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perfect destruction ammo

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:24 pm
by mikenike192
ok my friend and i just finished the perfect piece of ammunition. At like 40 psi it broke both of saw horses i used to hold a piece of wood up (at seperate times we kept missing because i pull the ball valve to hard) But its like a weight bar from like a free weight set with some duct tape and a foam golf ball. great for 1.5" barrel

EDIT: i also destroyed a cinder block to the ground with crumbling into tiny pieces

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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:37 pm
by cannon freak
If you were to take a grinder to the end and sharpen it up that should be able to cause even more damage

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:00 pm
by jrrdw
You should draw some blood drops comeing from it's mouth. How freaking heavy is it?

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:00 pm
by mikenike192
its about 3lbs its perfect for destroying cinder blocks at about 60psi

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:32 pm
by iamthewalrus
four letters: OMFG. must get a lot of recoil with that beast. love the little smily face. Get any distance with that? or is it more like a shotgun; close range and powerful?

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:40 pm
by mikenike192
i actually get very little recoil with it. The distance at like 50psi is about 100 plus yards i would never go long distance with that where i live because i live by a lot of houses.

Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:48 am
by frogy
Need to make one of thoose and use it in a 3x Hybrid.... that'd go through like anything.... Nice ammo idea

Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:05 pm
by Benny
mate, if you used that in a decent sised cannon with a modified sprinkler valve or a piston valve, the recoil would knock you off your feet, seriously, use a better valve than a ball valve.

Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:19 pm
by mikenike192
i have a pretty big cannon. Im going to try to get a sprinkler valve from my freinds dad (grounds manager golf course) for free. Right now i think ball valve is fine. This thing gets like no kick at all on my pneumatic. It tears through 4 pieces of plywood or a cinder block. this is my cannon just to show u how big it is
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:33 pm
by Flinchy
very nice ammunition :) . ive made ammunition like that before, but not with metal or bolts and such. i agree with the others, try using a sprinkler valve on a future cannon if you can. i would say go with a piston but i have never made one, so i don't really know how effective they can be.

~FLINCHY~

Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:05 am
by mikenike192
yea i dont know like what the concept idea between a piston really is. Im going to lowes tommorow and ill probaly go buy one

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:18 pm
by Boomer_
i like d cells in my combustion, 1 1/4" sch 40, it does damage

Awsome! So I tried it!

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:31 pm
by jleemero
Okay, loved the idea, so I made one, launched it out of my Pneu.
OMG, that was awsome!!!!!!!!!

But I had to take it one step further.
I made a big one and put it in one of my brothers guns...
My brother makes pumpkin chuckers.
Happy Day.

It was his smallest one, it has a 6" barrel, (I still wonder where he got that... maybe mcmaster?)
Put it up to 100psi.
VERY Happy Day.

That thing went through 4 cinder blocks from 20 feet.


This was like, one of my "hallelujah" moments.

Dude, you came up with the best ammo ever.
Seriously...



(Happy Day)

Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 1:41 am
by pyrogeek
that is awesome, it still amazes me how powerful a spud gun can be even with such low pressure.

Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 1:47 am
by CS
jleemero, you gonna get us pics of these bad boys? Were not vegatist against pumpkins. (Racist-Race=ist Vegatable-table=vega vega+t+ist=vegatist)

I dont think he would have ordered from McMaster, rather most specalized plumbing stores carry up to 24" PVC sometimes. I once saw what I think was a 24" tee ordered when I was getting some 2" sch 80, and that thing was simply huge! So if you could post some pics of the different cannons, that would be cool.