"I'M MARY POPPINS, Y'ALL!"

They're like Narnia.

If it can hide a 2 gallon soda jug ......well.

He coats his bullets in sugar.

He's like a grand Theft auto character

Exactly

Harrell is a legend. I love his no shit take and slightly awkward style. When he cracks the occasional joke while staying totally deadpan kills me every time.

Indeed.

I’m just here to be the judge. And it’s just interesting that these rifles were introduced around the same time for the soviets and so many countries just seems odd to me why you’d do both

Same here, I now realize i need both, immediatel, he knows this shit in and out

Lots of complaints people have with surplus usually boils down to not properly cleaned of cosmoline or mismatched parts "last ditch" guns like 42-43 mosins and 45 k98s and arisakas. Boiling water and mineral spirits is the best thing to remove cosmoline

This here is what I was looking for. If you completely disassemble the bolt and get all the Cosmoline or Corrosion out of the firing pin channel, slam firing shouldn't be an issue. Also, they make aftermarket spring loaded firing pins for the SKS, which completely eliminates any chance of slam firing, but I'm not a fan of spring loaded firing pins.

@@chadivanbober4026 Mineral spirits for sure. You can let the majority of the parts just soak and watch the grease come off on its own, then get after it with some brushes

​@@polaris6644 I'm sure any non-polar organic solvent would also work fine seeing as cosmoline is just a mixture of heavier petroleum based hydrocarbons. The stuff that would be in the bottom of an petroleum refinery distillation column. Sort of like Vasoline, which I would bet my left nut is extremely similar in molecular makeup. You could honestly probably just use gasoline (which is mostly heptane). Or something like naphtha or any other paint thinner, or vodka if you wanted to keep to the theme lol.

my russian sks was coated in cosmoline!!!! they were considered junk rifles......................... i have more fun with them than i do the ar15s

I paid $89 for my Chinese Type 56. Bought 2 of them and converted one to 30 rd removable, synthetic folder, and 4x scope. Poor-man urban tactical.

Charles Wade I did the same thing but didn’t care for the reliability of those magazines so I left the new stock on the rifle and went back with the attached magazine. The adjustable stock fits me a little better. My daughter is 5’5” and she claimed one of the original setup for her deer rifle we mounted a 4x scope on it and it fits her perfectly.

I *wish* I could remember those days. I got into firearms WAY too late. My first was $469, my second was $319, and COVERED in Cosmoline...still haven't cleaned it yet..

@@peternorton5648 Same here. Became convinced that the SKS operates most reliably when used with the original fixed box magazine as it was designed to do. Cut the barrel down a bit, threaded it to accept an AK-style flash suppressor, got rid of bayonet lug, replaced front sight with paratrooper-style sight, rear with Tech-Sight and a most excellent Tapco Timbersmith laminated wooden thumbhole stock.

@@epickett63 Learned a quick and easy way to clean Cosmoline off the SKS. This works well in low humidity environment (west Texas). Best to do outside as some people cannot tolerate ammonia. Disassemble & place parts in large Rubbermaid tub. Boil large amounts of water (I used a canning kettle and a large pot). Pour 2-4 cups ammonia in tub and 1/4 cup Dawn Dish liquid. Add boiling water. Agitate solution, allow parts to soak. Cosmoline will "melt" off. Scrub parts with tooth brush, clear bore and gas tube with cleaning kit, pipe cleaners etc. Set cleaned parts aside. Rinse & repeat as necessary. Always using boiling hot water. Water will evaporate quickly off hot metal parts. Will "Lift" finish off wood and may also lift grain in stock reducing dents and imperfections in the wood. Ensure all parts are free of water and apply light coat of oil with a rag. Allow stock to completely dry before refinishing /sealing. || Cleanup: Use old newspaper to skim cosmoline off surface of water and to wipe sides of tub. ||

I'm not sure how true that is since Yugoslavia had mandatory military service for all men after they finished their education, most were trained to use weapons.

