Because some people have all the fun, this is a video of Slow Mo Guys Gav and Dan shooting cue balls into ballistics gel at around 360MPH using a mini cannon. So, if you wondered what I wish I was going to be doing this Labor Day weekend, the answer

Maker of period accurate medieval weaponry (mostly swords, crossbows, and daggers), Tod of Tod’s Workshop went and constructed himself a trebuchet. And in this video he uses it to launch a packet of 100 darts (held together with a burning fuse so they disperse in the air) to see how

This is a video of Youtuber Kentucky Ballistics firing the Fury punt gun (punt guns were originally designed to mount to a small boat, aka punt, and be able to shoot all the waterfowl at once), what is allegedly the current world’s largest shotgun. The unit weighs in at 150

This is a clip of a woman filming herself trying to shoot an arrow through a ring and accidentally sending one through her phone instead, which impressively keeps working despite now having an arrow head through it. I like how the phone falls from the platform like it can’t believe

Cast some 3,000 years ago (~1450 BC) in the Middle Bronze Age likely near what’s now Nördlingen, Germany, this bronze sword was recently unearthed in exceptional quality. Shoot, I’d still quest with it. Its preservation is due in part to the naturally antimicrobial copper salts in the sword, and the

Note: Keep your volume in check, bowling ball cannon. Because some people have all the fun (leaving nothing but weekend crumbs for the rest of us), this is a video from the Ballistic High-Speed Youtube channel of a bowling ball cannon, capable of launching balls at up to 400ft/second. Over

Because who doesn’t have dreams about wielding a lightsaber (even my girlfriend has nightmares about me swinging one around in the garage), the builders at Hacksmith Industries have created a 4,500ºF plasma torch lightsaber that’s entirely self contained (no external tubes or wires). Granted it’s more of a staff than

This is a video of the fun-loving Aussies of Youtube channel How Ridiculous attempting to crack progressively tougher safes by dropping a 2-ton axe blade on them. They also destroy a bunch of other things in between. The finale, an absolutely massive safe, takes a very respectable 20 hits before