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Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:55 am

I went out the other day and was mucking around with the consept of weighted projectiles? I filled a tennis ball cut in half with rocks and had a go........ Home made shot gun anyone? after a few shots and having a good chuckel i desided to fill a Tooheys extra dry bottel with sand. a beer bottle basicly for those who live outside Oz. Now ive seen sum scary results with TED bottles and ill show u what empty ones do then what sand filled ones do...... Hope you Like

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Tennis ball cut in half filled with pebbels at 10m
Tennis ball cut in half filled with pebbels at 10m
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TED full has gorn through tin and through timber inside wall...
TED full has gorn through tin and through timber inside wall...
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TED bottle full of sand at 10 m into tin shed. Oops
TED bottle full of sand at 10 m into tin shed. Oops
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Empty TED bottel on frige door! at 10 m
Empty TED bottel on frige door! at 10 m
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:04 am

nice damage pics. what are you shooting them out of pneumatic or combustion (nice picture of halfe yout finger to) :lol:
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:07 am

This is my big boy combustion!! 1.5m barrel x 65mm 1.5 L chamber.
Goes good!

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Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:12 am

kool. i might have to try that
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:49 am

Dang thats nice damage, i need to shoot that stuff out of a pnuematic!
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:58 am

I tried the weighted tennis ball idea. I filled a tennis ball with a bunch of lead. It put a clean hole through an inch of plywood. Weighted projectiles are like freakin AP rounds.

and uhhh. btw
those tennis balls were two inch ones instead of 2.5".
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:01 am

Ouch Dude!! yeah im just stuffing around with it at the moment. I got my 1.5 barrel riffled and now im about to do the same with my 1m. My 1m is a shot version and is more compact and makes for twice the bang. Im gunna go see what it can do at shot range. coz all my projectiles are long gorn when i go looking for them.

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Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:12 am

My favorite AP rounds are Pycrete. It is really freakin strong and I can put that through 2, 1" boards. That stuff is awsome. You should try that

ooooooo rifled :P
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:15 am

Pycrete? whats that?
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:21 am

Pycrete was used in WWII for project Habbakuk blah bullet proof blah blah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pycrete

Make this stuff in molds the size of ur barrel.
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:26 am

Hummm this could be done! I like the way you think Arborman!!
Thanx im off to the timber mill first thing tomorrow!!!!

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Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:32 am

Just take a 4" section of pipe the same as your barrel, Put (not Glue) an end cap on it. Fill it to the top with sawdust. (Don't compress the sawdust down) Fill it up with water and stick it in the freezer for like 8 hours.

Take it out. Take the end cap off. Beat the pycrete out.

And you now have a super awsome AP round

And Pycrete just sounds cool too.
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:34 am

Ok im going to try it!! sounds like fun. Ill go find the nerest dumpt burnt out car and unlesh. Ill post picks!

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