Saw an interview with an Army sniper talking about his work in Iraq and specifically about the effectiveness of the M107. He said he and his spotter had set up on a rooftop covering a residential area known to be harboring insurgents. He told the story of a long night taking targets of opportunity until they started taking fire from another rooftop. The shooter was taking cover behind a block wall and popping out to harass the sniper team. The team was out of standard ball ammo for the .50 so he loaded up with the only ammo he had, the raufoss and they waited. Eventually the insurgent took a shot and ducked behind the block wall. The sniper aimed at where he guessed he would be crouching behind the wall and sent a raufoss round. He said the round made a nice clean hole in the front of the wall, but the other side of the patio 10 feet away was splashed with gore. When they eventually made their way over to confirm the kill, the body was gone, but the back of the block was just obliterated with a large area missing and blood spray everywhere. He figured the round had detonated inside the block and turned the brick and concrete into a huge shotgun shell and shredded the insurgent.
Hello my name is doctor garand thumb I’d like to tell you just where I’m from In the hills, filming thrills, where the blue blood spills Hoo ha hoo ha hoo ha
I’m a super sick 38 year old. I sit here year after year alone with nothing to do stuck indoors in my bed all day and night and you literally save my sanity sometimes by giving me something to watch and forget about reality. I appreciate you!
When speaking about .50 rounds, "didn't do anything" takes on a new meaning. It no longer means that the round was ineffective, it simply means that it killed the target, but not in a particularly cool or exciting way.
.50 is fairly uneventful if not some special round....well I say uneventful...as uneventful as a half inch in diameter going through someone at supersonic velocities can be lol
5:10 the setup 5:28 M33 660 gr ball 9:17 "spicy candy corn" 13:38 spicy candy corn #2 w/ lv3 armor duct taped to the BACK of dummy, both armor and dummy trashed 18:55 Raufoss Mk 211 on dummy #2 21:36 Raufoss #2 w/ lv4 armor duct taped to the FRONT of dummy 23:24 Raufoss #3 through a car door, ripped shoulder off dummy
not just the shoulder, look bettr at the slow-mo and yuo'll see that the whole spine is just... gone, completely blew away, and based on the first frame of post-impact with the door, it' wasn't even the round itself but the explosion that caused that impressive.
Comparing this channel now to what is was in the beginning is the literal personification of what you become after being handed a dd214 and I love every second of it. Outstanding work boys.
Your videos are really second to none out there lately. I'm putting in my vote for testing though! No one else has really done long range ballistic dummy tests with various calibers and none could do it better than you guys! Let's see some 5.56 to .300PRC to .50cal out at 400 - 900 yds or something along those lines. Great video.
I have used your “spicy candy corn” rounds in the Army. The way the real military ones work is a bit different, more like a fire piston, where deformation of the round creates extreme temperatures and shock. I didn’t think they would work on the dummy at all. Apparently the spine or rib was enough. This was amazing!
I'm not in the military yet I slightly understand how their explosive rounds work compared to ours. See we make explosive for the military for the single purpose of destroying tanks (exactly like the tank gewher, meant to disable tanks armor, weak points, not completely destroy the tank) for armor it's meant to destroy the armor the impact will obviously still delete the persons life, citizen explosives would primarily be for pretty nice looking impacts, meant for fun, like the fourth of July. War isn't fun, the explosives they use aren't Hollywood fireballs of make believe, they're extremely dangerous and have many different roles in the military, for example, an explosive incinerate round would work best for disabling artillery, explosive rounds aren't supposed to be fired at anyone that isn't inside some kind of bunker or a vehicle, it simple has to much power to be used as a conventional sniper, it's more of a multi purpose sniper with multipurpose rounds
I can attest that there is a large percentage of post PL 1LTs, pre career course and soon to ETS CPTs who are EXACTLY like Dr GarandThumb. This isnt a bad thing. They bring a element of reality and humor to the situation.
Dude… after a couple of years of watching DemolitionRanch, Brandon Herrera and Kentucky Ballistics… bless them all - but this guy is an absolute classic. So much charisma, so much comedy, incredible!
This guy makes videos for teenagers.... I don't see any charisma in a guy dramatically shouting " Holy F**K" after shooting 50MBG at a dummy 50m away. Also it's not even a sniper rifle. It's anti material rifle. There is no science involved. Kids channel.
So what I took away is that this is perfect for home defense as there is little to no over penetration. Just need to swap the .50's muzzle brake for a silencer. To make it hearing safe in my living room.
Dr. Thumb is the kinda guy you can go to that takes cash only and isn't exactly licensed with the AMA but there's few things he can't treat and he never keeps records.
Id love to see bofors 40mm vs Human torso, but getting your hands on one of those may be a bit more interesting. Thanks for the great videos as always Garand Thumb
I`d love to see a test like this done at different "Combat" distances and then see the difference in the amount of damage inflicted on each test subject, any .50 shot under 300m just becomes a splatter situation, i`d be interested to see the varying effects of different ammo at different distances... Edit : After giving this some more thought... Do a collaboration with 9 Hole Reviews, set up dummies at 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 and 1000m, maybe put standard US Body Armor on each ballistic dummy and then see the varying degrees of damage using different ammo... Won`t be a cheap vid to make but i`m sure will get millions of views!
exactly i often wish the gun youtubers would do distance experiments specialy for shotguns! i want know how much i must be far to be protected vs birdshot when i wear a leather jacket XD
@@eliasdincer640 birdshot isn't very powerful. You don't have to be very far out at be protected from it at all. As long as you have your face turned away or have eye protection and stuff, you're probably not dying unless you're basically 10 feet. Give or take. Ish. TLDR; run away fast from a guy with a birdshot shotgun and you'll just WISH you'd been killed. Cause it'll take a long time with tweezers to pull it all out lol
One of my favorite movies was 2008 Rambo. No over the top gore. Just realistic reactions to the body meeting a friendly 50 cal round. Seriously a great movie.
