My Bull is in on this one. He said you can drive around right in back of his pen and you can have as much powder as you want. Just fold your mirrors in because of his horns Ok...
@@charliejones7574 Black powder can be made easily. Smokeless powder a lot more challenging. Problem is getting consistency (so you don't blow the firearm up) and degradation.
its not that unrealistic but it is an absurd waste of time and materials like it would be much easier, faster, and less wasteful to press the cases and cast the projectiles not to mention the cases wont be as strong as traditional brass and likely wouldnt stand up to the same pressure but its still a step in the right direction
You absolutely got my attention with the thumbnail. Then I saw it was Erik Cortina on April 1st and I knew exactly what was happening! 😂. I've been watching your April fools videos since the concrete video!😂😂
Side note> primer is not needed if you ignite the propellant with an electrode , like a spark plug.. Powder replaced with a gas. I have several designs on the drawing table. Looking for the right gas
What will you do if it they leak? You have have to have some sort of material that will hold up over time to seal in the gasses. I don't think it's a good idea because remember when they use to use propane as a refrigerant? It worked but they stopped using it because it was not safe. I'm not trying to knock your idea at all. Atleast you are thinking of new stuff I'm just pointing out some things to keep in mind along the way. I think it'll be a better idea just to print the casing and add regular bullets to them and it'll be like a plastic bullet. But the whole idea is to have an alternative way of ammo if you can't get the regular components. I think the way to go is 3D print the case and the bullet because plastic bullets already exists but they cost more to make but just 3D printing the case will bring down the cost of bullets significantly. The only think is how will they pre form and how will they hold up? I think they will do just fine because plastic bullets do relatively well.
@danielrouw2593 Yeah, I just assumed because the density of the solid is so much greater that you wouldn't be able to fit enough gaseous propellant in the case to achieve the velocities obtained with solid propellant. But I wasn't thinking correctly about what the term "energy density" means.
True Velocity makes polymer 308 case ammo. Federal is making Syntech bullets which are mostly polymer. We can 3d print titanium at this point. This may not be as far off reality as we think.
The applications for a lighter weight polymer casing is incredible. My only problem is does the casing diminish over time? Also how does it handle the pressures generated?
less than a minute into it, and I remembered the highly accurate bullets with the dimple in the base made on the Harbor Freight "precision" mini lathe. And, then I realized that yesterday was April 1st. Pretty much in that order. You had me going for a little bit though. Fun video!
I caught on when I was asking myself, ok, now that they've got a bullet in the casing, how did a propellant get in there? And a primer? Loading a liquid propellant and then adding a primer as a bung would certainly be a good trick!
A very long time ago they made plastic cased ammo. They had a metal case head. Plastics wern't as tough then, There is graphite reinforced resins, Also you can laser print metalic cartridge cases(A bit expensive) But you could have a batch made for some old/exotic non availabe cartrigde
If you could get some mass in the round you could def print shells and pop primers into them. In an ar the whole shell is reinforced by the chamber so the shell itself would likely be fine. It's just when you start getting some temp in the barrel that i could see you running into issues.
You had me up to the powder bit. I then second guessed myself thinking maybe a gas under pressure is formed by..it had me thinking of possible methods and all.. i teal tried to decipher the "magic powder" element. Goid one guys
Caught on within the first minute. Still need primers and propellant. Still kicking myself in the ass for not buying a metric ton of primer bricks when they were 10 bucks lol
What about lead infused bullet? I mean, there's a reason we use it normally and has a lower melting point than silver anyway. Kevlar-jacketed 8 or 6ga steel wire core might be effective too.
I cannot even pretend to comprehend how y'all are pulling this off ..... printing them out with primers, propellants ...... oh, wait, you got me. Ha ha! Subscribed, bell rung, commented, upvoted, liked, shared .... may the algorithm gods smile favorably upon your channel. Y'all are loco man. And they call me Gallo Pazzesco ... I got nothin' on y'all.
Honestly, this is definitely something that's gonna be possible in the future. I thought you guys really had something groundbreaking except I had no idea where the propellant came from. Unless instead of using a powder propellant you could use a solid state printable propeller but you would definitely have to have kept secret
caught on when they came off the printer already with the bullet in place. My printers cant do that, well they can but there would be no primer or powder. I have printed bullets that look like the real thing but as I said, they are dummys. great video, you had me at the title fer sure!
