In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio ‘removal of a tenth’[1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.
and now:
The word decimation in English is often used to refer to an extreme reduction in the number of a population or force or an overall sense of destruction and ruin.
For the best, but I can’t say I’m not morbidly curious as to what the result of one of these monsters would look like. A flurry of feathers and falling bird corpses, I would expect.
These things would often decimate bird populations. They are not legal to use for hunting anymore.
And somehow massive fishing nets still allowed.
Ducks don’t lay a million eggs on one go.
Plenty of fish in the sea
Here’s a song about what these guns accomplished.
decimation then:
and now:
🤷♀️
For the best, but I can’t say I’m not morbidly curious as to what the result of one of these monsters would look like. A flurry of feathers and falling bird corpses, I would expect.