Honestly, when I first saw that scene as a 12yr old, I totally thought it was bullshit Hollywood, but now after watching RUclipsrs for years shoot .50 bmg into different targets, I fully agree with your statement.
We wouldn't have so many vertebrae if we needed all of them. God made sure to include some spare parts, like the extra buttons stitched on the inside of a shirt
When Garandthumb looked up at the plane/helo and yelled "fuck" and then had the alex baldwin jab about gun safety I fuckin lost it. Absolutely too good.
On Garands video with the .50 cal vs. ballistic human heads there's a popular comment this guy made describing how his fellow service member got shot point blank in the shoulder with a 50 cal after dropping the rifle on the ground by accident.
@@Juugo211 because if someone breaks into your house in NJ, YOU are the one that has a duty to get out of your house, if you even think of fighting back, YOU get arrested
I just happened to discover this channel from a 1 month / weeks old video yesterday. I watched 2/3 since. And omg, stuff changed a lot, he, cameraman skills for actually recording, editing and overall style... And somehow, they still do the same the same way, that's so cool!
I remember seeing a manual for the M40 recoiless rifle saying not to use the attached spotting rifle against personnel. Apparently it's tempting to shoot individual soldiers when you're looking at them through an optic.
I'm actually a little upset that you're claiming anything other than the Denel NTW-20 is the Halo sniper rifle. With that being said, 14mm and 20mm ballistic tests when?
@@ekscalybur just the gun, unless the ammunition in question is explosive. There's a good amount of training rounds for 20mm out there, though I'm not well versed in 14mm.
I didn't scroll down far enough to see this comment before I said the same thing. The only question I have left is is there a .50 minigun? Need to see what a heavy bolter can do lol
This actually makes me proud to be a Norwegian lol. Raufoss has been producing these rounds, or similar ones ever since I first entered service in the early 90s. Back then, they went under the designation "MP" for Multi Purpose". They were made as a "do all" round, having explosive, incendiary and armor piercing capacity. They were really fun to shoot through the standard 50 BMG on a softmount from the M109s we operated. Good vid!!
I mean for the army? Sure? okay? But this shit is fucking violent beyond belief. I mean I love guns and shit but this is overboard for civilians. You can take out army grea with that... absolute beast bullet but the word "Raufoss" will haunt me now. Like youd need a mountain to be safe.
"Something about Kentucky and the .50cal. I dont know if its because of a lack of education or what" That shit had me busting up laughing. Poor Kentucky Ballistics.
It’s the same thing with HEAT rounds. If a tank fires it at a soft target it will go through and detonate on the other side. You need a certain level of “resistance” to give it time to function as designed.
My Uncle Bobby actually "No Bullshit" did that to my Aunt and 30 years later after he started a new family brought back cigarettes and thought it was hilarious, so did I cause I watched it happen when they met again.
Never really considered the spine being involved in gun shot wounds...but seeing your videos, the spine always gets destroyed with these center mass shots...devastating and gnarly for sure.
I liked Kentucky Ballistics 50 BMG video so much better. Not only did he do a great torture test on that single shot .50 buuuttttt,, does a great job showing fragmentation blowing up from a bad round. And that ballistics dummy was so real looking moved, bled and even talked like a real person. Even had thumbs. Lol jk. Been watching Garand thumb all day. You guy's are my new favorite YT channel. Great content and you guy's mix it up. Hope you guy's don't end.
side note, one of the most effective defenses against 50 cal and higher is helicopter fuel tanks. had a 50 punch through our chinooks fuel tanks and slow down enough that it punched through the skin of the bird and then was successfully stopped by the back plate on an army ranger sitting in the troop seat
If the bullet went through a whole ass fuel tank, several walls of steel and a back plate and still penetrate into a human, the bullet would be classified as a war crime
@@Izukachan Several walls of steel? the bird is mostly magnesium and the only armor is the BPS panels we install which are only like an inch or two thick
This makes sense. Those rounds are designed to penetrate armor, blow it into tiny pieces, and then send those along with the round's core into the unfortunate occupants of a vehicle. Think of those .50 as essentially creating a shotgun effect with the armor of a vehicle. It's designed to rip out and fragment it then send it into the people inside kind of like buckshot. And that's why it fucking rips the dummy apart. Those rounds aint made to hit people directly. Body armor or not. You shoot these at the sides of a vehicle or even at a wall behind which enemy troops are taking cover. You can kill everyone in a room with those rounds because of that. It was actually done in Irak and Afghanistan. If a bunch of insurgents were hunkered down inside a brick building and the unit had one of those.... One round through the wall and it shotgunned the brick pieces into everybody inside. Leaving a right fucking bloody mess of ripped limbs and chunks of flesh.
Thats the same way armored piercing anti tank rounds work. The round itself isn’t that dangerous, its the shrapnel it takes with it that you need to watch out for
Essentially my same thought process. The bulk of that round is dedicated to defeating that armor and throw out VERY ANGRY metal pellets everywhere like a shotgun...metal af
Imagine going to your doctor explaining your issue and he says, "YO WHAT!" Then he puts on a pair of pit vipers immediately afterwards. Best doctor visit ever.
