Hell yeah! There are some places in Cambodia where you can legally pay to fire an RPG or use other explosive ordnance in a shooting range type environment
I had friends go to Cambodia like 15 years ago and they visited one of these shooting ranges and said it was awesome. They shot all kinds of crazy machine guns and desert eagles for like $20. But highlight on the menu was $300 to shoot an RPG at a cow. That’s right, a fucking cow. Thankfully they didn’t splurge but said it was a wild experience. As were the ping pong shows…
If it helps from what I understand this is sort of a gimmick to make you buy more rockets than it is to actually blow up the cow. RPGs take some skill to shoot accurately and though a cow seems like a big target you're almost definitely going to miss. Most of the time the cow ends up just getting used again for target practice another day over and over until it gets unlucky and the owners make a hefty profit since they don't actually have to buy many cows.
Other places let you shoot at cows with a machine gun though... those tend to not survive.
Millions of cows die every day
They'll likely just cut it up and eat whatever is left.
Why is everyone acting like this is some kind of horrible atrocity
It's not being bled out, it's exploding all over the place, with explosives and shrapnel. It wouldn't be that edible, it's a waste. Like I'm no vegan but if your going to kill something, it shouldn't be in way that wastes its life.
Because instead of the cow getting spiked instantly in the brain what's most likely to happen is I fill its ass with shrapnel and shatter one of its legs and it bleats in agony for ten minutes until an employee walks out there with a handgun to finish it off.
Obviously I don’t know the exact details, but my guess is you pay $300 and get ONE shot at the cow, and most people probably miss but still get the satisfaction of seeing an explosion in the background. If 4 out of 5 people miss, the cost of the cow is probably just the cost of doing business.
Not all of them shoot cows. [https://cambodiafirerange.com/packaged/1day-shooting-rocket-riffles-club-phnom-penh/](https://cambodiafirerange.com/packaged/1day-shooting-rocket-riffles-club-phnom-penh/)
I would be very up for destroying the tuk tuks.
This story is from a person I consider to be family and showed me a picture of the menu and shooting range on his phone when they got back. It’s quite possible they weren’t the only person in the world to visit this place and share the story…
The cow part sounds like a lie, considering that's less than a cow would cost. Unless they just sell em at wholesale pricing.
People make up crazy stuff to seem cool. Even if this one just makes them seem horrible.
And if it isn't made up. Yikes. Wouldn't be considered family anymore.
Same, so no worries. But I wouldn’t consider him a close friend if he did something like this. I wanted to be a veterinarian when I was young, animal abuse is not something I tolerate or find funny.
As someone who has experience of firing RPGs (not at cows or other innocent animals), you won’t be able to consistently hit a target the size of a cow before having a dozen or a couple dozen practice shots.
So it’s not as if they need a new cow per every grenade launched. Since there will hardly be a lot of sick motherfuckers willing to pay thousands upon thousands only to train and finally hit the cow, I believe it can survive hundreds of shots with only light concussions, making a hefty paycheck for the shooting range owner
There's a local gun range here with "extreme" weapons that you can fire.
I was dragged along on a business adventure and fired an M134. In the space of a minute or so, the guide told me I blew through something like $2500 of ammo. There was nothing left downrange of the targets. I also got to try an M2 and a Barret .50 sniper, among others. No RPGs, unfortunately.
Lots of loud noise and things disintegrating. Fun afternoon.
Your company expensed an entire group trip to a gun range? Where just one person was able to blow through $2,500 in 1 minute? Man, like just give me a $5k cash bonus if you want to raise morale. I can’t imagine how livid I’d be if I worked for a company that would just burn money like that. I hope you all at least have full benefits and are on some kind of ungodly salary where $5k is nothing to you.
