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My dumbass questioned the whole thing but still watched it and was like no way
😂
me to bro
its not that unrealistic but it is an absurd waste of time and materials like it would be much easier, faster, and less wasteful to press the cases and cast the projectiles not to mention the cases wont be as strong as traditional brass and likely wouldnt stand up to the same pressure but its still a step in the right direction
i wanted to see their angle, was definitely a fun video! Though this is a good way to make dummy rounds to test and such haha
@toastedprinny oh it was a good video but it also opened the door to question today's manufacturering techniques
If only...lol The powder comes from a Texas cattle company and is considered a " green" powder. The company is called BS Powders, Inc.
Powder can be made at home.
Was skeptical, then I saw when the vid was released.
My Bull is in on this one. He said you can drive around right in back of his pen and you can have as much powder as you want. Just fold your mirrors in because of his horns Ok...
@@charliejones7574most folks are gonna have a tough time making smokeless powder at home. Black powder isn't too hard.
@@charliejones7574
Black powder can be made easily. Smokeless powder a lot more challenging. Problem is getting consistency (so you don't blow the firearm up) and degradation.
You absolutely got my attention with the thumbnail. Then I saw it was Erik Cortina on April 1st and I knew exactly what was happening! 😂. I've been watching your April fools videos since the concrete video!😂😂
Me too, and this is the first time i knew it before watching the video....sometimes i'm a little slow on the uptake😁
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Haah, well done Sir!- MDT did a good one too with the 94 inch bipod, though their pricing was all too believable 😆
No Primer or Powder and the Bullet Printed onto the Case as 1 Piece ...LOL... Nice Try, Guys...Stay Safe...
Another April Fool's Day special.
True Velocity makes polymer 308 case ammo. Federal is making Syntech bullets which are mostly polymer. We can 3d print titanium at this point. This may not be as far off reality as we think.
I knew when they didn't do anything with powder or primers lol.
The applications for a lighter weight polymer casing is incredible. My only problem is does the casing diminish over time? Also how does it handle the pressures generated?
Syntech projectiles are all lead with a “polymer” coating.
@@rba5567don’t think ur supposed to reuse.
@@Rashed1255 I wasn't talking about reusing the casing . I was referring to the composite degrading over time due to environmental factors.
Pouring concrete without rebar is how I found Eric. Been looking forward to this video.
Welp, the government is definitely banning 3D printers now.
Side note> primer is not needed if you ignite the propellant with an electrode , like a spark plug.. Powder replaced with a gas. I have several designs on the drawing table. Looking for the right gas
Natural methane
You'll never get sufficient energy density using a gas.
@@sapago4166 typical propellants have terrible energy density. Even ammonia has better energy density than smokeless powder.
@@danielrouw2593 You are right. I was wrong.
What will you do if it they leak? You have have to have some sort of material that will hold up over time to seal in the gasses. I don't think it's a good idea because remember when they use to use propane as a refrigerant? It worked but they stopped using it because it was not safe. I'm not trying to knock your idea at all. Atleast you are thinking of new stuff I'm just pointing out some things to keep in mind along the way.
I think it'll be a better idea just to print the casing and add regular bullets to them and it'll be like a plastic bullet. But the whole idea is to have an alternative way of ammo if you can't get the regular components. I think the way to go is 3D print the case and the bullet because plastic bullets already exists but they cost more to make but just 3D printing the case will bring down the cost of bullets significantly. The only think is how will they pre form and how will they hold up? I think they will do just fine because plastic bullets do relatively well.
Happy 1. April, Hunters Silvester in Germany (its the Start of the New Hunting Year)
I know that you are king in PRS I wish you did more for AR reloading and precision. I do enjoy your videos
Yep, would love to see you do an "accurizing the StayFar-15" series.
You were smiling when the video started. Haha. I love these videos.
I saw the printer setup and the first bullet and wanted to know how you got the power in there 🤔
Well, you can stop it mid print and add it before the projectile is printed. But I'm just overthinking the April 1 thing now :3
Ditto @@browniesfox
probably a proprietary secret
I was wondering? Maybe powder then primer?
Walmart solved that problem years ago. I have their super delux Nerf AR15.
All this time I’ve been wasting money on brass! Thanks for letting us know about this 😂
This ammo would, without a doubt, clean the Blackjack Challenge with open sights. Great work, keep it up!
April Fools! Thank you for what you do.
caught on when they came off the printer already with the bullet in place. My printers cant do that, well they can but there would be no primer or powder. I have printed bullets that look like the real thing but as I said, they are dummys. great video, you had me at the title fer sure!
