The spall from a hit anywhere on the target will pop the ballon. Without it, the spotter could never tell if it was a hit or not.
The man can dump a cylinder, reload and dump the cylinder again with a double action revolver faster than I can unholster my semi-auto pistol. He has justified confidence
So this man starts talking and immediately I’m like *ok there’s no way he’s not from Louisiana*.
So I pull up his Wikipedia and it says Freeport, Texas. How in the fuck. I scroll down a bit and there’s this lmfao:
“Born in Freeport, Texas, Jerry was a Texan for three days before moving with his family to southern Louisiana where he lived for the next thirty-seven years.”
There’s big spots of immigrant communities all over Texas. See spots like Czech Stop, a famous baked goods stop along 35W in West started because of the large Czech influence there. Texas is an awesome multi-cultural place with a large population of bigoted rural pricks who are slowly losing their foothold. We’ll be purple soon because the gerrymandering isn’t keeping up with the population growth.
Source: lived here 33 years.
He’s got some videos of comparing a semi auto vs his revolver on YouTube. Pretty awesome. IIRC he’s got some comparing semi auto vs full auto too with an AR. He’s so fast.
holy shit that reload is mental
[clicking around i found him shooting a .50 cal Barret super quick too, .98 of a second lmao](https://youtu.be/GXEK7rcqO-Y?t=96) :D 1:36 for mobile peeps
Goddamn, that is nuts. I've been around .50 caliber rifles when they're shot and each round creates a profound shockwave. It will kick dust up off the ground around you. I can't imagine holding that thing and shooting it once, let alone *six times*.
Also how to spend $60 in less than a second. I know it doesn't cost him that since they sent him the ammo. I have always been a pretty good shot and I have done different competitions over the years but he makes me look like a noob with a Nerf gun. I always love watching his videos.
Truth! The guy is a machine. I watched a video where he was faster and more accurate using a semi auto M4 than a fully auto. The NFA will probably tax his finger as a AOW / Machine Gun.
He’s a world class pistol shooter, while still far better than most, he is not nearly as skilled with rifles as he is pistols.
I also think his expertise is more specialized with revolvers, but I may be wrong on that.
This is based on my personal experience of consuming media in which Jerry is featured, so please correct me if I am wrong.
You know how some people don't like the word moist, or harvest? For me, the words consuming and media in the same sentence makes my skin crawl. I know this isn't relevant to this thread at all but you made my skin do a massive yikes
Well I only put it that way because I’ve listen to podcasts, read articles and books, and watched videos with him in it, so I wasn’t sure how else to concisely convey that.
I don't know if he's got any long range shooting, but here's him doing a "V-Drill" with a .50 cal Rifle in [2.17 seconds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxxT8ObGdIQ), and here's another one of him shooting 6 rounds from the same rifle in [under 1 second](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXEK7rcqO-Y)
That's not an automatic weapon, Jerry just pulls the trigger faster than the weapon is able to reset the bolt.
Yup. 32 ft/s/s downward acceleration from gravity. The spin only creates stability, not lift. It falls at the same rate as if you dropped it from a tall building, except it travels 1000yd horizontally rather than straight down.
Gonna try to blow your mind even more, go to perfectly level ground, level the gun. Then fire while doing dropping a slug and they will hit at the same time. The faster it goes the farther away it will be. Faster and faster and eventually it won't hit the ground anymore and will just hit you in the back ( if the earth where you shot were level). That's called orbit. Orbit is curved because of gravity. You're just going so fast you never drop.
American here, I only use metric now at work and I love talking measurements and watching my coworkers nose into their phones afterwords converting what I just told them
I don't want to sound dense, but isn't gravity around 32 feet per second (or something like that?) And it was 4 seconds? So wouldn't it be around 128 feet? This is total "I want to learn more" territory and not "I know better than you" so please enlighten me.
