It’s been a while since we did a “just for fun” video roundup of ridiculously large caliber guns. So here it is!
First up: Scott of Kentucky Ballastics shoots the TII .500 Bushwacker. Given Scott’s previous critical failure with other .50 ammo, you can bet that he’s put on a lot of personal protective gear for this shoot.
If that wasn’t big enough, he also fires a punt gun against a gun safe. The safe doesn’t fare well.
Finally, to end with the most ridiculous, here’s someone firing a singles-shot 20mm Vulcan:
Good luck fitting that in your gun safe…
Tags: .500 Bushwacker, 20mm, Guns, Kentucky Ballistics, punt gun, S&W .500 Magnum, video
Oh, to have a 20mm homebuilt sniper rifle…and the luck to have payload rounds to go with it🤠
“Good luck fitting that in your gun safe…”
How about a gun vault?
I seem to recall a 20mm anti-tank rifle used in the 1930s. Apparently it had enough hitting power to pierce the armor of the tanks of that time. By the 1940s tanks had enough armor that the rifle wasn’t practical. Though apparently it could still mess up a truck from a 1/2 mile away, and it was great as a sniper rifle.
Anti-tank rifles used to be a “thing”, all right. All sorts of interesting propositions from squeeze-bore technology to sheer 20mm semi-auto man-portable (barely…) baby cannons. The Finns had one, the Swiss another, and the Soviets fielded their 14.5 versions. The Germans, if I remember correctly, eventually turned theirs into spigot-mortar shaped charge launchers… Even had, I vaguely remember, a flare pistol version of same. For the truly dedicated last-ditch sort of defense…
What was interesting, and what a lot of people forget, is that the US did not have any such weapons. We did, however, have the Browning M2HB in various iterations and marks, that did the job for us. Until it couldn’t. By that time, taking down tanks required actual cannon and/or rocket launchers…
Really big guns are fun toys, but until the targets appear that make them sensible, that’s all they really are: Unwieldly toys.
Now, if someone somehow manages to figure out how to produce something really big in a recoilless format, maybe then they’ll have a role. Or, if tiger-size aggressive aliens manifest. Until then, toy.
“Really big guns are fun toys, but until the targets appear that make them sensible, that’s all they really are: Unwieldy toys.”
I’m presently shopping for an itty-bitty Smith & Wesson Ultimate Carry J-frame because carrying around a 50 lb. smoke pole is akin to wearing a hair shirt. A piece that drops in your pocket for a midnight visit to the Convenient Food Mart for a quart of milk is leagues better than the cannon that stays at home in your gun safe.
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“Now, if someone somehow manages to figure out how to produce something really big in a recoilless format, maybe then they’ll have a role. Or, if tiger-size aggressive aliens manifest. Until then, toy.”
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
If I had FU money, I wouldn’t mind having a few toys like that.