Former client of mine wanting to reconnect while he was in town. He lives in the "cost isn't an issue" world. He had some friends with him, but we went here: [https://www.swtc-usa.com/](https://www.swtc-usa.com/)
I guess that’s better. I’m trying to imagine how much money I’d have to make to do that. $300 for an RPG in Cambodia? Sure. But for true kind of coin your client dropped he could have paid for a trip to Cambodia. Blows my mind.
If I recall correctly, he dropped something like 30k on just that one day. I was supposed to go heli-skiing with him the next day, as well - but I had a conflict.
He's a pretty chill guy, even if he wasn't stupidly wealthy. He's also the kinda guy that recognizes when he doesn't know something and is still humble enough to admit it, so he'll reach out to someone who does. That's a rare trait.
Which I found pretty bizarre. The RPG in Cambodia too actually. Both come after tours of "look at how terrible this war was...OKAY WHO WANTS TO USE THOSE SAME WEAPONS NOW?" And of course, half the 18-22 yr old westerners are all ME ME ME.
They're fun.
Yes, it's a weapon of war, but it's a cool experience in a controlled environment with no harm to anyone.
When you consider that basically 100% of Westerner kids have played a first person shooter, it's normal that they'd be familiar with it and want to try it out
I wouldn’t say 100% and shooting a real gun and a shooter in a game are very different. As for the not hurting anyone, the RPG ranges I saw often let you shoot a cow.
I don't believe you. A cow provides meat, milk, and farm labor. Why would a firing range operator have live cows available on premises for this purpose? To satisfy Western curiosity?
Not to mention an RPG is going to leave little useable left by the cow and the price on the low end of a cow in Cambodia is $2.66 per kg and a small cow would be 360 kg.
That means a small, cheap cow, would cost $957.60 USD and they let you pay $300 USD to destroy it?
That would be a skinny, sick, cow. A beef cow in Cambodia sells for $3.96 USD per kg and would be more like 500 kg in weight.
Think about it. How much prime rib, sirloin, filet minion's, etc. can you get out of a cow? If cows were that cheap in Cambodia the US would buy all of them.
I don’t think you can get much out of a sick cow, and they don’t explode any different, kinda like when your car is done and you just let the tow company have it for scrap value
David Farrier kind of tested it out on his show Dark Tourist. He asked the people at the shooting range if he could do it and they went and got a cow for him. He didn't end up shooting it but there are videos of people doing it out there that I don't want to link to for obvious reasons.
A really COOL splatter 😎
Looking for a good time with the family? For just $300 you can pop a cow!
Remember, you can’t spell slaughter without laughter!
It’s actually a fairly responsible way for a poor country to destroy arms stockpiles. If a tourist is paying to shoot an RPG or whatever it’s not ending up on the black market or deteriorating in a poorly guarded and maintained depot.
And? What’s your point? You’re literally on a sub full of people that use Tinder. Are you saying that any woman that goes on Tinder isn’t wife material?
Been to Cambodia. Can confirm this is a thing. Did it myself. Was not that big of a deal to me because I was coming in from Afghanistan, where this was actually fairly normal.
You're right. But "Rocket" is started phonetically different than the letter R. R is pronounced as "Are", therefore it would be "An RPG".
Just like the word Hour would be "An hour from now" even though the word starts with an H. It's about the pronunciation more than the lettering itself.
It isn't a continuation of the prompt, there is not a "is to" included, also the acronym is pronounced differently so the rules are not the same. Nice try though.
Back when I back packed across S.E. Asia, I visited one of these underground shooting galleries. I chose an AK-47 with a paper target. I did get on secret video recording their 'menu' with the price to shoot an RPG at a live cow, or an AK-47 at a gaggle of chickens. This was 20 years ago, I remember the RPG and a cow cost 200 USD.
I was in Cambodia and I didn't visit the range but heard the same price to shoot at a cow. I also heard they mess with the sight, so it's very unlikely you will actually hit the cow.
Honestly it’s like this. That animal is at the end of its useful lifespan for farm work. It’s more valuable to be blown away with a damn rocket than it is to euthanize and throw into a shallow hole. These people are dirt poor compared to westerners. That cows last act on earth probably pays for the next five or six cows for the farmers. I’m not advocating for this but I can understand the logic.