You may not be able to 3-D Print Ammo, but you sure can use Hydraulic Presses to make Ammo. Of course Molds and Electrolysis for making Bonded Bullets, a Vibrating Pot for cleaning bullets of cast bits helps quite a bit.
Wait this was an April fool's joke😢 man I just gave you an great idea to just use the 3D printed case and regular bullets. We already have plastic bullets but 3D printed case with regular bullets would cut down on the cost of the bullets maybe. Depends on how many can be made over a specific time compared to the regular way of making them? I'ma kind bummed it was an April fool's joke😅
The case rips apart even if using an actual projectile, would have to be made of a polymer similar to PEEK or PEKK with carbon to hold the pressure but at that point it’s going to cost ten dollars a pop ….
Can’t wait to get some! I just 3D printed up my new F class rifle and scope (total cost $100) and this will really round it out! Love technology advances! 👍
When I saw this video I was like "wait is this for real" then I saw the date stamp from two weeks ago. I could tell it was Tulammo from the second he first showed it sitting on the printer.
Aw man, I had a similar idea for a joke/thumbnail a while back. You beat me to it!! 😂 Nice Prusa XL! Maybe I can convince Gavin to add a Core XY to our shop someday. 😁
It’s all fun and games until someone does it successfully. Nylon CF for the case and CopperFill with a tungsten core for the projectile. I wouldn’t add the powder and primers during printing due to the heat involved, so assembly would be the same as current reloading standards.
I have practice 308 ammo made out of plastic, metal where the primer is and the rest is plastic. I use only in my antique Spanish rifle that was bore out to 308 prior to coming to USA.
Damit... As I do use my 3D printer pretty frequently, you definitely got me! I was trying to figure out how you managed the tolerance and was waiting for the details what kind of printer and materials you were using 😂😂😂😂😂
I was watching this questioning my whole existence and 10 years of 3D printing experience. I knew it was fake but a part of me really wanted to believe this lol
is an ol Lady, when did I know it was fake? when i first saw the round. hard to print powder let alone primer. and that is just the parts that go bang.
As funny as this was... i do think there is some validity to the idea of 3D printed cartridge cases as the technology continues to advance. Great video as always! Keep it up!
the crazy thing is i could see this as a reality, tungsten infused polymer for the bullet. kevlar polymer for the case, add powder and prime. could actually work.
I thought it was real until I saw the 3d printer and recognized it was a common plastic filament printer. However, there's no reason you couldn't 3d print bullets, maybe casings as well, obviously not gun powder or primers. I mean there is at least one company that literally 3d prints most of the major components of a rocket that flies to space, so why not bullets. BTW, Never even new Erik Cortina is a world class shooter. I was watching a paramount tactical video and there was a picture of him as a special guest to promote their podcast. I recognized him from his other youtube channel texas barndominiums.
Hmmm putting some thought into the concept, making a steel cup like the military loading of 277 fury and 3d printing a combustible case ?? Interesting concept
i watching this video scrutinizing the whole thing and trying to think how you get the powder inside and why are they so smooth thinking that can't be real then i remember its april so i go check the date of posting AAAAAND you got me
If only...lol The powder comes from a Texas cattle company and is considered a " green" powder. The company is called BS Powders, Inc.
Powder can be made at home.
Was skeptical, then I saw when the vid was released.
My Bull is in on this one. He said you can drive around right in back of his pen and you can have as much powder as you want. Just fold your mirrors in because of his horns Ok...
@@charliejones7574most folks are gonna have a tough time making smokeless powder at home. Black powder isn't too hard.
@@charliejones7574
Black powder can be made easily. Smokeless powder a lot more challenging. Problem is getting consistency (so you don't blow the firearm up) and degradation.
My dumbass questioned the whole thing but still watched it and was like no way
😂
me to bro
its not that unrealistic but it is an absurd waste of time and materials like it would be much easier, faster, and less wasteful to press the cases and cast the projectiles not to mention the cases wont be as strong as traditional brass and likely wouldnt stand up to the same pressure but its still a step in the right direction
i wanted to see their angle, was definitely a fun video! Though this is a good way to make dummy rounds to test and such haha
@toastedprinny oh it was a good video but it also opened the door to question today's manufacturering techniques
You absolutely got my attention with the thumbnail. Then I saw it was Erik Cortina on April 1st and I knew exactly what was happening! 😂. I've been watching your April fools videos since the concrete video!😂😂
Me too, and this is the first time i knew it before watching the video....sometimes i'm a little slow on the uptake😁
😂
Haah, well done Sir!- MDT did a good one too with the 94 inch bipod, though their pricing was all too believable 😆
Pouring concrete without rebar is how I found Eric. Been looking forward to this video.
