I hope you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!

Id be interested to see you do a distance vs lethality test with the blanks. Like at what range / distances do each blank caliber become "safe"

In 1984, John Eric Hexum, on the set the TV series “Cover Up” proved the lethality of blanks. While growing bored on the set, he placed the barrel of a .44 Magnum loaded with blanks to his head and pulled the trigger. Pieces of his skull were blown into his brain resulting in his demise.

That explosion jumpscare got me a little too good. Well played, Scott. Well played.

"these rugers have really safe triggers" *10 seconds later bullet fires without even pulling*

Can we just appreciate the fact that he even got back near the same 50cal that almost took his life im proud of you Scott for getting close to shooting that gun again

my guy just mythbusted buckshot roulette

“Now I will pull our hammer back” my heart dropped followed by nervous laughter 😂

Here in the UK I visted a movie set where firerms were located. I was a film student at the time. 2003. We were shown how movie firearms worked and was told always treat a movie firearm like any other type of firearm, in other words as if it was loaded and ready to go and that blanks under the right conditions were lethal.

Honestly, a part 2 of this would be interesting since all of these were point blank range. It would be interesting to see how dangerous these rounds are at different, reasonable distances, like a yard compared to a foot. Edit: Okay, I get it. A yard's too far, and the result would be most likely no structural damage beyond damaged hearing, but I still am interested at which distance blanks start to do damage.

Never expected those shotgun blanks to do that. That was insane

Itd be great to re-do the experiment, but put the skulls at different distances away to see at what distance they stop being lethal, or start being lethal, whichever is more efficient to test.

The military switched to .556 because they can carry more into battle due to its lower weight. They would surely be able to double that bullet count by dropping the weight of the actual projectile and instead ran blanks. This may just be the edge our troops need in combat.

I love a random live round in the blanks intro. Big Alex Baldwin vibes.

Being that the 1st death from a 'Prop Gun' (real gun used as a prop) 44 Magnum in 1984 was Jon-Erik Hexum on the set of 'Cover Up', yeah at close range they can be very deadly. Jon-Erik Hexum was goofing off between takes playing, with what he thought was a safe way to play Russian Roulette, and pointed it at his temple and pulled the trigger. He died later from the concussive impact sending skull fragments into his brain. Yeah, that 10 gauge was 'murder'. (bad pun I know)

“How lethal are blanks?” Me: *remembering what happened during The Crow* They can be VERY LETHAL

Good demonstration. Had no idea what blanks actually were. This puts into perspective how lethal they CAN be.

As someone who has stood about 2 metres directly in front of blanks when a gun was fired, you can feel the intense heat and pressure hitting you. Blanks are still a risk of injury if you’re close enough.

Kids please take note!! It’s even worse after a cadet has used their rifle to lean on with the barrel going into the ground - ensuring a scoop of dirt, mud and possibly some small stones are there - with blanks this is more than lethal!! Thanks for bringing this to attention. ❤

i was dying to see this experiment too but from about a meter away or even 30cm. having the blanks pointed so close will obviously cause v serious damage, such as heads being blown completely irl when the gun's so close. love your vids either way, rock on and pls pls pls STAY SAFE!!! lots of love - kai

6:21 "THE SAFTEY WAS ON" i am DEAD

The .308 was more devastating than I thought it would be compared to the .223 and 50 BMG. It looks like the .308 caused more damage than the 50 BMG. It's a great video because it shows people that didn't already know better, just how dangerous "blanks" are. They are absolutely deadly at close range and should be treated like a regular bullet when firing. Great job Scott. Stay safe.

I remember hearing a story of a lady who had blanks in her gun to scare away or ‘defend’ herself from robbers. Well, a robber tried to rob her, she pulled out her gun and at point blank (pun intended) fired to try and scare him, and the force penetrated his face and killed him.

He took point blank to a whole new level 😂

I love the shotgun blank part like i didnt expect for the head to completely get evaporated and how you said "oh dear" before hand made it all the more comical.

