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Mythbusters: can a machine gun chop down a tree? [video]
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Posted on 02/12/2013 7:24:31 PM PST by grundle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC8jnSaCqxY

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1 posted on 02/12/2013 7:24:34 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

M2


2 posted on 02/12/2013 7:25:29 PM PST by HChampagne
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To: grundle

“The Splintermaker”


3 posted on 02/12/2013 7:36:08 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: grundle

I once saw a photo take over 125 years ago of a tree chopped down by a gatling gun for the benefit of two visiting Chinese dignitaries.

I think they wanted to impress the Chinese into buying the guns.


4 posted on 02/12/2013 7:38:01 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Too old to cut the mustard any more.)
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To: grundle

F***yes. Next question.


5 posted on 02/12/2013 7:39:05 PM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: grundle

I could chop down a tree with my throwing knives.

It would take a while, but down it would go.

So a machine gun can obviously also do the same, don’t even need to watch.


6 posted on 02/12/2013 7:53:55 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: grundle

A lot depends on the size of the tree. Under six inches in diameter, with a .50-cal. M2, the answer is definitely “Yeah it’s a piece of cake.”


7 posted on 02/12/2013 7:55:37 PM PST by Bryan
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To: grundle

Saw it happen with my own eyes at Knob Creek... several times. Even have my own videos.


8 posted on 02/12/2013 7:57:13 PM PST by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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Oh my. Just saw the video. Looks like it was about eight inches in diameter and it was only a .30-cal. ... but it was a Minigun. Three thousand rounds a minute.

“Yeah, it’s a piece of cake.”


9 posted on 02/12/2013 7:58:08 PM PST by Bryan
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I could chop down a tree with my throwing knives. It would take a while, but down it would go.

Question 2. Can your throwing knives set the tree on fire?

10 posted on 02/12/2013 8:01:46 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - "Popeye" Descartes)
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To: grundle

Kari can get away with wearing those boots. ;)


11 posted on 02/12/2013 8:01:56 PM PST by WSGilcrest (/s)
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FWIW Mythbusters are serious Obots and have donated serious money to Dear Leader. Thus, Who are they again?


12 posted on 02/12/2013 8:07:56 PM PST by slapshot ("Were not gonna take it anymore" Twisted Sister)
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To: grundle

Yup. So can a 12 ga.


13 posted on 02/12/2013 8:12:40 PM PST by glock rocks (Pro Deo et Constitutione - Libertas aut Mors)
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To: Oztrich Boy
Question 2. Can your throwing knives set the tree on fire?

It looked to me like they used some tracers and the burning probably did help to cut the tree.

I liked the Mona Lisa smile on her face during the slow motion replay.

14 posted on 02/12/2013 8:23:49 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I believe that was Hiram Maxim demonstrating his new invention to the Chinese ambassador. He went all over the world trying to find customers after the US govt. brushed him off. Kaiser Wilhelm II was very impressed.


15 posted on 02/12/2013 8:24:51 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: glock rocks

Christmas tree hunting with a Remington 870.

http://youtu.be/cVSabiYypEc


16 posted on 02/12/2013 8:25:09 PM PST by idkfa
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To: idkfa

:o) gracci!


17 posted on 02/12/2013 8:31:59 PM PST by glock rocks (Pro Deo et Constitutione - Libertas aut Mors)
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To: ozzymandus

Thanks. I used to have a good memory before Obama came on the scene.


18 posted on 02/12/2013 8:34:27 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Too old to cut the mustard any more.)
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To: grundle

I cut down a tree years ago with a British .303. Ok, the tree was about three inches in diameter.


19 posted on 02/12/2013 8:36:23 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Too old to cut the mustard any more.)
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To: grundle

In late summer 1966 I went through basic training at Ft Lewis, Washington. I was among the first to take basic there since sometime after WW2. In the intervening years a pretty good little forest of aspen- or alder-like trees had grown up down range, between the popup targets and the dirt berms beyond. After some usage of the range, it was not uncommon to see one of these fairly small (3 to 4 inch trunk) trees topple over while live fire was going on.


20 posted on 02/12/2013 8:41:05 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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