Posts Tagged ‘20mm’

Video Roundup Of Ridiculously Large Guns

Saturday, March 23rd, 2024

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.

  • “Let’s ride the lightening!”
  • A much bigger blast than the S&W .500 Magnum.
  • 2410 fps.
  • It makes it all the way through one ballistic gel block and into a second.
  • Both the S&W .500 Magnum and the .500 Bushwacker absolutely obliterate 6 pound cans of food, and eventually the collateral damage destroys the folding table.

    • 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…

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    Firing Ridiculously Large Caliber Guns

    Sunday, August 4th, 2013

    So Ace of Spades linked to this video of someone firing the .950 JDJ, the largest caliber center fire rifle ever made:

    As someone with an irrational* desire to own something chambered in .50 BMG, it got me thinking: what other videos of people firing ridiculously large caliber guns are there out on the Internet?

    I found some. (NSFW language in many of these.)

    How about .577 Tyrannosaur?

    .585 Nyati:

    .600 Nitro Express pistol:

    .600 Overkill:

    20mm rifle:

    And here’s the top loading version of the 20mm, in case you’re being attacked by multiple tanks at once:

    And here’s the recoilless version of the 20mm rifle:

    I think the technical word for that is “bazooka.”

    And here’s the recreation of a one-mile kill shot with a Barrett M82A3 .50 BMG:

    *Irrational in that the use case for such a gun starts to get into things like “Well, I’ve already killed several of the drug lord henchmen attacking my house, now I need to put a round through their engine block to keep the rest from escaping!”

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