I’d like to see what would happen from longer ranges I’ve heard stories from a veteran of a sniper completely detaching arms and part of the chest with a .50 cal rifle
I remember watching a _Future Weapons_ episode on the Barrett where a sniper instructor for the (USMC?) proudly stated that it scored the longest confirmed sniper kill and also was confirmed to have split an enemy combatant in half with a single round. I imagine there was some insane tumbling going on and possibly the shot went in from the side to split a man in half.
9:17 when ya sneeze with your eyes open 10:24 person watching 13:42 pew… asset not contained (plate exploded like paper) 18:59 scifi sounds 19:00 22:26 weird sentence 23:27 splurt, crunch, confetti 23:52 shoulder tap
The round exploded at the armour surface. The power of the blast actually severely slowed it down, hence the damage was not as huge as one would anticipate. I am sure that a 50 cal without explosive charge would do more damage if the dummy is protected with armor
@@damage6494 that's no excuse for pointing a firearm at a person and pulling the trigger. That act alone makes him just as guilty as everyone else involved.
Have a friend in vietnam who took a .50 bmg to his back, covering a retreat, it left his left arm hanging off by a bit of skin and ligament at the elbow. Ribs pulverized and was like bird shot into his lungs. Steel plate held. A VA doc decided that two months post evac that the amount of pain meds he was on was an addiction level and cut him off, pretty much forcing him on to H and street pills. He said the only reason he didn't off himself in the hospital was he was with several other guys who knew him or heard about it and was waiting until the charge nurse left the room and then they would hook up their pain pumps to his IV.
Yea that’s a awful story and shows how stupid our medical system is, the dude took a dam 50 bmg and survived by a miracle, it’s a legitimate reason to give him allllll the pain meds, he doesn’t have a random back pain, his body was almost blown apart.
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Saw an interview with an Army sniper talking about his work in Iraq and specifically about the effectiveness of the M107. He said he and his spotter had set up on a rooftop covering a residential area known to be harboring insurgents. He told the story of a long night taking targets of opportunity until they started taking fire from another rooftop. The shooter was taking cover behind a block wall and popping out to harass the sniper team. The team was out of standard ball ammo for the .50 so he loaded up with the only ammo he had, the raufoss and they waited. Eventually the insurgent took a shot and ducked behind the block wall. The sniper aimed at where he guessed he would be crouching behind the wall and sent a raufoss round. He said the round made a nice clean hole in the front of the wall, but the other side of the patio 10 feet away was splashed with gore. When they eventually made their way over to confirm the kill, the body was gone, but the back of the block was just obliterated with a large area missing and blood spray everywhere. He figured the round had detonated inside the block and turned the brick and concrete into a huge shotgun shell and shredded the insurgent.
This comment isn't getting the attention it deserves
Funny cuz I seen the same shit and that was YEARS ago. I wish I knew the link to this video
Here's a shortened video of it. Btw, it was Marine Steve Reichert: ruclips.net/video/oSZQ9WBnJF8/видео.html&ab_channel=SR
That sounds fucking gnarly. I love it.
It's crazy how a person can be reduced to a red paste instantaneously.
Rumor has it Dr. Thumb has been banned from practicing medicine in New Jersey
then how does he keep prescribing me cialis?
I heard he got a award for medical excellence and advancing his field beyond what was thought humanly possible.
De green thumb still practicing
He’s too good at it.
Hello my name is doctor garand thumb
I’d like to tell you just where I’m from
In the hills, filming thrills, where the blue blood spills
Hoo ha hoo ha hoo ha
I’m a super sick 38 year old. I sit here year after year alone with nothing to do stuck indoors in my bed all day and night and you literally save my sanity sometimes by giving me something to watch and forget about reality. I appreciate you!
what are you sick with just curious
Prayers going up for your healing brother. This channel serves as an escape for me as well. 2021 has been my own personal Hell on Earth.
Hope you get well soon man. Hang in there
Just drink oj and lift brother
I'm sorry to hear that brother. Hope things get better for you.
I appreciate you moving the rifle before heading downrange. If someone cant be responsible at this level, they shouldnt be trusted with a gun! Love it
Like a psychotic 18 year old?
Like Alec Baldwin?
@@LakesideAmusementPro Like Acorn Cop?
When speaking about .50 rounds, "didn't do anything" takes on a new meaning. It no longer means that the round was ineffective, it simply means that it killed the target, but not in a particularly cool or exciting way.
Having a golf ball sized hole in the front and a fist sized hole in the back is just normal at that point
I was thinking same but you put it better.
the second round acted the way I expected the first round to act.
.50 is fairly uneventful if not some special round....well I say uneventful...as uneventful as a half inch in diameter going through someone at supersonic velocities can be lol
“No , he’s hella dead”
5:10 the setup
5:28 M33 660 gr ball
9:17 "spicy candy corn"
13:38 spicy candy corn #2 w/ lv3 armor duct taped to the BACK of dummy, both armor and dummy trashed
18:55 Raufoss Mk 211 on dummy #2
21:36 Raufoss #2 w/ lv4 armor duct taped to the FRONT of dummy
23:24 Raufoss #3 through a car door, ripped shoulder off dummy
not just the shoulder, look bettr at the slow-mo and yuo'll see that the whole spine is just... gone, completely blew away, and based on the first frame of post-impact with the door, it' wasn't even the round itself but the explosion that caused that
impressive.