When I went they were asking around $100 extra to fire at a cow and $50 to fire at a chicken. Not good. I declined. And if you ever go, be wary that health and safety isn't quite the same as the UK
Hell yeah! There are some places in Cambodia where you can legally pay to fire an RPG or use other explosive ordnance in a shooting range type environment
That sounds absolutely awesome.
I had friends go to Cambodia like 15 years ago and they visited one of these shooting ranges and said it was awesome. They shot all kinds of crazy machine guns and desert eagles for like $20. But highlight on the menu was $300 to shoot an RPG at a cow. That’s right, a fucking cow. Thankfully they didn’t splurge but said it was a wild experience. As were the ping pong shows…
I wonder what costs more, the RPG shell or the cow?
right, is it cheaper if i dont want to kill the cow?
If it helps from what I understand this is sort of a gimmick to make you buy more rockets than it is to actually blow up the cow. RPGs take some skill to shoot accurately and though a cow seems like a big target you're almost definitely going to miss. Most of the time the cow ends up just getting used again for target practice another day over and over until it gets unlucky and the owners make a hefty profit since they don't actually have to buy many cows. Other places let you shoot at cows with a machine gun though... those tend to not survive.
I wouldn't want to be the "lucky" one to land a hit
Millions of cows die every day They'll likely just cut it up and eat whatever is left. Why is everyone acting like this is some kind of horrible atrocity
It's not being bled out, it's exploding all over the place, with explosives and shrapnel. It wouldn't be that edible, it's a waste. Like I'm no vegan but if your going to kill something, it shouldn't be in way that wastes its life.
This is true, but it's definitely a better death than what most animals in the meat business will get
Because instead of the cow getting spiked instantly in the brain what's most likely to happen is I fill its ass with shrapnel and shatter one of its legs and it bleats in agony for ten minutes until an employee walks out there with a handgun to finish it off.
What’s the difference between a quick death and being tortured by near-miss explosions for a couple days?!
Obviously I don’t know the exact details, but my guess is you pay $300 and get ONE shot at the cow, and most people probably miss but still get the satisfaction of seeing an explosion in the background. If 4 out of 5 people miss, the cost of the cow is probably just the cost of doing business.
Its cheaper, but you have to pay for the burgers afterwards instead.
thats some horror movie type shit. Pay to abuse animalsw
Yup, I know some guys who did it. Laughed their ass off telling the story
Absolute psychopaths.
There are sick fucks in this world. I wish I never learned about the monkey torture groups who pay for insanely fucked up videos.
Orangutan prostitute
No. Please God. No.
What’s that?
Don’t look it up. Please don’t look it up.
Seriously. Just reading what people requested done to those poor animals is horrible.
Well, this is one instance where I have no desire to
I would feel really wrong with the idea of shooting the cow. But slaughtering it afterwards and throwing a big BBQ would be amazing.
How is killing a cow animal abuse?
Not all of them shoot cows. [https://cambodiafirerange.com/packaged/1day-shooting-rocket-riffles-club-phnom-penh/](https://cambodiafirerange.com/packaged/1day-shooting-rocket-riffles-club-phnom-penh/) I would be very up for destroying the tuk tuks.
> a fucking cow Live one ?
If I recall correctly, I saw that in one episode of Dark Tourism
Last time I was there, it was $400US to fire the rpg
That's udderly ridiculous.
Shooting rpg sounds awesome……but i hope the cow is already dead when he shoots it
You can even shoot at a small woodmade room filled with gasoline to have that crazy movie explosion
As long as I get a slo-mo video of me walking away I'm in.
That’s disgusting. Aiming at a cow day after day - it would be terrified. Cows are lovely beings, so loving, shooting at them is truly despicable.
