Carnage! Updated (with more videos)

Show us your pneumatic spud gun! Discuss pneumatic (compressed gas) powered potato guns and related accessories. Valve types, actuation, pipe, materials, fittings, compressors, safety, gas choices, and more.
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joannaardway
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Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:31 pm

goathunter wrote:About Myth busters,I quit watching them because a lot of the stuff they say can't be done can be done.
Often, a little logic would help them, but their incorrect science is no reason to stop watching them blowing stuff up.
Novacastrian: How about use whatever the heck you can get your hands on?
frankrede: Well then I guess it won't matter when you decide to drink bleach because your out of kool-aid.
...I'm sorry, but that made my year.
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Sat Aug 11, 2007 8:59 pm

Updated original post with video of 300 gram piece of dowel being shot through ~3" of wood. The backstop worked, and the door of my shed is still in one piece.
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Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:27 am

DYI, it´s fired with a sabot. From a 120 mm cannon (smoothbore?) it seems.

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