06:00 Alec Baldwin joke
"ripped shoulder off dummy" is quite the understatement
2:40 the “FUQ”
23:52 “that was violent!” *drops shoulder
24:14 he was blown away
That third round reaction was more like what I expected. You have to take into consideration it was shot twice already.
"I failed out of medical school so that makes me a doctor in NJ" is actually a 100% accurate statement for those of you that don't live there.
Can you explain this to a non American pls?
@@JohnSmith-hs3po being from jersey, doctors here are ass, always some idiot or some european/asian here to get rich lol
@@JohnSmith-hs3po good doctors won’t do business with you unless you need an expensive surgery over here. The ones that accept patients suck.
@@foggyj4474 maybe in NJ
Can confirm, shits ass
Comparing this channel now to what is was in the beginning is the literal personification of what you become after being handed a dd214 and I love every second of it. Outstanding work boys.
Can you elaborate more on what do you think by that?
dd214?
I’m confused, did he want the answer or not? I don’t know either but, still. Dude I straight up bipolar
I have two DD214s and your comment makes no sense.
@@alphaalloy9785 Certificate of Release from Active Duty. US military form you get when you complete active duty service.
"This guy now has a curvature in his spine." And the VA will still be like, 'not service related.'
Like my buddy that's 2" shorter after service...😐
Knee surgery a year after ETS and definitely not service related
“A problem with authority and trusting my government” - oh wait the VA actually can’t help me there 😂
Then prescribe you Motrin and send you on your way.
Like my father who got hosed by agent orange in nam. They like nah, you get 10%.
Your videos are really second to none out there lately. I'm putting in my vote for testing though! No one else has really done long range ballistic dummy tests with various calibers and none could do it better than you guys! Let's see some 5.56 to .300PRC to .50cal out at 400 - 900 yds or something along those lines. Great video.
100% needs to happen.
*gargles Garand Thumbs baby gravy*
*your
I don't recall Dr Thumb ever claiming to be a DSR or sniper. Have the good Dr have Reaper on. I'm sure he's down.
Seconded
I have used your “spicy candy corn” rounds in the Army. The way the real military ones work is a bit different, more like a fire piston, where deformation of the round creates extreme temperatures and shock. I didn’t think they would work on the dummy at all. Apparently the spine or rib was enough.
This was amazing!
Why wouldn't it "work"? By "work" do you mean explode or kill?
I'm not in the military yet I slightly understand how their explosive rounds work compared to ours. See we make explosive for the military for the single purpose of destroying tanks (exactly like the tank gewher, meant to disable tanks armor, weak points, not completely destroy the tank) for armor it's meant to destroy the armor the impact will obviously still delete the persons life, citizen explosives would primarily be for pretty nice looking impacts, meant for fun, like the fourth of July. War isn't fun, the explosives they use aren't Hollywood fireballs of make believe, they're extremely dangerous and have many different roles in the military, for example, an explosive incinerate round would work best for disabling artillery, explosive rounds aren't supposed to be fired at anyone that isn't inside some kind of bunker or a vehicle, it simple has to much power to be used as a conventional sniper, it's more of a multi purpose sniper with multipurpose rounds
Datssss a bingoooooo lol 😆
I can attest that there is a large percentage of post PL 1LTs, pre career course and soon to ETS CPTs who are EXACTLY like Dr GarandThumb. This isnt a bad thing. They bring a element of reality and humor to the situation.
So many acronyms
Micah is getting really good at the true-crime videography. And the color palette and neutrals in the editing is great
oh yeah and that music, MMMM
Honestly looks like a Zack Snyder film
When Garandthumb is wearing a lab coat, you know that he is definitely qualified to do these scientific tests
It makes him a doctor in New Jersey.
@@davidsirmons Yeah, and it proves that it is 100% a professional science show
Bill Nye.
That's really all it takes.
Of course man he quit med school he's a doctor now in Jersey
"This guy now has a curvature in his spine permanently". Ah yes the spine curvature is his biggest problem. I love this channel
lmao
Dr. grand thumb as a chiropractor just stand still one moment sir..
The curvature of a nonexistent spine.
Bruh I scrolled right when he said that
Death by scoliosis
I love the quick “fuck” when the plane was flying over lol
Hilarious
Fr
I like how he hasn't washed the lab coat at all since he started this video series, likely a guy who admires the fruits of their labor.
Looks just stained, it’s been far more bloody before
Or can’t afford a new one with the price of ammo right now lol.
I’m currently wearing a disgusting flannel button down. Not turning the ole camera on for work today
Has GT done an episode with the Slow Mo Guys?
If he didn't he'd look too much like Dr. Mengele
They say “never trust a doctor with a clean coat” that’s why I choose Garandthumb to be my GP
He reminds me of the surgeon General of Beverly hills in escape from LA 🤣
I only trust my doc if he has blood on his coat and under his fingernails. At least I know that man’s been workin
Dude… after a couple of years of watching DemolitionRanch, Brandon Herrera and Kentucky Ballistics… bless them all - but this guy is an absolute classic. So much charisma, so much comedy, incredible!
Cant agree more! The charisma is just hitting different.
Airforce. They just hit differently.
This guy makes videos for teenagers.... I don't see any charisma in a guy dramatically shouting " Holy F**K" after shooting 50MBG at a dummy 50m away. Also it's not even a sniper rifle. It's anti material rifle. There is no science involved. Kids channel.
@@96dragonhunter its called comedy. We all know the .50 will go thru both sides of a car at 600yds plus..... lol
Ok but he only wins because FPS Russia is gone
The intro alone always deserves a like from me. So well done gents.