A very long time ago they made plastic cased ammo. They had a metal case head. Plastics wern't as tough then, There is graphite reinforced resins, Also you can laser print metalic cartridge cases(A bit expensive) But you could have a batch made for some old/exotic non availabe cartrigde
Great job guys. The oppressed will always find a way. FJB
It’s all fun and games until someone does it successfully. Nylon CF for the case and CopperFill with a tungsten core for the projectile. I wouldn’t add the powder and primers during printing due to the heat involved, so assembly would be the same as current reloading standards.
There are people using printed ammo. I wouldn't use it personally. But it's still being done by others.
Wow! I only watched the first 5 minutes. How much ?
Where can I buy some!!??
I try to never miss your April fools video. Loved this one!
I can always count on at least one good laugh every year from you!
Thank you, I really need this in these crazy times!
😂 lol I love this video... I remembered what day it is about at "proprietary filament"
Hi Erik. What is your aim in barricaded horizontal or diagonal?Do they have same trajectory or just the same with vertical shooting?
Your drop is always down, so you can assume a similar elevation, but you will have to adjust diagonally for drop. Eyeball it
I have 223 ammo made from plastic. Like shotgun shell plastic. Has copper jacket bullets. Shoots fine so no reason the shell can't be printed
Is it more expensive than regular brass?
@@joleghost was a decade ago. Not sure if they still sell them
less than a minute into it, and I remembered the highly accurate bullets with the dimple in the base made on the Harbor Freight "precision" mini lathe. And, then I realized that yesterday was April 1st. Pretty much in that order. You had me going for a little bit though. Fun video!
Plastic bullets....
Baaaahahahaha.
Print the cartridge,primer,powder and bullet all at once. That's an achievement to be considered in the next 100 years.
Not this time! I remembered this year!
@ 3:27 you can see a sky full of geoengineering.
The new norm.discusting.
April fools day jokes are better when its not a upsetting subject, like having no ammo!!! how ever you can 3d print projectiles, not great for much else then practice, or close range protection
Well, no talk of primers or powder getting put in. So it was pretty questionable!
Caught on within the first minute. Still need primers and propellant. Still kicking myself in the ass for not buying a metric ton of primer bricks when they were 10 bucks lol
Werewolves, Windagoes and Vampires? I’m thinking printing machines to draw and stamp cartridges might be A LOT more cost effective. Although you didn’t show it,
I’m sure you still have to add primer compound and propellant, right?
Or just some 01 April crap? I absolutely won’t be following your channel after this.
😂 you got me good
I cannot even pretend to comprehend how y'all are pulling this off ..... printing them out with primers, propellants ...... oh, wait, you got me. Ha ha! Subscribed, bell rung, commented, upvoted, liked, shared .... may the algorithm gods smile favorably upon your channel. Y'all are loco man. And they call me Gallo Pazzesco ... I got nothin' on y'all.
You guys SUCK LOL. Awsome april fools video!! You all have no ideal how many guys were probably working out what lie to tell thier significant other for spending the cash to buy 2 or 3 metal printing rigs!! Rolf!!! HOOAAH!
Well I'm not a gun genius but the fact they printed them fully made WITH GUN POWDER already inside the bullet kinda gave it away but would be pretty fkn cool if you could and I'm betting this 'April Fools' joke got some real gun geniuses thinking up some shite!!!
I've actually 3D printed 9mm bullets that will fire out of the barrel with just a primer. Completely useless, but I had to try it.
If you could get some mass in the round you could def print shells and pop primers into them. In an ar the whole shell is reinforced by the chamber so the shell itself would likely be fine. It's just when you start getting some temp in the barrel that i could see you running into issues.
There isn’t a component shortage. There’s an affordable components problem. Was looking the other day. In 2020 I bought powder for $25lb and at the time I thought that was expensive. Last week ordered powder $50lb. Reloading is such a small part of the ammo business. It’s an afterthought.
No way to print the propellant or functional primers that fire, while printing the cartridge. Now could you print the metallic components, YEP! I'm sure, with current 3D printing capabilities, the metallic components: Bullets and Case, could be 3D printed! Primer case and anvil could be 3D printed, but all printed separately. The trick is the propellant charge and primer charge, for those of you thinking about this. Not sure a 3D printed Bullet and Case would be cost effective though.
April fools!
I caught on when I was asking myself, ok, now that they've got a bullet in the casing, how did a propellant get in there? And a primer?
Loading a liquid propellant and then adding a primer as a bung would certainly be a good trick!
Well played gentlemen...very well played
Like total bosses, you played it brilliantly.