Hey Scott, I don't know if it's ever been mentioned and you'll probably will never see this comment but I would like to give a huge THANK YOU to Scott Sr. if he hadn't been with you on that dreadful day April 9th, 2021 it most likely would have been a totally different outcome. GOD BLESS YOU SCOTT SR. 🙏 Thank you for keeping our guy safe and here on earth. Much Love and Respect!!! 🕊🕊🕊 Jay.

I remember the time my high school class visited an air force base. And while going thru the general gun safety training before we where allowed to shoot blank ourself, the instructor had an 'accidental discharge' with a shoe cream can on the barrel (you know, the small metal containers) just to show us, that even we where gonna play with blanks, it wasn't harmless at super close range. Definetly one of the gun safety thing that have stuck with me the most over the years.

You could say this experiment “blew my mind”. Can’t believe how much damage a blank can do.

Noticed that you hardly ever use a 357 magnum in either pistol or rifle. Would like to see it and maybe some history on it.

This is a great resource to show new reenactors. I actually have some spots of small scars on one of my hands from an overzealous reenactor who fired an M1 garand way too close to me. Thankfully, nothing major in terms of injury but it still hurt and I had small bits of brass embedded that eventually came out. Even this was at about 2 feet or so. Not point blank. (No pun intended...) Blanks are definitely dangerous. I've always wanted to do a safety video in regards to this for reenactors, but this definitely does it better than anything I could ever come up with.

I was a little miffed. I really wanted to see what range they were lethal at. Once he established that most were lethal at point blank, it would have been nice to see just how far they were still lethal.

7:16 his reaction 😂

Man, at the min 8:46 my heart iced and stopped to beat, then I saw you still alive and I got back to life ahah! Definitely we need a man like you here in Italy!

FYI- the shotgun blanks have a bit of wadding to keep the powder in and serving as a bit of a projectile, especially at contact range. Still pretty impressive.

Scott, first of all - you are approaching 3M subscribers. What an accomplishment. You and your dad have worked very hard to make this channel a success. I've been a subscriber since around 700k. You have literally bled for your art. Perhaps do a 3M Sub livestream? Also, would like to see a "Watermelon Time" with 10 ga blanks. Also, would like to see what some 10 ga blanks would do to a can of nacho cheese. Thanks for all you do for us. Love your channel.

Ok so I’m not a big fan of the gun channels (Not because I’m anti gun but I’m more interested in gun history then this kind of stuff.), but “The safety was on” tells me everything I need to know about this channel. Very good video and practicing good gun safety!

I guess South Park said it best: "They may be blanks, but they hurt like hell!"

the 10 gauge was the most powerful for sure! so surprising how strong they were didn't expect that

I would have been offended without the explosion during the BMG test. thank you for meeting my expectations and making me giggle.

I envy your hilarious demonstration and the serious,at the same time humerous body language.I am a Forensic Expert learning more from you ! Thank you

There is a bit of a problem with these tests: Because the ballistic gel is "shiny", if you press the barrel to it, it forms a semi seal. No way for the gas to leave. If you just move the barrel like 1mm back, so its not directly touching the head, I'm pretty sure the effects would be MUCH less severe, because the gas is not inserted into the gel instantly, but have an "escape route"

3:13 : that "ooohhh dear" before the dummy skull exploded actually made me laugh

Bro really forgot to turn the safety off and then fought with it for a couple minutes. Absolute gold and it made me laugh way harder than I thought it would

This one video has also educational features, I didn't expect what I have seen, thanks

Only man with no haters. I say it’s deserved. He is wholesome and nice. Keep being you Scott.

The amount of energy in these blanks is surprising! Those shotgun blasts were amazing! Great Video!

LOVED THIS!!!! The shotgun blanks were very interesting. I think a distance test with the shotguns would be fun.

