While I don’t think it was true that the secret service allowed it to happen, we want to believe the secret service is the best of the best. So that means when the sheer incompetence of the secret service was put on display, it seemed almost too unbelievable to be anything but.
I think some in the secret service saw an opportunity and let it happen (hence the security gaps), but the only one that planned for it was the shooter.
Just to clear up the red dot discussion. Basically he is stating that due to the inherent inaccuracy present in the weapon itself, you had roughly a 4" margin of error at that distance, making the idea that a shooter PLANNED to only hit the ear absolutely ridiculous (Garand Thumb covers this a bit more thoroughly in his video on the topic)
MOA is based off the rifle not the optic a rifle straped down won't shoot the same spot over and over again this rife in the video has an MOA of 3 at 100 yards which means at a 100 yards youll have a 3 inch grouping of where your rounds hit no matter the optic
@@vincentpanicucci9118 correct. Extrapolating from 100 yds to 130 gives you the 4". He also said the dot covered basically the entire head at that distance, which makes even just targeting the ear impossible. So both are relevant, but the dot has nothing to do with the 4" margin.
@@vincentpanicucci9118the optic can decrease the MOA slightly if its a magnifyied optic. Being that he used a red dot it would be the equivalent of the rifles MOA only.
@@vincentpanicucci9118the dot size in red dots are given in MOA as well. Meaning a 3 moa dot would cover 3 moa worth of the target at whatever distance your shooting. So at the distance the shot was taken a 3moa dot would cover ~3.5" of target. Combine this with the accuracy of the rifle and it starts to show why it's not considered a precision platform/optic
As far as "conspiracies" go- Goerge Carlin said it best, "Think of just how stupid the average person is. Now remember, that HALF the people are dumber than that"
there's a few here and there where I'll allow for the idea that we were left in the dark about aspects or even lied to on some level but there's a big difference between lying to prevent classified info from being deduced or whatever and flying off the handle and assuming the most insane scenario must be the true one. For example it's stupid to think 9/11 was an inside job but it's not unreasonable to conclude we don't and might not ever have all the details. The CIA didn't kill JFK, but I think it's clear we weren't told the whole truth on every aspect either.
Brandon Herrera actually did a recreation of the JFK assassination. It doesn’t involve a car or a book depository, but it does examine the “magic bullet theory.” Definitely worth the watch.
the dummy is made of ballistics gel which is as close as possible to simulating actual human flesh, and the bones are made of a composite material with the same density as human bones. these ballistic gel dummies are as close as we can get without actually shooting a human corpse
It would have been cool to see them use rubber or something to mimic cartilage, because the ear really wouldn't act that way; it would more split/tear than creating cavitation/temp cavity
Matt Carriker is who runs Demo Ranch. That was the t-shirt the idiot was wearing. He is also the owner of the Desperado Ranch, where this video was filmed. It was a resort that was abandoned in the 90's. Matt recently bought it and is in the process of rebuiding it. One of the first things was to build this range. He is doing it all on his Matt Carriker channel.
and as a bonus note... donut operator IS wearing the same kind of shirt IN this video (Brandon was wearing his on the emergency gun meme review about the assasination)... Matt Carriker got several companys to his name one of which (Bunker Branding) is printing and selling the merchandise shirts... not only the one the shooter (and Cody aka Donut) was wearing but the merchandise shirts of all of these youtubers in the video (plus some more youtubers not in the video)
It was closer to around 300-400 votes but still a good showing for a guy who was ruthlessly slandered, outspent 10 to 1 and actively opposed by the GOP establishment
I saw the original Brandon video, and apparently the shooter used a red dot sight, not a scope. A human head at 150 yards is the size of the red dot, so not a smart choice. Scopes are not that expensive, and the rifle could certainly have fitted one.
@@zzseabearzz3859 Depends on your definition of good and cheap. Burris Fullfield II 3-9x 40mm Rifle Scope - $159 on Amazon. Better for the job than an under $50 red dot sight, maybe not the best scope ever, but affordable. With better planning and practise he could have made that shot.
@@kdrapertrucker I think it was a spur of the moment decision, very little planning was put in, and apparently he thought he wouldn't be dead seconds after taking the shot. It was his dad's rifle, when he could have bought his own for the purpose.
It wouldn't change the margin of error due to rifle's poor accuracy, it would be impossible to hit the ear on purpose without a good chance of hitting the head As far as that idea is concerned, anyway
@@GravyMan88 It will be absolutely hilarious watching it all go to waste as Kamala utterly defeats him A former prosecutor against a convicted felon :-)
GarandThumb has a good video going into more detail on weapon accuracy, MOA, and actually trying to hit the ear at that range if you're interested in watching. He's former Air Force special warfare and survival expert fyi.
An important thing to remember is a ballistic dummy is made to simulate muscle not cartilage. The ear is thin as well, so it won’t expand like muscle mass would.
I'm sure the people on Twitter already roasted the sh*t out of him for this, but the image they provided in the tweet was likely after MONTHS of recovery at minimum. Comparing that to an ear that was hit just seconds ago (or even a week ago) is beyond stupid.
The glass theory was that a bullet hit a teleprompter. Sending the glass at Trump. I was watching the event happen in 4K on a TV wider than I am tall. Those teleprompters were intact.
WV born and bred. Family of gun and bow hunters. I shot more guns as a child than as an adult. We were all taught usually by age 8 gun safety and what not as most all of us began hunting at that age. Taught not only safety, but respect for the weapon and the value of life. The tradition continues as my nephew is 26 and he too has been hunting since he was about 8. And his two sons while growing up being told over and over about the dangers of guns, they too in about 3 years will begin learning to hunt. My sister is mean with a bow. It’s been years since I’ve shot and the last time was a little old BB gun I had bought my oldest (21) for Christmas when she was 8. I’m still a crack shot!
Oh yeah, 300 winmag is no slouch. Couple that with the fine piece of machining that is an AI rifle, and the kid may as well have brought a water pistol to that particular fight
@dimitrijensk2845 I just checked and I think I was thinking about glass shotgun slugs. also, I think you were misunderstanding me. I wasn't saying trump was shot by glass.