Love ya work
Yes it had me tricked so I curiously opened it and something was a little not quite right and then I when I cottoned on...I couldn't stop watching, couldn't stop laughing.
Yup...you have attained yet another higher rung on the legend ladder.
It's all settled, you now own April Fools Day.
It's clearly yours hahaha
I bow my head & tips me hat in respect hahaha
LOL! I wish we could 3D print rounds! Even if we could though the print would be about as accurate as some range trash ammo reloaded without doing any sizing, trimming, or uniforming anything. (but we all have seen people shoot that crap at the range and wonder why they can't hit the wrong side of a barn at 100yards.)
See worse is you THOUGHT it was a joke... but some companies are not saying anything, but 3D ammo is a thing, and moreso poly case ammo.
Side issue though is 90% of people wont even have access to a printer capable of printing the materials needed to make a projectile that is effective.
From a person that done 16 years
in Federal prison for gun charges
and seen how bad they don't like
that, I don't think it was a wise
decision to show a video with your
high tech equipment mass
producing Kevlar bullets.
Your now definitely being watched for sure.
You may not be able to 3-D Print Ammo, but you sure can use Hydraulic Presses to make Ammo. Of course Molds and Electrolysis for making Bonded Bullets, a Vibrating Pot for cleaning bullets of cast bits helps quite a bit.
haha. There is an ATF agent who is SERIOUSLY freaking out about this. I wonder how long it will take them to figure it out. They are drafting new rules for "fully automatic" printers as I type this.
Lol I knew you can print snap caps, from plastic. From kevlar and carbon fiber? Lol And what type of propellent and primers? Pretty good though seeing as they actually made shotgun shells from full plastic.
My favorite, is drilling the base out of the freedom seeds to make them more accurate!! LOL. FKING CLASSIC!!!
Watch the government put a stop to this. Should have printed a million rounds before showing it. Lol. Trump 2024!!!!!
I thought it was real until I saw the 3d printer and recognized it was a common plastic filament printer. However, there's no reason you couldn't 3d print bullets, maybe casings as well, obviously not gun powder or primers. I mean there is at least one company that literally 3d prints most of the major components of a rocket that flies to space, so why not bullets.
BTW, Never even new Erik Cortina is a world class shooter. I was watching a paramount tactical video and there was a picture of him as a special guest to promote their podcast. I recognized him from his other youtube channel texas barndominiums.
You lost me when ya didn't explain what you used for a primer and powder, then convinced me it was fake when ya didn't save the first casing to examine the effects firing had on it.
I was skeptical at the materials used for the bullet. Silver is expensive and valuable, so using it for a bullet didn't sound very cost saving. Good prank overall, anyone that was ignorant to reloading would've been fooled.😂
Ngl I didn’t catch on until the end, but the bad acting a red flag. The other thing that I questioned the whole time was, Why are you printing fully formed ammo? How are you loading it? It all seemed too good to be true. However don’t think we are too far off from commercial 3D printed ammo components.
Been following you for a few years now. I am always waiting for these every year. Thanks for the chuckle Erik.
Glad you like them!
Should have faked a marine running a perfect run on the blackjack challenge with open sights. I’m sure with the magic of editing it would be easy to do. Probably more believable than 3d printed ammo.
Can’t wait to get some! I just 3D printed up my new F class rifle and scope (total cost $100) and this will really round it out! Love technology advances! 👍
I wonder what today's date is?
The first video I ever saw of yours was when you were machining out the base of your bullets to improve accuracy.
I remember thinking, "What a loony"
😂🤣😂 The powder and primer automagically insert themselves. 🤣🤣 Great April fools video.
the crazy thing is i could see this as a reality, tungsten infused polymer for the bullet. kevlar polymer for the case, add powder and prime. could actually work.
Just a thought . We use polypropylene tubes to shoot fireworks due to its ability to not shatter sooo,
What about lead infused bullet? I mean, there's a reason we use it normally and has a lower melting point than silver anyway. Kevlar-jacketed 8 or 6ga steel wire core might be effective too.
I knew it was bogus because there’s no way to prime or charge a printed “cartridge”…it would be solid throughout….however, the projectiles on the other hand, would be a potentially probable avenue to consider.
This ain't april fools though. You can easily 3d print shotgun shells, and about all the comments bitching about primers. Just scrape some powder off of hilti blanks and ur good
Hmmm putting some thought into the concept, making a steel cup like the military loading of 277 fury and 3d printing a combustible case ?? Interesting concept
Honestly, this is definitely something that's gonna be possible in the future. I thought you guys really had something groundbreaking except I had no idea where the propellant came from. Unless instead of using a powder propellant you could use a solid state printable propeller but you would definitely have to have kept secret
The Vampire and Werewolf Apocalypses will make you millionaires 🧟♂....
