Awesome fortune, although it does violate the “be sure of your target and what’s behind it rule”

Interesting video. Poor weapon manipulation skills.

Popular Mechanics gives it a try:

Not much of a surprise there.

Information on the rounds they used – HERE

For a better info, check out one of Box O’ Truth’s old experiments – HERE

If only that would work in real life. Pretty awesome move.

Freddiew from YouTube rarely disappoints when it comes to gun related vids.  Some Previous ones of his I posted about:

• Flower Warfare
• Fake Guns and Video Editing
• Light Warfare – Guns And Light Painting

Amazing!

More incredible shots on Dutch photographer Alexander Augusteijn’s website – HERE

Maybe my standards are too high when it comes to blowing stuff up, but I find this mini cannon series incredibly boring.

Shortly after Part 1 came out in April, I have been getting 1-2 emails per week from people telling me about the video. Rather than be rude and say “That is the most boring video I’ve ever seen” I was nice and said I’d consider posting about it.  Since it is clear the emails are going to keep coming in regarding this video I decided to write this post.

The only thing that I found slightly impressive was in Part 2 when the cannon operator was able to hit the gas filled balloon and the fluorescent light from a decent distance.  Although, in retrospect that could have been take #whoknows … so i’m pretty much back to being unimpressed.

Here are both parts if you haven’t already seen them:

Made by Magpul fanboys obviously. If Magpul didn’t make good products I would make fun of these guys, but since they do I’d have to say it’s perfectly acceptable to buy as much Magpul as you want.

Although you can’t see the targets in the video, the guys in it definitely seem to be pretty good and familiar with their weapons. Not surprising when in the youtube comments the uploader “glin1216″ says that a majority of them in the video are Military and they attended classes occasionally.

As far as the camera they used, the description says “Shot with a Canon 5DMKII + 70-200 f/2.8 IS L”, which for video is quite similar to the Canon 7D or T2i that I perpetually lust over on this blog.

You gotta love the choice of song too.

Check out the making of Flower Warfare – HERE

That freddiew guy from youtube sure knows how to make some decent vids with guns. Good use of sound effects and music too.

Some Previous ones of his I posted about:

• Fake Guns and Video Editing
• Light Warfare – Guns And Light Painting

“Hollywood overkill of the sideways gangsta shooting method encouraged many modern hoods to look for a less trendy but equally cool-looking technique for offin’ someone,’” wrote freelancer Marian Ayoob in Handguns’ September cover story, entitled “Better To Look Good Than To Shoot Good.” “Over the last three months, holding a gun completely upside down has become the predominant method used by stylish gangstas whom, as they say, ‘be fixin’ to put a cap in a [person's] dome.’”

Full hilarious article – HERE

The best parts are the Massad Marian Ayoob quotes.

Why you would post a video of yourself shooting this bad on YouTube for the world to see, i’ll never understand:

At first I thought it must be some random guy being filmed at the range, then the video getting posted without his knowledge or consent… but then I noticed Not only is the title of the video “Tim’s HK Mark 23″, but the guy’s youtube username is also timnanbo, and he has one other video titled “Tim’s Steyr USR” with equally poor shooting (but on a rifle this time).

Whatever turns your crank I guess.  I prefer to shoot slower and/or move closer if I’m not getting any hits at the distances I attempt. If my goal was just to waste ammo, I think id find some more creative ways rather than embarrassing myself in front of 3 other guys by whizzing rounds past bowling pins.

Karnis figured out that he need three, to really tune his barrel. He discovered that he needed the Chocolate covered glazed, glazed old fashion and glazed blueberry. After, examining his groups, he thought the blueberry needed a little tweeking, either that or he was a little hungry.

My Hawkeye would just not respond to two or three, had to go a full load, plain cake, glazed, glazed old fashion, chocolate covered cake, chocolate glazed, cinnamon old fashion and a plain cake. Man what a difference this made!

Although, our experiment is highly scientific your results may vary. (Source)

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I like Jack In The Box better than McDonalds so this doesn’t upset me one bit.  I actually can’t even remember the last time I ate McDonalds.  Jack In The Box I can remember, but that was a number of years ago as well.  Five Guys is my newest favorite burger place, second to In-N-Out Burger which sadly only has locations which are far away from me.

