Posted on 12/12/2016 7:28:22 AM PST by w1n1
It's that time of the year to get a Christmas tree, so let's grab the chainsaw, oh I forgot, the chainsaw is just so last year. Using an axe is more like taking us back to the last century. Why not use your favorite semi-automatic rifle that provides superior firepower versus man power.
With your favorite semi-automatic weapon with a magazine loaded up with 60 rounds you can use this Nosler Chainsaw. Bullet after bullet shred the trunk until this Christmas Tree is tagged and bagged. Christmas Tree hunting just becomes so much more exciting when firepower is used! See the video here.
60 rounds would be worth more than the tree!
As a responsible gun owner I thing things like this hurt our cause. People that treat guns like toys are not the kind of gun owners I’d ever want to be around.
One or two 12 gauge shotshells are a hell of a lot cheaper. I know because I’ve done it as a boy. This 60 rounds thing is just foolish.
What ever three rounds of mag 12ga would have been faster.
Been there done that in my youthful years.
Just blasting can be fun some times.
In the proper setting there is no more danger then shooting at any other target.
I’m amazed that a pro-gun magazine would have this kind of nonsense as “cool” and not as a talking point for irresponsible gun play.
This is wasteful and irresponsible. It doesn’t even sound like it would be fun.
Ampho chainsaw would be more fun.
Ja, agree from experience that a shotgun is much more economical.
Will say that 7.62x51 from a mini-gun is quite effective for trimming branches and chopping small trees.
“In the proper setting there is no more danger then shooting at any other target”
In general, firing at a target five feet away, with a backdrop covered in snow (who knows what kind of rocks might be under there), might not be the ‘proper setting’. For some reason it reminds me of the youtube video of a guy getting his leg cut off by an exploding target (in a riding lawn mower).
A claymore is a lot quicker.
Exactly right, this is irresponsible. People like this do damage to gun ownership, even more shocking is a gun magazine is touting this as cool.
I hate Facebook posts.
I own hundreds of acres of land where this kind of thing can and has be done safely.
Just because one can not see them selves doing so or can afford to do so does not mean it can not be done. Safely and not hurt ones ammo supply
Just for kicks, I googled “man injures himself shooting tree”.
I got a hit:
So injuries can happen. Safe 99 times out of a hundred? Probably. But it certainly has its risks.
Now I have no idea what is under that snow...but in my neck of the woods, evergreen trees grow in rocky ground with little topsoil...ie rocks visible on the surface. And even if you clean them up, the frost magically makes new ones appear.
I’ve also hit a spike with a chainsaw, in the middle of my woods...the remains of a primitive ladder to I suppose a tree stand...deep in the woods where I would expect nothing man made in a tree.
Once, I found the severely rusted remains of an axe...again absolutely in the middle of nowhere, leaned up against the trunk of a relatively young tree. My theory is the tree grew up and lifted/tilted the axe with it.
One in a million possibilities...but the type of thing that would make me shy away from shooting a tree five feet away, with no eye protection.
To each his own...but I doubt this clip would be featured at an NRA gun safety course.
With one in a millions chances of any thing bad happening to you.
You most likely better stay home and do nothing.
I remember at one of the Ala-Bam-Er machine gun shoots one of the guys did that with a water-cooled machine gun. But he was shooting a tree with a 6” trunk, and did it at several hundred yards across a gravel pit.
Stunts like this go back some years.
After Hiram S. Maxim perfected the belt-fed self-powered machine gun, but before it caught on, he traveled extensively to promote it, or invited prospective purchasers to a British country estate, where he would cut through tree trunks with sustained fire, to demonstrate the the weapon’s reliability and power.
After one such session, an ambassador to Britain - who had been invited to witness the action that day - remarked that the ammunition consumption was so high that it would bankrupt his country’s munitions budget in an afternoon. (Best recollection is that it was the Danish ambassador)
The details can be verified in Dolf L. Goldsmith’s book on the Maxim, _The Devil’s Paintbrush_. Lots of other technical details and period photos too.
Goldsmith has penned other works of similar importance: one on Britain’s Vickers gun, and several volumes on John Browning’s gun. And about other weapons: pricey, but magisterial.
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