If you give poorly trained soldiers full auto firearms they'll spray all of your limited ammunition reserves into the bushes before they've even encountered the enemy. Even highly trained armed forces have strict doctrine about when you should use full auto (basically never unless you're laying down suppressive fire to cover an advance/retreat with an MG or doing room to room clearance where it's hard to miss and you need to ensure targets go down quickly).

This is an issue with most armed forces. Even our troops in the US military would need a constant reminder to positively identify their targets, before putting their booger hooks on the trigger

@@herpderpens4964 Being trained to use a weapon and keeping your cool in battle are two different things.

Full auto is rarely a good technique, unless your goal is to cause fear, rather than actually hitting a target.

Yup, always something new to learn! And Paul is a WEALTH of knowledge and information!

Amen to that!

Make that 3 sir ))

Old Soul yes sir

Yes, 10% would say "YAUHHH, this is boring." 80% would say, against any right wing propaganda, " WOW, I've gotta learn this." The other 10%, "I WANNA BE HIM."

@@brianstacy4595 who wouldn't want to be him Always calm, and his stance alone screams testosterone

In a perfect world, we wouldn't need to defend ourselves from each other.

@Paul Martin Perfect usually doesn't happen. I never mentioned weapons at all.

@Paul Martin I think we can all agree in a perfect world there’d still be soda bottles to shoot and plenty of guns and ammo to do it with.

He's Race Bannon of Jhonny Quest xD

He sure looked like an action figure with another person in the shot.

He deserves to have his own Action figure for sure. Complete with shooting jacket.

@@clementgeorge6522 He has one.

@@DrEpicPhD next video he's going to be comparing action figures .

Interesting

Beginning????

Sounds good to me,however "you be the judge."

He grows on ya. His videos showed up in my recommended for years before I really gave him a chance. Presently, this is my favorite gun channel and community on tube.

He's the best of the best on KZfaq

Good idea to keep an eye on the firing pin when cleaning

@@Scybren and makign sure the internals of the bolt are free of cosmoline

Happened to me. Only ND I've ever experienced. Just loading the chamber.

Old cosmoline is the main culprit here - it can sometimes hold the free-floating firing pin forward. It's extremely important to separate the bolt from the bolt carrier and clean them both thoroughly before loading a new-to-you SKS.

I had mine slam fire because I did not know frog lube turns to glue after a year or so Yes it was my fault I should have take it down after storage and checked the pin but never expected a lube to turn to glue either.

What? He caught the ammo in his hand and put it in his pocket. Or were you jestin?

Lloyd Sims I could be wrong but I think that was self-deprecating humor.

@@lloydsims1573 It was referring to the beginning of the video, where he emptied the magazine via the trigger method, to demonstrate the bolt locking open

Yeah saw that but thanks for the point out

That caught me off guard 😂😂

Lol ya maybe a bit. He seemed to be just not as good of a shooter as Paul. Certainly not anything to be ashamed of Paul is in like the top 5% of shooters in the world I would think. Also the Brian guy seemed to be hurting his own face while shooting lol.

I think it's a portable hole...

I was waiting for Paul to pull the 3030 from his "magic" shooting jacket pocket !

My practice also.....👍👊

@weebles These are all fair points. I'm sure he knows but will make a point of mentioning it in one of his talks :D

Can't you also lock the bolt back to eject the round in the chamber, and then open the internal magazine to unload in one fell swoop?

@cjhyde78 You don't know the difference between "there", "their" and "they're"? How old are you and what is your level of education?

Jason Myers who shit in your salad? Statistically, 50% of Americans can’t read a book past 8th grade level. “Greatest Country In the World” You should try and take a step back and chill.

It's also how good your clips are. The czech clips are very smooth, the Chinese ones aren't. Russian and Czech clips are the best to buy online

@@DaDaDo661 You shold grease the stripper clip rail lightly with a smal paint brush (also the part where the cartridge rim is) thats day and night...

