History WebVideo / KentuckyBallistics

* AwesomeButImpractical: When he decided to test [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh5aqlUUXug medieval weapons]] against modern polymer armor, the 9-foot-long claymore he brought out was shaping up to be the grand finale - a massive, intimidating-looking sword set to chop right through the armor and the zombie torso wearing it like [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Guts and his Dragonslayer]]. In reality, the sword was so flimsy it basically landed on the zombie like a wet noodle, bending the blade in multiple places while the zombie was hardly worse for wear. To drive home the point, the handguards popped off afterwards, much to Scott's embarrassment.

* BUffySpeak: Scott doesn't what his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh5aqlUUXug medieval weapons]] are called, so he just makes up his own: "spiky meatball on a stick" for a morningstar, "spiky scepter" for a mace, "spiky ball on a chain" for a flail, and "meat tenderizer" for a war hammer.

* WoodChipperOfDoom: Scott often makes use of a device he calls the Chip-O-Matic 5000, though he tends to use everything ''but'' wood for it[[note]]everything from Orbeez, to Furbies, to ballistic gel, to eggplants, the list goes on[[/note]]. Sadly, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kU9eBfUD-w?si=gGVs_QCRyFK3MXVu the chipper finally gave up the ghost in the MAG-7 video]], though it was replaced a couple months afterwards with a more powerful chipper.

* {{BFG}}: His specialty. Scott owns an arsenal of massive elephant guns of various calibers that he frequently shows off in his videos. His most insane rifle is arguably his 4-bore [[note]]Fires a 1" diameter bullet weighing 2150 grains (4.9 oz, 139.3 g) with ''200 felt pounds of recoil''[[/note]] elephant gun, which he has tested against condiment containers, watermelons, and zombie torsos to ''extreme'' [[LudicrousGibs effect]]. {{Exaggerated|Trope}} with Fury the Punt Gun, [[InfinityPlusOneSword which is everything the name entails,]] and is a '''''1'''''-bore gun compared to 4-bore.[[note]]Can be loaded with either shot or a bullet; the bullet diameter is 1.68 inches--the minimum size for a golf ball. The bullet Scott used weighs ''1 pound'' (454 g), and the gun requires a full quarter-pound (113.4 g) of black powder. For use as a shotgun, it can fire ''140 pellets'' of 00 buckshot, compared to 9 in a standard 12-gauge shotshell. It produces over ''800 felt pounds of recoil''.[[/note]]

* DoesNotLikeSpam: According to Scott, "nobody likes eggplant!" So he just riddles them with bullets instead. After kicking one.

* SurprisinglySuperToughThing: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKP-j7EnJGM One particularly thick section of bulletproof glass]] proved worthy of the name - to Scott's earnest surprise, the glass tanked ''literally everything'' he brought to the range that day, including the .416 Rigby and the ''4 bore''. He eventually managed to poke a hole through it, but only after unloading an entire revolver's' worth of .500 Magnum into one of the holes left by the 4 bore. To wit, it took four shots from four different elephant guns, entire magazines of 9mm, .45 ACP, and .50 AE, a whole cylinder of .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum, and 7 rounds of 12-gauge buckshot to put a ''single'' hole into that glass.

** Exaggerated and double subverted triumphantly by the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AgfRZwxz4U punt gun]]. Even though Level IVA ceramic plate is able to stop a shot from the punt gun, the bullet has so much energy it instead ''pushed the plate completely through the zombie's torso and out the other side'', initially causing Scott to believe the plate had failed to stop the round until he reviewed the slow-motion footage and found that it actually ''did''.

** In his "gun safe ve. punt gun" video (see "Once Per Episode"), he took his first shot with golf balls... which seriously dented the safe. He took a later shot using small flechettes (darts); a few penetrated fairly deeply into the metal (though didn't make any holes).

* OncePerEpisode: Every video of ''Kentucky Ballistics'' all have one unfailing constant; the tables Scott uses to place his targets ''never'' survive.

** In the aforementioned "gun safe ve. punt gun" video, he took his first shot with golf balls... which seriously dented the safe. He took a later shot using small flechettes (darts); a few penetrated fairly deeply into the metal (though didn't make any holes).

** In the aforementioned "gun safe ve. punt gun" video, he took his first shot with golf balls... which seriously dented the safe. He took a later shot using small flechettes (darts); a few penetrated fairly deeply into the metal (though didn't make any holes).