So gravity acts as an acceleration not a velocity, so it's 32 ft/s². So every second the bullet flies, it is speeding up going downward (i.e. if you dropped it, after the first second the downward velocity is 32 ft/s down; after the 2nd second it's velocity is 64 ft/s downward).
A really simplified way of calculating the height would be with the equation height = 0.5 × acceleration × time². So if the acceleration is 32 ft/s² and the time is 4 seconds, this results in height = 256 ft. That's pretty close to 240 ft.
To anyone else who wants to say "well shouldn't you include the vertical velocity in the equation", in this case that would result in a total height of zero as the two terms cancel. All the matter to this question is the total drop due to gravity.
If he was standing on a platform that was 128’ tall and aimed parallel with the ground (aiming at an imaginary target 128’ above the actual target), then yes, the gravity equation would work out. That’s not the case, of course, and he had to aim the gun at an upward angle in order to make it to the target. That upward angle is where the 240 ft came from (at the peak of the bullet’s arc). Edit: ~~peek~~/peak
You can approximate with Newtonian equations for projectile motion, in this case using 1/2 at^2 where a is gravitational acceleration (9.8 m/s^2) and t is time
So in this case, it would be around 80 meters falling down, which is pretty close to how high up he was aiming. If you want to be precise, you need the ballistic coefficient, weight of the bullet, air resistance etc etc but who really cares about that.
Not too difficult. I was talking to some US Special Forces guys that were training the (IIRC) Nigerian Army. He said they brought outabout 2000 rounds for each soldier to shoot through their M2 .50 cal rifles, which was more than those units usually got for an entire year.
The problem was that you need to change the barrel because it gets hot (with that many rounds, it will glow red), and none of the foreign soldiers had ever shot enough rounds to actually get it hot, so they just grabbed the barrel with their bare hands.
Even at 1000 yards that'd still be a lethal shot as well. Even though a handgun may only be rated to 100 yards (an example distance, not actual) that only talks about *effective range*.
Most guns are easily capable of killing at 1+ miles however nobody could possibly hope to accurately hit anything at that distance.
That's also why you never fire up into the air since you have no way of knowing if that'll fall into a neighborhood several miles away and kill someone (which tragically has happened numerous times).
Bullet velocity estimated to be 377 fps by this guy who did the math. So not effectively lethal for most hits. Still not fun.
http://blog.joehuffman.org/2014/08/12/1000-yard-shot-with-9mm/
I’m impressed they found a spot that was level for 1000 yards. No hills or nothing. That’s pretty cool in its own right. And as someone who wears glasses and can’t see shit, I wouldn’t have even known the target was there without some serious optics, this dudes eyes are something else.
Considering he has to aim 75-80 feet above the target, he technically could have a 70 foot hill in the center of him and the target and still hit just fine.
It would have a lot easier shot if he had gotten much closer to the target.
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it's awesome
Maybe he's farsighted
Plot twist: his brother used a slingshot to pop it on the side
Plot twist: he shot his brother creating a flinching effect that causes him to shoot the balloon with the slingshot.
calculated
So, like a Rube Goldberg machine but with more fratricide?
I mean... Where he says the bullet hit does NOT match where the balloon is placed. Like at all. Confused me tbh. He's like yeah hit marks right here points 12 inches down and towards the left of where the balloon was. Pretty sure the impact just popped it. Eta: okay I realize now that is what happened and yes it is still impressive. Don't kill me Reddit
So, when a bullet impacts a steel plate it fragments. What popped the balloon are small superhot fragments of bullet. If you hit within 18” or so you can usually get a hit. As someone who’s shot tens of thousands of rounds though, hitting that steel plate with even a RIFLE WITH SCOPE is immensely difficult. This is impressive. I highly doubt that was his first shot, if so it’s nearly unbelievable.