I know this was more for the cool factor and maybe a little bit for comedy. But I'd be interested in seeing what it does from a little further. Show the danger in if you accidentally set it off on yourself or if someone else accidentally shot you with it

You really handled that 50bmg like a king

Back in 2005, I was in Basic Training out in Ft Jackson. We were doing our two week FTX, and all the screw ups were usually put on bad details like ammo duty etc. You'd think that'd be fun, but it's not, you sit around all day while other soldiers do real training, and just load magazines all day long full of blanks for the field training events. So one day, we wake up early, and go to the ammo depot, to pick up our magazines in MILES gear at the time to do a red vs blue type of game, utilizing the training we had, and as I picked up my magazines, I noticed as I looked down into it, the rounds toward the bottom of the chamber had points poking out of them, so I quickly thumbed out all the rounds, to find live ammunition loaded at the bottom of every magazine I had picked up, with blanks along the top. Someone was very disgruntled and set out to do harm to a lot of people that day, granted - we had blank adapters but as this channel has demonstrated sometimes barrel blockage can cause more damage as well. I called a Drill Seargent over quickly and showed him, to which we red flagged the entire training area that day, and found live ammunition at the bottom of every single one of the magazines. The DS told me I probably saved a few lives that day. It still gives me chills to think back and wonder what would have happened, had I not just been nosey about looking over the magazines and inspecting them closely.

It would have been interesting to see a setup where you increase gradually the distance from the target. Obviously, if .22 managed to crack the skull a bit, every other calibers would seriously inflict a lot of damage. So, to sumarize, it would be interesting to see at what distance every caliber become lethal!

Two shots and it went kaboom. I love this channel

Scott you got me with that 50 BMG jump scare!!! Keep up the good work brother and stay safe!!!!

I would like to see these shot at standard ballistics gel. It would be interesting to observe how much penetration each of the blanks will achieve.

This makes me want a mechanic in a zombie survival game where you can use blanks as long as you get close enough. Or maybe a scene in a zombie movie where one guy is picking up all the blanks while everyone else is looking for live ammo. When they ask why he's taking blanks he just loads them into his shotgun, walks outside and starts exploding zombie heads at close range.

I can’t believe this content exists!! 😂🤘🏽 that was incredible

This is my first time coming across this channel and I must say it was very entertaining and fun to watch! I subscribed too because my mom told you to remind me😂

Dang it, Scott!! You get me with that explosion every time!! 😂👍

The results for this video were honestly shocking! Very entertaining, as always, would love to see a few pistol caliber blanks tested since in this one we jumped straight from .22 to larger calibers. Also, as many others are saying, an actual range test would be cool to see as well! Just how far back would you need to be from a blank for it to be "safe"? Since these get used so often in hollywood and even in some live stage productions its kinda scary to see just how dangerous nothing but powder in a crimped case can be.

I was told in basic training (by a DS) that if I was to fire a blank with a cleaning rod section in the barrel, It would be lethal... I would love to see that demonstrated.

Another fun video, thanks scott

Point blank is obvious, because people in movie sets had died this way. But, this video definitely teaches me more about them. Thanks, Scott. 10 gauge was WILD!

at 6:43 i was so waiting for him to say here is mr kennedy after 308 blank

You always get a thumbs up from me. Sometimes from the editing, sometimes because of the interesting content but most times it;s the intro... almost always a combo of the three. This time you got it in the first 30 seconds because of the intro and it just got better from there.

The most famous blank incident that comes to mind, is that of Brandon Lee, but that wasn't just a blank, but also due to a dummy bullet in the barrel

You got me so good with the 50 Cal 😂! I was like "no way, not again..."

6:15 This Ruger have really safe trigger! ...(*click*)... THE SAFETY WAS ON!!!

"she called me to remind me to remind you to hit that subs button"greatest line ever😂😂

This dude seems like a cool dad, nice video. Happy holidays !

That was very eye (and head) opening! I was so shocked that the 12 gauge blank actually blew the skull apart that I laughed! Informative and entertaining as always :)

Not sure which one was the most lethal but like you I was surprised and impressed by how much a 22 blank did. It was a great display of how much pressure even a small caliber generates.

