Salute cannon obliterates bird - GIF

[Altair]

Salute cannon obliterates bird.




Previously:

Airplane bird strike testing cannon - GIF
Bird strike shatters windscreen - GIF
Bird moves brick off of garbage can and opens lid - GIF
Bird strike on Airbus A400M - photo
Floating dock bird repelling robot - GIF and video

[mlochala]

Just when you think they can't make magnum loads for bird hunting any more powerful...

[IntheGroove]

I don't think that's an ACME cannon...

[piper184]

And I thought the baseball pitcher hitting the bird was funny....

[Frank S]

A friend of mine used to have a ceremonial 42mm cannon shaped mortar sitting at the base of his flagpole, that he would often load up with black powder and use golf balls as the wadding, one day he fired it off and hit a hawk that had been circling, in the tip of its wing. Didn't seem the do much more than knock the feathers off the wing tip but that hawk spun out of the air like an airplane in a flat spin barely recovered before hitting the ground.

[IntheGroove]

Everyone wants to fly, but no one wants to get shot out of the sky...

[Gadgeteer]

I shot a mallard out of a flock that was flying at least 1/4 mile overhead. Fired a single shot, while randomly pointing my .22 pump rifle toward the birds. I was quite surprised to see the poor bird break out of the flock, and while futilely flapping one wing, fly into the ground at a 45º angle. Bullet had broken a wing. I had been hunting rabbits with another high school friend, and told him I meant to do it.

[hemmjo]

I do hope you were WAY OUT in the boonies when you did that!!!

[Gadgeteer]

I do hope you were WAY OUT in the boonies when you did that!!!

We, usually, didn't hunt in town.

[mwmkravchenko]

So would this be called shredded tweet?