* UnusualAmmo: He has videos where he tests out some oddball shotgun rounds, mainly various types of less-than-lethal rounds and one case, shells loaded with ''candy''. As it turns out, while most candies would break skin at worst, ''gummy bears'' of all things have the power to punch through a person's sternum when fired out of a shotgun.

** In the aforementioned "gun safe ve. punt gun" video, he took his first shot with golf balls... which seriously dented the safe. In another, he used small flechettes (darts); a few penetrated fairly deeply into the metal (though didn't make any holes).

* OncePerEpisode: Every video of ''Kentucky Ballistics'' all have one unfailing constant; the tables Scott uses for targets ''never'' survive.

-->'''Scott''': Because you know what kind of cheese this is? ''(slow motion)'' '''NOT 'CHO CHEESE!'''

* WoodChipperOfDoom: Scott often makes use of a device he calls the Chip-O-Matic 5000, though he tends to use everything ''but'' wood for it[[note]]everything from Orbeez, to Furbies, to ballistic gel, to eggplants, the list goes on[[/note]]. Sadly, [[https://youtu.be/7kU9eBfUD-w?si=gGVs_QCRyFK3MXVu the chipper finally gave up the ghost in the MAG-7 video]], though it was replaced a couple months afterwards with a more powerful chipper.

* ArmorIsUseless: As he has demonstrated on multiple occasions, modern polymer and ceramic ballistic armor is actually incredibly effective at stopping powerful rounds like the .44 Magnum, rifles rounds up to .308 Winchester, and the highest-rated armors can even sometimes stop ''elephant gun'' rounds (though the impact itself will probably cause you massive internal injury, as the poor zombie torso demonstrated). Heck, ceramic armor is even capable of stopping ''a harpoon''.

** Exaggerated triumphantly by the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AgfRZwxz4U punt gun]]. Even though Level IVA ceramic plate is able to stop a shot from the punt gun, the bullet has so much energy it instead ''pushed the plate completely through the zombie's torso and out the other side'', initially causing Scott to believe the plate had failed to stop the round until he reviewed the slow-motion footage and found that it actually ''did''.

* DieChairDie: A non-video game example. Most of Scott's targets are assorted furniture, mannequins, jugs of water and condiments and canned food.

* {{BFG}}: His specialty. Scott owns an arsenal of massive elephant guns of various calibers that he frequently shows off in his videos. His most insane rifle is arguably his 4-bore [[note]]Fires a 1" diameter bullet weighing 2150 grains (4.9 oz, 139.3 g) with ''200 felt pounds of recoil''[[/note]] elephant gun, which he has tested against condiment containers, watermelons, and zombie torsos to ''extreme'' [[LudicrousGibs effect]]. {{Exaggerated|Trope}} with Fury the Punt Gun, [[InfinityPlusOneSword which is everything the name entails,]] and is a '''''1'''''-bore gun compared to 4-bore.[[note]]Can be loaded with either shot or a bullet; the bullet diameter is 1.68 inches—the minimum size for a golf ball. The bullet Scott used weighs ''1 pound'' (454 g), and the gun requires a full quarter-pound (113 g) of black powder. For use as a shotgun, it can fire ''140 pellets'' of 00 buck, compared to 9 in a standard 12-gauge shotshell. It produces over ''800 felt pounds of recoil''.[[/note]]

* DoesNotLikeSpam: According to Scott, "nobody likes eggplant!" So he just riddles them with bullets instead. After kicking one.

* {{Kevlard}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUxcnWH9k0w He tests this out]] by shooting 100lbs of beef fat with various pistol, shotgun and rifle rounds. Turns out, being chunky could potentially protect your vital organs from most common pistols and even 12 gauge buckshot, but only if you're so obese you shouldn't even be able to walk.

* {{BFG}}: His specialty. Scott owns an arsenal of massive elephant guns of various calibers that he frequently shows off in his videos. His most insane rifle is arguably his 4-bore [[note]]Fires a 1" diameter bullet with ''200 felt pounds of recoil''[[/note]] elephant gun, which he has tested against condiment containers, watermelons, and zombie torsos to ''extreme'' [[LudicrousGibs effect]]. [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] with Fury The Punt Gun, [[InfinityPlusOneSword which is everything the name entails,]] and is a '''''1'''''-bore gun compared to 4-bore.

* YourHeadAsplode: Pretty much what happens when he shoots a zombie torso in the head with the 4-bore. Aside from that, he also shows how surprisingly difficult this is to achieve with most common bullets - a zombie torso's head would remain largely intact after a round from the .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum, the most powerful production handgun round currently on the market.