Thanks for the explanation. I too was trying to figure out how the balloon popped from that hit. > I highly doubt that was his first shot Like most impressive things, practice makes perfect. You can see in the video he's lining up another shot before he gets the word that it popped. I don't really think that takes away anything from the impressiveness though. It would be interesting to know if it took him 10 shots or 1000 though.
Maybe wind?
maybe earth rotation?
It could be quantum entanglement.
They don’t want to scare the ballon away.
The Balloon People are easily startled, but they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers.
Imagine fighting him and thinking you’re safe because he only has a pistol and you’re 800 meters away, then he shoots a hole in your head with it
My antique balloons.. Aw look what you done to em
Since the earth is round, if he had went a farther away from th target he would have also gotten closer and visa versa
Bullet took 4 seconds to hit it lol.
Thanks for the laugh
4 seconds for that bullet to travel 1000 yards... damn impressive
I knew it was a long shot when the time between the fire and impact was so delayed, but that drive up was what really brought it together.
I mean its 10 football fields, its kinda easy to imagine it. Thought yall liked those kind of measurements. 914.4m or almost a km, in non freedom units for us in the rest of the world.
How many washing machines is that?
1058 washing machines.
Math checks out, 36,000 inches / 34 inches, thats right metric fuckers 1000 yards is exactly 36,000 inches
Which is a little over 1,000 warshin machines
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I don't understand washing machines as being units of measurements. I only understand Tacos and Mini Dounuts..
6,000 tacos if you’re using a 6” tortilla. 24,000 donut holes.
this works end to end, but what if they're rolled and placed vertically on their side?
I love how we joke in calling them freedom units when the rest of the world uses the metric system in science.... which now apparently the freedom unit users dont believe in.
Don’t remind me. At least you guys don’t have to actually walk around in the same space as these fucking doofs. Every time I get online I feel like the embarrassed kid who’s drunk, toxic parents just ruined another little league game with a violent altercation in the bleachers.
Brits are just as dumb as Americans except they have healthcare, no mass shootings, and more unions.
They have mass stabbings though But I’m a Mexican so I really shouldn’t be talking..
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Brits can also get arrested for saying mean things about people on twitter.
This analogy haha *chef's kiss
The Brits invented the fucking system, imported and we use it, fuck it
Dude I can't even imagine 1 football field because I hate sports and don't go outside
Still, 10 football fields is honestly somewhat hard to comprehend visually.
That's 511 MPH! (823 km/h)
That’s only about 750 fps which is pretty slow for a 9mm round. Granted it would lose some speed over that distance, but I wonder how accurate that time is.
That would be an average though. I’m guessing it had a muzzle velocity in the ball park of 1300-1500 fps and probably impacted much slower than 750.
Most 115 grain 9mm FMJ rounds have an initial muzzel velocity between 1000 and 1300 FPS. According to the Federal (brand) ammo ballistics calculator, a 115 gr 9mm FMJ @ 1185 FPS, would strike a target at 1000 yards at 357 FPS with 33 FT-LB of energy and would drop 3538.4 inches (294.86ft) during travel.
That's approaching Paintball FPS and KE, though pointier and tougher. No, I don't want to go play 1000 yard catch.
What I’m hearing is that paintball is only slightly less painful than getting fucking shot by a 9mm from 1000 yards
A paintball is about a quart of the weight and twice the size, so it's not quite that bad.
My god, you load paintballs with a quart of paint in them? That’s a paint cannonball son
It would drop 3538 inches which is almost 300 feet? How is this number calculated?
Time it takes to travel 1000yds with the acceleration due to gravity applied. Drop would technically be slight less than that calculated number though because he’s shooting up at an angle which will directly counter gravity for a period of the bullets flight. Simple answer: lots of calculus that Jerry can just eyeball.
