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To: Kadric
I agree. I have been to the Knob creek shoot a couple of times in the eighties. Saw mini-guns being fired first hand. The sound is not to be believed. 6000 rounds per minute of .308 sounds like the loudest, most pissed off chain saw on earth. While talking to the owner, (same gun used in Predator and Terminator 2), he said that the director thought the audience wouldn't believe what it actually sounds like so they recorded It dry firing to get that "whirring" sound, then mixed it with the sound from a more traditional sounding machine gun. He also stated that at 650 continuous pounds of recoil, that if it were not firing blanks, Arnold could have pointed it at the ground and taken off like a rocket!
121 posted on 01/31/2005 5:08:01 PM PST by Boiling point (If God had not meant for man to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat!)
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To: Boiling point
Jesse Ventura had the minigun in Predator.

He must have been pulling the world's longest extension cord.

129 posted on 01/31/2005 5:35:43 PM PST by Rockpile
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