@@BirdBro2 no you are good, that wasn’t what I assumed. I responded to Mr. Terry’s question on if glass bullets were even possible as a matter of physics and/or ballistics, not if that’s what got Trump. I found what you were referring to, very interesting. So how does it work, does the glass shatter under pressure before coming out the barrel? Are you basically firing glass birdshot?
@dimitrijensk2845 yeah it shatters when it comes out, basically useless unless you're less than 10 feet away. you also have to hand craft them, and are warcrimes if used by a registered military.
@@ElliotKeaton yeah but it didn't take the side of the ear off either, there was a very clear puncture mark maybe a cm big.... I've never seen a bullet cause a cm big puncture mark, but shrapnel, that could do it easily. Either that or Hogan taught him how to blade when he was working for the WWE.
I have not seen any pictures of one being hit. There seems a lot of photo and videos missing seeing how many cameras and phones where there.Everyone is using the same fooage
They showed him doing JFK and it's honestly the most recreated assassination in history because of how many people think it was an impossible shot and other who think they can recreate it
Ballistic gel mimics average human flesh density as close as possible, but it does not have the same structure as muscle and cartilage to accurately mimic specific part damage. It would have torn the ear, not bubbled out like that.
One part of this is the money trail. Austin Private Wealth, APW, shorted Trump Media stock the day before the shooting (Friday, July 12) with a very substantial sum of money, betting that Trump Media stock would quickly decline. APW is majority owned by BlackRock & Vanguard. Coincidentally, the shooter was in a BlackRock commercial that has since been removed. His father was also seen in a BlackRock presentation. Both parents of the shooter are professional counselors. All strange.
From what I've read, the snipers equipped with 300 win mags weren't able to get the shot off, and the snipers equipped with .308s were the ones that shot him. Hence, his skull not exploding.
fun fact. the triangle that the top of your nose to the corners of your mouth makes... that's an instant lights out. other parts of the head, the body may still have some jerking motions (if someone has a detonator in their hand, not a good thing).
channels like you inspire me i love history and my plan is to go to school and i really wanna teach history and then make a history youtube channel on the side and who knows maybe it’s gets popular like yours it’s just cool to see my goal is possible much love keep it up!
About 15 years ago, or so, there was an Australian sniper team that, almost perfectly, recreated the JFK assassination shot and the "not so magic bullet".
I love Brandon Herrera, he's very good with his education on the guns. My late brother was a historian (so am I) and he did reenactments for Civil War and WWII. He actually did a couple of movies as an extra, which was cool. He also taught classes "Weapons for Writers" that did guns, knives, swords, maces, and such. Since both of us wrote fiction, we were familiar with what we were talking about. Herrera's lectures reminds me of him so much. And, there's a picture from another rally they showed today that was more of a close up. That hole is VERY close to his head and it looks like he may have a graze on his right cheek that aims right at where that hole is. He got very lucky and had some serious angelic protection with this attempt.
The head they had there is from Ballistic Dummy Labs, and is about as materially identical to a human head as you can get without going to a butcher. Garrand Thumb did a lot more explaining the terms in his video... both went up on pepperbox at the same time, so watched one then the other, but the "MOA" or margin of accuracy is based on the slight defects in the bullets, slight differences in the powder in the cartridge, differences in the barrel and the harmonics of that barrel (remember seeing the AK 50 in slow motion, how the barrel deformed as the shot happened). A standard AR has a 3 MOA, which means the bullet will be off the exact mark by as much as 3" at 100 yards, or nearing 5" at the 150 yards the attack happened from. As gun crimes become more of a concern in our modern era, I wish all reporters took at least a couple trips to a gun range like you did. It seriously damages the rest of their reporting when they make a basic error like the ones we have seen the last 2 weeks, and we really REALLY need to get back to a point we can watch the news without it being "is this reporter my team or the bad team".
There was actually a video game created that was a jfk assassination simulator. The creator of the game made it under the guise of "proving the official story." In reality, he made it because he understood the weapon used and its ballisticd well enough that he knew the lee harvey oswald story is literally impossible. So the game grades your accuracy on how close you got to recreating the assassination, and the highest score anyone has ever gotten was 60%.
Fellow shooter here, allow me to explain some of the nomenclature as well as some of the ballistics and how they work; When shooting at range, there's something called the "MOA," which is loosely described as "Measure of Accuracy," which basically means at 100 yards, you need to compensate for the flight of the bullet. For example, 1 MOA, means at 100 yards, you need to aim 1 inch left of your target. The rifle in question is said to have a 2-3 MOA, which means at 100 yards he needed to aim 2-3 inches left of his target to hit. This in of itself is not hard, but for a specific shot such as grazing the ear, means it would be next to impossible for anyone to pull that off with a 0x magnification sight, poor quality weapon, and elevated heart rate.
MOA = Minutes Of Angle 1 MOA will hit somewhere in a 1" wide circle at 100 yards. So a 3 MOA rifle will hit somewhere in a 4.5" circle at 150 yards. It doesn't say where you should aim, it says where a bullet is likely to hit based on your point of aim.
@@wyattjeter7891 I mean I have no doubt it was the bullet personally. But I do have a small belief in the two that it was left to take the shot on purpose. The sniper using that scope should have seen if he brushed his teeth let alone if he had a gun. But he asked for permission to shoot 2 minutes before saying he wasn't sure if there was a gun thats bs.
@@wyattjeter7891 in addition theres a lot suggestion the shot came from behind from the water tower and (this part I'm not sure on) but I was told on of the goers was sitting infront of trump and got hit. Plus theres video of maybe someone on the water tower. All those make me believe those slightly. either way tragic. Glad he's alive.
So for context on the distance. A brand new soldier in basic is expected to be able to hit targets out to 300 meters with an M4 carbine with Irons or a dot after a few days instruction. 130yds in the prone is basically a freebie shot. The one factor that caused the shooter to miss was likely being interrupted by the two officers peeking onto the roof at the last second causing him to rush.