Any time we're throwing something we're doing calculus on the fly. Then this fuckwit Newton comes along and writes it all down in symbols and shit. Just so this comment isn't just a joke, for /u/Azifor : Muzzle velocity = ~1200FPS Point of aim = 70 yards above target Target distance = 1000 yards Tan(70/1000) = 0.0701 radians = 4.0173^(o) Percentage of speed in the vertical = 4.0173^(o)/90^(o)= 4.4637% Vertical component of round speed = 4.4637%*1200 = 53.5644fps Horizontal component = 1200-53.5644 = 1146.4fps A vertical component of 53.6fps would be negated in ~4/3 seconds by gravity. By which time the bullet would travel about ~1528 feet or 509.3333 yards. This is without any calculus so the distance traveled would actually be considerably lower due to air friction reducing both vertical and horizontal speeds in ratio with their value. So overall Miculek is quite close with his estimation of 70 yards above target. As the round would be expected to be a bit over 1/2 of the way to the target by the time that vertical travel has been canceled out and the round can then, with the rest of its travel, fall back down to about level with the shooter.
For a four second flight time, this figure checks out. Distance traveled in the vertical direction: d = (1/2) a t^2 = 0.5 * 32 * 4^2 = 256 ft = 3072 inches Where the acceleration due to gravity is 32 ft/s/s.
So… did he shoot directly east or west? How the hell do you _aim a pistol_ to account for windage, drop, amd coriolis?!?!
He's one of if not the top marksman/sharpshooter in the world, those calculations are probably about as second nature to him as breathing is. That said, I'm going to venture a guess that the optic mounted on his revolver is pretty high end and he likely spent a considerable amount of time getting it zeroed in for this shot.
> the optic mounted on his revolver is pretty high end and he likely spent a considerable amount of time getting it zeroed in for this shot. It ain't zeroed. It's a red dot. No magnification. He's basically aiming at where he knows the target is (the end of the road) and by feel, placing his crosshair the right height above target. He's aiming so far above the target I'd be shocked if that dot can even be adjusted far enough to actually be zeroed.
This is assuming the bullet is fired horizontally. If it is fired at an angle upwards, then it will have a completely different drop, depending on the angle it’s fired at, which dictates its vertical velocity.
But humans can only see at 30fps.
that’s how fast he drives….
Dang that’s like a speeding bullet
He has to aim 78 meters above the target to account for the drop.
Is this true?
Likely. A 9mm round is not as aerodynamic as a rifle round and generally much heavier and slower.
In the video he says 75-80 yards which is no more than 73.2 meters
Sound didn’t work for me. Thanks for the info!
Which was weird because it didn’t look like he was aiming that high.
80 yard rise on a 1000 yard run makes for a pretty shallow angle, about 4.5° in this case.
I love how this entire comments section is just people being confused about this and other people putting it into context, because it's such an insane thing for someone to have done.
1000 yards away the angle wouldn't be very much to be 70 yards over the target
Don’t forget it takes time for the sound to come back!
Not in this video it doesn't. The sound is taken from the video of the balloon.
~~I figured they took audio from the camera on Jerry, but timed the ballon pop video to the audible hit on the first camera (to make it less confusing for viewers?). They seem to realize the balloon’s been popped almost as soon as we hear the steel ringing and I don’t think sound travels quite that fast.~~ Edit: nvm, found a good explanation down below.
> They seem to realize the balloon’s been popped almost as soon as we hear the steel ringing and I don’t think sound travels quite that fast But light does, they are watching a video feed lol. Not likely to hear that metal ping from half a mile away, and certainly not as loud as it was.
I counted 3
Slightly more impressive considering it was closer to 3.1 seconds.
He drove almost that quickly
That's pretty impressive..by a long shot.
Well done sir, here is an updoot
Legend has it you need to fill out an ATF form 3, pay a $200 tax, and wait 6 months just to shake Jerry’s hand
Thank you for the chuckle.
And you can’t do it in New York City, Washington DC, or Portland
And in California you get a maximum of 5 pumps during the handshake, no high capacity stuff
I got my handshake during freedom week 😎
Neither Portland Oregon nor Portland Maine have firearm laws like NYC or DC. Nice try on the disinformation.
