HOWTO make a shotgun rainbow

In this short video, Kirsti show us how she uses a shotgun and some standing water to make a beautiful rainbow that carries the delicate scent of gunpowder and magic.

KIRSTI'S SHOTGUN RAINBOW (via Neatorama)

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noah django

this pleases me!
robdobbs

What a stupid fucking red-neck thing to do. Lead-shot’s been banned at least yeah?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=582748590 Eric Singley

Pretty disgusting considering you can do the same thing with a garden hose.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=582748590 Eric Singley

“Hay, y’awl . . .”
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EJUMVRTBBP5JEJ2JOTDNZCQQ5E Sum One
  
  God forbid someone greet their viewers colloquially.
- Preston Sturges
  
  Taste the rainbow, yankee.
- magpiekilljoy
  
  Well I wanted to post “In before some dumb classist makes fun of her accent” but clearly I’m 4 hours too late.
EH

It’s the only state that still lets you fish with dynamite.
Rindan

I’ll admit there was a little piece of me that faced palmed and said “Oh ‘merica”, but relax.

Seriously, relax. No one throws up a fuss when Jamie and Adam blow up an airplane by ramming it with a truck filled with dynamite or something equally wasteful. No one throws a fit when someone takes a transcontinental airplane ride and dump more CO2 into the air than entire villages will in their existence.

A few shells into a stream isn’t going to end the world. Grow up. You are just being pissy because a gun was used instead of some Maker steampunk contraption. It is no worse than kicking off a m80 and failing to find and dispose of the remains. In fact, it is probably vastly less destructive.
- Culturedropout
  
  I’m not particularly worried about her carbon footprint or anything. I just think it’s stupid.
- http://twitter.com/sirkowski Sirkowski
  
  Thank you!
Nadreck

This confirms my shotgun bias in small arms: try *that* with an assault rifle!
- Preston Sturges
  
  I think it would work pretty with this CETME, even though a .308 is technically a “main battle rifle.”
  
  http://youtu.be/9Ya3_-TLCNE
  - EH
    
    is that thing legal in the lower 48?
    - Mister44
      
      A .308? Or a CETME?
      
      A .308 is a common round for things like deer. It is a big bullet, thus the satisfying gush of water.
      
      A CETME is legal in every state I know of, but some of them like CA and NY will have some restrictions on them, making some configurations illegal.
    - Preston Sturges
      
      Oh yeah, it’s legal. Functionality is good, recoil is quite low. ergonomics worse than you’d expect. CheaperThanDirt was selling new 20 rd H&K mags for $0.98, some states may limit you to 5 round mags or something
  - ocker3
    
    I reckon he could have gotten a rainbow too, if he took care with the time of day, range and angle of the sun like the lady in the video did.
Cowicide

This proves that God loves guns.
- Ian Anthony
  
  I hear they’re perfectly shaped to the human hand. Theists: 1 Atheists: 0
  - Cowicide
    
    Praise the lawd!
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  o rly?
  - ocker3
    
    this, what, I don’t even…?
    
    I get that she’s worried about Something, but Rainbows??
  - http://instantaneousinstances.com/ Spieguh
    
    We should get this lady together with the ICP.
  - Cowicide
    
    Oh yeah, I forgot about Obama poisoning our water supply and draining our precious bodily fluids. Silly me!
jimh

WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CRAWDADS?!
- oasisob1
  
  I’m with you.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness
  
  Around here a crawdad and a mudbug are not the same thing. Crawdads live in creeks, bayous, and canals. Mudbugs are little lobster critters that live far away from bodies of water in waterlogged clay soil. They are crustacean prairie dogs. They build tall clay chimneys and deep vent holes just like prairie dove, but they are four inch long land lobsters. In addition to the vent chimneys, they move huge amounts of clay far away from their homes to excavate huge water storage chambers to keep their gills wet. Yes, they live on land, but breathe with gills.
  
  I am happy to attest that the mudbugs are back in force after the Texas drought. We had the usual winter rains and they’re back. I have been informed that the Florida and Alabama populations have done quite well after their 2008 drought.
  - EH
    
    are they as tasty?
    - Mister44
      
      They tell me yes – but I think they are just basically giant bugs that live in the mud.
  - zarray
    
    “Yes, they live on land, but breathe with gills.”
    
