“How A Bullet Works”

Other than the chemical compound for black powder instead of smokeless, it seems like a fairly well done video for the tyro level video consumer.
It shows, presumably, a Nine Millimeter cartridge, gives some random average facts, indicates the firearm won’t fire until the trigger is pulled, and lists the various components and their jobs.

Yes, the projectile doesn’t wait until the peak pressure to decide to start moving. And, yes, the primer also increases the chamber pressure to “prime” the gun powder charge as it blasts it with a jet of combusting gases, more than just touch it with a spark.
And we typically give the weight of cases in grains, not ounces.
Also, one could fit more than six grains of powder in the case, depending on the powder in question.
These feel like pretty specific terms that an Initiate would be easily corrected on durning their first week of self instruction in Teppo Jutsu. Verily, even a layman’s perusal of more in-depth topics of the nature would find the nomenclature labeled correctly.

Over all though, nothing terribly egregious, I think. What do you find woefully lacking, just for conversation’s sake? I may not be looking at it from the same point of view…
 
I was playing a sniper game on the internet & every time I fired the last round it would go into slow motion & would show a whole cartridge flying through the air to hit the target. I had to laugh every time I saw that.
I saw something like that in a horribly bad 2000's SyFy Channel made for TV movie. I can't remember the name and don't care enough to look it up. It was bad 👎
 
They don't know the difference between a bullet and a cartridge.
I mean, to be fair, the average non-gun person calls the things that go in guns “bullets.” We know there’s need of more precision if you’re routinely discussing the difference between loaded ammo, cases, projectiles, etc. but for the general concept it’s accurate enough to call them bullets.
 
What do you expect?

We ourselves can’t even spell properly in what presumably is our own native language.

Lots of examples on this very forum.

The rot and decay are everywhere.
 
IMHO, the above video illustrates internal ballistics to a novice international audience, many of whom are not allowed gun ownership, and it does so in an informative manner in a way the audience can understand. What percentage of forum members here have scales that measure grains? Sixteen ounces of powder is the equivalent to 7,000 grains, the text within the video illustrates a technical aspect using ounces and grams as units of measurements.

Volumes have been written about internal ballistics, way above my retired pay grade to understand the formulae, technical aspect, and then redact this data/information into an attention span of one minute and forty-four-second video.

Please explain 'woefully wrong in so many ways' in this video. :)
 
The comment about how primers "were like shaped charges" . . . o_O

Or the offhand one about "make another video to convince people to not buy them by the dozen."

Sigh. Reddit is a thing. All too often it's like finding a dead animal and ignoring if it's found in the woods, or alongside a road, and turning that discovery into a discussion on Generally Accepted Accounting principals.
 
Illogical people will go on with their fantasies irrespective of what you attempt to teach them. Good enough video for someone who knows nothing about ammunition, but those ignorant of such matters are often intentionally ignorant.

Example: Movie and TV writers and producers; they will forever spew their propaganda mythology about firearms and the herded masses will lap it up "like a dog returning to its vomit."

If a person is truly interested about learning about a given topic, they will dedicate time to read and watch instruction videos (plural). As I said, this video is a starting point ... but the topic, if to be truly understood, requires more study. For instance, the cartridge shown was a handgun round. The velocity range given was that for handgun rounds. Rifle cartridges and exterior ballistics would be the next topics.

Maybe there's video out there that debunks all of the firearm B.S. seen on TV and in the movies. I've not seen nor heard of one. I'd be delighted to find one.
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The original author created what could have been an education and informative video. I was pointing out the fact that they could have spent a few minutes to get the facts correct. You know, the quaint notion that if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing right. That sentiment is long gone for the majority. The only thing that matters is more ‘content’. (That AI presumably gets trained on).
And it’s not just Reddit. I’ve seen the same thing from major journalists. Just today I read how Spam isn’t really ham, it’s pork. (???).
 
It is generally informative even with the incorrect details
^^^ Kinda how I see it. We here tend to be a fickle lot......with nit-picking being rampant.
I was pointing out the fact that they could have spent a few minutes to get the facts correct.
....well for those it is intended, it is fairly correct. Kinda the difference between a second grade math book and a High School trigonometry text. Goes back to the old "KISS" method of teaching those that are new to something.
 
This is mainstream firearm education.

I didn’t click on it but mainstream education would show a photo of a completed round and call it a ”bullet”. If they were educated they probably wouldn’t be antigun though…
 
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