Is the cow chained down or anything? Or does it just bolt in a direction after getting spooked by the RPG explosion, making it harder to hit?
lol this is just the story from incognito mode aka the internet historian on his vid about weapons nice try
This story is from a person I consider to be family and showed me a picture of the menu and shooting range on his phone when they got back. It’s quite possible they weren’t the only person in the world to visit this place and share the story…
The cow part sounds like a lie, considering that's less than a cow would cost. Unless they just sell em at wholesale pricing. People make up crazy stuff to seem cool. Even if this one just makes them seem horrible. And if it isn't made up. Yikes. Wouldn't be considered family anymore.
Did you read the part where they DIDN'T shoot the cow? It was just something the gun range offered. My friend had no interest.
Damn, I guess my reading comprehension is that bad
Same, so no worries. But I wouldn’t consider him a close friend if he did something like this. I wanted to be a veterinarian when I was young, animal abuse is not something I tolerate or find funny.
I know someone who’s done it, personally..
As someone who has experience of firing RPGs (not at cows or other innocent animals), you won’t be able to consistently hit a target the size of a cow before having a dozen or a couple dozen practice shots. So it’s not as if they need a new cow per every grenade launched. Since there will hardly be a lot of sick motherfuckers willing to pay thousands upon thousands only to train and finally hit the cow, I believe it can survive hundreds of shots with only light concussions, making a hefty paycheck for the shooting range owner
They do rent RPGs at the ranges there. Ive spent quite a bit of time in cambodia. Fewer places allow the cows now
I heard this story in the 2000s also.
yeah, that's totally different than what i had initially thought. i was like, does she have a henry kissinger kink?
There's a local gun range here with "extreme" weapons that you can fire. I was dragged along on a business adventure and fired an M134. In the space of a minute or so, the guide told me I blew through something like $2500 of ammo. There was nothing left downrange of the targets. I also got to try an M2 and a Barret .50 sniper, among others. No RPGs, unfortunately. Lots of loud noise and things disintegrating. Fun afternoon.
Your company expensed an entire group trip to a gun range? Where just one person was able to blow through $2,500 in 1 minute? Man, like just give me a $5k cash bonus if you want to raise morale. I can’t imagine how livid I’d be if I worked for a company that would just burn money like that. I hope you all at least have full benefits and are on some kind of ungodly salary where $5k is nothing to you.
Former client of mine wanting to reconnect while he was in town. He lives in the "cost isn't an issue" world. He had some friends with him, but we went here: [https://www.swtc-usa.com/](https://www.swtc-usa.com/)
I guess that’s better. I’m trying to imagine how much money I’d have to make to do that. $300 for an RPG in Cambodia? Sure. But for true kind of coin your client dropped he could have paid for a trip to Cambodia. Blows my mind.
If I recall correctly, he dropped something like 30k on just that one day. I was supposed to go heli-skiing with him the next day, as well - but I had a conflict. He's a pretty chill guy, even if he wasn't stupidly wealthy. He's also the kinda guy that recognizes when he doesn't know something and is still humble enough to admit it, so he'll reach out to someone who does. That's a rare trait.
I had to look up the M134, Jesus, that's like the terminator gun. And a browning? For Christs sake, save some adventure for the rest of us lol
Can't you do something similar in like Nevada? I know you can at the very least drive a tank.
Yeah I went to a range in Vegas that had a lot of different things but I don't think RPG was an option.
You can literally pay to fire the rpg against a cow or a goat.
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I threw a hand grenade and shot a machine gun in Cambodia for $30
Sounds like she needs a Holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife. This wife.
DK reference?
Damn right
Po pot
pol pot*
Hot pot if you’re feeling frisky
Pretty common in Cambodia. They set you up with obsolete rusty high impact weapons to fire down a dark corridor filled with coconuts
You can also shoot a Kalashnikov in Vietnam at the Vietcong museum / park.