Bad stripper clips require this method... good ones usually don't. The Chinese ones seem to be the worst offenders.

And comes from the factory with a monopod

You can get 5 and 10 round AK magazines though, which would make the AK easier to shoot prone. Unless there is some other ergonomic issue.

@@n0tquitesane Monopod ? I thought that was a serving spoon

Excellent point for combat operation!

@@vincentlok8894 top loading could be advantageous in a prone position

Nun Ya I would imagine that the grenade launcher would limit its utility somewhat. Anyone know if it’s A QD item?

@@murphy4yt The Yugo 59/66 bayonet is hinged, attached at one end by a screw and hooking onto the ring between the front sight and the grenade launcher instead of directly on the barrel itself using a sliding, spring-loaded collar with a hook on it for that purpose. The bayonet extends 8" past the grenade launcher, and only has the (fairly blunt on mine, like a butter knife) blade past it. It can be folded or deployed in a second or less, if you practice. And it's latched in both positions unless you slide the collar.

@@militantfascade9176 If you push hard enough, the barrel enters the wound cavity and you get the full use of the 11 ½" bayonet that way.

Ak is better

@James Harding They're not meant to be sharpened

More like Starsky and Hutch.

And that would be a bad thing?

I want him to charge at the meat target with that bayonet

But he does have a freaking grenade launcher!

Why u roasting hot dogs

Spike bayonet is superior

Because that's all that is really necessary, isn't it?

Matter-of-fact fumbling around. :(

@@videodistro He shows the good and bad, the smooth complexion and the warts. Would you rather he show only perfect video demonstrations?

Yeah straight forward and strong 😁😁

Lol this is priceless

Copypasta material

That's not a fair comparison! Testing a 24 oz. versus a 10 oz. skews the results.

And there went my coffee all over the screen....

You've been around this channel a while.

You definitely need to see his explanation in the lake than. Enjoy

You sound like a perv.

@@triggeredsear5430 I remember seeing an M1 carbine somewhere for $110 in 1994. I really wish I'd bought that rifle.

I paid $75 for my Russian sks in mint condition.

Coulda Shoulda Woulda

I remember those days as well.

You beat me to it. That's what I was thinking.

He does claim to be a professional though. Tomato, tomato.

@@philipdillon83 good one ya funny bastard!

No he says he is a professional

Mere mortal? He's part of Paul's crew. That makes him either a god, or at least god-adjacent.

I have a feeling that being self aware and humble and requisite for being friends with Paul... I dont hes the kinna guy thats going put up with BS embellishments Friend: "I can shoot a fly of a dogs back at 100yrds" Paul : "let's go to the meat target"

But remember that mortal shot the same score as Paul in a shooting contest. He may be mortal, but he was touched by the gods.

@@kevinh1858 I remember Paul saying that in the video with Chuck.. Did he say that in this vid as well? I'd go back and rewatch but I've got other Paul harrell videos I need to watch

That mere mortal appears to be at least a foot taller than Paul. I think he is a giant. He can also shoot quite well. Not a mere mortal I want to tangle with.

My first center fire rifle was a marlin 336 in 30-30 second was an SKS. This video checks my boxes.

Give me a Marlin 336 all slicked up by Grizzly Custom Guns any day, over the 7.62x39 autoloaders.

Well also a lever action isn’t a semi auto. Similar to a bolt action, All the force is going foward. If you turned off the gas setting on the sks, the numbers would be higher

James M ehhh. I've chrono'd my sks with the gas off. Some difference but not a lot. By the time the bullet is to the gas port she's already scootin' near 90% plus. Mostly said what I did because so many people dismiss .30-30 as not being any better than a pistol caliber lever gun.

@@nolanmacpherson9880 Same here! Day I turned 18 I bought my 336 then two weeks later my Norinco SKS.