In regards to the ballistic gel heads: Ballistic gel is intended to as close as possible replicate skin and muscle tissue, without using actual organic tissue. As to the shot on the shooter facsimile: I'm assuming Brandon and his crew do not know exactly what round the Secret Service/PD security teams were using, so it's entirely possible that the damage caused could have been increased or decreased depending on the round in use. They said repeatedly that they tried to get as close as possible to what they know based on knowledge they have, but if the defense snipers were using a subsonic round, the damage could be considerably less.
Holy cow!! I watched this video yesterday and it was very interesting. The last one was pretty great. It’s very informative and gives you truth and light on the situation at hand. Thank you, Mr. Terry!
One thing people are ignoring is that not only was the rifle unable to do a deliberate graze of Trump's ear, it simply wasn't that precise, but they haven't even considered the ammunition used. The most accurate ammunition ever made was 308 match ammunition for the US Army marksmanship team. It gave a 10 round half-inch grouping at 100 yards with a machine mount indoors (no crosswind). IOW, not only do you have the variance of the rifle, but you also have the accuracy of the ammunition. Ammunition has a variance just like rifles.
No. That's not the most accurate ammunition. There are groups of .19 inches recorded where they need to use a micrometer. We're also talking .223/5.56 which would be a 77 grain SMK - which is great ammo. The fact that he bought a 50 pack makes me think he got bulk target ammo.
@@m2hmghb I think we're cutting hairs here. Under 1/4 MOA is phenomenal, but so is 1/2 MOA, and whatever ammo Chuckles was using when he took that shot was certainly not either of those
@@dylanbailey2812 True. I'm just a bit anal about it because I used to chase the group size. AMU make the best ammo you can get. Next up is the military match ammo. Nothing beats reloading for a specific firearm.
@@dylanbailey2812 Have you ever watched a bench rest competition? Each round is loaded as they shoot the competition - that's how they can shoot so well. One rifle shot a 10 shot group at 1000 yards in 2.642 inches. All 10 shots were in the X ring.
19:34 I saw a fairly close-up picture of the shooter's corpse early on. I haven't been able to find it since and I didn't stare at it to memorize it or anything, but his head had a lot less damage. It's possible that the back part of his skull was gone, but the rest was still there and he still had a face. Cue the conspiracy theories.
Saw that too, I suspect they hit him lower, maybe neck/upper chest, bc the face was mostly intact, or maybe he turned his head too and the back of the skull was blown away.
Energy bleeds off at distance. 300 winchester magnum bleeds off a little more then 200 feet per second per 100 meters of distance. That's around 350 foot pounds of energy lost per 100 meters.
I wish I could remember the name of the documentary I saw years ago, but they did recreate the JFK shooting with the same type of rifle, ballistic gel dummies replicating both Kennedy and Connally (complete with actual bones), and with the shooter hoisted up in a bucket truck. The bullet went through “Kennedy’s” neck, then through “Connally’s” chest and wrist before bouncing off his thigh. This was nearly identical to the wounds in the actual assassination (aside from the bullet actually being embedded in Connally’s leg). Oh, and it came out pristine.
Brandon also did re-creations of the JFK and MLK assassinations. The JFK one is his most popular video to date, around 10M-11M views. It would be a good one to react to!
And btw they have the most realistic gel dummy’s with a skeleton on the inside. They’re usually only used for military and law enforcement training but Brandan and the crew all being a part of both of those and world famous gunsmiths have access to the best.
FBI now saying he might have been hit by shrapnel... But my question is "shrapnel from what?" Seemed pretty quick after the shot for that and there didn't seem to be any flying debris caught on video. I definitely believe he was lightly grazed by a bullet that was aimed at his head, and it bled badly like most head wounds do, but was left mostly intact.
FYI, the Range they are filming this video at is the range at the Desperado Resort which is owned by Matt, the guy who's shirt the virgin the was wearing.
The issue is people with no firearms knowledge or experience think the AR-15 fires this devastating round. People, like one of the twitter comments they showed in the video, think it just makes people explode like an anti-material rifle. the 5.56, or 2.23 round the AR-15 shoots is basically the same size as a .22, it just has more powder so it flies faster. It's actually a really small bullet.
Here is something everyone is not realizing, "If a person is able to make a successful near miss nicking the ear, they can hit you no problem." Now as far as turning the head, the only thing that changes is the impact point on the head itself.
19:40 yes and no it all depends on the angle of entry. the shooter was hit not so square on, so he came off better then that but yeah, if you were hit from that dead on, with that kind of shot, yeah, that is what would happen with a head
In general you get more carnage from the ballistic stand-ins than an actual body. A lot of that has to do with the lack of layering and material density/elasticity changes. So they are somewhat accurate, but still tend to be less resilient than the real article. You could make a crazy realistic model with skin, fat, tendons, muscle, with all the proper layering, but you wouldn't want to shoot it. You really wouldn't want to pay for it and then shoot it.
Apparently early on an officer said glass from a canera or a prompter hit him. Then they examined one of the pictures snd you can see the bullet. Looks like a stretched out brass line.
Yes… I’m a teacher too, I teach a special summer program and the schoolweek after the assassination attempt I spent half my class giving my opinion about how political violence is unacceptable, giving the basics of the attempt, and fielding questions. I was gobsmacked when a number of students heard “it was staged” to just shoot the ear, they got this from… wait for it, TikTok. Unbelievable.
Garand thumb did a video more in-depth on the shooting with more education on the firearms used. He’s a former Airforce SERE instructor and definitely has good information to put out on recent events
9:48 What's bad about this is that people _will_ buy into it, even though anyone who's deep into boxing, wrestling, and/or MMA can probably tell you that that's cauliflower ear. A result from blunt-force trauma to the external ear's cartilage. Last I checked, bullets do their damage by piercing the skin and tumbling in the body, and grazes from bullets are effectively a combination of laceration and burning.
