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What Do You Think Happens When You Shoot Silly Putty Through a Shotgun?

Here’s yet another ammo experiment we’re happy to leave to TAOFLEDERMAUS. Our Wide Open Spaces video contributor TAOFLEDERMAUS has a good one for you; he’s testing some shotgun slugs made out of Silly Putty and wrapped in thin glass. Watch what happens when they get shot at various targets at, oh, 800 mph. Why? “For

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GRAPHIC: Police Bodycam Footage Shows Fatal Shooting

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Bodycam shows fatal police shooting in the Charlotte suburbs. This fatal police shooting shows the operational procedures officers take in real life. This video is posted strictly for informational and educational purposes: it takes an extreme amount of focus and clarity in situations like this because of all the variables involved, and it’s good that this

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How Poorly Reasoned Government Procurement of Cavalry Long Guns Led to Defeat at Little Bighorn

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Of all the disadvantages that contributed to the annihilation of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer’s five-troop battalion at the Battle of the Little Bighorn –among them superior numbers of enemy forces (a 5:1 ratio seems a safe bet), criminal disobedience of direct orders by junior officers in command of support battalions, and terrain so inimical to cavalry maneuvering as to negate every advantage commonly enjoyed by mounted troops in generically similar situations – none was more devastating than the inferiority of the Seventh Cavalry’s government-issued single shot carbines.

How’s this one gonna end? These three guys stumbled upon an old propane tank while waiting for their Thanksgiving Day meal. They did what anyone zwith a large pond, a .270 rifle, and some time on their hands would do. They blew the propane tank sky high, redneck style. That was pretty cool! I would

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How well will a giant rock hold up against shots from a .50-caliber rifle? Shooting .50-caliber ammunition is no joke. But, when you stand up against Mother Nature, rarely do you win. Edwin takes on a giant rock with some .50-caliber bullets, as well as some other calibers, to see what how much this boulder

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Firearms are amazing machines useful for many different tasks, but can you split logs with them? Can you split wood with bullets? It may not be super effective, but I can guarantee it would be a whole lot of fun. I mean who needs an axe or log splitter when you have heavy artillery and

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With muzzleloader permit applications rolling, let’s break down CVA’s awesome hunting package. I hate to wish life away, but once summer comes into full swing, hunting seasons begin to creep more into my mind. Not that they ever left—ask my wife—they just become more prevalent, especially when it comes time to apply for fall tags.

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Got a Volkswagen that just needs to be utterly destroyed? Well, why not dispatch it with a Oerlikon 35mm cannon? Watch the video below to see what happens: YouTuber Panzerargentino was the one to share this awesome video with us. Well, that Volkswagen must’ve taken a wrong turn down this firing range. The first shots from the Oerlikon

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This old, originally black powder-loaded rimfire cartridge has had a long life. How can a cartridge so old, yet so popular? We wanted to investigate why the .22 short cartridge, which was debuted way bak in 1857, will not go obsolete. The .22 short cartridge has quite a long lineage. Originally, the cartridge was brought

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Some weapons are hard to describe unless you see them in action. That is certainly the case with the M134 Minigun. Watch as Forgotten Weapons gets some epic range time with the M134 Minigun: Ian of Forgotten Weapons got to shoot a weapon that should be on everyone’s bucket list. The M134 Minigun fires at

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