I wish I knew more about the awesome history of this weapon. Imagine owning a real heros gun

Maybe a check mark for every time he shit his pants when a Huey blaring 'Ride of the Valkyries' appeared on the horizon?

Yep!

700$ a piece easy currently. i let a handful of them go recently for extra room. dont really need crates of them anymore, lol

You can still find boxes of SKSs in cosmoline on GunBroker

Yep, the days of crates of SKS rifles at gun shows are probably gone. In 2000 I picked up two Yugos just like Paul's in the video - $159 each - Knoxville Tennessee gun show.

What year were they? the one I have is a 1951 soviet Russian one.

His coat is the tailor-made equivalence to the TARDIS . . .

And enough room left over for at least three full-size handguns, a bottle of Shasta, several boxes of Winchester green-and-white-box ammunition, and one (1) 12-inch limited edition Paul Harrell action figure (with Kung-Fu Grip and Ejector Rod Slap Action!).

No Shasta today :(

@@Hanzer-ns5bh Paul: Now you heard me say hit, and I mean hit it! That whiney guy: B-b-but that's how you get a rod shaped scar in your hand Paul: Did I stutter?

Colin right!?!?! Or MEAT TARGET!

Did the slam fire happen while using brass cased ammo?

Only early production Russian models and upgraded sks came with a firing pin spring. The cosmoline tends to harden on the firing pin keeping it forward. All slam fires are from people not cleaning the rifle.

I had one that was not due to bad cleaning butbduento a chipped firing pin that bound on its retaining-pin. The issue only manifested after a couple of rounds, sending the rest of the magazine down range as a runaway machine gun. And no, I do not live in the US, thus this kind of thing will only involve a gunsmith to fix.

It's good to release spring loads if possible. I've worked on a few guns that incurred damage that way. Mainly cheaper and older one's.

I have three SKS rifles that I've owned for around fifteen years one being a Yugoslavian as pictured, a Chinese and a Russian. Slam fires can happen with almost any military style firearm that has a free floating firing pin if it allows the firing pin to strike the primer when the bolt travels to the home position. If one reloads for these type rifles a high primer or a primer with too soft of a primer cup material can cause a slam fire even if the rifle is in excellent working condition. Also, with these type rifles always allow the bolt to strip a round from the magazine as it slows down the bolt speed as it travels home, never put a rd. in the chamber and just drop the bolt on it.

@@reloader7sixtwo - You can replace the free-floating firing pin with a spring-loaded one for about $25. Replacing the part is easy too and only takes about 5 minutes if you're already familiar with SKS takedown and reassembly. Frankly, every SKS owner should do this as it's a cheap way to make the rifle infinitely more safe.

It is TRUE! My Favorites section froze up completely for about fifteen minutes! KZfaq said "try later."..................................elsullo

Interesting point!

Apples and oranges. The 30-30 was designed for the deer woods and close in shooting. The 7.61x39 is a battle cartridge designed for entirely different scenarios.

@@Nick-wn1xw whats a 761/39? I'm guessing you meant 762/39?

Actually, you have to take into consideration that the SKS and AK-47 are semi-auto rifles. They use some energy from the powder to power the action. 30-30 is lever action and ALL the powder is used to push the bullet downrange. So, that part of the video was complete BS. I'm surprised he didn't point that out.

It uses like 10 fps worth of power to do that you absolute Fudd

With "happy little trees" in the background. :)

@@arcticfox6808 that he may shoot down accidentally. "Timber"

Happy little soda jugs. We'll shoot the devil out of them.

It would a lot better if Paul did it.

@@lukwyns2279 ive seen the movie but cant seem to recall what exactly you are referencing.

Besides the parts that were a tad too john wick "inspired", a pretty solid action movie with killer action direction. That chase scene was something to gawk at.

Surprisingly good movie. I recommend it!