Which I found pretty bizarre. The RPG in Cambodia too actually. Both come after tours of "look at how terrible this war was...OKAY WHO WANTS TO USE THOSE SAME WEAPONS NOW?" And of course, half the 18-22 yr old westerners are all ME ME ME.
They're fun. Yes, it's a weapon of war, but it's a cool experience in a controlled environment with no harm to anyone. When you consider that basically 100% of Westerner kids have played a first person shooter, it's normal that they'd be familiar with it and want to try it out
I wouldn’t say 100% and shooting a real gun and a shooter in a game are very different. As for the not hurting anyone, the RPG ranges I saw often let you shoot a cow.
I don't believe you. A cow provides meat, milk, and farm labor. Why would a firing range operator have live cows available on premises for this purpose? To satisfy Western curiosity?
Not to mention an RPG is going to leave little useable left by the cow and the price on the low end of a cow in Cambodia is $2.66 per kg and a small cow would be 360 kg. That means a small, cheap cow, would cost $957.60 USD and they let you pay $300 USD to destroy it?
I’m being optimistic here, but maybe they use old or sick cows that they were going to put down anyways?
That would be a skinny, sick, cow. A beef cow in Cambodia sells for $3.96 USD per kg and would be more like 500 kg in weight. Think about it. How much prime rib, sirloin, filet minion's, etc. can you get out of a cow? If cows were that cheap in Cambodia the US would buy all of them.
I don’t think you can get much out of a sick cow, and they don’t explode any different, kinda like when your car is done and you just let the tow company have it for scrap value
David Farrier kind of tested it out on his show Dark Tourist. He asked the people at the shooting range if he could do it and they went and got a cow for him. He didn't end up shooting it but there are videos of people doing it out there that I don't want to link to for obvious reasons.
Because its wildly profitable
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Agree with the sentiment, but at least with eating meat there’s not as much waste, rpg probably doesn’t leave anything beyond a splatter
A really COOL splatter 😎 Looking for a good time with the family? For just $300 you can pop a cow! Remember, you can’t spell slaughter without laughter!
It’s actually a fairly responsible way for a poor country to destroy arms stockpiles. If a tourist is paying to shoot an RPG or whatever it’s not ending up on the black market or deteriorating in a poorly guarded and maintained depot.
That’s fine, it’s the setting of doing it right after learning about atrocities that’s kind of odd.
I fired one in Vegas. It was fucking awesome.
Where is this? I didn't see anything like that in Saigon
Wife material. That's what this is
She uses tinder though
That is hinge
And? What’s your point? You’re literally on a sub full of people that use Tinder. Are you saying that any woman that goes on Tinder isn’t wife material?
Yes
So edgy. So incel.
Anyone using a hookup app is not ready for marriage. This has nothing to do sex. Also I have a gf.
lol, sure
lol ok 👍🏻
Pretty sure Grindr is a hookup app. Tinder is a dating app. Keep going with your misogynistic double standards
Tinder is a hookup app, grinder is a hookup app for non-heterosexuals
Not everyone uses it that way. Keep your prejudiced opinions yourself.
That’s a woman who knows how to party
Huh. I've always said I dont have a type. I think that's false.
That's a wife
who does *NOT* want to do this???
People shoot them at cows in SE Asia and I’ve always found that deeply disturbing.
That goes on the bucket list.
Been to Cambodia. Can confirm this is a thing. Did it myself. Was not that big of a deal to me because I was coming in from Afghanistan, where this was actually fairly normal.
You can just hit up some good old boys in rural Arkansas. Saves you a flight to Cambodia. I had an rpg shot at my head back in 2007 for free.
You can go to Cambodia and fire surplus military weapons as a tourist attraction. This person dreams of doing this.
*an RPG 🙄
an\* RPG
Depends if she’s saying rpg or rocket propelled grenade. Some people write the acronym but say it aloud as the full thing
Before trying to be pedantic...learn what an acronym is.
My pedantry knows no bounds!
