I'm back from the weekend campout. I had a blast. Due to the number of people present, I didn't get photos of much of the action. When the big baseball game took over the field, I took the opportunity to get some pictures of the location and our target tree.
We took the new launcher and left the ABS cannon home as we didn't have space to take both.
For some reason there were not many apples on the ground this year. Most were smaller than a golf ball and very hard to see fly. We launched water bottles most of the time. After dark we loaded up a bottle of water with a glow stick. It is very impressive after dark.
Kids loved to retrieve the bottle. Part of the time we launched tennis balls. Some of the older kids were able to field them with a baseball glove.
The tennis balls fell about 50 feet short of the tree. Full water bottles made the best distance. The distance from my car to the tree is 547 feet.
All the testing was completed at 50-60 PSI pressure. Most shots were in this pressure range because that is what the 3 gallon compressor dropped to when filling the 3 gallon cannon. We let the compressor cycle while retrieving the bottle or tennis ball but didn't wait for the compressor to build back up while filling the cannon.
We launched from my car at the lonely tree and landed several bottles into the tree. When we got the range down pat, we unspooled some kite string and tried to launch a bottle over the tree, but in 3 tries, we only landed beside the tree. It is a really small target at distance. We quit when the start of the afternoon baseball game started.
We had more people at camp this year. There were more than 150 present. I didn't get pics of cooking breakfast.. Sorry. I did get a photo of the dinner chow line.
I'm already looking forward to next year.
it will be epic porting to a 5mm barrel. I also picked up a couple of lasers for sights. I've got most of the parts together, I just need to go buy 4 parts tomorrow and devise a breech loading system.
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