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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on November 23, 2018, 10:50:31 AM
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Minigun vs cast iron skillets.
https://youtu.be/ishNPbzxLTA
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Someone else did that. DemoRanch maybe. Not sure who it was, but I watched it.
I think this is popular now because of the video game PlayerUnknown's Battle Ground (PUBG). That game uses a cast iron pan as body armor.
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Yeah. Um. Well.
General rule, though, is to not shoot at concave-ish surfaces. Like the webs of railroad tracks, f'r instance. Bullet might not come back at you, but fragments might. Not necessarily relevant here, but is in general. That's why I call it a general rule --just something to think about while setting up fun nonstandard targets.
Anyhow, I'm sure we can think of better ways to play with a minigun.
Terry
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Yeah. Um. Well.
General rule, though, is to not shoot at concave-ish surfaces. Like the webs of railroad tracks, f'r instance. Not necessarily relevant here, but is in general. That's why I call it a general rule --just something to think about while setting up fun targets.
Anyhow, I'm sure we can think of better ways to play with a minigun.
Here - this is one of his safer ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY7jZia2dXQ
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Yeah, Hatcher's Notebook has some words on that matter. One dark night I fired a couple of .357s straight up on the Grasslands, relying on P<scary.
Finally heard one coming down with an oscillating whirring sound, then a faint plop. Don't remember for sure what the time was. Seems like it was less than a minute. Went back to my camper to finish my beer.
Checked by daylight, no holes in roof.
I've also fired an ounce of birdshot ( 6, 7-1/2 ? ) straight up. Sounded like a brief rain coming down through the trees. We heard at least one pellet hitting my buddy's truck but we never found a mark on it. That one was pretty safe, but I'm not sure I'd want to pull it off with a load of buckshot.
As far as I know, Hatcher never put any of his extensive Ordnance Dept experiments on you tube, and neither have I, so I reckon replications of these experiments in front of a camera are worthwhile.
Terry