I’m not sure who the author of the painting is is, as I cannot read the signature.

Yesterday morning was so nice, I thought I would go to the range for a few hours. I packed one of my AR-15s and my three Glocks up and headed out on the 45 minute drive.

Being a weekday morning there was only one old guy and me.  He actually had 4 AR-15s there with him (and nothing else) which was surprising to me considering he was probably in his 70s.  We talked for a bit about our rifles and accessories, and how he was having problems maintaining zero on some piece of crap eBay carry handle scope mount he had recently purchased.

After shooting for a while, we were both down range checking our targets and 3 guys around my age (late 20s) showed up.  My immediate thought was *cool, some guys to shoot with.. maybe we can get a friendly competition going or something* like I’ve done with some guys I’ve met there in the past. Anyways, i’m walking back towards the benches straight up the middle of the range and I see one of the young guys unpacking some of his stuff, at this point i’m about 25 yards away.  He proceeds to pull a Remington 700 SPS Tactical (See picture below) out of a case, set it on the middle bench right infront of me (I’m about 10 yards away at this point)…  This assclown has his hands all over the gun and starts quickly working the bolt back and forth 3-4 times while it’s pointed directly at my chest.

W T F?

I duck out to the side as this is happening and in an irritated voice say to him “You couldn’t have waited 5 seconds to do that?” and shake my head. No apology or anything, he immediately goes into tough guy mode and says something to his other friend about how I gave him shit… then the 3rd friend asks what happened and I see them shaking their head in disgust at me.  With a fresh target taped up, I decided to leave at that point and head over the handgun range where my chance of getting shot would be zero.

Here was his rifle; the Remington 700 SPS Tactical.  I didn’t notice if it was .223 or .308, but at 10 yards if an negligent discharge (ND) were to have occurred, needless to say no matter which caliber it was, my last breath would have likely contained pieces of my heart, lung, and ribcage.

For those that don’t know.. the most popular meaning of the term assclown according to Urban Dictionary is:

Sounds pretty accurate.

Do you guys have any similar stories to share?

The same “15 yard sniper” from my previous post on the shooting of the iPhone, iPad, and iMac is back at it again with his Barrett M81A1:

If for nothing else, you need to watch the slow motion footage at 1:09.

Watching it in 1080p is a must!  Then back pull the slider back to watch the watermelon re-assemble.

Apparently the first post I made about the iPhone 4 Shot With .50 Caliber Rifle was just a teaser video… below is the extended video along with the other vids of the Apple products getting destroyed:

iPhone 4 Shot With .50 Caliber Rifle

iPad V.S. .50 Caliber Rifle

iMac V.S. .50 Caliber Rifle

I was hoping that kid doing the talking “Richard Ryan” was going to do the shooting and scope his eye or something… no luck.

The nicest hit by far was on the iMac. I don’t know where that “Sniper” learned to shoot, but the hit on the iPad and iPhone was not impressive at all considering at the distance he was at:

The only cure for other golfers’ slow play on the course:

Apparently gunfire has a habit of speeding up the pace of slow people.

Pretty awesome ad! Looks like a lot of fun.

Guy 1: What did you do this weekend?

Guy 2: Oh not much, just did some shooting down by the waterfall and got drunk

Guy 1: Shooting at the waterfall?

Guy 2: Yea, I just go over to the waterfall to drink beer and shoot randomly into the bush

Guy 1: Hmm cool I guess

Very anticlimactic:

Not to mention the fact that it was a shitty shot.  I think a lot of people over estimate their shooting ability when making videos like this. Who knows how far back he was?  Obviously too far, considering he hit the phone in the bottom right corner.

I think if I was going to destroy a $300 phone I’d at least have a few different camera angles.

According to the description in the video, the rifle used was a Barrett M82A1:

If he shifted any more weight to his rear foot he probably would have pulled the trigger and fell over.

The video is apparently from the Bi-Annual Knob Creek Machine Gun shoot in West Point Kentucky.

It’s hard to tell from the video, but the gun appears to be a suppressed MAC-10 or M-11 (chambered in 9mm as the description says).  The AR-15 stock kit is a nice touch.

I don’t follow politics at all, but Rand Paul seems to be every bit as interesting as his father.

Rand Paul’s website – HERE