A fun video of a couple revealing the gender of their first born to friends and family ... with a sniper rifle.

The footage, filmed in the state of Michigan in May 2016, shows the dad-to-be shooting a binary, exploding target with the rifle.

A blue cloud of smoke then reveals that they're going to have a boy.

The filmer later wrote online: "For our first child, we did a surprise reveal to our friends and family of the baby's gender by using a binary target (commercially available as Tannerite) to make a big color cloud by shooting it with a rifle.

"We felt this would be more exciting than the more traditional cake cutting, or pie in the face baby gender reveals that other couples do."

For our first child, we did a surprise reveal to our friends and family of the baby's gender by using a binary target (commercially available as tannerite) to make a big color cloud by shooting it with a rifle. We felt this would be more exciting than the more traditional cake cutting, or pie in the face baby gender reveals that other couples do.