welcome back to Smarter Every Day.

In one of the previous episodes, we shot a 22 caliber bullet against various Prince Rupert's Drops

and you saw it splatter against the glass

it was fascinating.

Now a lot of people had comments on that, and they said that the problem was the lead would just splash against the glass, it didn't hold itself together.

Instead of doing what we did last time, which was a .22 long rifle bullet which was about 36 grains, going about 1,200 feet per second,

this time we're going to do this. It's a .22 Magnum bullet, I am bad at this, it is a 40 grain bullet, but it's going 1,875 feet per second, which is much, much faster.

In my mind, the most important thing about this, is that it's a full metal jacket, meaning it shouldn't splatter like the .22 lead bullet did

It should hold itself together and impart more of that momentum to the Prince Rupert's drop.

Anyway, if that doesn't work, then the other pistol that I have handy is this, my .38 special

.38 special is a much, much larger bullet.

I know everybody wants me to do the .50 BMG, but I want to step this up incrementally

because I wanna find out where the point of breaking a Prince Rupert's drop is.

So, I don't know if this is going to work but I have a 22 Magnum

the last time I did the shot was with a .22

wtih just the lead bullet now we have a

full metal jacket so I'm going to shoot

the Prince Rupert's drop if I can get it

in the right spot and see if the Prince

Rupert's drop will beat that

here we go

What!? What? All right that was a full metal, that was

a .22 Magnum what on earth

okay

look at that they're tougher than I

thought okay we used a .22 Magnum last

time now we're going to do a .38 special

that was a Full Metal Jacket this is

going to be a full metal jacket you can

see that this particular Prince Rupert's

drop doesn't have a bubble in it and

that's atypical so I'm wondering if that

makes it stronger this is definitely

going to break because it's got a long

tail the question is if it breaks at

impact or if it breaks because of the tail

moving like we've seen before yes

oh no way no way oh shut up

please say you triggered oh god okay okay

dude it just took a .38 special all right

we just lost light so we can't do

another one today

that's absolutely ridiculous that might be

the best slow motion I've ever captured

I think it's stronger because

there's not an air bubble in it at all

and that's atypical we can see instead

of an air bubble it pulled in the outer

edge there, pulled in the outside this

is a special one you know the only place

to go here is higher caliber so we'll do

a .223 and AK-47 in the next video

(drop it, drop it) okay I hope you enjoyed

this episode of Smarter Every Day

obviously we can't rest here I'm going

to do this with bigger guns next video

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Alright I hope you enjoyed

this video and I hope it earned your

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the AK and my mini-14 I don't have an

AR I'm a I'm a cheap gun kind of guy

anyway I hope you love this video

because I really want to find the point

at which a bullet beats the Prince

Rupert's drop I know everybody wants me

to do a BMG .50 Cal but I'm not going to

do it I'm going to walk up slowly and

find the point at which a bullet beats a

Prince Rupert's drop because I really

want to know

drop it good girl alright you ready in

the water yeah do it could do it oh man

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appreciate it bye throw it yeah do it.

I should say thank you for helping, I really

appreciate, you didn't expect to get roped

into this I don't think. Or flossed into it.

Haha flossed into this. Oh that's neat, it's a

fiberoptic I can remove my hand oh

that's cool you can see my hand when I

move my hand it's gone that's neat