Side note> primer is not needed if you ignite the propellant with an electrode , like a spark plug.. Powder replaced with a gas. I have several designs on the drawing table. Looking for the right gas
Natural methane
You'll never get sufficient energy density using a gas.
@@danielrouw2593 You are right. I was wrong.
What will you do if it they leak? You have have to have some sort of material that will hold up over time to seal in the gasses. I don't think it's a good idea because remember when they use to use propane as a refrigerant? It worked but they stopped using it because it was not safe. I'm not trying to knock your idea at all. Atleast you are thinking of new stuff I'm just pointing out some things to keep in mind along the way.
I think it'll be a better idea just to print the casing and add regular bullets to them and it'll be like a plastic bullet. But the whole idea is to have an alternative way of ammo if you can't get the regular components. I think the way to go is 3D print the case and the bullet because plastic bullets already exists but they cost more to make but just 3D printing the case will bring down the cost of bullets significantly. The only think is how will they pre form and how will they hold up? I think they will do just fine because plastic bullets do relatively well.
@danielrouw2593 Yeah, I just assumed because the density of the solid is so much greater that you wouldn't be able to fit enough gaseous propellant in the case to achieve the velocities obtained with solid propellant. But I wasn't thinking correctly about what the term "energy density" means.
True Velocity makes polymer 308 case ammo. Federal is making Syntech bullets which are mostly polymer. We can 3d print titanium at this point. This may not be as far off reality as we think.
I knew when they didn't do anything with powder or primers lol.
The applications for a lighter weight polymer casing is incredible. My only problem is does the casing diminish over time? Also how does it handle the pressures generated?
Syntech projectiles are all lead with a “polymer” coating.
@@rba5567don’t think ur supposed to reuse.
@@Rashed1255 I wasn't talking about reusing the casing . I was referring to the composite degrading over time due to environmental factors.
Welp, the government is definitely banning 3D printers now.
No Primer or Powder and the Bullet Printed onto the Case as 1 Piece ...LOL... Nice Try, Guys...Stay Safe...
Another April Fool's Day special.
You were smiling when the video started. Haha. I love these videos.
Been following you for a few years now. I am always waiting for these every year. Thanks for the chuckle Erik.
Glad you like them!
less than a minute into it, and I remembered the highly accurate bullets with the dimple in the base made on the Harbor Freight "precision" mini lathe. And, then I realized that yesterday was April 1st. Pretty much in that order. You had me going for a little bit though. Fun video!
You guys are pretty good actors. I figured it out immediately, but your reactions really sold it. Great job!
This ammo would, without a doubt, clean the Blackjack Challenge with open sights. Great work, keep it up!
All this time I’ve been wasting money on brass! Thanks for letting us know about this 😂
I can always count on at least one good laugh every year from you!
Thank you, I really need this in these crazy times!
I know that you are king in PRS I wish you did more for AR reloading and precision. I do enjoy your videos
Yep, would love to see you do an "accurizing the StayFar-15" series.
I try to never miss your April fools video. Loved this one!
I caught on when I was asking myself, ok, now that they've got a bullet in the casing, how did a propellant get in there? And a primer?
Loading a liquid propellant and then adding a primer as a bung would certainly be a good trick!
A very long time ago they made plastic cased ammo. They had a metal case head. Plastics wern't as tough then, There is graphite reinforced resins, Also you can laser print metalic cartridge cases(A bit expensive) But you could have a batch made for some old/exotic non availabe cartrigde
If you could get some mass in the round you could def print shells and pop primers into them. In an ar the whole shell is reinforced by the chamber so the shell itself would likely be fine. It's just when you start getting some temp in the barrel that i could see you running into issues.
You had me up to the powder bit. I then second guessed myself thinking maybe a gas under pressure is formed by..it had me thinking of possible methods and all.. i teal tried to decipher the "magic powder" element. Goid one guys
I realized when some how you were able to have the powered in the casing and the bullets printed filling it already.
