Got guns?

ANC said:

My cousins and I used to make something like this, except it went off like a gunshot...
take the sulfur strips from 2 match boxes and tape them up with fiber tape so the sulfur is facin the inside of a cube...
We'd fill that with match heads and the powder from a .22 round. tape it to the end of a metal rod and swing it into the air with a rope , then ran.
I'm pretty sire you could hear it for miles

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we used to open the hole up in an empty CO2 cartridge with a nail and fill the cartridge with match heads and put it in a piece of 3/4" plumbing pipe and light it off and shoot it like a bazooka....

we would buy penny bottle rockets place 1 in a golf club tube (about 3 ft long, inch round)

light and shoot at each other. same thing with roman candles, bb guns and rocks

i may be the last one left out of us

rip boys

doublejj said:

we used to open the hole up in an empty CO2 cartridge with a nail and fill the cartridge with match heads and put it in a piece of 3/4" plumbing pipe and light it off and shoot it like a bazooka....
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Hell yeah! I always wedged in a skinny strip of duct tape between those last couple match heads as the wick. Gotta be careful while filling with the cutoff cardboard matchheads. Pack them in there too tight and you just made a mini bomb instead of a missile. We would shoot them out of a pipe like a bazooka. Metal was the smarter pipe material through a piece of plywood to protect your head.

wascaptain said:

we would buy penny bottle rockets place 1 in a golf club tube (about 3 ft long, inch round)

light and shoot at each other. same thing with roman candles, bb guns and rocks

i may be the last one left out of us

rip boys

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Theres a few of us but we’re definitely on the endangered list

this was the beginning of the end

Anyone remember the old tennis ball cannons?

A Punt gun for duck hunting, many of them.

raratt said:

A Punt gun for duck hunting, many of them.

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Not exactly a shoulder fired weapon.
02 gauge with a payload of roughly a dozen 12 gauge shotguns.

BWG707 said:

Anyone remember the old tennis ball cannons? View attachment 5148789View attachment 5148789

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We still make potato guns with PVC pipe and gas grill igniters in the bottom. It eliminated the match part. Potato's are cheaper than tennis balls too, you can grow an endless supply of ammo in a trash can on the back deck. Can of carb cleaner and the good ones can shoot 150-200 yards easy and go through a sheet of plywood up close. Not for the kids .

FirstCavApache64 said:

We still make potato guns with PVC pipe and gas grill igniters in the bottom. It eliminated the match part. Potato's are cheaper than tennis balls too, you can grow an endless supply of ammo in a trash can on the back deck. Can of carb cleaner and the good ones can shoot 150-200 yards easy and go through a sheet of plywood up close. Not for the kids .

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I hate to even say this, but try breach loading a citrus fruit like lemon, lime, or small oranges. Make sure they are larger than the barrel and snug one up in the ignition chamber end, and let it rip. You're going to see a 10- 20% increase in distance, and better accuracy. Less duds too as you dont have to cut each projectile to fit tightly. There is a slight delay while the fruit is compressed into the barrel, then wammo!

Be safe.

FirstCavApache64 said:

We still make potato guns with PVC pipe and gas grill igniters in the bottom. It eliminated the match part. Potato's are cheaper than tennis balls too, you can grow an endless supply of ammo in a trash can on the back deck. Can of carb cleaner and the good ones can shoot 150-200 yards easy and go through a sheet of plywood up close. Not for the kids .

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Back in the day we used lighter fluid. I’ve seen people spray a tennis ball with lighter fluid and light it then drop it down the “barrel” like a mortar. I loved feeling the concussion kickback when you just hold the barrel while a friend lights it. Damn that was a long time ago!

BWG707 said:

Back in the day we used lighter fluid. I’ve seen people spray a tennis ball with lighter fluid and light it then drop it down the “barrel” like a mortar. I loved feeling the concussion kickback when you just hold the barrel while a friend lights it. Damn that was a long time ago!

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Not as much fun as a Mark 19 grenade launcher but they don't let me play with those anymore. Now that's a fun toy, belt fed fully automatic grenade launcher. That'll ruin a couple guys day in a hurry.

FirstCavApache64 said:

Not as much fun as a Mark 19 grenade launcher but they don't let me play with those anymore. Now that's a fun toy, belt fed fully automatic grenade launcher. That'll ruin a couple guys day in a hurry.

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Back in the early 80's I was riding a 210' ship that had bridge wing mounted 40's (firing 40 x 53's) & were conducting standard live fire training. Drop an empty drum (with a gallon or two of gas in it) off the fan tail & make a big circle then the gunny would begin firing. Most times it was a cool show, but once we got a bit too close & when our "bomb" went off the XO took some frag to his face.

FirstCavApache64 said:

Not as much fun as a Mark 19 grenade launcher but they don't let me play with those anymore. Now that's a fun toy, belt fed fully automatic grenade launcher. That'll ruin a couple guys day in a hurry.

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That might work against a zombie

grab and go'
old and shot out, but can still bring the fight

I love the old 1911 series 70 - I have two of them, just not quite that old.