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| Lentamentalisk |
 Posted: 06/23/2008 0:33 AM Post subject: Real Life Use |
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Has anyone come up with a practical use for a spudgun, beyond just the entertainment of random destruction and impressive high numbers on a chrony?
I am trying to keep my interest, because I am always coming up with ingenious ideas for new cannons, but then thinking "what am I ever going to do with this?" after the first novelty of the new cannon wears off, it is just another boring toy.
From what I can remember, the only useful cannons I have seen are the T-Shirt cannon, and the "satellite launcher" (but how often do you find it that you need to hang something over a tree that is too hight to throw a rock over?)
Can you guys come up with any other uses? |
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| MrCrowley |
| Posted: 06/23/2008 0:46 AM Post subject: |
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Blizzard of Ozz
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| TheTrooper |
| Posted: 06/23/2008 1:14 AM Post subject: |
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Master Sergeant
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| trollhameran |
| Posted: 06/23/2008 1:33 AM Post subject: |
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Colonel
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| there was a cannon posted not long ago that was used for shooting confetti in a theater |
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| starman |
| Posted: 06/23/2008 2:07 AM Post subject: |
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Big Daddio
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My view is that it is what it is...a fun hobby. For me the fun is the design and construction anyway, so I really don't need much of a practical use for the things. My noise cannons are probably as practical as they are going to get for me.
Heck, I'll hang 'em on my wall in my mancave and use 'em for conversation pieces if nothing else...  |
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| Carlman |
| Posted: 06/23/2008 2:53 AM Post subject: |
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The Aussie
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there was a thread a while back devoted to this question ill try to find it later.
something like alternative uses for spud guns
i think JSR talked about how he shot a beehive out of a tree.. |
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| MrCrowley |
| Posted: 06/23/2008 2:56 AM Post subject: |
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Blizzard of Ozz
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| Posted: 06/23/2008 9:05 AM Post subject: |
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Major General
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| i sometimes use burst disks to scare away birds. |
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| Lentamentalisk |
| Posted: 06/23/2008 13:40 PM Post subject: |
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They are possibly the most useless tools for zombie fighting ever. A chair is better. Think a bout it. Long reload time. You shoot one of them, then the other thirty who just heard the shot come eat you while your little bike pump is struggling to pump the thing, and then its battery dies.
Anyways, thanks for all of the links, ill go check them out. |
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| DYI |
| Posted: 06/23/2008 15:22 PM Post subject: |
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| Quote: | They are possibly the most useless tools for zombie fighting ever. A chair is better. Think a bout it. Long reload time. You shoot one of them, then the other thirty who just heard the shot come eat you while your little bike pump is struggling to pump the thing, and then its battery dies.
Anyways, thanks for all of the links, ill go check them out.
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What if you made a few 1" bore vortex BBMGs firing steel bearings, powered by a liquid hydrogen tank running at 10,000psi? Then you'd mount them on turrets with 360 degree swivel, and light the exhaust at the end of the barrels.  You could call it "The Meat Grinder"... |
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| SpudFarm |
| Posted: 06/23/2008 15:31 PM Post subject: |
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Hybrid Guy
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that was the best thing i have heard DYI 
just a simple question related to that: has a vortex been made in bigger cal than 6mm? |
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