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Matt221985
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Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:19 pm

any ideas for ammo for a air cannon with a 1 1/2 inch barrel beside spuds?
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Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:29 pm

Marbles, super balls, hmmmm.....anything that fits in the barrel!
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Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:34 pm

marbles dont fit in a 1 and 1/2 inch.. i was just curios as to what everyone else was using
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Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:49 pm

Ice slugs, gumballs/jawbreakers, d-cell batteries with some duct tape, apple cores, etc..

The possibilities are endless, if it remotely fits, shoot it.
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Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:52 pm

Milk jug caps make really nice sabots for just about anything.
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Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:40 pm

you know, this is the second time I've answered this question...
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:08 pm

try using foam golf balls from like mc sports or something those work phenomenal as a backing for anything you want to shoot. it is a perfect seal because they can squish down
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:28 pm

yea, i got some yellow foam golfballs at a garage sale today for $1, got about 12 of em. works good. whats a good idea to add weight to them so they will go farther?
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:41 pm

what are those orange things? they look homemade......

EDIT: i dint realize that those were captions..........
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Dude, read the captions! Or were you being sarcastic?
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Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:29 am

Use a paper cup full of marbles, buckshot! I'm going to due some searching for 1 1/2" marbles, i think i can find some.

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Kinda pricy though.
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Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:47 am

my friend came to school one day with a gargantuan metal marble that fit perfectly into 1.25 inch PVC pipe. it weight like 5 pounds.......

yeah, if your wondering, i shot it, and it managed to lay waste to a cynder block, and after detroying the cynder block it buried itself nearly a foot into the ground.........

GGDT estimated its FPS at like 80 FPS, so i dont know why it did so much damage............
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Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:48 am

I use those foam noodles you buy for swimming pools they work great for wadding plus they come in many sizes and are cheap, just cut them into 2" lengths. You can get like 36 plugs out of a 6' noddle for less then $5.
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Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:52 am

haha. i made a nerf howizer with a giant pool noodle "dart". dang that thing was FUNNNNNNNN.

i let my freind shoot me with it and that was the end of the dart thing....... it hurt......... alot........... im pretty sure if i hadnt been smart enough to put a giant poofy nose cone on the front of the dart i would be in the hospital right now.........
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Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:27 pm

Is it just me, or does the OP of this thread not search at all, and makes us spoon feed him?
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