How Many Glass Plates Does it Take to Stop a Bullet?

Should I even do this? What does that even mean? Yeah, people like it. In this video, I'm going to be seeing how many plates it would take to stop a bullet. I'm going to start small with the .22 and I'm going to work my way all the way up to the mighty .50 cal. We are going to see how many plates it would take to stop each round. As usual, Fred is standing in bravely as our test dummy for the day behind all of the plates. And if any bullet at any point makes it all the way through all the plates and hits Fred, he loses. So we have shot paper plates in the past, but we've never shot like a ceramic dinner plate. I don't really know if this is ceramic or not, but it's just like the standard plate that breaks. So it should be very entertaining and we will see how many plates it would take to stop a bullet. All right, starting out level one with our Ruger Mark 4. We have a little round of .22. How many plates would this go through? Would it just ding off the first? I don't know. Let's see. You got a guess? I think it's going to go through one and bounce off the second. Really? Yeah. Go crazy, dude. All right, here we go. Oh man, Zach. This is going to be a nightmare. What a mess. Oh, wow. Bullet enters in the top of that first plate and it's just like the Death Star in Star Wars, just exploding. We have shards everywhere. Just like it's disintegrating basically. Zach, we have an enormous mess. I don't know what I was expecting, but I thought that the plates would like break off into big chunks. It like completely shattered. We have like shards of glass everywhere. We're in way over our heads right now. At least I can count and see how many it made it through. You can clearly tell because we have these little pegs here. So although they're completely shattered, we can just say one, two, three, four plates is what the .22 went through, leaving a wake of destruction in its path. I think we're going to have to like put some tarps down or something. I have no idea what we're going to do, but we're going to figure out what to do with this glass and then we're going to move up. We have the Glock 19 shooting a round of nine mil. What is this one going to do? We had a gigantic mess. .22 ripped through four. What is a nine mil going to do? I don't know. Zach, it's like a crime scene. Tornadoes just melting everywhere from the last video. We put a bunch of moving blankets down. Hopefully, it'll catch some of the glass to help our cleanup. What are you going to do? Let's do this. Don't want to breathe that in. Wow. That was like something out of, I don't know. That was like a war crime. It was just a cloud of glass shards right into my lungs. Nice deep breath of ceramic plates. Oh my goodness. Oh man, like just a domino effect. Millions of shards of glass going everywhere. Glass everywhere. We'll just count the pegs here and see what we're working with. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. All right. Nine mil went through 13 of our plates. Stopped at number 14. New leader. Let's move up. Moving up to the 44 Magnum. We have a round of barrel load here. This should be an enormous boom. If the nine mil was a big boom, this is going to be insane. It's like this 44 Magnum and these plates paired together is reminding me of the time that I was at actually a dinner party just outside Anchorage, Alaska. Everybody's feasting, having a great time. Merry, jolly, grizzly. Storms in from the woods. Goes crazy, creates mayhem. I pull out the 44 Magnum. I saved the dinner party. You went to a dinner party in Alaska? Yeah, 2010 fall, I think. For what? For wildlife association prevention act of longevity of the preserves. Here we go. 44 Magnum versus our dinner plates. Hang on, Fred. It's the wind, Zach. The wind's coming right at us. Oh, my gosh. It's got peppered with glass. Oh, man. Gonna have to take a shower after this. Oh, yeah. That big bullet rips through and you see the shards of glass and dust just evaporating What happened, dude? Okay, huge boom. Our glass is still crackling. I can hear it. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 plates. And then there's just like some charring on this plate. Kind of interesting. So 22 plates. We're just like steadily moving along. 44 Magnum by far our new leader. Let's move up. Hey, 44 Magnum is our new leader. What will the Desert Eagle do? The winner of last week's video going through more cereal boxes than a 50 cal. We have our round of mighty 50 AE here. This gun sometimes beats everything. Somehow it has so much penetrating power. It might go all the way through. I'd be worried if I were Fred here. Let's see what happens. Here we go. Deagle versus dinner plates. Zach, cue the Eagle screech. Wow. Oh, man. Massive boom. Okay, the bullet rips through and looking at this slow-mo, it looks like the bullet actually tumbles out up into the right. Didn't stay straight. I actually am surprised it didn't go further from the looks of it. I thought it would make it all the way to the end. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. And then 24 is broken. So wow, that was really close to the 44 Magnum. I thought it was going to be way, way more than the 44 Magnum, but it only beats it by two plates. Nonetheless, the Deagle is our new leader. Let's move up to some rifles. Desert Eagle in the lead. But what will the 12 gauge do? Shooting a massive slug here. Sometimes sneaky good, the 12 gauge. Let's see what happens. All right, here we go. 12 gauge versus dinner plates. This should be a huge explosion. Okay, we're good. We're good. If you just shoot and then hold your breath, only a little bit gets in your lungs. Oh, you see a little flame there where the slug enters this chain reaction of destruction. I wonder where the bullets are going, Zach. I don't see any. Eyeballing it, it looks pretty similar to the Desert Eagle. It's going to be close. Let's see. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. Exact same as the Desert Eagle. It ties it. The slug and the Desert Eagle both tied for the lead. Let's move up. So if you've ever wondered what a 50 cal bullet actually looks like, in our last video, when we're shooting cereal, the bullet like veered downwards, got lodged into the table, and then we pulled it out. And this is the 50 cal bullet. Look at how gnarly that is. It's like pieces of the jacket, folding backwards there. This part's like split. Just a massive round. All right, moving up to the gold scar. We have a round of 308. The biggest round that we've shot so far. Could this have the power to finally break past 24 plates? Or will the bullet be going so fast that it just veers off? Let's see. Those new jeans, dude, they look great on you. Stop. Here we go. 308 versus dinner plates. Wow. It's going to be close Zach, but it does not look like it made it super far from my eyeballs. Okay, 308 dominoes through. Not as far as I thought it would go. And you almost see like a black cloud there at the last plate. Let's see how far it went. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 plates. The 308 does not make it as far as our previous leaders. The Desert Eagle and the 12 gauge are still in the lead. You just never know with the rifles. It's going so much faster, but sometimes those slower rounds that are bigger make it further. So with that being said, it is time to move up to the 50 cal. Could the 50 cal go through more than 24 plates? We'll get this cleaned up. I'll get geared up and we'll shoot her up. Don't say that. Okay. Don't forget that Brian. There's a lot over there that you missed. Clean up all those. Don't get it on the grass though. Get like this. Let me see. Ow! You okay? Ah, that got me. Let me see. I don't want you to mess. Ah, I don't. It's an open wound. I don't want you to. There's a tiny little speck of blood. Do we still have that tourniquet down here? Rub it off. No, I can't. I'm not going to rub it off. I could be losing. I'm going to lose blood. I'm actually feeling a little lightheaded. You're fine. Do we need a medevac? No, I think we can- Should we call Eagle One to take me to the ER? Get a close up, Zach. I'm serious. That's a pretty bad gash. It's a tiny little speck. Ah! I'm geared up. We have our round of the mighty 50 BMG right here. It's time for the main event. We have our remaining plates lined up downrange. The leader is a Desert Eagle in the 12 gauge. What is the 50 cal gonna do? It's time. All right, clearance Zach, before we shoot. You don't need to do that. I have to. Eagle One, this is Ghost Rider requesting clearance to engage target. I see you up there. Roger. Green light to Ghost Rider. There's nobody up there. Hang on, Fred. Wow. Oh, look at that cloud of glass. Oh my gosh, Zach. This beautiful day with those clouds and just the destruction of plates. I don't know. It's like something out of a painting. That was probably a record right there. That was insane. Oh, it's a flash at the beginning there. 50 cal rips through almost all of the plates. I'm not exactly sure how far it went. Absolute destruction. Just glass everywhere. Let's go see what happened. Zach, that was an enormous explosion. There was just like a huge cloud of glass that just like floated over the grass over there. We have shards of glass everywhere. Fred is okay. I can tell you right now, I do not see a hole in Fred. I see a lot of glass on his shoulder here, but the bullet did not veer up. Fred wins the video, Zach. He's the winner. Let's see how many I went through. I know that these are like in increments of nine. So we have 9, 18, 27, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 plates. It's what the 50 cal makes it through. Almost doubles our second place of the Desert Eagle in the 12 gauge. But Fred ultimately survives by like eight plates. Unbelievable destruction. The 308 doesn't make it as far as we thought. The Deagle and the shotgun are in the lead. But then the 50 cal, they're no match for the 50 cal, Zach. Absolute destruction. We have a lot of glass to clean up. Yeah, this was easily our messiest video we've ever done. Yeah. Are you going to help me clean it up now? What's that? You want to help me clean it up? I got double ears in. Sorry. I'm going to head back though and kind of cool down. Game plan for the next one. Do you think you could just give me a hand for like 20 minutes to clean it up? Again, I'm not hearing anything. I've got double ear pro. Can never be too safe with the 50 cal. How many? Water fingers. How many freds does it take to stop a bullet? Coming at 10 million subscribers. Yee yee fall launch coming September 18th at 10 a.m. Central Standard Time. A bunch of new gear is releasing. Thank you guys for watching. I'll see you in the next episode of Yee Yee Life. You're going to help me clean it up, right? I can't. I'm not getting anything. I see your mouth moving. All right, dude.