This is pretty interesting
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I did see this on ,I believe, the History channel this past week.
Butch
Butch
a bit off topic but i used to make blow dart guns when i was younger that were pritty unbelievable!
used to get a 1/8" nail about 2" long and use a wad punch to cut leather discs about 5/8 diameter.
spike them onto the nail, down to the head, untill they are layered up about 5/8 thick.
get a 6' piece of 1/2" stainless tube.
put the dart point first into a cordless drill and spin it against a bench grinder with a linishing belt untill the leather slug just fits into the stainless tube.
just by blowing the dart will go 150ft at least! with a air compressor. . . . youll need a good pair of pliers and a bit of dedication to pull it out of 1/2" plywood!
safe to say, once equiped with a laser pointer, i didnt have any practical jokes played on me as an apprentice!! ;D
used to get a 1/8" nail about 2" long and use a wad punch to cut leather discs about 5/8 diameter.
spike them onto the nail, down to the head, untill they are layered up about 5/8 thick.
get a 6' piece of 1/2" stainless tube.
put the dart point first into a cordless drill and spin it against a bench grinder with a linishing belt untill the leather slug just fits into the stainless tube.
just by blowing the dart will go 150ft at least! with a air compressor. . . . youll need a good pair of pliers and a bit of dedication to pull it out of 1/2" plywood!
safe to say, once equiped with a laser pointer, i didnt have any practical jokes played on me as an apprentice!! ;D
In the late '70s I was a commercial saturation diver in the North Sea oilfield. We had some giant tube trailers of oxygen and helium to supply divers while we lived and worked at depths up to 700-odd feet for months at a time. The trailers, when full, were holding 3000 psi. I attached a line from one of them to a ball valve and then length of 1/4" stainless tubing. Insert 1/8" welding rod and aim carefully (somewhere where there were no supervisors). Made it through two 2x4s with ease. Disassembled that puppy and forgot where I put the parts like right now!
In retrospect not the most intelligent thing one could devise in close proximity to large chambers full of high pressure oxygen what with the odd welding torch or propane by-pass burn in the area. Ricochets would have been epic as well. Makes one wonder how we lived through our teens and twenties.
In retrospect not the most intelligent thing one could devise in close proximity to large chambers full of high pressure oxygen what with the odd welding torch or propane by-pass burn in the area. Ricochets would have been epic as well. Makes one wonder how we lived through our teens and twenties.
that's very interesting! Makes our modern air rifles look bad tho, made back in the 1730's and it has enough power to put a 46 cal ball thru a one inch piece of pine at 100 yards I'm not sure if any of the air rifles made now would even come close to that. Thanks for sharing.
Hillbilly
Hillbilly
I have made potato cannons that would shoot a spud through a car door at 25 yards with 140 psi of air.
I use to train retrievers and made a cannon to launch ducks.
It use compressed air and 12 feet of pipe and 5" plastic flower pot with a plywood disc cut to fit in the bottom. The bottom of the pot and plywood disc had a rope going through it with a knot. The rope was secured to the ground on the other end. I would take a dead mallard duck an put a couple of rubber bands around it to keep the head tucked under a wing and to keep the wings folded up. It was ammazing it would easily throw a duck 250+ yards. We would idol it back to throw ducks 75-100 yards as not to tear them up to bad.
There was an article about the Lewis and Clark air rifle in the American Rifleman magazine back in the late 1950s. It indicated they killed grizzly bears with with the air rifle.
Nat Lambeth
I use to train retrievers and made a cannon to launch ducks.
It use compressed air and 12 feet of pipe and 5" plastic flower pot with a plywood disc cut to fit in the bottom. The bottom of the pot and plywood disc had a rope going through it with a knot. The rope was secured to the ground on the other end. I would take a dead mallard duck an put a couple of rubber bands around it to keep the head tucked under a wing and to keep the wings folded up. It was ammazing it would easily throw a duck 250+ yards. We would idol it back to throw ducks 75-100 yards as not to tear them up to bad.
There was an article about the Lewis and Clark air rifle in the American Rifleman magazine back in the late 1950s. It indicated they killed grizzly bears with with the air rifle.
Nat Lambeth
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