.40S&W Glaser 115gr Blue Safety Slug impacting ballistic gelatin

[Drizztmarco]

People talking about if this bullet can reach your heart, etc etc etc, it doesn't matter. Even if you got hit in the hand by this round, you would die from the shock just from the damage output it would create from every one of those lead balls bouncing around.

[roentgen571]

@Drizztmarco You just don't know what you're talking about. Google "glaser" and "wound" and do an image search, and some of the first pics you'll find are of a guy shot in the arm with a Glaser. He survived. In fact, I've done x-rays on patients with worse wounds from smaller-caliber rounds.

[MrGlock55]

at 0:33 it looks like a alien elvis skull

[xmike8259x]

damn, uhhh they say its a weak round..... well after watching this im thinking of a .40 for a ccw

[roentgen571]

@xmike8259x Anyone who says .40 is weak doesn't know what they're talking about. It's a little bit more powerful than 9mm P, and has similar terminal performance. It's "weak" compared to magnum or rifle loads, but it's pretty solid as a handgun round.

[91gt306]

Short and weak my ass.

[Erik0072]

best thing out there? no...would i want to be shot with it? no.

[PresentingHilarious]

@Erik0072 would I want to be shot with any bullet period? nooo.

[roentgen571]

The minimum standard is set not because of the distance to the heart, but because the body is not of uniform density, like the block of gel is. It might only be 6" to someone's heart, but that 6 inches is behind muscle and bone, maybe more than one bone depending on the angle the bullet is coming from. The idea is that if it'll go 12" in gel, it'll go through whatever clothing plus body parts could be in the way .

[derekscammon]

@roentgen571 You are right, but with Glasers, the water is muddied by the fact that the bullet doesn't act the same hitting bone as it does hitting ballistic gel. I'll never use them, because it seems clear to me that expecting a bullet which is designed for minimal penetration in walls and other barriers to reliably penetrate heavy clothing, bone, and muscle is irrational. This theory is borne out in field reports from shootings, as well as the fact that no major LEO agency uses them.

[roentgen571]

@derekscammon I totally agree... Glasers and Magsafes are pretty much a gimmick. Lethal? Capable of incapacitating an attacker? Sure...but as reliably as a high-end modern JHP? Not at all.

[Drizztmarco]

@roentgen571 You dont seem to understand. if you'd hit someone with a glaser round in the hand they would die from the shock form the sheer damage. It's a fiarly fast death aswell. It's no gimmick it it lethal and dangerous.

[Drizztmarco]

@roentgen571 Even if it doesn't hit the heart, the shock of the damage it puts out to soft tissue even is enough to kill a man fairly quick.

[snooglesnarf]

thats disgusting.

[coveredindouchbags]

hey bean bags n rubber bullets do it,,,,,do it

[coveredindouchbags]

hey

[coveredindouchbags]

i wanna see what the rubber bullets and bean bag shot does to it can u test that?

[Humster]

watch?v=-qB_FALHS4c



[lukethibodaux]

Piss poor penatration, I would never use a load like that, 12" is the FBI minimum spec and that is nowhere close.

[Humster]

@lukethibodaux

Dude, thats what the Glaser SAFETY slug is designed for.... minimum penetration. Its originally designed to be used on commercial airliners, back in the 1970s or something.

[devcon67]

@lukethibodaux Of course the FBI is more concerned about shooting through car doors and windows rather than a civilian self defense situation. Would it take 12+" to hit your heart if someone shot you? Shot placement is key, not deep penetration.

[akiratubo]

@devcon67

If that someone had to shoot me from the side, then yeah. It's about 12" to reach my heart.

[ChishioAme]

@akiratubo Unless you're a huge guy (or talking about the bullet going through your arm first), then that's just not true. I'm a pretty big guy and from my armpit to my heart is 8".

[akiratubo]

@ChishioAme

Both. I have broad chest and shoulders, and was counting the arm. Worst-case and all that.

[ChishioAme]

@akiratubo Wouldn't that be best case, though? Lol. Worst-case would be more like contact shot from the front/back with a slightly better case from the side through the armpit.

[flamedrag18]

so how deep was the penetration?

[NinjaRider777R]

@flamedrag18 100% energy dump in less than 7 inches, use the blocks underneath as a ruler, they're 1 inch wide, and spaced 1 inch apart.

[flamedrag18]

@NinjaRider777R just insane

[jollygreenjustin]

I see a fish.