So what I took away is that this is perfect for home defense as there is little to no over penetration. Just need to swap the .50's muzzle brake for a silencer. To make it hearing safe in my living room.
Now you’re talking!!
after watching demo ranch ignite a tracer on his suppressed barret, i think it may be the only weapon that i dont put a can on.
Just chuck a red dot foregrip and cut the stock off and you have yourself the ultimate cqb weapon
Is that you, Mr. Carriker?
The subtlety of the Baldwin rip was nothing short of beautiful. You're a class act, Dr. Thumb.
it was as subtle as a sledgehammer.
Still love it, though.
@@brian0057 Amen 😂
Dr. Thumb is the kinda guy you can go to that takes cash only and isn't exactly licensed with the AMA but there's few things he can't treat and he never keeps records.
Dr Thumb the kinda Dr that treats the Bullhead Clap with a hammer....
The best kind of doctor
When just put a thumb in it becomes a pickup line...😂
He is The Simpsons Dr. Nick.
Played by Christian Bale.
Heloooo everybody!
amen to all of these replies
Id love to see bofors 40mm vs Human torso, but getting your hands on one of those may be a bit more interesting. Thanks for the great videos as always Garand Thumb
Big Sandy
Can you imagine being a Japanese pilot in ww2 and seeing your wingman’s cockpit get obliterated by a Bofors?
Why?
GT: "What is my science experience? Well, for one, I have a lab coat on."
Me: "Seems legit enough."
Kentucky and 50 cal… lack of education or love of science?
Worked for Fouchi
sure he's not a pharmacist?
As a New Jersey resident huge thanks to dr garand thumb for being the best doctor we have seen in years
I once read a comment that said “not even King Arthur could pull me out of flannel daddy” and I haven’t been the same since, Mike.
Samesies
Well I now have to agree.
😂😳🤐
“Is he alive?”
“No he’s hella dead!”
😂
The lab coat is the most prestigious representation of someone’s scientific background.
Trust the science
Glasses usually sub for proof of degree
I like him pretending we didn't notice the M855A1 at the beginning.
@@jayquick6520 I AM THE SCIENCE!!
I`d love to see a test like this done at different "Combat" distances and then see the difference in the amount of damage inflicted on each test subject, any .50 shot under 300m just becomes a splatter situation, i`d be interested to see the varying effects of different ammo at different distances...
Edit : After giving this some more thought...
Do a collaboration with 9 Hole Reviews, set up dummies at 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 and 1000m, maybe put standard US Body Armor on each ballistic dummy and then see the varying degrees of damage using different ammo...
Won`t be a cheap vid to make but i`m sure will get millions of views!
Hes Air Force he doesn't know how to shoot past 300y
@@SgtRudySmith31bRet Henry or Garand?
exactly i often wish the gun youtubers would do distance experiments specialy for shotguns! i want know how much i must be far to be protected vs birdshot when i wear a leather jacket XD
@@eliasdincer640 birdshot isn't very powerful. You don't have to be very far out at be protected from it at all. As long as you have your face turned away or have eye protection and stuff, you're probably not dying unless you're basically 10 feet. Give or take. Ish. TLDR; run away fast from a guy with a birdshot shotgun and you'll just WISH you'd been killed. Cause it'll take a long time with tweezers to pull it all out lol
@@SgtRudySmith31bRet300m is combat distance. And AF Special Recon goes to Army Sniper School.
Another shining example of why the Rambo .50 Cal scene is probably the most accurate depiction of a .50 cal ever put on film.
Yep and one of my most favourite scene because I love realistic gore in films and games
@@abysswalker2594 realistic or over the top, I love them both. But nothing quite beats Tarantino levels of blood fountains.
My favorite action seen of all time👍
One of my favorite movies was 2008 Rambo. No over the top gore. Just realistic reactions to the body meeting a friendly 50 cal round. Seriously a great movie.
Honestly, when I first saw that scene as a 12yr old, I totally thought it was bullshit Hollywood, but now after watching RUclipsrs for years shoot .50 bmg into different targets, I fully agree with your statement.
The colorgrading in your videos is phenomenal.
"Bill Nye isn't a real scientist, he's just an engineer!"
That didn't stop Garand Daddy from making these ❤️
Yea and Bill Nye being an engineer also didn't stop me from being a delivery driver either
I mean, engineering is an applied science.
@@anthonyhayes1267 Not to mention he has 7 honorary docterate, and calls himself the science guy not the scientist
Garand Thumb -the medical bum.
Bill Nye is an actor and political activist
you know it's gonna be a good one when there's a voice-crack within the first 2 mins
Hahaha I was very excited
@@GarandThumb understandable
Lets Go Woolie!
So this is what woolie does in his free time
Woolie, surprised to see the best streamer here. With the most awesomest emotes.
As my Sergeant Major once said after a safety brief. “You hear all that stuff. Saftey isn’t paramount. F$&@ SAFETY! VIOLENCE IS PARAMOUNT!”
I love the hint of humour that constantly floats in the air in all your videos XD
i really enjoy that the camera man is getting more voice time. his commentary is 10/10
You look like Hampton Brandon lol
You look really cool
I wish I could say that dr garandthumb were my favorite videos, but I just can’t do the rest of the channel dirty like that. They’re all great.
