The folks at Mythbusters are at it again. This time Kari Byron tested to see how long it would take for a M-134 Minigun to fell a tree. This neat clip demonstrates the gun’s amazing rapid rate of fire. Oh! and yes…it took 45 seconds to bring down the tree!!
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Andrew345
What a waste of a perfectly good tree. This has to be the most pointless experiment ever.
Moodindigo
I’m not sure that leafless, limbless husk in the desert counts as a “perfectly good tree”.
Twee
The tree wasn’t even growing there, it was dead and put there for the experiment. No need to worry, treehuggers!
Grok
Agreed. Those who actually watched this episode would know that the MB team took trees that had already been felled and dug the logs in the ground for the purposes of this busting. In general, the team usually does their best at being economically and environmentally responsible for all their “pointless experiments” (e.g., scavaging scrap yards, re-using equipment and materials). As for why? Well, they’re not called Mythbusters (not to mention this website isn’t Neatorama) for nothing.
Colt Seaver
Waste of ammo is more like it. In that 45 seconds, they blew through $500 in shells.
Christophe
Isn’t that supposed to chop off heads and limbs?
Neat in an eery way.
Hillary
It’s even cooler when mounted on a helicopter and is mowing down terrorists! Spatter… Spatter…
Jason
twodollars said:
“Kari Byron + Minigun = Hotness.”
Subtract the “Minigun” and the equation still works! 
Brian
It probably would have gone faster if they had shot the trees at a closer range.
Justin
Agreed brian. They probably missed 50% of the time at least.
Also, was anyone else surprised at how there was no visible recoil? I’m sure mounting it helped, but it didn’t seem to be recoiling at all.
slamrod
That was awesome! To bad it wasn’t a real tree with tree huggers in it.
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