Seems like shooting an expensive piece of popular electronic equipment is a sure fire way to get a few hundred thousand views (minimum) for your video on YouTube nowadays:
It has to be in slow motion though, or else your video will get no views and everyone will call you a dumb ass.
Even tax preparation places are getting in on the action:
Maybe it’s just my imagination, but the guy on the right looks a lot like Norman Reedus (Murphy Macmanus) from Boondock Saints (kick ass movie by the way). While I’m at it, I’ll say the guy on the left looks like Christian Slater.
Caption it!
Here goes mine: “Slide the money over on the floor, or the sparkly vampire gets it”
Fake? could be… but I’ve seen the exact same thing happen in a split second with my own eyes. Luckily my friend didn’t lose any teeth though, and still came away from the situation with a valuable lesson in physics.
Rifling on the inside of the neck of a beer bottle? Sure why not…
Miller came out with this new “Vortex” bottle to try and boost sales according to an article at Brandweek.
I have my doubts that it will make Miller Lite taste any better.. but I definitely will buy a 6 pack at least just to try the cool bottles. “Mission Accomplished” is what Miller’s marketing team would be saying right now if they read this.
If any companies outside of firearm manufacturers want to win my heart, combining something firearm related with your product is a sure bet.
I wish Miller would have played off the gun idea though.. but I guess there are too many negative connotations associated with putting something “rifled” in your mouth, or even the popular term, “to shotgun a beer”.
You can visit the Miller Lite website HERE, although there is surprisingly no information on this new bottle. Some of the commercials they have online are pretty funny though.
Add Thailand to the list of places I wouldn’t want to be right now. Just like the Kyrgyzstan riots I reported on yesterday, this also stems from the people’s problems with their government.
The New York Times has an interesting article on target marketing in the realm of Ammunition.
In the article they mention how the use of TV ads, fancy packaging, webisodes, and celebrity endorsement have worked when creating a new “brand” of ammo.
Here is the “duck suit” video for black Cloud that was mentioned in the article:
Thoughts:
In the article, Jason Nash (an ATK communications and events manager) calls the video “Viral”. I would hardly call that video viral, considering it has been out since August 2009 and only has 103 views! LOL Maybe its more popular on their own website, or on another video sharing network? I get more views than that a day on my company’s videos.
As always, I am glad to see the New York Times not refer to hunting or shooting in a bad light. They could have easily resorted to talk of “cop killer” bullets, but chose not to.
When ever I think of ammunition advertising, this image always pops into my head:
The graphics are so garish and the scene is so ridiculous with the lightening, explosions and fake “agents”, it’s hard to forget. I have never used extreme shock, so I have no comment on its actual effectiveness… but I’m sure they sell more than a couple boxes just because of the way it stands out in the crowd. The only thing that ad is missing is some girls in picatinny railed bikinis.
You can check out their extreme website HERE… not recommended for children under the age of 16 and people with heart conditions. (I kid I kid… )
While we are on the topic of office furniture and decorations, I really want to get an inert M18A1 claymore (not a blue training model), and also one of those anti-tank hedgehogs.
Police said 19-year-old gang brother Zhuangren dimension, usually in the mountains more than 10 hotels Wai things put in charge possession of force, at any time ordered to carry weapons to parts of the scenes; within the lake precinct office yesterday morning to Linsen North Road, Suite A search in 7th floor “gun room” seized wheel and 6 rounds of canister-type shotgun, as well as four pistols, one a standard for the Beretta, and the other three for the transformation of the gun, and 15 bullets, blanks 19 made. The initial inventory, guns from the nickname “God pig” man.
This is the very large wheel shotguns, can be filled with 6 rounds of shotgun, the gun body are all constructed of steel, a short gun, weighing more than 3 kilograms, there is no rifling, can also be fitted sight, external trigger is not Buckle have no insurance, fill out bombs loaded on the mean, believe it or mistakenly pulled the trigger will fire, very dangerous.
black market prices have risen 200000-300000 yuan.
According to currency converters that is equivalent to approximately $6200 – $9300 USD (Thanks for the correction Bill)
Guns must be incredibly hard to get there if that is the going price for a piece of crap like that.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
I own an 870 Express Magnum with a Knoxx Spec OPS stock (non recoil reduction unit), which is similar to what they are buying. I highly recommend it to everyone.
I’ll have to make sure to do my taxes on time this year.
I don’t know about you guys, but if someone breaks into my house when I’m home I want them DEAD, not tickled by a cute soft ball with tentacles on it.
From the packaging:
“This may be the most intelligent way to defend your family against home intruders.”
Intelligent how? It’s smart to let some scumbag that wants to steal your stuff and/or hurt or intimidate your family survive to do it again another day? Interesting.
I could see its use in Law enforcement for crowd control. But the home defense thing is just laughable in my opinion. The only clear advantage I can see is that you wouldn’t have any collateral damage with this (because there would be NO damage) if 100% of your shot didn’t hit the bad guy.
More information about Lightfield Less lethal products – HERE
shot this with a Casio EX-F1 of my shooting my Browning 12 Gauge shotgun. The clips that are at the 4:5 aspect ratio were taken at 300fps. The other clips were filmed at 600fps. All of the footage is raw, no color grading/image adjustment was added. Sadly, the sun was on the left side of the gun, so everything on the right side is in shadow. I couldn’t turn my gun around and shoot the other way though.
Some of my thoughts on Digital SLRs:
The picture on the right, is of the camera that was used to take the footage. Pretty interesting how it is a Digital SLR and not a conventional video camera.
From some recent “behind the scenes” footage I have seen, it seems that a lot of music videos are now being filmed with digital SLRs. They offer manual focus, a plethora of manual adjustment, and high resolution, for much cheaper then you could get a conventional video camera with comparable features. It even comes with a beautiful lens compared to most lenses you would get with video cameras in the same price range.
The Marines of the USCMC (United States Colonial Marine Corps) famously use the M41A Pulse Rifle as their standard issue weapon, a futuristic assault rifle with a magazine capacity of 95 rounds of armor piercing ammunition with a pump action 30mm grenade launcher underneath the barrel. This weapon was made from a M1 Thompson submachine gun with a Remington 870 shotgun underneath with the shroud and foregrip of a SPAS 12 covering it.
The video below doesn’t show a real pulse rifle… but it is the next best thing.
Composed of a SWD M-11/9 submachine gun and a Remington 870 short barreled shotgun, it holds 50 9mm rounds via a Sumoi “Coffin” magazine and three 12 gauge, 2-3/4″ shells. That’s two in the magazine and one in the chamber. The MAX-41A also includes a red dot sight and digital shot counter, both of which power on with insertion of the magazine, as well as a collapsible stock.
Looks like it will eventually be for sale. More info and lots more pictures – HERE
Pretty awesome that the shot counter works too! Definitely a neat franken-gun.
Hopefully the man behind the trigger ends up being alright.
According to the article, officials say a hand loaded shell may be to blame. My additional theories include the cartridge firing out of battery, or else an obstruction in the barrel very close to the receiver.
This is what the receiver is supposed to look like:
Rifling on the inside of the neck of a beer bottle? Sure why not…
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