“He has a permanent curvature of the spine”
Mate, he’s missing his shoulder blades and like 6 vertebrae 😂😂😂
ehhh he'll be fine
We wouldn't have so many vertebrae if we needed all of them. God made sure to include some spare parts, like the extra buttons stitched on the inside of a shirt
@@Weimerica8841 I feel the same way about fingers, eyes and ears.
Its a flesh wound
He also has a mild case of being dead, but giving him scoliosis too? That's just disrespect that is 😕🤣🤣🤣
That was the most honest and best "JFC" I have ever heard. Also, a bullpup side fed magazine 50bmg??????? Way to go Steyr!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its an ntw20 and its french
@@free_advertising_man its a steyr HS .50 M1
@@free_advertising_man the ntw is south african. And the only official french .50bmg weapon is the hecate ii
His words of advice at the end: "Make sure you drink water."
Me: "I feel personally attacked...He's really calling me out here..."
sorry bruh, I just care for you :)
“This is not a request. This is a threat.”
When Garandthumb looked up at the plane/helo and yelled "fuck" and then had the alex baldwin jab about gun safety I fuckin lost it. Absolutely too good.
As the dummy lays there on the ground, it says" I cant feel my legs, I think my back might be broken"....
“We have our FFL on site, as required”
*doesnt show FFL holder*
Good work, soldier
FEL, not FFL
@@GarandThumb what the heck is an FEL??? Federal Explosives License?
“I think you can survive a .50”
*Every man shot with a .50 cal.* “no.”
Let's ask 50 cal survivors: 🎤⚰️
Only chuck norris has survived a .50 cal
On Garands video with the .50 cal vs. ballistic human heads there's a popular comment this guy made describing how his fellow service member got shot point blank in the shoulder with a 50 cal after dropping the rifle on the ground by accident.
I mean you can if it explodes as scott proved
@@banginbadger75 I guess is depend where your shot, .50 CALs are pretty fucking lethal
“I failed out of med school so that technically makes me a doctor in New Jersey”. I cackled so hard. 😂😂
bro I live in NJ and that is 30% true
@@CubeInABox nah don’t lie we both know it’s spot on esp if you live in northern nj
Yo why do people shit on my state like this?
@@Juugo211 because if someone breaks into your house in NJ, YOU are the one that has a duty to get out of your house, if you even think of fighting back, YOU get arrested
@@zer0026 Look I know NJ is hands down a terrible damn state but every state deserves a little bit of love lol.
I just happened to discover this channel from a 1 month / weeks old video yesterday. I watched 2/3 since. And omg, stuff changed a lot, he, cameraman skills for actually recording, editing and overall style... And somehow, they still do the same the same way, that's so cool!
Yeah this one was a little rough, but they at least got the high speed video on every shot.
13:55
"Holy shit!"
"Jesus Christ!"
"Holy fuck dude!"
"What da fuck!"
Gentlemen, you have yourself a new subscriber.
Good vibes.
I remember seeing a manual for the M40 recoiless rifle saying not to use the attached spotting rifle against personnel. Apparently it's tempting to shoot individual soldiers when you're looking at them through an optic.
That's what the actual recoilless rifle is for
Primarily anti-tank, but can fire anti-personnel flechette rounds, from what I can find. 105mm flechette sounds fun.
@@DutchTraveler beehive rounds?
@@Token_Black_Guy basically. From what some sites say, they were tracer flechette rounds.
@@johnnyl.4468 "The enemy soldier WAS wearing equipment... he also used to have a torso...soooooooo mission accomplished!!"
I would just like to say as a die hard carnikcon fan. I believe Dugan would be proud af at how your channel has evolved. That is all. Thank you Dr.
Yo Garand is so 1000% definitely on that T-juice now. The vocal pitch and facial structure are so different lol
I'm actually a little upset that you're claiming anything other than the Denel NTW-20 is the Halo sniper rifle. With that being said, 14mm and 20mm ballistic tests when?
He'd have to register each piece of ammo as a separate destructive device, wouldn't he?
@@ekscalybur yes
@@ekscalybur just the gun, unless the ammunition in question is explosive. There's a good amount of training rounds for 20mm out there, though I'm not well versed in 14mm.
This might be one of the better examples of what a Warhammer 40k Astartes Bolt-Round could do to a baseline human.
I didn't scroll down far enough to see this comment before I said the same thing. The only question I have left is is there a .50 minigun? Need to see what a heavy bolter can do lol
Yeah I knew I was going to see this comment somewhere lol
@@sawyeratkinson 20mm and not .50", but the M61 would match that description.
@@sawyeratkinson GAU-19B
FOR THE EMPEROR!
(Because, that must be said in the comment section of every video.)
This actually makes me proud to be a Norwegian lol. Raufoss has been producing these rounds, or similar ones ever since I first entered service in the early 90s. Back then, they went under the designation "MP" for Multi Purpose". They were made as a "do all" round, having explosive, incendiary and armor piercing capacity. They were really fun to shoot through the standard 50 BMG on a softmount from the M109s we operated. Good vid!!
Norwegian American here and I agree I just kearned about Raufoss recently and im digging it.
@@fearandloathinginamerica 👍 You should check out the vids on their ammo for the 30 - 40 mm auto cannon rounds. Just.. plain scary stuff.
Look for the nammo abbrevation. Same company that makes Raufoss ammo.
Hei broder
I mean for the army? Sure? okay? But this shit is fucking violent beyond belief. I mean I love guns and shit but this is overboard for civilians. You can take out army grea with that... absolute beast bullet but the word "Raufoss" will haunt me now. Like youd need a mountain to be safe.