Couple things. I can't find it now but one of the media outlets posted a picture of what they said was the weapon used and it was an AR with a bipod and a big scope on top. Now it comes out that it was a red dot. Not really surprised that they ran with the first picture of a scary AR that they could find for the article. Stay intermediate practice is fast as more important than being accurate. I had a red dot on my rifle years ago for about 2 hours. And it was accurate as long as you held the rifle in the exact same position every time but if you moved your head the dot moved a little bit. The idea that other than a video game you're going to be accurate in more than 75 yd with one is ridiculous. The idea that an AR round expands and blows a big hole when it exits is true, however it needs to hit enough material for the bullet to actually expand. There's not enough resistance in the ear for that to happen. In regardless of what God you believe in it is an absolute miracle that he turned his head a quarter of a second at most before the shooter pulled the trigger. Otherwise we would be in a very different situation right now.
as for the 300 win mag doing that to the kid,it's impossible to say exactly what would happen but my dad who used to shoot 300 win mag a lot said that's not far off. at those speeds, even a non expanding bullet will "pulverize and jellify" everything around it,as my dad said. on smaller animals like deer and boar it's basically instant death.
For reference, I recommend a video that was filmed by GarandThumb called "50 cal vs human head." They hit the ear AND the cheekbone. Very good reference despite the events that followed on July 13th.
Some people have watched waaaay too many movies/games if they think any person who isn’t suicidal is going to _volunteer_ to get shot at in general, let alone an attempt to nick an ear. Even if you have an expert marksman.
So balistic gel is made to represent the general consistency of flesh, muscles, etc. They create a facsimile, but the structure is different, skin and its elasticity usually keeps you together better than shots like you saw at the end there... usually...sometimes.
The dummies are from Ballistic Dummy Labs. They’re filled with simulated organs, blood, and bone, while the gelatin mimics skin, muscle, and adipose tissues. It’s not an exact 1:1 replica, but it’s as close as one can legally get.
The .300 win mag will definitely do damage like that, it has an effective range of about 1 mile, so 150 yards is point blank. It's specifically a sniper rifle cartridge, and the dummies replicate human tissue.
Yeah I do remember some documentary that got the Carcano rifle and set up two dummies and tried to recreate the Kenedy "magic" bullet. They manage to make an almost 1 to 1 result to what actually happened. It was wild how close they got.
Those ballistic dummies cost about $2k each and they try to replicate the human body as much as possible. The gel is similar in consistency to human skin, hard plastic bones, and water balloons inside to simulate blood and soft tissue.
For the conspiracies the only one that holds any water is that the secret service was purposely lazy in neutralizing the shooter. But really that's more likely that there hasn't been anything serious in ages and they've become a bit complacent.
Conspiracy or no?
JFK 2.0 without the result.
No
@@invidofinp1828why hire someone known for having an awful accuracy ? Was Ree Tardy Oswald the best they had ?
While I don’t think it was true that the secret service allowed it to happen, we want to believe the secret service is the best of the best. So that means when the sheer incompetence of the secret service was put on display, it seemed almost too unbelievable to be anything but.
I think some in the secret service saw an opportunity and let it happen (hence the security gaps), but the only one that planned for it was the shooter.
Just to clear up the red dot discussion. Basically he is stating that due to the inherent inaccuracy present in the weapon itself, you had roughly a 4" margin of error at that distance, making the idea that a shooter PLANNED to only hit the ear absolutely ridiculous (Garand Thumb covers this a bit more thoroughly in his video on the topic)
MOA is based off the rifle not the optic a rifle straped down won't shoot the same spot over and over again this rife in the video has an MOA of 3 at 100 yards which means at a 100 yards youll have a 3 inch grouping of where your rounds hit no matter the optic
@@vincentpanicucci9118 correct. Extrapolating from 100 yds to 130 gives you the 4". He also said the dot covered basically the entire head at that distance, which makes even just targeting the ear impossible. So both are relevant, but the dot has nothing to do with the 4" margin.
@@vincentpanicucci9118the optic can decrease the MOA slightly if its a magnifyied optic. Being that he used a red dot it would be the equivalent of the rifles MOA only.
@@GamerMarine89no it can’t. It can’t change the rifles accuracy. Only the shooters.
@@vincentpanicucci9118the dot size in red dots are given in MOA as well. Meaning a 3 moa dot would cover 3 moa worth of the target at whatever distance your shooting. So at the distance the shot was taken a 3moa dot would cover ~3.5" of target. Combine this with the accuracy of the rifle and it starts to show why it's not considered a precision platform/optic
As far as "conspiracies" go- Goerge Carlin said it best, "Think of just how stupid the average person is. Now remember, that HALF the people are dumber than that"
"you don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge " is more applicable here
@@claytondimitris284 Technical term for that is "conspiracy of convenience."
George Carlin was great. Wish he was still with us.
Technically half of people are not necessarily dumber than the average person. You must be thinking of the median.
there's a few here and there where I'll allow for the idea that we were left in the dark about aspects or even lied to on some level but there's a big difference between lying to prevent classified info from being deduced or whatever and flying off the handle and assuming the most insane scenario must be the true one.
For example it's stupid to think 9/11 was an inside job but it's not unreasonable to conclude we don't and might not ever have all the details. The CIA didn't kill JFK, but I think it's clear we weren't told the whole truth on every aspect either.
Brandon Herrera actually did a recreation of the JFK assassination. It doesn’t involve a car or a book depository, but it does examine the “magic bullet theory.” Definitely worth the watch.
the dummy is made of ballistics gel which is as close as possible to simulating actual human flesh, and the bones are made of a composite material with the same density as human bones. these ballistic gel dummies are as close as we can get without actually shooting a human corpse
As close as we can get *legally*
@@Beriothien007well, we have a homeless problem don't we?
@@BirdBro2 *Can't have a homeless problem without homeless people.*
It would have been cool to see them use rubber or something to mimic cartilage, because the ear really wouldn't act that way; it would more split/tear than creating cavitation/temp cavity
@@HANKSANDY69420 damn right.