I have a question
Is the whole reason why
The 3D printing technology was invented was to solve
Not just one problem like it
Just said here in this video a solution
Has been found to the shortage components
But other problems that
Are related to manufacturing
& constructing to
The april fools is that it works. My first batch should be off the printer tomorrow. Using aluminum instead of silver though. Obviously soda cans ate cheaper to get
I believe a better idea is to just print the bullet casings and just add the bellets. We already have plastic bullets and they do relatively well but they are expensive. If you can find the right material to print them out of it will bring down the cost of bullets significantly. Think about it its just another alternative idea. Ill even let you have it for free. Im just throwing it out there. Seems like it may be easier to do than to find or have a specific 3D printing material made specifically for bullets. Yes i know the whole idea is to have bullets when you cant get the components but bullets seem to be available.
Idk. Try it. Im just thinking that it woll work a lot better and probably easier to find 3D printing material just for the case it self. Matter of fact seems like you have the perfect spool for it. Only thing is teat to mskensure it can hold the pressures of regular bullets because i bet they are different from 3D bullets.
Just an idea. Ill et younhave it dor free on the condioifnyou do something with it youninvite me to test them out😂
Soon as I saw it I thought nope lol if you know anything about loading you know its not possible in the way they portrayed it to be made.
I was watching this questioning my whole existence and 10 years of 3D printing experience. I knew it was fake but a part of me really wanted to believe this lol
No fooling around, today's my dads birthday, 1 April 1914, Chicago, Illinois
After the Titan submersible thing, I'm a bit leery about pressures an 3D printed things. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
You had me for a few minutes. It's as good as Fort Scott Munitions .308 assisted ammo from last years April's fools joke.
The case rips apart even if using an actual projectile, would have to be made of a polymer similar to PEEK or PEKK with carbon to hold the pressure but at that point it’s going to cost ten dollars a pop ….
Funny, but tooooo obviously 'fake news'.
I was still disappointed to see that you failed to clear your rifle properly. 😢
Fake or no fake, safety is number one
Do we drill out the back of the bullet too....to make it more aerodynamic? (Combining last years April fools joke)
Use brass, or copper for projectile weight. Still not as heavy as lead, but still weighty..., April fools
I caught on right when it said 3D printed ammo. There is absolutely no way filament from a 3D printer could handle the pressure. Lol.
You had me up to the powder bit. I then second guessed myself thinking maybe a gas under pressure is formed by..it had me thinking of possible methods and all.. i teal tried to decipher the "magic powder" element. Goid one guys
The ATF will clip this and use it against you some day. Lol. April fools
You guys are pretty close to making actual sim rounds. Ever since they banned sim rounds we havnt been making them and passing them around to our group of guys to train with.
They are amazing once you figure out how to not make them.
Caught on the second I saw them on the printer but would be nice to scare the manufacturers to get the prices lower !!
I know right away, no powder or primer. But great video !!!! You guys rock!!!
Seeing this video in May...I was like there's no way the printer prints in the propellent
haha....... the 3d casing would have blew up right after the primer was set off when all of that PSI's ...
Silver projectiles. Good for werewolves, vampires, zombies, Wolfmen , etc..
You might have convinced me that you were printing poor quality dies and punches for reloading
But magic silver bullets is a bit much
As funny as this was... i do think there is some validity to the idea of 3D printed cartridge cases as the technology continues to advance. Great video as always! Keep it up!
I wonder how many gullible people forgot uts April 1st with your shenanigans. I knew before starting, but had to watch to get a laugh
Funny, but you're gonna give some crazy "westerners" some very bad ideas. 3D printers are about to be banned, 😂😂😂.
This is legal? Because if the government finds out.
Me: i made mass produce ammo and 3D print guns.
*Atf enters the house*
Just noticed along the way, there was no primer OR propellant.......
Good one😅
Well...? You got me with the "if you don't have a chronograph then do this"! Hell, I even took some notes, thinking ??????! So today I was thinking, is he fulla shit again?!
Chronograph video was the GOAT. Don't think he could top that one.
I’ll take one! Please engrave your signature! Greetings from South Africa!
If this was really possible. The ATF would make a rule saying 3D printers are now an NFA item
i watching this video scrutinizing the whole thing and trying to think how you get the powder inside and why are they so smooth thinking that can't be real
then i remember its april so i go check the date of posting AAAAAND you got me