Video: Ultra High-speed Footage of a Fully Automatic AR-15 Firing
Matt Korovesis 02.19.14
The folks behind the smash hit video “Underwater Bullets at 27,000fps” are back with another ultra high-speed clip of technology in action. This time, the show’s two hosts each get a chance to shoulder and put a 30-round magazine through a fully automatic AR-15. The entire affair is, of course, recorded in 720p HD cameras capable of slowing the action down to 18,000 frames per second.
It looks like the second shooter could have used a bit of a crash course in controlling a fully automatic firearm considering how much he angles the muzzle up mid-burst, but the range and its surroundings were apparently safe and secure.
I've been a history and gun enthusiast since I was a kid. I love to shoot just about anything, from silenced bolt-action .22s to fully automatic heavy machine guns, and I love even more when I get to write about them. My main interests are modern small arms and the military small arms of World War II and prior conflicts, with a particular focus on Russian and Finnish firearms. Reading about guns like the Mosin-Nagant rifle in books and on the internet got me interested in collecting, shooting, and writing about them, and I hope to do the same for others through my work.
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