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Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:57 am

ah yes, its always fun when an unexpected object slams into stuff. provided that it isnt a cow :D
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Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:01 am

ah yes, its always fun when an unexpected object slams into stuff
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Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:08 am

A-98 wrote:provided that it isnt a cow :D
....unless it's Earthworm Jim :D
Clearly you have never been to prison...lol.
"Ah feck, I dropped the soAPPPPPPCCCKNGH!!!! :shock:"

:D :D :D
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Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:14 am

jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:
Clearly you have never been to prison...lol.
"Ah feck, I dropped the soAPPPPPPCCCKNGH!!!! :shock:"

:D :D :D
Ironic seeing as the title is " share your cannon accidents...."
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Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:16 am

I too have shot my ram rod, only because it got wedged into the potato a long way down the barrel. She be right I thought as I clicked the bbq igniter, Its somewhere down in the bush now :(

Ahahaha I remember that game :D I didnt know it was a cartoon :lol: perhaps a few downloads shall enlighten me :) I was into transformers
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Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:48 am

A-98 wrote:ah yes, its always fun when an unexpected object slams into stuff. provided that it isnt a cow :D
speaking of cows in a non spud gun accident, me and my buddies were out coyote hunting with 22's seen some eyes so all 6 of us unloaded all 10 shots in each gun and then realized there were a bunch more eyes around and one started mooing. that was freaking crazy
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Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:16 am

"Fetchez la vache"
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Quoi?!"
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Fetchez le vache!!"

Frankly, I'm surprised that this hasn't been linked yet.
Does that thing kinda look like a big cat to you?
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Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:23 am

class :) was mentioned here (scroll down).

For some reason I thought of mon ami, le poof célèbre :D
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:09 am

Lets try to keep this on topic :)

Lets also mention our accidents, and what we can do to avoid them so others can learn from our mistakes.

I will share one of my experiences, ammo can bounce! I found this out while shooting an empty 12g CO2 cartridge into plywood. The shot missed, hitting the ground before it hit my target (I was shooting downhill). The ground was hard and instead of being stuck in the ground, it bounced straight off and FLEW into the air then into a neighbors yard.

Solution - Make sure you hit your target! Maybe don't shoot downhill either... :oops:
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Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:19 am

Ok well my accident happened a couple of weeks ago and me and my friend were test firing my cannon in my room at like 5 psi with cups and when it fired sum times it made this hilarious noise and i was trying to pump it up to 30 and my friend kept tapping the blow gun and shooting me with the cup in it so i put my 1.5" barrel in the 2" and i forgot there was a cup in there and then he fired it at about 10 psi and the dixie cup pushed the barrel out the barrel at my knee and it felt like i got hit by a bat and it bleed for a little while.

Another accident was even more recent like 5 days ago i was trying to pry off the casing of a golf ball after i had cut a circle around using a pocket knife blade and the blade closed on my finger and bleed profusely and wouldn't stop but it did after about an hour and it was really deep i don't no if it needed stitches or not bur oh well and it actually didn't hurt because i guess i cut the nerve and the top of my finger is numb also i was using the saw on my pocket knife and it slipped while cutting a ring around a golf ball and i sliced my finger open with the saw blade that one hurt pretty bad.

the third thing i did this weekend wasn't really accident but a good way to loose a caulk tube. well what i did was wrap a caulk tube up in too much duct tape to make it sealed it fit fine on my 2 inch barrel but i have this piece of sch80 pipe that is about 6.5 feet long and doesn't need a coupler to add a fitting so it just slips over my barrel and i fired it and the caulk tube got stuck half way in the long sch80 barrel and flew off my gun about 20 - 30 feet and i had to ram it out with a steel rod destroying my caulk tube.

thats it

wow that was long sorry
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Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:59 pm

your parents should not allow you near knives :wink:
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Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:25 am

Worst iv had is my Combustions Chamber explodeing on me.
This with some prettyexpensive pressure rated stuff
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Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:49 am

How did pressure rated parts blow up on you with a combustion design? If abs/dwv and withstand it, I think you might of done something wrong.
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Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:06 am

Once I was firing at a sheet of glass with a marble and I kept on missing so I went alot closer still couldnt hit it then I went point blank and fired it ricocheted off and hit me right on the knee there was a big purple bruise there for a week or two I dont now why it didnt go through the glass because it went through my dads garage window just fine(he had a nice big tantrum about it).
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Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:09 am

Spitfire wrote:Worst iv had is my Combustions Chamber explodeing on me.
This with some prettyexpensive pressure rated stuff
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