This doesn't need much of an intro. Don't believe me? Just watch.
This doesn't need much of an intro. Don't believe me? Just watch.
And it weighs a mere 200 times as much as your deer rifle! Just the thing for carrying up into the deer stand.
I have to agree this was a pretty sophisticated design for a Potato Gun. The Design was very cool, and Construction was first rate. They definitely spent some money on that project.
Hope to see these guys at the Punkin' Chunkin' event next year.
Randy.
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More money and time than he knows what to do with.
But that's okay.
This was the first video of this guy that I have watched in over a year. I delved into more of his videos...he is getting REALLY good. He recently produced some videos of the rocket factory "United Rocket Alliance" complete with absolutely remarkable interviews with Tory Bruno. If you want to learn about an exceptional American check out those videos.
The Navy also liked them for night firing since they had no muzzles flash. If I remember correct some had a two mile range.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite_gun
A dynamite gun is any of a class of artillery pieces that use compressed air to propel an explosive projectile (such as one containing dynamite). Dynamite guns were in use for a brief period from the 1880s to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Because of the instability of early high explosives, it was impractical to fire an explosive-filled shell from a conventional gun. The violent deflagration of the propellant charge and the sudden acceleration of the shell would set off the explosive in the barrel of the weapon. By using compressed air, the dynamite gun was able to accelerate the projectile more gradually through the length of the barrel.
Guns for naval use were supplied with air from shipboard compressors. A small model for field use by land forces employed a powder charge to drive a piston down a cylinder, compressing air that was then fed into the gun barrel. This field model was famously used by Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish–American War, but had actually been used previously by Cuban insurgents against Spanish forces.
The guns fired a relatively lightweight shell; necessarily the guns had a low muzzle velocity, requiring a high angle of fire even at short ranges. This increased the flight time of the shell, resulting in a loss of accuracy.
By 1900, the availability of stable high explosives, the longer range of conventional artillery, the gun's mechanical complexity, and its inherent limitations made the dynamite gun obsolete.
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If I remember right, dynamite guns were used on some American warships in the naval battle against the Spanish warships in the Phillipines naval battle. james
Lewis and Clark had a couple of air rifles on their expedition.
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And in 1779 Austria supplied caliber .44 air rifles to special troops that fired 20 balls a minute from a pressure tank at 950+ fps.
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Male Guanaco out in dry lakebed at 10,800 feet south of Arequipa.
That's a cannon.
These guys are pikers. Check out Light Gas Guns if you want extreme velocity. 23,000 fps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-gas_gun
We used them to simulate meteoroids impacting space craft to help us design micrometeoroid and orbital debris shields. 108 grain projectile at 23,000 fps. Spacecraft need really good flack jackets.
Tim
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Tecnically it's not an airgun but a vacuum gun and there is a big diference.
Well this 20mm airgun product quite nice power and kicks like mule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcG76omqWbM
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |