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Pulse fire flamethrower5/26/2023 ![]() Then one day a new product caught my eye. But the only factor that the seemed to be committed to was solving for was some new… “cool factor”. It seemed that there was no shortage of companies who were willing to give some manner of flamethrower production a try. The product hadn’t evolved, my expectations had. I was drawn back to the personal flamethrower by visions of flames dancing from my fingertips, only for bad memories of its difficult handling and top heavy configuration calling me off pulling the trigger on the purchase. Only, when I went to the website, I couldn’t bring myself to buy the XM42 again. It wouldn’t be the first time that I have purchased and sold and purchased something of similar nature again. In reality, there was probably some new project to fund that could be expedited along by flipping it.Īt first, I didn’t miss it. I guess I told myself that I had scratched that itch or played out the fun. Then, one day a buddy of mine waved $700 under my nose and it was gone. It began to feel as antiquated in configuration as an old Bren. So, filling it up for the road was out of the question. It had to be placed just right in the bed of my truck or it would readily tip over. It was top heavy empty and even more so full. And my flamethrower became quite the party trick for quite some time.īut in all honesty, the XM42 with its tank over barrel configuration was sort of a pain the in ass to haul around. Yes, all my friends wanted to try the personal flamethrower out. Although, I’m still waiting for the wikipedia citation on that one. My friend agreed and thats how, in July of 2015, I became the first person in history to burn a drone out of the sky with a flamethrower. It was then that I got the idea to ask him, how much was that little drone worth? I offered to buy it, if he would pilot it overhead so I could burn it out the the sky on video. And after a few minutes of capturing footage, he was satisfied with what he had captured. He produced this wimpy little thing of a remote control aircraft. ![]() Finally, we ended up in a friends back yard who asked if he could get some footage with his drone. ![]() When my friend arrived to film, we hopped around the county filming at different locations. With just the press of a button, flame leapt from my hands, clung to the ground and danced in the air. It was nothing shy of a fucking dream come true. A friend of mine even drove across country to be one of the first to film with the personal flamethrower and launch a youtube video of it.įinally owning a flamethrower was… beyond RAD. How did I manage? Well, by some chance I had come across some article announcing its launch, set an alarm on my phone and when the day came I stayed up until midnight to become one of the first in line.īefore long, I received an email confirmation that my package was on its way. The chance came for me in 2015 with the launch of the XM42 personal flamethrower, when I became one of the first recipients of a personal flamethrower in the United States. But, how many years would it be before that dream became a reality?
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