Long time subscriber! I caught on the moment it showed in my feed. 😁 Look forward to this video every April 1st!
When does the powder go into the shelves because it seems does the powder go into the shells
Caught on from the beginning. Learned my lesson with the Berger Bullet base dimple.....Eric
Hi Erik. What is your aim in barricaded horizontal or diagonal?Do they have same trajectory or just the same with vertical shooting?
Your drop is always down, so you can assume a similar elevation, but you will have to adjust diagonally for drop. Eyeball it
Caught on within the first minute. Still need primers and propellant. Still kicking myself in the ass for not buying a metric ton of primer bricks when they were 10 bucks lol
Every April 1st Eric Rocks it!!
What about lead infused bullet? I mean, there's a reason we use it normally and has a lower melting point than silver anyway. Kevlar-jacketed 8 or 6ga steel wire core might be effective too.
I cannot even pretend to comprehend how y'all are pulling this off ..... printing them out with primers, propellants ...... oh, wait, you got me. Ha ha! Subscribed, bell rung, commented, upvoted, liked, shared .... may the algorithm gods smile favorably upon your channel. Y'all are loco man. And they call me Gallo Pazzesco ... I got nothin' on y'all.
Great job on the machine shop!
Honestly, this is definitely something that's gonna be possible in the future. I thought you guys really had something groundbreaking except I had no idea where the propellant came from. Unless instead of using a powder propellant you could use a solid state printable propeller but you would definitely have to have kept secret
caught on when they came off the printer already with the bullet in place. My printers cant do that, well they can but there would be no primer or powder. I have printed bullets that look like the real thing but as I said, they are dummys. great video, you had me at the title fer sure!
You may not be able to 3-D Print Ammo, but you sure can use Hydraulic Presses to make Ammo. Of course Molds and Electrolysis for making Bonded Bullets, a Vibrating Pot for cleaning bullets of cast bits helps quite a bit.
Does it make it ready to fire, totally sucked me in, well done fellas, cheers Yogi
As soon as I saw the batch of 10 stuck on the pad 😅😅
Great fun. Lol
You guys have awesome sense of humour!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wait this was an April fool's joke😢 man I just gave you an great idea to just use the 3D printed case and regular bullets. We already have plastic bullets but 3D printed case with regular bullets would cut down on the cost of the bullets maybe. Depends on how many can be made over a specific time compared to the regular way of making them?
I'ma kind bummed it was an April fool's joke😅
I wonder how you print the primers and powder?
I wish I had kept one of my early guns. It had spring loaded reusable bullets. You could recover the bullets and use them over and over.
I know right away, no powder or primer. But great video !!!! You guys rock!!!
This was the best one you've done since "you dont need rebar in concrete. The grass is like rebar" video 😂
Not this time! I remembered this year!
Just a thought . We use polypropylene tubes to shoot fireworks due to its ability to not shatter sooo,
OH MAN !! I was sure hoping this was for real !! Good one dude !!
I do like the idea of silver induced kevlar.
the post time of the video kinda told me what to expect.... Woo Hoo... sure was fun to watch...
I made a primer-fired resin printed .300 blackout cartridge, and it actually fires. this is not so far off as it seems
Tolerance good enough for snap cap?
Ha ha I caught on the minute you showed up on TH-cam on April 01 . Would not of expected any less . Great job
The case rips apart even if using an actual projectile, would have to be made of a polymer similar to PEEK or PEKK with carbon to hold the pressure but at that point it’s going to cost ten dollars a pop ….
Happy 1. April, Hunters Silvester in Germany (its the Start of the New Hunting Year)
I have 223 ammo made from plastic. Like shotgun shell plastic. Has copper jacket bullets. Shoots fine so no reason the shell can't be printed
Is it more expensive than regular brass?
@@joleghost was a decade ago. Not sure if they still sell them
Can’t wait to get some! I just 3D printed up my new F class rifle and scope (total cost $100) and this will really round it out! Love technology advances! 👍
😂 lol I love this video... I remembered what day it is about at "proprietary filament"
When I saw this video I was like "wait is this for real" then I saw the date stamp from two weeks ago. I could tell it was Tulammo from the second he first showed it sitting on the printer.
Wow! I only watched the first 5 minutes. How much ?
Where can I buy some!!??