Turned it off as soon as I saw him with elbow pads. Cringe reminder when I watched Jack Ryan with Kevin Costner head to toe with padding and standing around like a dumb dumb.

oooof that pun hit hard

I know I'm Stalin for time, but I'm just Lenin you know for your convenience.

Aaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!! Hahaha

@@eckelrock You make me laugh...... Go to Gulag...

Haha that made me GULAGH

Unless you're Paul.

I'm still surprised how many people dont know that

Sounds way too complicated for my big brain

Almost universal for easy stripper clip loading no matter the weapon.

I prefer this one (check local laws first) Remove fixed mag Start using detachable mags.

you can have those with an ak too

Zombie gun confirmed.

Chicom AK had a folding bayonet and the Polish AK had a grenade launcher

It's also long and heavy enough to be an effective club.

All Yugoslav AKs have that Grenade launcher too. Also you can mount a bayonet to them as well

Vanilla Gorilla sorry about your tyrant leader bro. But the SKS is a awesome rifle. I got mine when I was like 15 and love it.

Ridiculous how everything is the "Black rifles" fault, never the person using it. They know its like a drunk driver, they dont blame Ford, Chevy etc.. They just use it as an excuse to disarm.

@@TTiger86268 Exactly.

bad news it's gonna be grabbed soon

hooshangmaster probably, silver lining is it can all be reversed as long as we vote him out next election.

Looks like the blue mountain area in Oregon. Not entirely sure but it is beautiful. Oregon for the most part is a gorgeous state.

You are not the only one who appreciates the "lower profile" of a more traditionally styled gun. In Paul's best guns for home defense video he mentions that he likes the Winchester 1897 pump shotgun for that reason. If you do have to discharge your weapon the cops and the jury may view you more favorably if they see you with an old pump shotgun than if you have something a little more tacticool.

That's why I want an sks. Also you don't need mags. You don't NEED clips either. I watched Jerry miculek load his sks by opening the mag and dropping bullets in and going to town.

@@Zellonous And one can always pull the box off and use a detachable mag. A little bit of a pain though as the bolt has be locked back to insert the mag as the bolt goes under the feed lips of the mag.

@@trevors8577 And half the time the Tapco detachable mags don't lock the bolt open on empty

Oh Really? Well I know this guy that says there are a HUNDRED rifle calibers in the range of 30-30 that are SUPERIOR to it in EVERY way..... just sayin' ....

All depends on what you’re using said caliber for.

I took my first deer with a laser-range-finder-confirmed 49yd shot with a 6" 357 mag revolver (with a 2x scope). With that as a base line, any rifle cartridge is ballistically superior at accuracy/range/power/penetration.

The only problem that the .30-30 really has is the intended firearms. Hear me out, although the cartridge can be loaded with spitzers, you wont find commercially available pointed bullets because of the liability that someone will load them into the tube of a lever gun and sue when something bad happens. A lack of aerodynamically adapted projectiles leads to the idea that it's a 'short range' cartridge. It just has everything working against it, but it's hard to beat an 1894 or 336 for deer on the east coast. That and it's hard to get a box mag to feed it, but it's rimmed and we just accept that it isnt really a box mag cartridge. I think it would be neat to see a 'No.4 Lee-Enfield Jungle Carbine' in .30-30 with a mag adapted to work. Short, sorta light, appropriate caliber on the east coast, and a 10 round mag that was designed to feed rimmed cartridges. And it could take heavy-grain pointed bullets.

@@additudeobx dont get your point...fact is it has been killing since 1895. Also everyone has opinions

Kinda like dating fraternal twins.

The AK and SKS are my favorite as well. ARs are soulless rifles IMO.

Paul's Friend needs A few pointers. But I love my SK

It’s never too late. lol

I dunno, a 400 dollar SKS that somebody hasn't bubba'd feels safer to me than a 400 dollar AR. I've seen a couple of those el cheapo plastic lowers fail, and that kinda puts me off.

