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.
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.
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.
A claymore is a lot quicker.
I hate Facebook posts.
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.