When he said he didn’t know where the head was after the 10 gauge blank I was like “Pick a direction you’ll find some”

I used to Civil War reenact and knew a guy who accidentally discharged a blank load from his revolver directly into his thigh. He very nearly died, it blew sizable hole in his thigh and also caused severe burns. It’s important to note that civil war re-enacting blanks are different from “modern” blanks, it’s just a straight load of black powder, in revolvers it’s packed with cream of wheat as well. Lesson is, even when firing blanks you must vigilantly practice safe gun handling.

Hey brother, I know it's been said before, but I'm so glad you're still with us! You make fantastic videos and I hope you're still with us for many years to come!

This video blew my mind I think the guy at 7:25 was mind blown too

Cashier: sir that will be 12.18 Me: 8:57

As a paratrooper in italy, 509th Vicenza,when we would go to Germany,we wasnt allowed to have live ammo ,but we kept plenty of blanks incase wild boars would show up.we used our cleaning rod for a projectile.

I am incredibly happy for this video. Mainly because I asked for it and it was delivered in record time, but secondly, because it's a good way for people to learn that blanks aren't toy bullets

Hey Scott. All of these were point blank. I'm really curious as to what happens at various - albeit short - ranges. I doubt it'll still be lethal at 20 yds, but 1 foot away?

Awesome explanation of blanks.

I honestly wanted the treat of a second 10 gauge shot. That was so gnarly

7:36 me when i spot a holy cow

Interesting video Scott! Thanks for explaining what blanks actually are was cool to know for us here in the UK who have no idea about firearms! :D

Instead of the t-Rex, Alex Baldwin walks up. Alex: “Hey Scott!” Scott: “nope. Nope. I didn’t survive the slap rounds to be taken out by a ‘prop gun’”.

ive just realized kentuky ballistics is like demolition ranch

4:24 that’s the most creative way I’ve seen anyone plug there channel, you’ve earned it.

i expect to see a full apology to scooter for popping his tire and making him fall 😠

That scared me the pulling down the hammer explosion lol. You got me lol.🤣 and the your mom calling lol.

I did learn more about blanks than I knew. Thank you Scott. The 10 gauge was definitely the most lethal that turned that head into a mist! Lol

When I was in Army basic training, way back in the early 80's, we used M16's with blanks and adapters at the end of the barrel . One of my squad mates did not properly tighten his blank adapter and launched it while firing. It went through the plywood wall in a mock building, missing the "opposing force" member by inches. Two years later, I was an M60 gunner on a training exercise. While shooting many hundreds of times from the mount in our jeep, I noticed a very different sound and the belt stopped feeding. I looked and realized my blank adapter was gone. A Swedish officer approached us and handed my driver my blank adapter. He said no one was hurt but it scared the crud out of them when it bounced off of his windshield. I tried to fix t with pliers but it was a mangled mess. I was firing one shot at a time for the rest of the week. The armorer didn't bring any spares to the field and our unit was 8 hours away by jeep.

I have a lead sled and I love that thing ! Love the vid man !

Ur content is amazing! keep it up!

Holy… I was NOT expecting that much power from a blank. 😂

So when I was in basic training. A few groups before me apparently had a suicide by blank. Also apparently an accidental killing of fellow soldier by blank. At the time was confused how that would be possible. Seeing the 5.56 do that kind of internal damage. Perhaps the Drill Sargents were telling us true events. Interesting results here and a video I will be saving.

This was fascinating to see, glad it showed up on the timeline. I wonder how far away you can be before they no longer pose a threat to life or damage in general.

6:15 this part gave me a good chuckle...between this and the "you just got jammed" part before it that always cracks me up 😂

I was hoping you’d test lethality at different distances, especially after seeing how much even the .22 did.

As a reenactor I would like you to show these blanks at different ranges because from all the training and safety I've gone through I know the distance of lethal but I would like you to see how close you can get.

That 10 gauge blank was absolutely savage and I love it

So much fun to watch!!