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maverik94 wrote:well, I want a balance of portibility and power, however, portibility is more important. I want something that will, lets say, make small furry rodents regret eating the veggies inn the garden, and It would be nice if this gun could do some damge to a steel can, like the gun on the video you showed me.

We shouldn't be discussing the use of homemade spudguns for shooting living things. However, for academic purposes, this table is from the Beeman Airgun Field Use guide:

By the way, could you post the link to the topic about the gun?

That never was an actual launcher, it was simply a blowgun with the nozzle removed and barrel fitted instead, which I made as an experiment to show that a simple blowgun was a good enough valve for some small calibre applications.

Jack come on, if you post that you will just insight replys from people who do not know better.

Sorry about the "killing rodents" comment. Yeah, I plan to modify the blowgun valve as shown in "The Sprinkler valve" by Raganrok I think it was, that will help the power too. I plan to take this gun up to 150 psi at max. If I get a shock pump, I may take it up to 200 psi, will the blowgun hold that?

maverik94 wrote:as shown in "The Sprinkler valve" by Ragnarok I think it was

No, I can take no credit whatsoever. That wasn't my work, it was hubb017 who spent the time and effort.

I'm just hosting it because some people had problems downloading it off this site's uploader.

Ok, well, whoever made it, I thank them, I never knew that you could mod a blowgun valve, and that will improve my gun.

Carlman wrote:Jack come on, if you post that you will just insight replys from people who do not know better.

I see what you mean, but I'm not advocating the use of spudguns for hunting. It's just a fact that airguns are used for legitimate pest control and that was an indication of the sort of power levels they require, to put muzzle energy into perspective.

I plan to take this gun up to 150 psi at max. If I get a shock pump, I may take it up to 200 psi, will the blowgun hold that?

I've personally used this type metal blowguns at 500 psi without incident, I believe that others on this forum have subjected them to similar abuse and suffered no failures either.

That's a standard husky blowgun, the one that is about 3 1/2" tall and can be picked up at any home depot? The one I bought said 90 psi max....

maverik94 wrote:The one I bought said 90 psi max....

Doesn't mean it will blow up at 91 psi though

yeah, so you think it would be safe at say, 250 psi?

Yeah, if its safe at 500 psi, it will be fine at 250...

ok, thanks, and will it still be safe to 250 after it is modified as seen on "The sprinkler valve"?

As above, if I'm comfortable using it at 500, then I would obviously be happy to use it at 250 psi.

You like to be really sure, don't you Maverick?!
And, don't get me wrong theres nothing bad about asking questions, you just ask a lot!

yeah, I just don't want to blow my hand up and get shrapnel in my face. So, will it be ok to 250 psi when modded?

Yes... When people say that something failed, it usually means that it leaked, not that it went boom. And no, it will not leak! I saw the question coming...