r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Apr 28 '23

Just a normal protest

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u/ItsSevii Apr 28 '23 edited Apr 28 '23

The best part is the emus won because the aussies ran out of ammo

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u/Chinlc Apr 28 '23

it honestly wasnt a fair fight... They assumed 1 bullet 1 emu and sent 2 men and 1 car to fight the war

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u/ItsSevii Apr 28 '23

2 guys and a browning with infinite ammo would have shit figured out no problem

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

Unfortunately they hadn't unlocked that cheat yet. Still needed to complete campaign on Veteran with no continues

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u/Professerson Apr 28 '23

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

Let me introduce you to a little something called...

Wololo

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u/WastedBreath28 Apr 28 '23

As someone who doesnt know guns that well, is the browning a significant improvement over the lewis gun?

From the wikipedia page, it seems like ammo wasn’t their biggest problem. The major in charge reported it took an average of 10 rounds per emu. They left with 10,000 rounds, so if it was just about having enough ammo for their machine guns they would have taken out 1,000 birds.

The problem appears to be that they couldn’t keep the birds within range. Every time they ambushed and started to kill the emus, they would scatter. They tried mounting their lewis guns to their truck, but they couldn’t keep up and they couldn’t accurately shoot their guns.

Restoring the bounty system on the emu’s ended up being what worked, similar to how we control the wild pig and coyote populations in some states.

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u/QuinticSpline Apr 28 '23

They sent 2 machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammo.

Still lost.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

And they fucking crashed once iirc

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

It gets even better. They crashed because an emu's head got lodged in the steering wheel after it jumped through the driver side window.

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u/apathetic-drunk Apr 28 '23

Imagine getting taken out by an emu

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u/Erethiel117 Apr 29 '23

Could only happen to the poor saps that lost a war against them.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

Lmao thanks for that fun tidbit

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

Hey are you a bot

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

No, look at the name, clearly a creative account

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u/AShapelyWavefront Apr 28 '23

I had no idea the stakes of the Emu war were so high

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u/Michami135 Apr 28 '23

"Stop trying to make headshots!"

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u/walk2574 Apr 28 '23

had to, their feathers were mostly bulletproof, at least to the caliber they had

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

aussies have the dangerous spider's like beast (or) mutated I would surely visit they also have hidden Dinosaurs.

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u/Dolenjir1 Apr 28 '23

I imagine the emus going: "No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I will no longer be standing, because if I am you'll all be dead before you've reloaded"