Go buy a new PSA or Zastava AK for $600-$800 and get a rifle on par or better than a $1k at and be a happy man!

SKS is an excellent platform if you're not able to have AK. Palmetto has them for around $300 last I checked. If I couldn't have my AK I'd absolutely settle for the SKS.

Better buy the scout rifle. From Steyer, for example - it is a "ready to go" rifle: included in package sights, two magasines, integrated bipod They will not take her away from you in 50 years. Because, as practice shows, they can, they in position and power to grab away and cause any shit with any of self-loading weapons

Солнцевская Братва should be a 2A sanctuary state.

I have both and they’re both great guns. The SKS is a better-made rifle for sure. If you ditch the bayonet, cleaning rod, and buttstock cleaning kit, it becomes a handy 7.5lb rifle.

I was just thinking of one for the models with the integral bayonet's :P just because, hehehe Good luck up there, behind enemy lines...

Legend has it, only one was made. And it was sold to Chuck Norris.

michael blacktree 🤣

they're not dolls, they're action figures....like i used to say about playing with the classic G.I.Joe's when i was 13

. . . but they were all of them deceived, for another action figure was made . . .

But the one he showed us has a major flaw. No magic pockets!

This kind of bolt catch, of course, only serves to indicate an empty magazine, once removed it lets the bolt go home, requiring the action to be worked again to chamber a new round. It doesn't make the actual reload faster, it just prevents you from lining up a shot only to hear a click.

check out Phoenixphoenix channel. he uses a safety with a cut out in conjunction with a bolt hold followers. gotta engage the safety before stripping the mag out but once the new one is in he just drops the safty and it chambers a round. pretty slick technique.

I have the same setup, magazines with bho followers, and a safety with a notch cut in it to hold back the bolt. So long as you remember your order of operations it works prefectly. I used to be able to find those bho mags for $9 a piece. Now they're up to about $12.

yeah I'm looking forward to trying it out. i don't know if the holding followers work in xtechs but i ordered a ods-1775 and they come with a couple xtechs. i got the krebs extension safty as well so it should be alright even if i don't have bolt holding mags.

Still I would never trust it.

The good clips have the letters BXN stamped on them.

They also make bigger magazines for the sks, and the stripper clips are only to facilitate a faster reload. It takes forever to load them one at a time into the mag, but that's what you are doing when you load a stripper clip anyway. They dont come pre-loaded.

@@RequisiteFunction I have 2 detachable magazines, 37 rds each, US made for my $100 sks (cir. 1994)

I had an SKS - the NZ government took them all away. I was warned of slam fires because the firing pin was free-floating. I could not help but notice that my AR (they took all those too) also had a free-floating firing pin. Anecdotal Googling suggested that modified firing pins with.springs on actually increase the chances of a slam fire, which I dismissed until my mate's 44-40 with a similar spring mechanism slam-fired out of battery. Moral: keep the gun simple and keep it clean.

Very true. Most decently made rifles can out shoot the shooter... Paul's AK is a WASR too, which doesn't help matters at all. They will never ever break and they always go bang, but its pretty much the bottom of the AK barrel as far as accuracy goes. I have a couple AK variants that shoot around 2 MOA no problem.

Inaccuracies simply add up. Bad aim with an accurate rifle is the same as good aim with an inaccurate rifle.

Reminds me of the people that complain about glocks being inaccurate. Sure buddy, I bet you do a lot of +50 yds shooting with handguns. Which is where any difference in mechanical accuracy between service weapons start to show up. Better buy that marksman barrel.

@@juliusfucik4011 I get your point but not true at all, in almost all circumstances the gun is more accurate than the shooter can accurately shoot, so a bad shot with an accurate rifle will always be worse than a good shot with a less accurate rifle.