@ 3:27 you can see a sky full of geoengineering.
The new norm.discusting.
Aw man, I had a similar idea for a joke/thumbnail a while back. You beat me to it!! 😂 Nice Prusa XL! Maybe I can convince Gavin to add a Core XY to our shop someday. 😁
Nice one! Congrts to both of you.
3 d the primer and powder?
It’s all fun and games until someone does it successfully. Nylon CF for the case and CopperFill with a tungsten core for the projectile. I wouldn’t add the powder and primers during printing due to the heat involved, so assembly would be the same as current reloading standards.
There are people using printed ammo. I wouldn't use it personally. But it's still being done by others.
Nothing tops the first video of yours I watched. Pouring concrete $1/ft. Had me so pissed off. That’s was great
Well, no talk of primers or powder getting put in. So it was pretty questionable!
I can see all the Needsmoor guys stocking up on this breakthrough👍
Lol yeah that was my question. How in the heck are you printing the powder in it. Something is missing 😎
can you print them as fast as Jerry M shoots?
Eric you deserve an Oscar for that performance
Propellant? Where is it loaded?
Oooh wow, fantastic guys. Keep it up
Can I test some?
Welp u got me till I was thinking how did u put in the powder and print "in the tip" of the projectile
The loyal viewers know every 4/1 we have a fun video to watch. Thanks for the laughs.
I have practice 308 ammo made out of plastic, metal where the primer is and the rest is plastic. I use only in my antique Spanish rifle that was bore out to 308 prior to coming to USA.
Caught on the second I saw them on the printer but would be nice to scare the manufacturers to get the prices lower !!
What about using solder.
Can you 3-D print caseless .308 ? ...and some 3-D Night Vision to go with it!
My favorite, is drilling the base out of the freedom seeds to make them more accurate!! LOL. FKING CLASSIC!!!
Damit... As I do use my 3D printer pretty frequently, you definitely got me! I was trying to figure out how you managed the tolerance and was waiting for the details what kind of printer and materials you were using 😂😂😂😂😂
I was watching this questioning my whole existence and 10 years of 3D printing experience. I knew it was fake but a part of me really wanted to believe this lol
Im sure it could work . Would need 2.more spool one for the powder and one for the primer
is an ol Lady, when did I know it was fake? when i first saw the round. hard to print powder let alone primer. and that is just the parts that go bang.
Got me! 😋 I was thinking, how will the case not explode? 😂
As funny as this was... i do think there is some validity to the idea of 3D printed cartridge cases as the technology continues to advance. Great video as always! Keep it up!
U got me. I was just about to forward this to all the guys…
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The way you where nervous made me nevous
At first I was thinking "HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?" Then it was "NO WAY"! When did the powder get in there?
That looks like a great elr round!
the crazy thing is i could see this as a reality, tungsten infused polymer for the bullet. kevlar polymer for the case, add powder and prime. could actually work.
Just noticed along the way, there was no primer OR propellant.......
Good one😅
The ATF Sleepy and Dopey would be running around like crazy.
lol . I was a little confused but I was game to watching. I was fooled on the camera bullet years ago .
It's The Most Wonderful time of the year!
I thought it was real until I saw the 3d printer and recognized it was a common plastic filament printer. However, there's no reason you couldn't 3d print bullets, maybe casings as well, obviously not gun powder or primers. I mean there is at least one company that literally 3d prints most of the major components of a rocket that flies to space, so why not bullets.
BTW, Never even new Erik Cortina is a world class shooter. I was watching a paramount tactical video and there was a picture of him as a special guest to promote their podcast. I recognized him from his other youtube channel texas barndominiums.
I was already calling my Lawyer.... I PATENTED THIS DESIGN 5 YEARS AGO !!!
I have two YT channels that check on 4/1. This one and Joe Pie's channel. They never disappoint lol.
Hmmm putting some thought into the concept, making a steel cup like the military loading of 277 fury and 3d printing a combustible case ?? Interesting concept
The simple fact that they cycled smoothly gave it up .😮
i watching this video scrutinizing the whole thing and trying to think how you get the powder inside and why are they so smooth thinking that can't be real
then i remember its april so i go check the date of posting AAAAAND you got me
Seeing this video in May...I was like there's no way the printer prints in the propellent
Where are the primer and back powder were the first two clues.
Hows the 257 Bob build coming