Matt Carriker is who runs Demo Ranch. That was the t-shirt the idiot was wearing. He is also the owner of the Desperado Ranch, where this video was filmed. It was a resort that was abandoned in the 90's. Matt recently bought it and is in the process of rebuiding it. One of the first things was to build this range. He is doing it all on his Matt Carriker channel.
pretty sure matt bought desperado ranch in order to film tiny guns 3 (inside joke)
@@ebreshea true, forgot about that.
and as a bonus note... donut operator IS wearing the same kind of shirt IN this video (Brandon was wearing his on the emergency gun meme review about the assasination)... Matt Carriker got several companys to his name one of which (Bunker Branding) is printing and selling the merchandise shirts... not only the one the shooter (and Cody aka Donut) was wearing but the merchandise shirts of all of these youtubers in the video (plus some more youtubers not in the video)
WE MAKING IT ON A WATCHLIST WITH THIS ONE! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Remember, it's not if you're on a watch list. it's how many.
They let a dude climb a roof 150 yards from a president with a rifle and a latter.. I'm not worried.
Hell yeah brother!
Only the elite get on the list. Didn’t ya know? We’re all probably on a list with mass surveillance
If you're not on a government list, you're not truly living.
Ran for US Congress. Lost by about one hundred votes.
400ish and spent 1mil while his incumbent opponent spent 10mil.
400, but all things considered, VERY close
It was closer to around 300-400 votes but still a good showing for a guy who was ruthlessly slandered, outspent 10 to 1 and actively opposed by the GOP establishment
If only he went on Joe Pags show. Might have gotten that 401
He lost the primary. Still had a general election to win against the Democrat opponent.
I saw the original Brandon video, and apparently the shooter used a red dot sight, not a scope. A human head at 150 yards is the size of the red dot, so not a smart choice. Scopes are not that expensive, and the rifle could certainly have fitted one.
Which proves the shooter really didn't know much about firearms.
a good optic is not cheap lmao
@@zzseabearzz3859 Depends on your definition of good and cheap.
Burris Fullfield II 3-9x 40mm Rifle Scope - $159 on Amazon.
Better for the job than an under $50 red dot sight, maybe not the best scope ever, but affordable. With better planning and practise he could have made that shot.
@@kdrapertrucker I think it was a spur of the moment decision, very little planning was put in, and apparently he thought he wouldn't be dead seconds after taking the shot. It was his dad's rifle, when he could have bought his own for the purpose.
It wouldn't change the margin of error due to rifle's poor accuracy, it would be impossible to hit the ear on purpose without a good chance of hitting the head
As far as that idea is concerned, anyway
"Intentionally hit his ear for votes!" Joy Reid has entered the chat.
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Name me a dumber person on television, The View included….
@@billbliss1518 idk, it seems Everytime I've heard or seen the dumbest thing, god has a funny way of being like "wanna see someone dumber though?"
Just to clear up, the shirt belonged to Matt of Demolition Ranch for anyone who wanted to know, he’s a good guy check him out
"Just the ear? That would be absurd." Yes it IS absurd.
The best part about his congressional race was the fact that his opponent had to spend like $10 million to just barely beat him in that primary, IIRC.
$10 million, to Brandon's $1 million, just to win by 400 votes lol!
@@GravyMan88 It will be absolutely hilarious watching it all go to waste as Kamala utterly defeats him
A former prosecutor against a convicted felon :-)
@@IanM-id8or wrong election, genius.
@IanM-id8or a former prosecutor who has a history of letting felons off scot free.
@@IanM-id8or fat chance, bud
GarandThumb has a good video going into more detail on weapon accuracy, MOA, and actually trying to hit the ear at that range if you're interested in watching. He's former Air Force special warfare and survival expert fyi.
An important thing to remember is a ballistic dummy is made to simulate muscle not cartilage. The ear is thin as well, so it won’t expand like muscle mass would.
10:14 not to mention that picture looks like cauliflower ear.
I'm sure the people on Twitter already roasted the sh*t out of him for this, but the image they provided in the tweet was likely after MONTHS of recovery at minimum. Comparing that to an ear that was hit just seconds ago (or even a week ago) is beyond stupid.
Yeah, I go to a UFC gym and probably half the guys there have worse-looking ears.
I think that post was a deliberate troll, between the cauliflower ear and the "AK15 bullet".
The range they did this at is actually Matt Carriker's range BTW.
The glass theory was that a bullet hit a teleprompter. Sending the glass at Trump. I was watching the event happen in 4K on a TV wider than I am tall. Those teleprompters were intact.
the claim isnt glass bullets, the claim is that the bullet hit the glass on the pudium, which is absurd
WV born and bred. Family of gun and bow hunters. I shot more guns as a child than as an adult. We were all taught usually by age 8 gun safety and what not as most all of us began hunting at that age. Taught not only safety, but respect for the weapon and the value of life. The tradition continues as my nephew is 26 and he too has been hunting since he was about 8. And his two sons while growing up being told over and over about the dangers of guns, they too in about 3 years will begin learning to hunt. My sister is mean with a bow. It’s been years since I’ve shot and the last time was a little old BB gun I had bought my oldest (21) for Christmas when she was 8. I’m still a crack shot!
Yes....thats exeactly what a ballistic tipped 300 winmag would do to a real human head
Maybe a little more messy than real life because ballistics gel can’t simulate skin, but it’s not too far off.
@@DillanWill true
@@DillanWill What if someone would glue some sort of animal skin or similar on the outside?
Oh yeah, 300 winmag is no slouch. Couple that with the fine piece of machining that is an AI rifle, and the kid may as well have brought a water pistol to that particular fight
@@stonedmountainunicorn9532 Interesting idea. They would have to find a way to attach it that doesn’t just peel off, but it could work.
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Unless we get high advancement in technology, glass bullets are impossible. The sheer pressure inside the chamber is too much.
no glass bullets are real. the problem is that they are way too obvious. glass bullets also travel much slower.
@@BirdBro2 do you have a link by any chance? Asking purely out of curiosity not trying to accuse you of lying.
@dimitrijensk2845 I just checked and I think I was thinking about glass shotgun slugs. also, I think you were misunderstanding me. I wasn't saying trump was shot by glass.
@@BirdBro2 no you are good, that wasn’t what I assumed. I responded to Mr. Terry’s question on if glass bullets were even possible as a matter of physics and/or ballistics, not if that’s what got Trump.
