excited to bring you this episode I had a ton of fun creating it on the set of
Gunny time celebrity edition with Adam Baldwin and myself Adam Baldwin you
may know him from a ton of different movies he's had an illustrious Hollywood
career but my personal favorite character of Adams is drum roll please
Jayne from Firefly maybe it's the geek in me I don't know I
don't care but that's my favorite if you have a favorite put it down in the
comments and we'll see if we coincide for now Adam and I shoot a 50 caliber
rifle in this episode it's high impact high octane and I hope that you have
just as much fun watching this as I didn't creating it with Adam and the
rest of the crew so enjoy the show
alright people were coming at you today with a smokin lineup who let the big
dogs bark Oh Kirsten joy Weiss and the Barrett 107 a sniper rifle so whether
you like to work long-range or up close and personal today is your lucky day
it's gunny time
you guys are gonna like this
all right we have a beast this time this is the Barrett m107a1 50 caliber rifle
it's a heck of a beauty and to introduce and tell us all about it is a
dear friend of the show Kirsten joy Weiss YouTube sensation come on in here
tell us about this bad boy yeah so you're right it's the Barrett m107 a1
and it shoots the 50 BMG it is gonna kick like a mule a 50 BMG is that what
you got there yep right here what is it about that round that makes it so
impressive? It's one of the biggest rifle rounds and it's basically a
scaled-up 30-06. See the difference?Wow yeah huge 30.06 we were
shooting 30-06 the other day those those have quite a kick! this has a
bigger kick... have you ever shot any Barrett 50 cals yeah I had a
demonstration I was able to shoot one of these things and it literally lifted me
up off the ground yes yeah and imagine YOU were lifted up
off the ground, well I'm gonna be like a chihuahua in a hurricane! this 250 pounds
of Rompin stompin dy-- well 230 pounds of Rompin stompin dynamite the other 20
pounds we're not gonna talk about. But YOU, yeah you're gonna come flying back
off of the deck. yeah this slow-mo should be awesome! so can you give us an idea
what the difference is between the earlier generations?sure there's a few
significant changes and most significant change is that they actually made it
lighter. okay and how does that affect the recoil and the accuracy and all that
well the fact that it's lighter means that there's gonna be a little bit more
recoil .the heaviness of a gun actually helps with the recoil so if you've shot
the previous versions just expect a little bit more kick. okay I deserve it!
I deserve a swift kick once in a while I'm looking forward to that! well we all
do sometimes right?well describe the gun from muzzle to butt will
ya? sure as you can see we have a beefy muzzle brake on here which is also going to
help with the recoil and kick. it's also suppressor ready so that was one of the
changes they made so suppressors do not make a gun quiet. Its not a silencer? its not like inHollywood
where its just like *mimic tiny shot sound*. Its a suppressor. It just helps your ears not to burst into flames.
Let's talk magazine capacity. Mag capacity is 10 rounds. then you can have one in the chamber so
a total capacity of eleven and then you have the pic rail to put on any
accessorie, scopes, obviously this is a quick detach, I don't think that scope is
gonna hold up to this 50 Cal though to be honest but it has iron sights as back
up yeah so these iron sights flip up here and back there so I may actually
get to learn about little Kentucky windage today. absolutely! and that's
the thing too if we shoot these iron sights today I'm pretty excited about it
because not a lot of people shoot 50 cals with iron sights so I think it'll
be fun also a bipod wwhich obviously is
heavy duty to handle this 50 Cal then you have the monopod on the back just
for stability because often this is shot prone, it gives a little bit of variation
for if you're shooting in the desert and the ground is not even. I like to
call the desert free America. how far you think you can shoot with this? Barrett
says 2,000 yards but the actual range of this 8,000. 8,000 yards! so if I
pointed it up in the air, it's gonna travel on up
what's that what's that math word parabola wauy out 8,000 yards and just
come down with a little poof right yeah well if you're lucky enough to hit
something it's gonna take it out
you tell me a little bit about the history of this army Marines who was
using it? so right now all branches of the US military
use this gun and it's also using a lot of countries around the world
Ronnie Barrett designed the 50 caliber rifle in 1982 and it was the m82
originally. so the m82 and the m107 were developed throughout time and then
basically this version was created in 2011 m107
a1 it is their newest model. so the Barrett 50 caliber has probably been
romanticized as the best sniper rifle of all time out in the field but there are
differing opinions on that and the practical applications. yeah
absolutely I don't a burst anybody's bubble but
I'm about to okay this is not the most accurate platform. why is that? the
previous version reports say about three to four MOA which is about three to four
inches at 100 yards 30 to 40 inches at a thousand. okay whoa whoa, slow back
MOA explain that to me as if I'm a child because I'm experienced but I'm not an
expert. sure no problem it's minute of angle and
so it's roughly one inch at a hundred yards. so one inch it's one Moa at 100.
oh so at close range you get a and the further out you go the more expanding
grouping you're gonna get got it. so you can have a 10 inch group at a
thousand - it's still a 1 MOA gun. okay and the 50 Cal compared to say what 308?
well, all this depends on the gun. I think that snipers that are going after actual
personnel and one specifically good guns they probably want a less than 1 MOA gun
or ideally 1/4 to 1/2 MOA. Thats what I want! - for those headshots!-
EYE SHOTS. - yeah. play misty for me right? There ya go. what's practical application of
this in the field? this is actually for anti material, so anti-tank, parked
airplanes, blowing up bunkers, concrete, steel - this will cut through a tank? yes
especially with armor-piercing rounds which we will have today. oo. I'm very
excited about that. what kind of armour piercing through as a demonstration?
I believe we're shooting thick steel plates. we've got some steel plates back
there we got some 1-inch plates it's gonna cut through that like butter. I
think it is! alright Kirsten what do you say we go shoot this big beast
yeah let's go! all right you might want to go grab some snacks or something
because we're about to put on a show for you after the break
better put your ears on for this one it's gonna get loud! okay range Time!
Kirsten we decided to take off that glass because we didn't want to lose
twenty five hundred dollars piece of scope there so. absolutely we're gonna do
an old-school style it's gonna be a little bit more challenging but I think
you're up for the challenge! ladies first Lock and Load we got a little dry ice
out there and we're gonna use double ear protection. yeah just in case
my turn! Yeah, get it!
awesome all right we need some more targets boys bring them out set it up
let's go woo hoo!okay they set us up a nice new steel plate down there and Kirsten we
got some great big Sparky bullets yes we do those are armor-piercing incendiary
bullets so they're gonna leave a nice little hole down in that steel. okay
double ears
punch right on through nice nice grouping. you want a turn? I would love a turn! Why don't you
finish off those rounds go on. alright!
BOOM!that was fantastic! beautiful! beautiful ,all right we got a
special target coming for you guys Oh Kirsten looks like there's some kind
of oogly googly monster down there with a woman in his teeth. the damsel in
distress! we better save her
god bless the red white! Red White and blue forever!Ah Kirsten as always pleasure thank
you for showing us that Barrett beast you are absolutely welcome Adam and thanks
for having me on the show! oh that 50 was thumping! long range
devastation!