​@@juliusfucik4011 Not at all. "Bad aim" usually results in missing your target, while an inaccurate rifle means having a few inches of give at a few hundred yards. I can't imagine there's any sort of successful or ubiquitous rifle platform (i.e. the SKS) that can't hit man-sized targets up to 400 yards- which is all you need for many purposes.

Yep. Tapco galil

it's tapco. unfortunately they're dead

Looks like a Manticore Renegade handguard to me

its a tapco galil or som

I prefer Romanian dong

I do believe a few of his pistols would kill the intruder on reflex while Paul stayed asleep.

Paul would simply keep the robber rooted to the spot by telling enless interesting anecdotes punctuated with his Shatneresque pauses.

To day to test the effectiveness of the SKS rifle grenade, we're going to be firing at the new and improved "Home Invader Target". The target consists of one layer of t-shirt, a layer of human skill, human lung and organ tissue, human rips and backstrap and followed up by my forcefully opened front door due to exigent circumstances. Let's see how it does. As you can see, the rifle grenade completely demolished the t-shirt and skin on the front, combusted the human lung tissue, and obliterated the ribs and backstrap. It also caused extensive damage to the surrounding walls of the house, which could be considered excessive to some. So, is the SKS rifle grenade effective? You be the judge.

@@uncreativename9936 best comment I've seen on youtube

Well he's gonna have to fly to china then break into a munition plant then smuggle a live "rifle grenade" back to the U.S. interesting comments though, did you all think Paul has rifle grenades.

Permanence Aesthetic I just hope he pronounces the name correctly and doesn’t call it the American hill billy way “Mack er off”...it’s Mah, Kar oV...annoys the shit out of me when they say MACK.

MACK er roff!

Lmao

When it comes to slavic names, the emphasis is almost always on the second syllable, its a common mistake. boRIS not BOris ivAN not IVan MiHAil, naTAsha, naTAlia and so on In general its not a big deal. I would love to see a .380 vs 9mm Makarov comparison on the meat target more that I care about how he says it.

Dick Grips

Rush... my favorite band. RIP Neil.

RIP Neil.

Nice

And when I squeeze it, it gives forth a sound...

What you are hearing is the whining of little boys. Ignore.

I prefer the meat targets used on this channel.

I would like to see Mr. Harrell not slog his channel down by chasing the various opinions and keyboard jockeys around the interwebs. I would like to see him continue on, doing what he does best, AND not having him waste time and content, looking in the rear view mirror. 1) This is a superior channel, with superior content. 2) When one wrestles with pigs in the mud, the pigs enjoy it, and the only result is that one gets dirty.

It's helpful to have a consistent media when comparing different rounds. It's a form of scientific data collection. The meat target IS inconsistent, and so is the human body. For example, maybe Paul happens to get a tender piece of meat, and you happen to get a really tough bad guy. In that scenario, the test is a bad representation of what you encountered. Or as another way of looking at it, imagine you have a rifle with inconsistent accuracy (large groups), and you mount a cheap scope (groups get bigger), and you shoot on a day with gusts of erratic wind (groups get bigger). In the end, you have a huge grouping. That does tell you what you can expect from your setup in those circumstances, but it does *not* indicate what the rifle itself is actually capable of. Further, if you fired only a few rounds and then tried to adjust your zero, it's possible that you might be adjusting to match what were actually "fliers". It's why we shouldn't evaluate rifles based on 3-shot groups. Each inconsistency we introduce causes more variation in our data. Then, when we only collect a few points of data, and try to draw conclusions from it, we risk drawing incorrect conclusions. However, I still like the meat test. It is not scientific, and it is not consistent, but it *does* give us a rough estimate of what to expect in the real world. It translates "raw" data to reality.

Ballistic gel is good for objectively and consistently comparing the power of different firearms and rounds. The meat target is good for subjectively seeing approximately what those would do to some variety of animal. It's like the difference between a dyno pull and a drag race. Both have their place.

Thanks fellow human. I too liked Paul Harrell's video and made sure to leave my like.