I found what you were referring to, very interesting. So how does it work, does the glass shatter under pressure before coming out the barrel? Are you basically firing glass birdshot?
@dimitrijensk2845 yeah it shatters when it comes out, basically useless unless you're less than 10 feet away. you also have to hand craft them, and are warcrimes if used by a registered military.
On the glass theory thing, people think a bullet hit one of the glass prompters and a shard from there hit Trumps ear.
Makes more sense to me, especially as we haven't seen the ear since it happened. No way does a bullet just cause a tiny nick on the ear.
@@endersdragon34 You know they don't explode on contact, right?
@@ElliotKeaton yeah but it didn't take the side of the ear off either, there was a very clear puncture mark maybe a cm big.... I've never seen a bullet cause a cm big puncture mark, but shrapnel, that could do it easily. Either that or Hogan taught him how to blade when he was working for the WWE.
@@endersdragon34 Go look up the video of someone firing an AR-15 at pig ears.
I have not seen any pictures of one being hit. There seems a lot of photo and videos missing seeing how many cameras and phones where there.Everyone is using the same fooage
“Bet you won’t do that again!”
They showed him doing JFK and it's honestly the most recreated assassination in history because of how many people think it was an impossible shot and other who think they can recreate it
I imagine that trump's ear had some bruising around the wound just from the cavitation.
Ballistic gel mimics average human flesh density as close as possible, but it does not have the same structure as muscle and cartilage to accurately mimic specific part damage. It would have torn the ear, not bubbled out like that.
One part of this is the money trail. Austin Private Wealth, APW, shorted Trump Media stock the day before the shooting (Friday, July 12) with a very substantial sum of money, betting that Trump Media stock would quickly decline. APW is majority owned by BlackRock & Vanguard. Coincidentally, the shooter was in a BlackRock commercial that has since been removed. His father was also seen in a BlackRock presentation. Both parents of the shooter are professional counselors. All strange.
From what I've read, the snipers equipped with 300 win mags weren't able to get the shot off, and the snipers equipped with .308s were the ones that shot him. Hence, his skull not exploding.
To hit the ear is possible if you are master sniper in a video game with 99% accuracy, and a rifle that does not exist today.
The myth busters did a recreation of the Kennedy assassination.
fun fact. the triangle that the top of your nose to the corners of your mouth makes... that's an instant lights out. other parts of the head, the body may still have some jerking motions (if someone has a detonator in their hand, not a good thing).
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About 15 years ago, or so, there was an Australian sniper team that, almost perfectly, recreated the JFK assassination shot and the "not so magic bullet".
I love Brandon Herrera, he's very good with his education on the guns. My late brother was a historian (so am I) and he did reenactments for Civil War and WWII. He actually did a couple of movies as an extra, which was cool. He also taught classes "Weapons for Writers" that did guns, knives, swords, maces, and such. Since both of us wrote fiction, we were familiar with what we were talking about. Herrera's lectures reminds me of him so much. And, there's a picture from another rally they showed today that was more of a close up. That hole is VERY close to his head and it looks like he may have a graze on his right cheek that aims right at where that hole is. He got very lucky and had some serious angelic protection with this attempt.
5:30 no, alcohol and guns do not mix and these guys are pretty good at hammering that home. No Darwin Awards
They might joke about it but when the guns are out the jokes are done.
He clearly isn't familiar with them
The glass conspiracy was that he got hit by some glass from a teleprompter that was shot, not a glass bullet 🙂
The head they had there is from Ballistic Dummy Labs, and is about as materially identical to a human head as you can get without going to a butcher. Garrand Thumb did a lot more explaining the terms in his video... both went up on pepperbox at the same time, so watched one then the other, but the "MOA" or margin of accuracy is based on the slight defects in the bullets, slight differences in the powder in the cartridge, differences in the barrel and the harmonics of that barrel (remember seeing the AK 50 in slow motion, how the barrel deformed as the shot happened). A standard AR has a 3 MOA, which means the bullet will be off the exact mark by as much as 3" at 100 yards, or nearing 5" at the 150 yards the attack happened from.
As gun crimes become more of a concern in our modern era, I wish all reporters took at least a couple trips to a gun range like you did. It seriously damages the rest of their reporting when they make a basic error like the ones we have seen the last 2 weeks, and we really REALLY need to get back to a point we can watch the news without it being "is this reporter my team or the bad team".
There was actually a video game created that was a jfk assassination simulator. The creator of the game made it under the guise of "proving the official story." In reality, he made it because he understood the weapon used and its ballisticd well enough that he knew the lee harvey oswald story is literally impossible. So the game grades your accuracy on how close you got to recreating the assassination, and the highest score anyone has ever gotten was 60%.
Fellow shooter here, allow me to explain some of the nomenclature as well as some of the ballistics and how they work;
When shooting at range, there's something called the "MOA," which is loosely described as "Measure of Accuracy," which basically means at 100 yards, you need to compensate for the flight of the bullet. For example, 1 MOA, means at 100 yards, you need to aim 1 inch left of your target. The rifle in question is said to have a 2-3 MOA, which means at 100 yards he needed to aim 2-3 inches left of his target to hit. This in of itself is not hard, but for a specific shot such as grazing the ear, means it would be next to impossible for anyone to pull that off with a 0x magnification sight, poor quality weapon, and elevated heart rate.
MOA = Minutes Of Angle
1 MOA will hit somewhere in a 1" wide circle at 100 yards. So a 3 MOA rifle will hit somewhere in a 4.5" circle at 150 yards. It doesn't say where you should aim, it says where a bullet is likely to hit based on your point of aim.
The only thing missing was Trump holding a 1 1/2 hour speech trashing the shooter.
"This shooter's terrible, I was shot by him I said 'Wow, what a terrible shooter'."
"This shooter's terrible, I was shot by him I said 'Wow, what a terrible shooter'."
Ballistic gel is really accurate
The glass theory is a teleprompter was hit and the glass hit him.
Tbf if it was a 50 cal his head exploding from being nicked im told is not that off
Unfortunately for that theory, all teleprompters were fully intact
Yes, a 50bmg could do that type of damage, but it wasn't so it's irrelevant.