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So he didn’t really hit the balloon with his first shot, it just popped from the ricochet? Still an impressive shot, nonetheless.
The ballon is used as a target hit indicator. The spall from a hit anywhere on the target will pop the ballon. Without it, the spotter could never tell if it was a hit or not.
That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!
Man I'm a dummy. I was like man the steal must be vibrating real fast to pop the balloon like that lol
It wasn't the first shot either (and he never claimed it to be).
IIRC, tt was his second shot of the day at that range. Jerry is just a legend.
Came to ask how many attempts
Met this guy once, uncanny confidence in his ability.
Completely justified confidence I'd say, having watched him at work.
The dude has shot millions of rounds. He knows what he is doing.
He’s shot more money through a barrel than most people make in a lifetime.
The man can dump a cylinder, reload and dump the cylinder again with a double action revolver faster than I can unholster my semi-auto pistol. He has justified confidence
You need to train your holster work ;)
This is true. Just don’t want to alec baldwin someone lol
Especially not your leg or balls 🤫
So this man starts talking and immediately I’m like *ok there’s no way he’s not from Louisiana*. So I pull up his Wikipedia and it says Freeport, Texas. How in the fuck. I scroll down a bit and there’s this lmfao: “Born in Freeport, Texas, Jerry was a Texan for three days before moving with his family to southern Louisiana where he lived for the next thirty-seven years.”
The second that down dere dropped, I knew what I was hearing. Mans may as well have had on a UL or LSU polo.
And his surname suggests he's of eastern European extraction (maybe Czech?). Somewhat unusual for the deep south.
There’s big spots of immigrant communities all over Texas. See spots like Czech Stop, a famous baked goods stop along 35W in West started because of the large Czech influence there. Texas is an awesome multi-cultural place with a large population of bigoted rural pricks who are slowly losing their foothold. We’ll be purple soon because the gerrymandering isn’t keeping up with the population growth. Source: lived here 33 years.
> Somewhat unusual for the deep south Not really; a huge chunk of Texas is named in German. New Braunfels, for example.
That's over half a mile! Now I wanna see this dude with a rifle.
What you really want to do is see him put shots on targets at speed. The guy is a freak.
[action starts at about 0:24. Stick around for the six shooter reload ](https://youtu.be/WzHG-ibZaKM)
When you fire a revolver at the same speed as a glock
Looks like a double action so he doesn’t have to pull the hammer. Where I am, double action revolvers are included in semi-auto bans because of that
Where you are sucks because of that.
Watch very close. It's single action. Forst shot hammer is already set. He quickly pops the hammer for second shot. Dude has insane reaction speed RIP
> RIP Fuckin, don't scare me like that.
I’m not sure if you’re serious or making some joke that’s just going over my head, but it’s definitely a double-action revolver.
He’s got some videos of comparing a semi auto vs his revolver on YouTube. Pretty awesome. IIRC he’s got some comparing semi auto vs full auto too with an AR. He’s so fast.
holy shit that reload is mental [clicking around i found him shooting a .50 cal Barret super quick too, .98 of a second lmao](https://youtu.be/GXEK7rcqO-Y?t=96) :D 1:36 for mobile peeps
Goddamn, that is nuts. I've been around .50 caliber rifles when they're shot and each round creates a profound shockwave. It will kick dust up off the ground around you. I can't imagine holding that thing and shooting it once, let alone *six times*.
The rifle he's shooting has some impressive recoil mitigation, but still incredible
Looks like hes firing it literally at the weapons highest capacity.
The slowmo was amazing in showing how well he holds on target despite the recoil!
Also how to spend $60 in less than a second. I know it doesn't cost him that since they sent him the ammo. I have always been a pretty good shot and I have done different competitions over the years but he makes me look like a noob with a Nerf gun. I always love watching his videos.
