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Sunday, September 25. 2011

Boom. Headshot



Pay attention around thirty seconds in. I want that guy to buy lottery tickets for me.
Posted by Roger de Hauteville in Hunting, Fishing, Dogs, Guns, etc. at 11:59 | Comments (7) | Trackback (1)

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Not only that, but he didn't even flinch! Pretty cool character!
#1 mudbug on 2011-09-25 13:07 (Reply)
They're shooting blanks without blank adapters. Note that they had to manually cycle the actions to eject the empties. There is propellant and a wad in them which can be dangerous. Just ask Jon-Erik Hexum, but from a foot or so just a breeze going by.

JLW III
#2 JLW III on 2011-09-25 13:24 (Reply)
Oh the ribbing that guy got back in the barracks.
#3 T.K. Tortch on 2011-09-25 14:30 (Reply)
Ribbing? Perhaps if that means removing them one by one. If I was the guy whose head could have come off if those were not blanks, it would be a severe azz whipping. That accidental discharge occurred because someone did not observe the fundamentals of safe gun handling, which in this case was to keep your dam* finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
#3.1 picturerock (Link) on 2011-09-25 15:29 (Reply)
Looks like somebody's drill manual needs a rewrite. I'm a tech writer. I'm currently underemployed. I like vodka...
#4 Ralph Thayer (Link) on 2011-09-25 16:19 (Reply)
Could have been a slamfire.
#5 Jephnol (Link) on 2011-09-25 21:19 (Reply)
I thought for a moment that it really was a live round but I'm sure, as noted, it was a blank that went off at a bad time.
"Went off". Something set it off -- trigger or slam-fire. Modern automatic weapons aren't supposed to suffer from slam-fires.
And yes, a slightly different angle would have produced a video that Maggie's would have skipped posting.
#6 Geoff Brown on 2011-09-27 14:32 (Reply)

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