VH> DA>SG> Actually, I presume you meant a semi-auto with rotary lockup, but
VH> DA>SG> I'm not certain. Maybe you did mean a minigun.
VH> 
VH> DA>SG> A minigun simply uses up too much ammo for my tastes.
VH> 
VH> DA>Remember that scene in Predator where the guy with the minigun blows
VH> DA>away the entire jungle? Ever stop to think how much the ammo weighed?
VH> 
VH> That whole bit is on my short list for "The dumbest scene involving
VH> firearms." :-)
    I know the guys who helped set this scene up....
VH> If you see it again, have a stopwatch handy and figure out how long
VH> the shooting goes on (total) and estimate (at 3,000-3,600 rpm) how many
VH> rounds were fired.  You can't fit all that ammo in that backpack!
    The backpack held the batteries to run the gun....
VH> Now figure the weight, add in the weight of the gun, ammo chute,
VH> backpack, and battery -- and tell me what you come up with.:-)
    They only used enuf ammo to run for 4 seconds.  They then looped the 
ound
to get the full effect for the 50 odd seconds of film clippage.  The 
vegatation was shot up by a bunch of extras with M16's, shotguns and 
anything else they could get their hands on...
                                                       
    Also, this model was setup to run at 6,000 rounds per second, which 
increases the ammo demands even more.
    BUT, it looked cool, same as the second Terminator movie when he is in 
he
computer bldg, taking out the entire police force....
VH> What I can't figure out is why in the scene where the Black NCO says "I
VH> see you" he doesn't just up with that M14 and put about five rounds into
VH> the critter.
                          
    Becuz then we would have been out of the theater after 20 minutes.  :)
    THE WORST film scene was the M11-SMG tumbling down the stairs in his last 
film, True Lies and only shooting a round off, when it faced foreward
towards the evil arch villians, and conveniently shot someone each time it
fired.  If anyone knows of a worse scene, I'd sure like to hear about it.
    BH
    
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