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High-PSI
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Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:04 pm

Hey Guys,

I just got back from a test session with my metal 2 inch cannon. We shot various things, but the coolest shot was a 2 inch 178 gram compound round fired at a cinder block at 230 psi. The block was setup on edge and shot in the center. The block exploded and left the lower 1/3 of the block sitting exactly where we placed it. There were cinder block pieces 30 feet in the air. The slug went through the cinder block and hit the dirt berm behind it. At that point, the slug gouged the dirt and went upward faster than we could see it. We never found the round. Next we will put two blocks back to back and see if it can penetrate both blocks with one slug. We plan to get some damage videos on July 9th. A bunch of us will be firing 45 handguns and rifles. I have a special invitation to show up with my cannon with the proviso that I shoot another cinder block for the guys. :)

So, what are some cool things you guys have shot?

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Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:23 pm

I don't know if it could be considered as "cool" but, it was fun.
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Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:29 pm

I think I am going to have a seizure :shock:
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Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:31 pm

High-PSI wrote:We plan to get some damage videos on July 9th
Looking forward to them, verbal communication of damage is not quite as fun to view ;)
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Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:48 pm

Can you shoot tannerite?
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Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:29 pm

Cool things.. Full cans of pop. I didn't shoot at them, I shot them. The splat on a tree was impressive. Took a limb out of the top of a Pondersoa Pine with a can of pop.
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Fri Jul 01, 2011 8:02 pm

FighterAce wrote:Can you shoot tannerite?
I daresay not, we don't talk about explosive targets here either.

Basically, if it self-oxidises, it's not on.
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Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:16 am

Has anyone ever shot the skinny siding of a thick piece of plywood? I'd imagine that would look amazing on HS
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Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:53 am

that car looked like it still works, why would you destroy it :shock:
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Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:52 am

I haven't destroyed much, but this was with a friends cannon. What we shot was an actual baked potato, fresh from the oven, and stuck in a sabot so it didn't make the barrel nasty. It exploded in mid air and coated the target in potato. :D Good times...Good times....
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Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:21 pm

I shot a d battery through my neghbors garage taking out a window of the car inside, We didnt think it would go through.
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Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:37 pm

Why did you shoot your neighbours garage in the first place? Did you have permission to do so?
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Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:25 pm

Never underestimate your cannon :roll:
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Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:35 pm

On garage related stories (DYI needs to chime in soon), I was testing out sabots for a .303 FMJ round (no casing, no gun powder) fired out of my first hybrid (3/4" barrel). Turns out sabot design is really important since the first few shots barely penetrated an inch in 4" thick pine.

Finally got a sabot design to work a little too well as the bullet penetrated all 4" inches of the pine, my large garage door and buried itself in to a tree stump about 40' behind it.

Not that it's the coolest thing I've destroyed, I haven't destroyed many cool things.
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Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:38 pm

I have had a few projectiles go clean through the plywood sheets, through my backstop behind it, and into a pile of wood beyond that. You can never underestimate what a projectile fired with compressed gas (especially a hybrid) can do.

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