Rapid fire

[unixronin]

When you can do this, who needs automatic weapons?

(The shooter, by the way, is Jerry Miculek.)

(Oh yeah ... further discussion here.)

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Dayum. Can't play the vid, of course, but read the comments. Daaaayum.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

You can't play it? Don't have mplayer? It plays perfectly for me in the latest Mplayer release, if you have all the updated codecs.

[likefinewine.livejournal.com]

You can't play it?

Neither can I. :-(

Don't have mplayer?

That, I wouldn't know for sure. But obviously, the answer is No.

It plays perfectly for me in the latest Mplayer release, if you have all the updated codecs.

Hahhhh... Now I _know_ I don't have it! Or wouldn't know, if I did. Or how to use it, if I did. lol

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Windows Media Player should also Just Work.

FYI, Mplayer is an open source media player application developed in Hungary, originally for Linux, but with the eventual goal of being able to play any video file format on any platform. This is challenging because so many codecs -- compression/decompression libraries -- are proprietary. The classic example is the Sorensen video codec for Apple's Quicktime -- Apple kept pointing the finger at Sorensen and claiming Sorensen wouldn't allow Apple to release the spec, but Sorensen maintained it was Apple that wouldn't allow Sorensen to release it.

[radarrider.livejournal.com]

And with a revolver no less. Yowsa.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Right. I couldn't shoot unaimed that fast with a semi-automatic. I can't move my trigger finger that fast.

[plutosonium.livejournal.com]

Holy crap.

Did he actually hit those targets? I saw puffs behind them.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

They're only cardboard targets. The bullet will go straight through into the backstop. Any idiot can blaze away as fast as he can work the trigger and not hit a damn thing; the scary thing is that people like Ed McGivern, Jerry Miculek, and Rob Leatham can shoot that fast and hit what they were aiming at.

[plutosonium.livejournal.com]

I only wondered because they didn't actually show holes or anything.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Probably wouldn't be able to see the holes, in such low-quality video.