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Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:09 pm

<div align="center">ZOOKA

Provided By Boogieman - <a href="http://www.advancedspuds.com">www.advancedspuds.com</a>

Zooka is a small launcher designed to shoot golf balls. It is tiny, but still can shoot a golf ball quite a ways. The whole gun is only about 3 feet long. It includes a 1" pneumatically actuated sprinkler valve, with trigger-like actuation. The barrel includes a simulated muzzle break. I made this launcher mainly from surplus parts from previous projects. The only part I had to purchase was a 1" male adapter.

A basic rundown on the launcher parts is as follows, from muzzle to back: 1.5" coupler, 1.5" sdr21 barrel about 2' long,1.5" female adapter, 1.5" to 1" threaded bushing, 1" close sch80 nipple, 1" Orbit Watermaster sprinkler valve, 1" male adapter, short stub or 1" sch40 pipe, 2" to 1" bushing, 3" to 2" bell reducer, short section of 3" sch40, 3" sch40 cap. The chamber has a Schrader valve for filling.

I painted the launcher with olive drab ultra flat camouflage paint.

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Simulated Muzzle Break
Simulated Muzzle Break
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Wed Feb 23, 2005 9:33 pm

Real nice I like the last pic and caption, I want to make one of these, as just a little pnuematic gun, and so i can drive a golfball further than my brother and uncle possibly combined... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Ok i'm better, nice paint job
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Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:22 pm

about how far would this gun shoot. im thinking about doing one like it for my first pneaumatic. is it loud. and what psi do you use, is it safe to go without sleeving the barrel on this gun
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Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:01 pm

DriftingRz wrote:is it safe to go without sleeving the barrel on this gun
dont think so
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Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:25 pm

Not if you want to shoot golf balls.
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Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:58 pm

As long as the barrel is under 3 feet, it'll be fine. SDR 21 isnt that brittle.
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Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:49 am

sweet gun very simple. how far can you shoot a golf ball.
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Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:26 am

i was wondering what the muzzle velocity was (if you have bothered to find out)
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Mon Nov 14, 2005 4:08 pm

A quick running of the <a href="http://www.spudfiles.com/spud_wiki/inde ... T">GGDT</a> indicates a muzzle velocity of about 240 feet/sec at 100 psi.
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Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:54 pm

did you buy the sdr 21 pipe locally or did you have to order online?
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boogieman buys it locally
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Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:30 am

so under 3' sdr 21 is ok un sleeved, because if it is ive been wasting time and money :roll:
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Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:37 am

i think DR has had a 3ft unlsleeved barrel snap on him when he fired one of his cannons, might have been Mr. Plow, might have been 4ft, i wouldnt chance it anyway
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Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:45 am

hey like ur cannon. wat psi r u shootin the golf balls at[/list][/code]
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Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:53 pm

I love the paint color. Looks cool!!!! :)
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