@@wyattjeter7891 I mean I have no doubt it was the bullet personally. But I do have a small belief in the two that it was left to take the shot on purpose. The sniper using that scope should have seen if he brushed his teeth let alone if he had a gun. But he asked for permission to shoot 2 minutes before saying he wasn't sure if there was a gun thats bs.
@@wyattjeter7891 in addition theres a lot suggestion the shot came from behind from the water tower and (this part I'm not sure on) but I was told on of the goers was sitting infront of trump and got hit. Plus theres video of maybe someone on the water tower. All those make me believe those slightly. either way tragic. Glad he's alive.
@@nukem8128 he asked if a gun could. So I said a type that could.
So for context on the distance. A brand new soldier in basic is expected to be able to hit targets out to 300 meters with an M4 carbine with Irons or a dot after a few days instruction. 130yds in the prone is basically a freebie shot. The one factor that caused the shooter to miss was likely being interrupted by the two officers peeking onto the roof at the last second causing him to rush.
In regards to the ballistic gel heads: Ballistic gel is intended to as close as possible replicate skin and muscle tissue, without using actual organic tissue. As to the shot on the shooter facsimile: I'm assuming Brandon and his crew do not know exactly what round the Secret Service/PD security teams were using, so it's entirely possible that the damage caused could have been increased or decreased depending on the round in use. They said repeatedly that they tried to get as close as possible to what they know based on knowledge they have, but if the defense snipers were using a subsonic round, the damage could be considerably less.
6:24 Demilition Ranch, Matt Carricker
14:54 tbf trump did golf more than most presidents
Holy cow!! I watched this video yesterday and it was very interesting. The last one was pretty great. It’s very informative and gives you truth and light on the situation at hand. Thank you, Mr. Terry!
I turned 30 that day. But frankly I’m not exactly surprised.
One thing people are ignoring is that not only was the rifle unable to do a deliberate graze of Trump's ear, it simply wasn't that precise, but they haven't even considered the ammunition used. The most accurate ammunition ever made was 308 match ammunition for the US Army marksmanship team. It gave a 10 round half-inch grouping at 100 yards with a machine mount indoors (no crosswind). IOW, not only do you have the variance of the rifle, but you also have the accuracy of the ammunition. Ammunition has a variance just like rifles.
No. That's not the most accurate ammunition. There are groups of .19 inches recorded where they need to use a micrometer. We're also talking .223/5.56 which would be a 77 grain SMK - which is great ammo. The fact that he bought a 50 pack makes me think he got bulk target ammo.
@@m2hmghb I think we're cutting hairs here. Under 1/4 MOA is phenomenal, but so is 1/2 MOA, and whatever ammo Chuckles was using when he took that shot was certainly not either of those
@@dylanbailey2812 True. I'm just a bit anal about it because I used to chase the group size. AMU make the best ammo you can get. Next up is the military match ammo. Nothing beats reloading for a specific firearm.
@@m2hmghb Fair enough. I occasionally watch videos on long range marksmanship, and a lot of those guys use hand loads
@@dylanbailey2812 Have you ever watched a bench rest competition? Each round is loaded as they shoot the competition - that's how they can shoot so well. One rifle shot a 10 shot group at 1000 yards in 2.642 inches. All 10 shots were in the X ring.
"Oh, he fell down."
Chubby Electron Man wins again.
Thanks for your honest reaction to this vid. I think that Trump's injury was much closer to his first shot that he was unsatisfied with.
20:17 Paused at the right moment. Yeah, looks more like Crooks. Lol 😂
Funny thing about that ear post, the guy was trolling when he made it
Trolling posts often pick up conspiracy theorist adherents.
19:34 I saw a fairly close-up picture of the shooter's corpse early on. I haven't been able to find it since and I didn't stare at it to memorize it or anything, but his head had a lot less damage. It's possible that the back part of his skull was gone, but the rest was still there and he still had a face. Cue the conspiracy theories.
Saw that too, I suspect they hit him lower, maybe neck/upper chest, bc the face was mostly intact, or maybe he turned his head too and the back of the skull was blown away.
Energy bleeds off at distance. 300 winchester magnum bleeds off a little more then 200 feet per second per 100 meters of distance. That's around 350 foot pounds of energy lost per 100 meters.
The shot was pretty damn close, but remember, balistic gel dummies dont have ear cartilage
Oh yeah, it's all approximations in a simulation.
I wish I could remember the name of the documentary I saw years ago, but they did recreate the JFK shooting with the same type of rifle, ballistic gel dummies replicating both Kennedy and Connally (complete with actual bones), and with the shooter hoisted up in a bucket truck.
The bullet went through “Kennedy’s” neck, then through “Connally’s” chest and wrist before bouncing off his thigh. This was nearly identical to the wounds in the actual assassination (aside from the bullet actually being embedded in Connally’s leg).
Oh, and it came out pristine.
A House Committee did a re-enactment in Dealy Plaza in the late seventies. I visited Dealy Plaza and there were still tape markings on the pavement.
Brandon also did re-creations of the JFK and MLK assassinations. The JFK one is his most popular video to date, around 10M-11M views. It would be a good one to react to!
11:12 you should check out the slow mo guys. they have a lot of fascinating stuff.
none of it's historical though
And btw they have the most realistic gel dummy’s with a skeleton on the inside. They’re usually only used for military and law enforcement training but Brandan and the crew all being a part of both of those and world famous gunsmiths have access to the best.
And in a real ear the temporary wound cavity wouldn’t be that big because of the cartilage. So even this is exaggerated. 13:30
FBI now saying he might have been hit by shrapnel... But my question is "shrapnel from what?" Seemed pretty quick after the shot for that and there didn't seem to be any flying debris caught on video. I definitely believe he was lightly grazed by a bullet that was aimed at his head, and it bled badly like most head wounds do, but was left mostly intact.
That camera costs about $200K The Ballistic High Speed team uses 3 or 4 per shoot.
holy moly!
Flesh colored bandaids for the win. He still has a bandaid on the ear even now. Ears, especially the top of the ear, are very prone to bleeding.
