Posted on 05/29/2018 5:09:35 AM PDT by w1n1
Firearms are awesome machines useful for many different things, but is it useful for splitting logs?
Can you split wood with bullets? It may not be super effective, but its probably very fun to try. I mean who needs an axe or log splitter when you have heavy artillery and plenty of ammo?, as the theory goes.
Youtuber Edwin Sarkissian decides to try this hypothesis out. Watch as he runs through a number of different calibers attempting to split a large log.
After many tries with different types of caliber against a foot and a half diameter piece of log. (pine) From a 9mm to a .50 BMG it doesn’t do much until he goes to plan B.
Plan B
So to make things funner Edwin decides to go to plan B.
He basically is shooting at smaller size logs which obliterates them, perfect for kindlings.
Oh yes plan B means “Boom”. Edwin saves this for the last thing against the huge log, applies a little tannerite and you're good to go. See the full footage of splitting logs with bullets here.
I tried to watch it but the foolish way this idiot carries his handgun around is too annoying.
I tried to watch it but the foolish way this idiot carries his handgun around is too annoying.
Didn’t there used to be an automatic .22 which could be used to cut wood, logs, concrete, etc?
This guy is having too much fun! LOL
Being Armenian, I figure this guy has a LOT of experience with firearms - considering the recent history there.
It would have been neat to shove a fire cracker into a non-penetrating hold and see what happens when that goes off, kind of like blasting rocks.
I tried my usual browser, Opera, as well as Pale Moon and Firefox, and it won’t play. I’ll try again later.
Living in the north woods of Wisconsin, a few years back I was test firing a few hand loads and rather than driving over to the range, decided I would use an old jack pine tree with a paper target tacked to it’s trunk. (Many trees on my property and the tree was growing at the base of a earth berm). Much to my surprise, after firing four shots, the jack pine toppled over as though it had been cut with a chainsaw. Yes, those were some pretty good hand loads.
Sounds like the tree had some dry rot in the trunk, and the hand loads finished it off in its wek condition.
What caliber? Years ago, a friend fired his .45-70 into an old snag - a nice neat entrance hole and an exit hole the size of a fist. Four shots from that rifle might have toppled the snag.
Saw that happen once with a dead tree (unknown species ;^); I believe the "chainsaw" was a Winchester pump loaded with 12 gauge slugs...
The time spent on this useless exercise could have been used to split a boatload of wood using a simple splitting maul. And saved a bunch of ammo.
165 gr. Win. Mags
Rooski A-220M??
Seriously, there was a drum fed .22 rifle which fired the rounds so fast they could chop a cinderbock in half.
Now I am going to spend several hours trying to find it.
Haha!
I know the feeling.
I was lucky only to waste a half-hour finding the big Russian guns.
Hope tis saves you some time:
Either the Calico 22 LR Rifle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_M100
Or...
American-180 Full Auto 22lr Submachine Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8TmU5bXZ9M
Thank you.
I had found the American-180 but I have not seen the Calico 22 LR.
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