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Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:37 am

Transit234, you have to many cannons! You wouldn't be planning some kind of ku, would you? Use the MK3.0, more power! If you need a target, put MK2.0 out of it's missery. :shock:
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:50 pm

MrCrowley wrote:200yards is about 180m, which is a helluva distance.

My money says you wont hit the can, a marble is perfectly smooth and spherical being shot out of a smoothbore barrel, it's going to curve unless you have spin on it to control it.
we'll see wont we. heheh :twisted:
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:56 pm

cwazy1 wrote:
MrCrowley wrote:200yards is about 180m, which is a helluva distance.
we'll see wont we. heheh :twisted:
I'll let Colonel George Hanger do the honours:

A soldier's musket if not exceedingly ill-bored (as many are), will strike the figure of a man at 80 yards, perhaps even at 100; but a soldier must be very unfortunate indeed who shall be wounded by a common musket at 150 yards, providing his antagonist aims at him; and as for firing at a man at 200 yards with a common musket, you might just as well fire at the moon and have the same hope of hitting your object. I do maintain and will prove, whenever called on, that no man was ever killed at 200 yards by a common soldier's musket by the person who aimed at him.
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:24 pm

hahahahah wow, that was good, never would have seen that comming.

thtas a pretty interesting paragraph you got there jsr, i did not know that.

but hey, still worth a try right?
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:34 pm

I'm sure the can will get hit by a marble at 200yds.

All you need is a big sack of marbles and a lot of patience :D


Personally I think I might cook something up to enter. It'll have to be something spicy because I don't have a massive calibre cannon to punch through a fridge filled with red paint or something.

If only the weather wasn't so unhelpful... :x
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:03 pm

How about 10 layers of 1/2" plywood with a tissue?


I am going to enter, if I can find my dam regulator.
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:14 pm

WOW!! wrote:How about 10 layers of 1/2" plywood with a tissue?
Hah. Lets see 10 layers of 1/2" plywood with anything fired from a spudgun first.

No spacing out the plywood either :P
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:27 pm

Hotwired wrote:Lets see 10 layers of 1/2" plywood with anything fired from a spudgun first.
I don't reckon it would be completely impossible if you used a APDSFS super-narrow dart with fins designed to break off on impact (to avoid them delaying the round). It would still need to be from a cannon that had enough brute force, but...
Does that thing kinda look like a big cat to you?
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:40 pm

Ah yes, that'll get the crowds gasping.

A pinhole through 5 inches of plywood :D

Don't all crowd now, we've only got one magnifying glass :wink:


Feel like entering the comp Rag?
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:00 pm

Hotwired wrote:Feel like entering the comp Rag?
I'm considering it.
I might try with either my attempt at punching a APDSFS round through 1/4" steel plate, or whatever happens when a full 12g CO<sub>2</sub> cartridge hits a similar plate at over 300 mph.

I imagine the 12g bulb will look rather more impressive though.
Does that thing kinda look like a big cat to you?
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:08 pm

Ah, to hell with using a super-narrow dart. I could put a 1"+ diameter hole through 5" of plywood with the SCTBDC with no problem. In fact, I would go out and do just that if the SCTBDC's stand hadn't got owned this morning...
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Hotwired wrote:
WOW!! wrote:How about 10 layers of 1/2" plywood with a tissue?
Hah. Lets see 10 layers of 1/2" plywood with anything fired from a spudgun first.

No spacing out the plywood either :P
What if I put my "special" ammo thought 15 layers of spaced 1/2" plywood??
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:09 pm

I hear a lot of hot air wooshing around in here. :P Put it on film guys!
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:16 pm

As soon as I get my regulator working I will!
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:33 pm

Ok BFG it is, but I'm going to upgrade the propane tank to a 1.5" asco valve.
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