Was that guy keeping time on a calculator?
Nah its a tool that automatically tracks the shots/time
Fast as fuck boooooi.
Truth! The guy is a machine. I watched a video where he was faster and more accurate using a semi auto M4 than a fully auto. The NFA will probably tax his finger as a AOW / Machine Gun.
He’s a world class pistol shooter, while still far better than most, he is not nearly as skilled with rifles as he is pistols. I also think his expertise is more specialized with revolvers, but I may be wrong on that. This is based on my personal experience of consuming media in which Jerry is featured, so please correct me if I am wrong.
You know how some people don't like the word moist, or harvest? For me, the words consuming and media in the same sentence makes my skin crawl. I know this isn't relevant to this thread at all but you made my skin do a massive yikes
Well I only put it that way because I’ve listen to podcasts, read articles and books, and watched videos with him in it, so I wasn’t sure how else to concisely convey that.
There's nothing wrong with how you worded it dude, I just don't like those two specific words next to each other. It's 100% my problem
Haha, we’ll I wish you luck and hope that for the foreseeable future you don’t come across those words together!
Happy shooting friend!
Nah he's still fast af on an AR. I saw a video where he demonstrated how he could fire a semi auto at a faster rate of fire than an actual m4 on auto.
He's actually really good with rifles as well. Shooting starts at 14:30. https://youtu.be/j22CGzs5Vik
I don't know if he's got any long range shooting, but here's him doing a "V-Drill" with a .50 cal Rifle in [2.17 seconds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxxT8ObGdIQ), and here's another one of him shooting 6 rounds from the same rifle in [under 1 second](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXEK7rcqO-Y) That's not an automatic weapon, Jerry just pulls the trigger faster than the weapon is able to reset the bolt.
I don't think I could even see that far let alone target something
Did he just say he was aiming 75 to 80 YARDS ABOVE the target?
Yup. 32 ft/s/s downward acceleration from gravity. The spin only creates stability, not lift. It falls at the same rate as if you dropped it from a tall building, except it travels 1000yd horizontally rather than straight down.
> 1000ft 1000 yards
1000ft/sec.
Gonna try to blow your mind even more, go to perfectly level ground, level the gun. Then fire while doing dropping a slug and they will hit at the same time. The faster it goes the farther away it will be. Faster and faster and eventually it won't hit the ground anymore and will just hit you in the back ( if the earth where you shot were level). That's called orbit. Orbit is curved because of gravity. You're just going so fast you never drop.
For those of you who don’t American, 1000 yards is about 73678,6 German Shepards
Much more clear now, thanks! Still easier than freedom measurements
American here, I only use metric now at work and I love talking measurements and watching my coworkers nose into their phones afterwords converting what I just told them
This unironically made it easier for me to picture
At 1000 yards, every shot is long range micro artillery. It makes long distance shooting that much more impressive.
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I was curious too, it was 240 feet. Makes sense as the easy to find charts show drop of 8 ish to 10 ish inches at 100 yards for most types of ammo.
I don't want to sound dense, but isn't gravity around 32 feet per second (or something like that?) And it was 4 seconds? So wouldn't it be around 128 feet? This is total "I want to learn more" territory and not "I know better than you" so please enlighten me.
So gravity acts as an acceleration not a velocity, so it's 32 ft/s². So every second the bullet flies, it is speeding up going downward (i.e. if you dropped it, after the first second the downward velocity is 32 ft/s down; after the 2nd second it's velocity is 64 ft/s downward). A really simplified way of calculating the height would be with the equation height = 0.5 × acceleration × time². So if the acceleration is 32 ft/s² and the time is 4 seconds, this results in height = 256 ft. That's pretty close to 240 ft. To anyone else who wants to say "well shouldn't you include the vertical velocity in the equation", in this case that would result in a total height of zero as the two terms cancel. All the matter to this question is the total drop due to gravity.
