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AMAZING->PHOTOS->THAT->SHOW->WHAT->IT->LOOKS->LIKE->TO->FIRE->A->GUN->UNDERWATER
PetaPixel ^ | 29 Sept 2012 | Michael Zhang

Posted on 09/29/2012 4:43:29 PM PDT by smokingfrog

Ever wonder what it looks like when you fire a gun underwater? Firearm enthusiast Andrew Tuohy of VuurwapenBlog recently decided to find out. Taking his .40 Glock 22 into his swimming pool, he captured some high speed videos of himself firing a round using an ordinary Pentax Optio WG-2 waterproof compact camera (which has a 120fps movie recording mode). The photograph above is a still taken from one of the videos.

(Excerpt) Read more at petapixel.com ...


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KEYWORDS: banglist; glock; kimber; vuurwappenblog
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1 posted on 09/29/2012 4:43:39 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

Water really knocks the crap out of the muzzle velocity.


2 posted on 09/29/2012 4:46:15 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: smokingfrog

3 posted on 09/29/2012 4:49:09 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1348 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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To: cripplecreek

The video shows the bullet traveling so slow you can't believe it. I think it is all in real time.

4 posted on 09/29/2012 4:50:46 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

The bullet really spins as it exits the chamber — I didn’t know that before.


5 posted on 09/29/2012 4:53:26 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: smokingfrog

I know people that carry a glock while diving for sharks. Apparently it shoots fine but it only works for one shot because of the water.

There’s a ring or something you can swap out which will allow multiple shots.


6 posted on 09/29/2012 4:54:32 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: smokingfrog

I hope his head was out of the water, so his eardrums didn’t blow-out.


7 posted on 09/29/2012 4:54:35 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Libs, dems, unions, leftist scum & murderous muzzies - are like bacteria: attack, attack, attack!)
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To: cripplecreek
Water really knocks the crap out of the muzzle velocity.

Mythbusters did an episode on this showing that movie scenes of shooting into the water and killing people who were submerged was just about impossible.

8 posted on 09/29/2012 4:55:20 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: smokingfrog

Looks like the pistol has a left hand twist. I don’t think that’s common.


9 posted on 09/29/2012 4:56:09 PM PDT by Track9 (Ego undermines moral courage.)
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To: smokingfrog

The video as you scroll down on the website at the link was really interesting. Thanks for posting this.


10 posted on 09/29/2012 4:56:47 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: smokingfrog

Thought the fish tank video at the bottom of the link was very cool comparing a revolver with Glock.


11 posted on 09/29/2012 5:00:34 PM PDT by mike_9958
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I remember. Even with a 50 Cal sniper rifle any thing more than a foot or two underwater would likely be unharmed by the projectile.


12 posted on 09/29/2012 5:00:46 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: smokingfrog

Other than the obvious - like a computer program that hunts down and kills spammers - probably the one thing that would drastically improve my Quality of Internet Browsing would be a Firefox add-on that automatically removed the music from any video uploaded to YouTube or Facebook and etc.


13 posted on 09/29/2012 5:01:08 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny ("Allah" isn't a god. It's a mental disorder.)
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To: smokingfrog

SCUBA diving is a lot safer now bump.


14 posted on 09/29/2012 5:01:51 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: smokingfrog
cool pic and vid, but what the heck's up with the title?

AMAZING->PHOTOS->THAT->SHOW->WHAT->IT->LOOKS->LIKE->TO->FIRE->A->GUN->UNDERWATER
15 posted on 09/29/2012 5:01:58 PM PDT by verum ago (Hey UN: Molon Labe applies to our dollars, too!)
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To: Track9

Glock 22s have right hand polygonal twist.


16 posted on 09/29/2012 5:01:58 PM PDT by omega4179 ( el 0bama comio un perro)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
Other than the obvious - like a computer program that hunts down and kills spammers - probably the one thing that would drastically improve my Quality of Internet Browsing would be a Firefox add-on that automatically removed the music from any video uploaded to YouTube or Facebook and etc.

Amen! I'm so sick of videos that are about a sound- be it a gun, or airplane or whatever, that have music over the top of the sounds that frickin video's all about!
17 posted on 09/29/2012 5:03:24 PM PDT by verum ago (Hey UN: Molon Labe applies to our dollars, too!)
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To: BerryDingle

Bang sticks are better. They are a 3 to 4 foot stick with a shotgun shell or .357 cal shell at the end. You punch the shark with it and it goes off. Gives you a little more distance from the shark.


18 posted on 09/29/2012 5:07:50 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: verum ago

Yes...exactly that.

You find a “MUST SEE A-10 BOMBING RUN IN IRAQ!!!!!!!!!” video and start watching it only to find some 13 year-old wanna-be-movie-producer dumbass has dubbed “Screaming Babies, Sounds of Anarchy 666!” over it, making the whole damn thing unwatchable.


19 posted on 09/29/2012 5:09:03 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny ("Allah" isn't a god. It's a mental disorder.)
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To: smokingfrog
AMAZING->PHOTOS->THAT->SHOW->WHAT->IT->LOOKS->LIKE->

Why did the title come out that way? The title at the source didn't have all
of the letters capitalized. And what's with the "->" after every word?

20 posted on 09/29/2012 5:12:05 PM PDT by Isabel C.
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