Comments for "Future Weapons - Barrett .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle" Video at VideoSift.com

By Farhad2000

Farhad2000 (http://farhad.videosift.com) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:18:20 -0700

I hate this show and it's stupidly annoying presenter. The presentation is just so gauche.

By J-Rova

J-Rova (http://www.videosift.com/member/J-Rova) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:11:49 -0700

one of those rounds can easily blow off a limb... heinous.

By Obsidianfire

Obsidianfire (http://www.videosift.com/member/Obsidianfire) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:53:33 -0700

This is my favorite weapon.

By scottishmartialarts

scottishmartialarts (http://www.videosift.com/member/scottishmartialarts) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:42:19 -0700

About 20 minutes into the Miami Vice remake from last summer there is a pretty insane, and realistic, example of the kind of damage one of these rifles can do.

By Sylvester_Ink

Sylvester_Ink (http://www.videosift.com/member/Sylvester_Ink) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:10:14 -0700

I agree that the presenter is trying a bit too hard to be "Extreeeeme," but nevertheless, it's a pretty cool segment.

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:30:41 -0700

I think I have an M95 in Battlefield 2. It's nice for shooting through cockpit glass.

By karaidl

karaidl (http://www.videosift.com/member/karaidl) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:19:40 -0700

Hmmm... Christmas is coming...

By pen1234567

pen1234567 (http://www.videosift.com/member/pen1234567) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:24:06 -0700

If you're interested in sniper rifles you should see the movie Shooter. It's amazing how accurate the rifles can be.

By neilmiddleton

neilmiddleton (http://www.videosift.com/member/neilmiddleton) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:05:22 -0700

Current sniper record is with a .50 cal by a Canadian sniper in Afghanistan IIRC. Headshot kill at 2.8 miles.

By xxovercastxx

xxovercastxx (http://www.videosift.com/member/xxovercastxx) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:02:38 -0700

He can't help but be extreme. He was a Navy SEAL for 10 years and has 25+ years of training in several of the more brutal martial arts (muay thai, Jeet Kune Do, aikido, jujitsu, savate, arnis).

That's over 35 years of programming/brainwashing. You'd be pretty extreme too.

Makes me wonder if he can still enjoy everyday life or if everything is a combat situation in his mind.

By cheesemoo

cheesemoo (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheesemoo) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:39:01 -0700

Hate this host so much. Why is the Barrett even on their "future" weapons show? Hasn't it been around for a while?

.50 cal bullets are amazingly huge though.

By neilmiddleton

neilmiddleton (http://www.videosift.com/member/neilmiddleton) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:40:21 -0700

OK, not 2.8 miles, but 2400 metres

http://www.brianhayes.com/2005/08/world-sniper-record.html

By Deano

Deano (http://www.videosift.com/member/Deano) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:06:36 -0700

Yeah baldie is playing it very hammy but I thought that was par for the course with these macho weapon shows.

By Chaucer

Chaucer (http://www.videosift.com/member/Chaucer) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:36:55 -0700

I wish they would have shown the whole clip where they go about shooting through metal plates at over a miles distance.

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:46:06 -0700

"He can't help but be extreme. He was a Navy SEAL for 10 years and has 25+ years of training in several of the more brutal martial arts (muay thai, Jeet Kune Do, aikido, jujitsu, savate, arnis).

That's over 35 years of programming/brainwashing. You'd be pretty extreme too."

That's not an excuse, if anything most people with that kind of experience have the opposite kind of mentality. Actually, I didn't think the host was that bad compared to others, but he's playing up a bit of the "XTREME KOMBAT" angle up because the Discovery Channel producers think their military shows will be more successful if they go over the top and pander to the lowest common denominator, and damn them, they're right. Oh, and aikido is not a brutal martial art in any sense of the phrase.

By xxovercastxx

xxovercastxx (http://www.videosift.com/member/xxovercastxx) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:30:17 -0700

rembar said:
That's not an excuse

Yeah, I know. I was being sarcastic.

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:06:08 -0700

"Yeah, I know. I was being sarcastic."

Well now, I guess my sarcasm detector is broken, my apologies.

That's a funky little quote thing you've got going on there. Did you hand format that or did I miss the intro of a new feature?

By Cronyx

Cronyx (http://www.videosift.com/member/Cronyx) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:13:19 -0700

It really comes off as pro-military propaganda. I do love this show, watch it whenever I get the chance, but the tone is very aggravating, almost celebrating our imperialism excessive pageantry. "Look at how awesomely unstopable we are! We've got laser guided guns that shoot other guns at you that shoot rocket powered chainsaws! America! FUCK YEAH!"

Yeah.

By statueofmike

statueofmike (http://www.videosift.com/member/statueofmike) — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:58:30 -0700

Cronyx, I hear ya. It's a little disturbing to see people celebrating power so enthusiastically, but how can you avoid it?

Is that the gun that Marky Mark uses in Shooter?

By xxovercastxx

xxovercastxx (http://www.videosift.com/member/xxovercastxx) — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:53:14 -0700

rembar said:
That's a funky little quote thing you've got going on there. Did you hand format that or did I miss the intro of a new feature?

Nope, manual code. I'll demonstrate using square brackets to keep it from rendering:

[blockquote][b]rembar said:[/b][br][i]That's a funky little quote thing you've got going on there. Did you hand format that or did I miss the intro of a new feature?[/i][/blockquote]

Pretty basic code, really.

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:05:08 -0700

Ah, mmk, thanks Overcast. I was under the impression that the site only allowed bold, italic, and underline in comments, but meh. So much for non-deprecated tags, eh?

By nibiyabi

nibiyabi (http://www.videosift.com/member/nibiyabi) — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:52:08 -0700

AWP whore!