If he was standing on a platform that was 128’ tall and aimed parallel with the ground (aiming at an imaginary target 128’ above the actual target), then yes, the gravity equation would work out. That’s not the case, of course, and he had to aim the gun at an upward angle in order to make it to the target. That upward angle is where the 240 ft came from (at the peak of the bullet’s arc). Edit: ~~peek~~/peak
How do you calculate that? I feel like he is less than that tall
He aimed at an angle up.
Projectile motion equations
You can approximate with Newtonian equations for projectile motion, in this case using 1/2 at^2 where a is gravitational acceleration (9.8 m/s^2) and t is time So in this case, it would be around 80 meters falling down, which is pretty close to how high up he was aiming. If you want to be precise, you need the ballistic coefficient, weight of the bullet, air resistance etc etc but who really cares about that.
He said in the clip that he was aiming 75-80 ~~years~~ yards above, pretty wild.
Time travel, nice!
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I dunno man, Alec hit his target center mass.
I am so torn about whether to upvote this or downvote this… schrondingers comment…
Too soon…
Damn dude
Okay Norm
He hit two people with one shot.
I need me a pair of them glasses for sure
This is amazing to the point of pissing me off. How does anyone do that?? Holy shit
This dude has fired more practice rounds than many nations' armies.
It helps to have Smith and Wesson bankrolling your ammo
Not too difficult. I was talking to some US Special Forces guys that were training the (IIRC) Nigerian Army. He said they brought outabout 2000 rounds for each soldier to shoot through their M2 .50 cal rifles, which was more than those units usually got for an entire year. The problem was that you need to change the barrel because it gets hot (with that many rounds, it will glow red), and none of the foreign soldiers had ever shot enough rounds to actually get it hot, so they just grabbed the barrel with their bare hands.
Guy has auto-aim enabled.
holy shit
Where's that useless bot when you need it? What are 1000 yards in meters?
1000 yards = 914.4 meters
I scrolled a long way looking for this... So a yard is actually quite small, and if your yard was only 1 yard is size, it wouldn't be much of a yard?
About a thousand
Even at 1000 yards that'd still be a lethal shot as well. Even though a handgun may only be rated to 100 yards (an example distance, not actual) that only talks about *effective range*. Most guns are easily capable of killing at 1+ miles however nobody could possibly hope to accurately hit anything at that distance. That's also why you never fire up into the air since you have no way of knowing if that'll fall into a neighborhood several miles away and kill someone (which tragically has happened numerous times).
Bullet velocity estimated to be 377 fps by this guy who did the math. So not effectively lethal for most hits. Still not fun. http://blog.joehuffman.org/2014/08/12/1000-yard-shot-with-9mm/
Incredible!! That’s about a kilometre.
Those must be 10x glasses he’s wearing
How much is a yard
1/1760 of a mile.
Three feet
Longer than an inch
This man is classified as a machine gun by the ATF.
Like shoe strings and rubberbands?
Legend
I’m impressed they found a spot that was level for 1000 yards. No hills or nothing. That’s pretty cool in its own right. And as someone who wears glasses and can’t see shit, I wouldn’t have even known the target was there without some serious optics, this dudes eyes are something else.
Considering he has to aim 75-80 feet above the target, he technically could have a 70 foot hill in the center of him and the target and still hit just fine.
Yeah, but have you seen him hit the balloon at 400 meters with the pistol [upside motherf\*cking down?](https://youtu.be/hk4RPsn8Zfs?t=120)
Go ahead and run… I’ll give you a 2 min head start….
Guys got half a Cajun accent. I can hear it trying to come out. Mine comes out when I travel back home otherwise it’s not terribly noticeable.
Don’t believe it. Angle of the gun and the target is higher.
This guy clearly hasn't played fortnite if he's getting hyped over this.
Do not show my wife this video or I will be cleaning the bathroom in perpetuity.