Shooting the Monstrously Powerful Quad M134 Minigun

LOUD AND POWERFUL

The Big Sandy Shoot in Arizona last September was heralded as the largest civilian machine gun shooting event in the world – and it delivered!

During the event, spectators were able to watch this extremely powerful quad M134 Minigun unleashed on the shooting range.

These NATO-standard M134 Miniguns are six-barrel 7.62mm-cal rotary machine guns that can fire between 2,000 to 6,000 rounds per minute. The one you’re watching, however, is actually 4 M134s mounted on a WW2-era Maxson M45 quadruple machine gun mount.

According to Dillon Precision Products, the company that brought the huge minigun, each M134 was firing at approximately 3,000 rpm. This equates to a rate of fire of around 12,000 rounds per minute for one gun.

Each minigun was linked to a mag that holds 3,000 rounds, too. With each firing 3,000 rpm, it would then only take about a minute to empty the mags!

Still, the company “only” ended up shooting 24,000 rounds since loading these guns up can be a taxing task.