FYI, the Range they are filming this video at is the range at the Desperado Resort which is owned by Matt, the guy who's shirt the virgin the was wearing.
The issue is people with no firearms knowledge or experience think the AR-15 fires this devastating round. People, like one of the twitter comments they showed in the video, think it just makes people explode like an anti-material rifle. the 5.56, or 2.23 round the AR-15 shoots is basically the same size as a .22, it just has more powder so it flies faster. It's actually a really small bullet.
Mr Terry the Bryson golf video was filmed over a month ago but was only released recently, which is why there’s no bandage on trump in the video
Here is something everyone is not realizing, "If a person is able to make a successful near miss nicking the ear, they can hit you no problem." Now as far as turning the head, the only thing that changes is the impact point on the head itself.
19:40 yes and no
it all depends on the angle of entry. the shooter was hit not so square on, so he came off better then that
but yeah, if you were hit from that dead on, with that kind of shot, yeah, that is what would happen with a head
I'm legit surprised you're reacting to this but I'm here for it!!
In general you get more carnage from the ballistic stand-ins than an actual body.
A lot of that has to do with the lack of layering and material density/elasticity changes.
So they are somewhat accurate, but still tend to be less resilient than the real article.
You could make a crazy realistic model with skin, fat, tendons, muscle, with all the proper layering, but you wouldn't want to shoot it. You really wouldn't want to pay for it and then shoot it.
I personally think Brandon nailed it.
The "dummy" came from Ballistic dummy labs. It is about the most similar you can get to a real human analog.
Apparently early on an officer said glass from a canera or a prompter hit him. Then they examined one of the pictures snd you can see the bullet. Looks like a stretched out brass line.
The only recreation of JFK’s assassination I can think of is a highly controversial video game
Yes… I’m a teacher too, I teach a special summer program and the schoolweek after the assassination attempt I spent half my class giving my opinion about how political violence is unacceptable, giving the basics of the attempt, and fielding questions. I was gobsmacked when a number of students heard “it was staged” to just shoot the ear, they got this from… wait for it, TikTok. Unbelievable.
Garand thumb did a video more in-depth on the shooting with more education on the firearms used. He’s a former Airforce SERE instructor and definitely has good information to put out on recent events
9:48 What's bad about this is that people _will_ buy into it, even though anyone who's deep into boxing, wrestling, and/or MMA can probably tell you that that's cauliflower ear. A result from blunt-force trauma to the external ear's cartilage. Last I checked, bullets do their damage by piercing the skin and tumbling in the body, and grazes from bullets are effectively a combination of laceration and burning.
Couple things. I can't find it now but one of the media outlets posted a picture of what they said was the weapon used and it was an AR with a bipod and a big scope on top. Now it comes out that it was a red dot. Not really surprised that they ran with the first picture of a scary AR that they could find for the article. Stay intermediate practice is fast as more important than being accurate.
I had a red dot on my rifle years ago for about 2 hours. And it was accurate as long as you held the rifle in the exact same position every time but if you moved your head the dot moved a little bit. The idea that other than a video game you're going to be accurate in more than 75 yd with one is ridiculous.
The idea that an AR round expands and blows a big hole when it exits is true, however it needs to hit enough material for the bullet to actually expand. There's not enough resistance in the ear for that to happen.
In regardless of what God you believe in it is an absolute miracle that he turned his head a quarter of a second at most before the shooter pulled the trigger. Otherwise we would be in a very different situation right now.
@5:27 No, sir. Guns and alcohol do not mix. They are all sober when shooting. I guarantee it.
12:52 people confuse 5.56 rounds with bloody artillery and tank rounds.
as for the 300 win mag doing that to the kid,it's impossible to say exactly what would happen but my dad who used to shoot 300 win mag a lot said that's not far off.
at those speeds, even a non expanding bullet will "pulverize and jellify" everything around it,as my dad said.
on smaller animals like deer and boar it's basically instant death.
For reference, I recommend a video that was filmed by GarandThumb called "50 cal vs human head." They hit the ear AND the cheekbone. Very good reference despite the events that followed on July 13th.
It was Congress Rep, the House. For the area covering the largest stretch of border.
I believe Bryson said they shot that round like 9 days before the attempt…
Some people have watched waaaay too many movies/games if they think any person who isn’t suicidal is going to _volunteer_ to get shot at in general, let alone an attempt to nick an ear. Even if you have an expert marksman.
Matt who made the shirt also owns the range this vid was done at.
So balistic gel is made to represent the general consistency of flesh, muscles, etc. They create a facsimile, but the structure is different, skin and its elasticity usually keeps you together better than shots like you saw at the end there... usually...sometimes.
2:56 myth busters did a really good episode on the Kennedy shot, but it was years ago.
10:10 wait, that image is from boxer who had cauliflower ear.
The dummies are from Ballistic Dummy Labs. They’re filled with simulated organs, blood, and bone, while the gelatin mimics skin, muscle, and adipose tissues. It’s not an exact 1:1 replica, but it’s as close as one can legally get.
The .300 win mag will definitely do damage like that, it has an effective range of about 1 mile, so 150 yards is point blank. It's specifically a sniper rifle cartridge, and the dummies replicate human tissue.
Never drunk while using firearms....they always drink an appropriate amount, probably a surgeon general's recommended amount!😅
You should try reacting to king_trout
You should definitely check out ballistic high speed, their videos aren’t history related but it’s very high quality and enjoyable :)
Yeah I do remember some documentary that got the Carcano rifle and set up two dummies and tried to recreate the Kenedy "magic" bullet. They manage to make an almost 1 to 1 result to what actually happened. It was wild how close they got.
He was outspent 10:1 and still only lost by 0.7% of the vote, if I remember correctly.
Those ballistic dummies cost about $2k each and they try to replicate the human body as much as possible. The gel is similar in consistency to human skin, hard plastic bones, and water balloons inside to simulate blood and soft tissue.
For the conspiracies the only one that holds any water is that the secret service was purposely lazy in neutralizing the shooter. But really that's more likely that there hasn't been anything serious in ages and they've become a bit complacent.