Machinegun v.s. Katana

[lilfluff]

This one's fun, it's Machinegun v.s. Katana. Pay close attention during the high speed camera slow-motion replay. Looks like it was filmed in the US, subtitled for Japan, and resubtitled for Korea.

And pay attention to the wall behind the sword too. Looking at those cinder blocks I would say that even if you could hit those bullets with your sword, it still wouldn't do you much good if you were behind the sword.

Comments

Impressive. MOST impressive.

[seawasp]

The fact that it took seven high-powered machine-gun rounds to break the katana is actually very suprising. What size was that gun?

Re: Impressive. MOST impressive.

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There never seems to be a truly clear view of the shells (to bad this is so compressed, it would be nice to see the original), and sadly my machine-gun identification skills aren't great. I'm going to guess some variety of .30, I have only seen a few .50s in person but I recall them being larger.

And bullet number 3. The others seemed to fragment (shotgunning, another reason not to want to be behind a sword trying to deflect bullets no matter how awesome a fictional character you are, as if another was needed) but that one clearly split.

Now the real question is, what would that belt fed .22 machine-gun that was on display at the shop that used to be a few blocks down do. I always thought that would be an interesting idea for a defensive gun to use inside a building. "What? You're threatening to shoot me with a .22, a plinking gun?" "No, I'm threatening to shoot you several dozen times with a .22 in less time than it takes for you to realize I pulled the trigger."

Hmm. Doing some quick web searching that tiny machine-gun may have been a Tippman miniature replica. Sadly my google-fu is not good at the moment. I'm only finding small pictures.