The over-the-top goofiness is always appreciated and hilarious
"Something about Kentucky and the .50cal. I dont know if its because of a lack of education or what" That shit had me busting up laughing. Poor Kentucky Ballistics.
Thank you, Jesus.
amen
Read this comment right when he said it on video what a coincidence and we both have jesus pfps
Come on man he almost died :/
hey Jesus its me your cousin
Garand: " Huh! That was violent! "
Micah: " Finally. "
Garand: *casually drops severed shoulder*
*mEaTy SpLaT*
That last shot with the ROUFUS round was both epic and horrifying at the same time. All the rest were pretty cool but that last one was WOW!
My first thought was Demoman "they'll be gluing you back together in hell"
Full agreement
To be fair, that is a more authentic test of what it's SUPPOSED to do. Once it penetrates then the mush happens
@@phantomminer3293 "They'll bury what's left of ye in a SOUP CAN!"
Lol the roofus
It’s the same thing with HEAT rounds. If a tank fires it at a soft target it will go through and detonate on the other side. You need a certain level of “resistance” to give it time to function as designed.
I'm just here to see my daddy who walked out to get cigarettes & Milwaukee's Best and never came back home.
My Uncle Bobby actually "No Bullshit" did that to my Aunt and 30 years later after he started a new family brought back cigarettes and thought it was hilarious, so did I cause I watched it happen when they met again.
My uncle left his first wife like that... she was mean as hell, he took the trash out one day & never returned...
@@antisocialjusticewarrior2073 I pray that man is living a better life.
@@sebastianriz4703 he seems happier with his current wife, & she seems to appreciate him more than the other beach did
Love these videos with the realistic ballistic targets
The way you film makes it incredibly hard to skip through your videos, so i have to watch them all the way through.
Bravo.
Never really considered the spine being involved in gun shot wounds...but seeing your videos, the spine always gets destroyed with these center mass shots...devastating and gnarly for sure.
“The blind make good tape!” I totally lost my shit laughing. Only military guys will get that joke. Great stuff!!!
Yeah, I don’t get it. Please elucidate.
@@davejob630 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skilcraft
Not just mil, any feds have skilcraft and lighthouse all over the place.
@@hreed7742 thanks
@@hreed7742 ps I always have used Nashua 357 , the best gaffe tape I’ve ever used.
The second shot was absolutely the most horrifying contact of any bullet I've ever seen.
Last one was pretty gruesome as well.
I physically felt my eyes widen without my control. Absolutely brutal
As someone who works at raufoss here in Norway its fun to see what our stuff can actually do
Hey, is there anyway you could get ahold of a raufoss tracer? I need one to complete my collection.
Thank you sir
I liked Kentucky Ballistics 50 BMG video so much better. Not only did he do a great torture test on that single shot .50 buuuttttt,, does a great job showing fragmentation blowing up from a bad round. And that ballistics dummy was so real looking moved, bled and even talked like a real person. Even had thumbs. Lol jk.
Been watching Garand thumb all day. You guy's are my new favorite YT channel. Great content and you guy's mix it up. Hope you guy's don't end.
"Gun safety is important. Alec Baldwin."
Best. Quote. Ever.
Came to the right fokken place.
I didn't pull the trigger.
Where is that at
@@Friendly_nh_deadpool 6:06
I knew someone would beat me too it. Best line ever. Pay attention Alec!
side note, one of the most effective defenses against 50 cal and higher is helicopter fuel tanks. had a 50 punch through our chinooks fuel tanks and slow down enough that it punched through the skin of the bird and then was successfully stopped by the back plate on an army ranger sitting in the troop seat
…Tell me more
@@NolenGYT I mean there's not much more to it than that
Imagine keeping the .50 round that hit you as a souvenir
If the bullet went through a whole ass fuel tank, several walls of steel and a back plate and still penetrate into a human, the bullet would be classified as a war crime
@@Izukachan Several walls of steel? the bird is mostly magnesium and the only armor is the BPS panels we install which are only like an inch or two thick
How do I switch doctors? This man seems way more rad than my doctor
Move to New Jersey. He's certified there
He would be a great doctor until he had go give you a "shot."
Probably one of my favourite videos of all time
Cabela's here in Canada accidentally sold AP , incendiary 762x39 last month. Soviet surplus.
That's such a terrible accident. Are you alright?
“The difference between science and goofing off is writing it down” -Adam Savage
I think taking a video counts as ‘writing it down’
I mean There's Reviews and Reassessment so yeah it counts as Research
“the halo sniper rifle brought to us by steyr”
denel ntw-20: crying in the corner
I can’t believe I just found this channel yesterday!
That squish when it hit the floor.. That's art right there!
The Doctor of Destruction!
The Physician of Firearms!
The Mad Scientist of Ammunition!
The MD of Penetration!
The Captain of Cringe! :D
Dr. Dislocated shoulder
PhD of pew
This makes sense.
Those rounds are designed to penetrate armor, blow it into tiny pieces, and then send those along with the round's core into the unfortunate occupants of a vehicle.
Think of those .50 as essentially creating a shotgun effect with the armor of a vehicle.
It's designed to rip out and fragment it then send it into the people inside kind of like buckshot.
And that's why it fucking rips the dummy apart.
Those rounds aint made to hit people directly. Body armor or not.
You shoot these at the sides of a vehicle or even at a wall behind which enemy troops are taking cover.
You can kill everyone in a room with those rounds because of that.
It was actually done in Irak and Afghanistan.
If a bunch of insurgents were hunkered down inside a brick building and the unit had one of those....
