The bigger the gun, the farther from it you stand....

[Sir Aardvark]

Here is a video clip demonstrating why you don't stand right next to the big guns.

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/kickback1.html

 

[Waffen]

Here I was expecting some sort of accurate reloading video and we get this gem. It looks fake to me as none of his buddes even batted an eye.

I lolled.

After watching this a few times, if it is real I bet he never has children after this.

 

[mattw]

Atleast they don't look like Americans

 

[50 Freak]

Watch the video closely, looks like the round was prematurely fired. The soldier barly closes the breech and half a second later the round fires, wonder how badly the soldier was hurt.

Poor guy.

 

[mics357]

owie i think was a primee breech barely closed, was his buddy standing on lanyard

 

[mattw]

I'm with Waffen, looks pretty fake to me.

 

[P95Carry]

Can't help wondering how you'd fake that. Seems like at moment of final breech lock, the primer cartridge gets whacked -- and boom!

Hard to say from here but then I was never all that intimate with arty!

 

[mattw]

trust me, it would be very easy to fake it.. infact, i'm confident that i could do it myself.

edit: it would be done with computers ofcourse, you can delete frames, add frames, crop things out of and paste things into frames... very simple if you know the programs to use.

 

[Henry Bowman]

If it was fake, why would you use such an incompetent cameraman who can't stay on subject? Clearly the cameraman quit looking through the viewfinder to gawk at the scene. I say it's real.

And don't worry. That'll buff right out.

 

[armoredman]

Looks like a small anti tank gun, WWII era, 57mm/75mm, hard to tell from that angle.

 

[Third_Rail]

I think Henry Bowman has the best point so far, that the cameraman basically stood there and gawked instead of taking footage properly (as did the other people, gawking that is)