    I was going to crack a joke about the inefficiency of this, but then I remembered that we’re constantly trying to go deeper into the ocean and outer space.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

She’s the Katniss of the shotgun.
Antinous / Moderator

Needs more Ken Clark and Yvette Vickers.
Mike Husted

It’s an incredibly bad idea to shoot any fire arm into water. The chance for ricochet is much less with a shotgun, but the chance is still there. Don’t do this if you like your corneas.
- Preston Sturges
  
  The risk of shooting into water with a hill behind is negligible UNLESS you are also shooting towards a solid stone ledge at short range, like this spunky lass.
  - antti roppola
    
    All instructional material I have ever seen advises against firing into any sort of hard surface especially water, the results are just too unpredictable.
http://www.bauartcreative.com/ Bauart

The “Shotgun Rainbow” will be Exhibit #1 in the trial of, “People of the World vs. Idiots of the South”.
- Preston Sturges
  
  I wish my cousins were that cute….
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    That’s a disturbing revelation.
    - noah django
      
      took you long enough ;)
      also, see the thread http://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/man-confused-mohawked-woman-wi.html, just under you.
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        Hey, I have a life.
        
        Okay, that’s a lie. But I can’t work every minute of every day.
- Mister44
  
  I think you underestimate how stupid the people of the world are. See youtube for evidence.
Haroun

Whoa, what if it was a double barreled rainbow! A double barreled rainbow!
http://twitter.com/CreepingSword Spezz

I don’t really care what she does in her spare time, but what does irk me, is how it will be a “devastating tragedy” when she takes a ricocheted pellet in the face.

Her future was so bright, yawwl.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  No biggie. Face transplants are the new botox.
http://www.facebook.com/HyperionToASatyr Jack Holmes

Arnold Schwarzenegger: “I found it.”

Thug: “What?”

*Cocks shotgun*

Arnold: “Zee rainbow connection.”

BOOM!
Mister44

There was an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force that had a shot gun that shot rainbows.
- Preston Sturges
  
  They were explaining how the Standards and Practices department rules said they could not shoot off a nuns head and make her squirt blood, but if a rainbow came out of her neck that was “acceptable.”
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    No, I don’t want to taste the goddamn rainbow.
    - ocker3
      
      so, wait, you’re Not a goddam hippie?
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        I learned the hard way that dropping acid and snorting glitter won’t make you fart rainbows.
Keith Tyler

And here I thought rainbows came from unicorn farts. Now I know they come from shotguns.
- http://devojane.blogspot.com devophill
  
  Shotgun farts.
benher

Someone uses a gun, a tool usually reserved for killing, and demonstrates a (beautiful) scientific phenomenon in video format… and the lynch mob begins.

I’m a liberal, but I can understand why so many people hate us sometimes. Learn to let your hair down and have some fun with explosives once and awhile, jackasses.
- petertrepan
  
  It’s the Southern accent. Seriously. If MythBusters did this they’d be clapping and throwing ticker tape, but since it was someone with a Southern accent, it must be stupid.
Stephen Dinale

You gotta love a hottie with a shotty.
http://twitter.com/sirkowski Sirkowski

Jeez, I’m for gun control as much the next hippie, but I think this is funny and cute.
Dave Noisy

Timely quote from Bill Maher on Real Time last week:

“Right now congress is considering a bill that would forbid the EPA from regulating the lead in bullets — not that the EPA is regulating the lead in bullets, but it might. [..] Hunters leave 3,000 tons of lead bullets in America’s forests each year which poisons 20 million birds. Birds that will never know the joy of being blown to pieces by a miserable, chinless fuck-face.”
eldritch

Now I’m no expert on guns by a long shot and thus don’t know “make and model”, so to speak, but an eight round semi-automatic shotgun isn’t that common, is it?

Most of the ones I know of are expensive law enforcement or military grade weapons made by companies like Benelli, Saiga, or Franchi, so I’m guessing it’s more likely this is a Remington Model 1100? But that’d be the tactical variant – most of the law enforcement variants are 4+1 rounds. So what the heck IS this, and why is it in civilian hands?
- Preston Sturges
  
  I believe you can buy extended tube mags for most guns. Also you can buy short case low recoil shells which will increase capacity.
vrplumber

That leprechaun has got to be dead. I wonder if the pot of gold is still there?
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/42THFKXIPMJHQBIH6OPI4RVIDY Thebes

So, shotguns are Unicorns because they fart rainbows?
- zuben
  
  I was under the impression that one’s inner unicorn is released upon impact of high velocity projectiles. What else could account for Dick Cheney’s change of heart?
http://twitter.com/ablestmage ablestmage

DAT. AIM.
soylent_plaid

Double barrel, all the way…