One round through the wall and it shotgunned the brick pieces into everybody inside.
Leaving a right fucking bloody mess of ripped limbs and chunks of flesh.
metal af
Iraq not Irak. 😅
Thats the same way armored piercing anti tank rounds work. The round itself isn’t that dangerous, its the shrapnel it takes with it that you need to watch out for
Essentially my same thought process. The bulk of that round is dedicated to defeating that armor and throw out VERY ANGRY metal pellets everywhere like a shotgun...metal af
@@thelistener1268 ikr lmao
16:00 gives a new meaning to rearanging someones insides
Was having a rough time on the shitter, then I saw dad uploaded. Really gave me the push I needed
Imagine going to your doctor explaining your issue and he says, "YO WHAT!" Then he puts on a pair of pit vipers immediately afterwards. Best doctor visit ever.
"Failed out of med school so that makes me a dr in new jersey "
" failed at being a dr in New Jersey so I moved to practice in Montana "
*Yellowstone theme plays triumphantly*
@@GarandThumb lol 🤣
@@GarandThumb man I wish people would quit moving here because of that show
@@LANCEtheBOIL do people actually move to Montana just because of some show?
@@hallu4696 yes, we have thousands and thousands of morons moving here just because of that show
The “what are we doing?” After the second shot really got me 😂😂😂
I’d like to see what would happen from longer ranges I’ve heard stories from a veteran of a sniper completely detaching arms and part of the chest with a .50 cal rifle
Well what's the "temporary" cavitation for a .50?
...About as wide as a torso lol hence the quotations.
Back in the wild west days of youtube you could find the .50 cal sniping videos of arms getting blown off.
@@f.a.2115 Some of those low res videos looked more like rodents and goats getting hit than people.
I remember watching a _Future Weapons_ episode on the Barrett where a sniper instructor for the (USMC?) proudly stated that it scored the longest confirmed sniper kill and also was confirmed to have split an enemy combatant in half with a single round. I imagine there was some insane tumbling going on and possibly the shot went in from the side to split a man in half.
On a side not, I'm the 69th like. Nice
I'm only 4 minutes in and I can already tell...this is the greatest video you have ever made.
You had me at .50 cal. Then you had me again at explosive. Once I finished changing pants I read "vs torso" and well, had to go change again.
LMAO. That's more than I get in a year.
😂
@@jhutch1470 😂😂
9:17 when ya sneeze with your eyes open
10:24 person watching
13:42 pew… asset not contained (plate exploded like paper)
18:59 scifi sounds 19:00
22:26 weird sentence
23:27 splurt, crunch, confetti
23:52 shoulder tap
GIGA CHAD MAN WE NEED MORE PEOPLE LIKE U
Mother of god!! That was one of the most impressive slow mo shots I've seen. The terminal ballistics of the rafous rounds are devastating!
The round exploded at the armour surface. The power of the blast actually severely slowed it down, hence the damage was not as huge as one would anticipate. I am sure that a 50 cal without explosive charge would do more damage if the dummy is protected with armor
"Gun safety is important... Alec Baldwyn"
You earned a sub from me for that alone hahaha
Me: 0-0
My brain: holy shit, he just burnt Alec Baldwyn to a fucking crisp
@@Anonymous-hx3pu actors really need to remember that their props are a whole lot more real than they think.
Yall understand that what happened wasn't even remotely his fault right? Hope I'm just being dumb and people aren't actually this ignorant lol.
@@damage6494 that's no excuse for pointing a firearm at a person and pulling the trigger. That act alone makes him just as guilty as everyone else involved.
@@damage6494 youre responsible for anything that comes out of the barrel of YOUR gun... im Australian and even I know this
That last explosive shell test alone was pretty sick!
Have a friend in vietnam who took a .50 bmg to his back, covering a retreat, it left his left arm hanging off by a bit of skin and ligament at the elbow. Ribs pulverized and was like bird shot into his lungs. Steel plate held.
A VA doc decided that two months post evac that the amount of pain meds he was on was an addiction level and cut him off, pretty much forcing him on to H and street pills. He said the only reason he didn't off himself in the hospital was he was with several other guys who knew him or heard about it and was waiting until the charge nurse left the room and then they would hook up their pain pumps to his IV.
That is terrifying. Thank you for sharing. People who love war so much should visit wounded military people to see first hand what it does to people.
Bullshit.
Yea that’s a awful story and shows how stupid our medical system is, the dude took a dam 50 bmg and survived by a miracle, it’s a legitimate reason to give him allllll the pain meds, he doesn’t have a random back pain, his body was almost blown apart.
your production is insane man keep up the good work n keep those editors on the pay roll
I don't know why I was so shocked by an explosive .50 bmg doing so much damage. I don't think he is walking that one off.
Just rub some dirt on it…
Just a pack of ice can heal his wounds
😁👍
Gets shot in the hand
Same, just imagining a movie or someone being hit; disturbing since they are exploding.
I only watched so i could appreciate the safety drills on that weapon system. Good drills 👍🏻
"Gun safety's important, alec baldwin" lmao
To quote Alec Baldwin: "Good for you"
Some things in life don't react well to bullets, Alec.
@@phoenixrising4073 lmao
"What's with Kentucky and the 50 cals?!?"
-Scott from K. did chuckle at that 😁
This is legit the best RUclips video EVER!!!
"The difference between science and screwing around is writing it down" - Adam Savage
The explosive round separated ribs from spine and pulled organs out through exit. The ballistic dummy has been Blood Eagled.