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Splitting Logs with Bullets
Am Shooting Journal ^ | 5/29/2018 | J Hines

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.


TOPICS: Hobbies; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: 50bmg; banglist; blogpimp; getaneditor; stupidshitwithguns

1 posted on 05/29/2018 5:09:35 AM PDT by w1n1
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To: w1n1

I tried to watch it but the foolish way this idiot carries his handgun around is too annoying.


2 posted on 05/29/2018 5:21:36 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!w)
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To: w1n1

I tried to watch it but the foolish way this idiot carries his handgun around is too annoying.


3 posted on 05/29/2018 5:21:37 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!w)
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To: w1n1

Didn’t there used to be an automatic .22 which could be used to cut wood, logs, concrete, etc?


4 posted on 05/29/2018 5:22:58 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: w1n1

This guy is having too much fun! LOL


5 posted on 05/29/2018 5:25:49 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: w1n1

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.


6 posted on 05/29/2018 5:42:33 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: w1n1

I tried my usual browser, Opera, as well as Pale Moon and Firefox, and it won’t play. I’ll try again later.


7 posted on 05/29/2018 5:50:04 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.)
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To: carriage_hill

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.


8 posted on 05/29/2018 6:47:10 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: DaveA37

Sounds like the tree had some dry rot in the trunk, and the hand loads finished it off in its wek condition.


9 posted on 05/29/2018 7:22:25 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.)
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To: DaveA37

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.


10 posted on 05/29/2018 7:58:18 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: DaveA37
...the jack pine toppled over as though it had been cut with a chainsaw.

Saw that happen once with a dead tree (unknown species ;^); I believe the "chainsaw" was a Winchester pump loaded with 12 gauge slugs...

11 posted on 05/29/2018 8:05:31 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike.")
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To: Seruzawa

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.


12 posted on 05/29/2018 9:03:26 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Get in the Spirit! The Spirit of '76!)
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To: CommerceComet

165 gr. Win. Mags


13 posted on 05/29/2018 10:50:28 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: wbarmy
automatic .22 used to cut wood, logs, concrete?

Rooski A-220M??


14 posted on 05/29/2018 11:22:59 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

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.


15 posted on 05/29/2018 11:27:35 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: wbarmy
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.

16 posted on 05/29/2018 11:39:21 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: wbarmy

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


17 posted on 05/29/2018 6:20:51 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

Thank you.

I had found the American-180 but I have not seen the Calico 22 LR.


18 posted on 05/30/2018 1:03:15 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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