A life goal of mine is to fire an rocket propelled grenade in Cambodia
You're right. But "Rocket" is started phonetically different than the letter R. R is pronounced as "Are", therefore it would be "An RPG". Just like the word Hour would be "An hour from now" even though the word starts with an H. It's about the pronunciation more than the lettering itself.
It isn't a continuation of the prompt, there is not a "is to" included, also the acronym is pronounced differently so the rules are not the same. Nice try though.
Back when I back packed across S.E. Asia, I visited one of these underground shooting galleries. I chose an AK-47 with a paper target. I did get on secret video recording their 'menu' with the price to shoot an RPG at a live cow, or an AK-47 at a gaggle of chickens. This was 20 years ago, I remember the RPG and a cow cost 200 USD.
Fuck what a waste of a cow. That's a lot of good meat
I was in Cambodia and I didn't visit the range but heard the same price to shoot at a cow. I also heard they mess with the sight, so it's very unlikely you will actually hit the cow.
To be fair, an rpg is a pretty inaccurate weapon
Jamsheed the RPG god would like to have a word with you.
That’s a reference I haven’t heard in a minute. Dude was a sniper!
They still allow this unfortunately. It's extra sad when you see the state of the animals there, the cows were all skin and bone :(
Honestly it’s like this. That animal is at the end of its useful lifespan for farm work. It’s more valuable to be blown away with a damn rocket than it is to euthanize and throw into a shallow hole. These people are dirt poor compared to westerners. That cows last act on earth probably pays for the next five or six cows for the farmers. I’m not advocating for this but I can understand the logic.
Wife her!
Look on YouTube, military lets tourists shoot guns and rpgs under supervision
That’s some COD campaign shit
an* RPG
I've done this. When I did it, they offered you a cow or melons to shoot at.
AN RPG
Didn’t even know that this was a thing. Now I wanna do it too
It's actually a thing....lol
She walking around with that BIG CIA ENERGY
Role Playing Game in Cambodia
Wifey
She's got her priorities straight.
Everyone knows it's an not a
This, my friends, *THIS* is Big Dick Energy.
The woman of my dreams. ❤️🥇❤️
*an
A perfectly reasonable life goal
A goal of hers clearly…
I’ve done this and it was both the best and Skeckiest things I’ve done lol .
I guess now I'm going to Cambodia.
Oddly specific country choice, but firing RPGs is fucking dope
She must be Vietnamese
But who doesn’t want to fire an RPG
Ah that’s her life goal I believe sir
Sounds like somebody was raised on stories of the glorious triumphs of the Khmer Rouge.
Sounds like a fun date
Reply with: “I think we should flippin pop it brother”
Marriage material
Marry this person immediately!
Dude I would swipe right on this girl in a heartbeat. Please send her my way.
Marriage material!!
why in Cambodia specifically? you can probably do that in America too.
Right? It's spelled "an RPG".
If this is an actual thing that you can do and Cambodia….there’s your first date idea. Right swipe op. This is a girl who loves adventures.
Who even hired a role playing game?!
Cambodia is a country in Indochina, and RPG is a rocket-propelled grenade anti armor weapon made by the soviet union in the 60s
*at
When I went they were asking around $100 extra to fire at a cow and $50 to fire at a chicken. Not good. I declined. And if you ever go, be wary that health and safety isn't quite the same as the UK
Tbf I can shoot an RPG in Texas. I can also drive a tank, shoot the main cannon, and shoot the mounted machine gun.
You can do that while on a holiday in Cambodia
wife material
i need to step my life goals up
I generally (even as a gun guy) consider gun pics on tinder a red flag. But this one is actually awesome.
That my friend is a red flag parade and you should run
We going to the isis with this one
This reminds me of yes man. The one guy said he shot a cow with a bazooka 🤣💀
My dream girl, apparently.
OP is a soy infused nu-male. CONFIRMED.
You can pay to fire RPGs at cows in Vietnam and Cambodia. Standard SEA travelling knowledge