Finding projectiles downrange

Potatoes last one shot, so build reusable! Discuss ammo designs and ideas. Tough to find cannon part or questions? Ask here!
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Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:12 pm

black lights dont have a very long range though
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You could use this for golf balls Image


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Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:50 am

All of these methods seem to assume that the searcher has a lot of technology available.

That golfball scout looks like great technology, but a little expensive for the normal spudder.
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Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:24 pm

well, for rocketry to find rockets, we use the beepers, and paint it red and black, best visable colors
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Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:32 pm

I found a can of Day-Glo Orange that looks to be about 20 years old but it still works fine. I should be able to find it a mile away, and it'll have a piezo buzzer for when it isn't obviously visible.
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Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:13 pm

Paint it bright colors, and then try and use a imaging program like Google earth to look for it.
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Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:27 pm

Google Earth isn't live, they havent updated it in years...
I know because we cut this tree down about oh a year and a half ago, and its still on the map.

I'm telling you, use a sibling to be a spotter.
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:49 am

do some math to get rough location then, use beeper
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I mean the live one. There is a live one that you can use, you used it at school and watched planes land.
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a live google earth that would be awesome. legend pilot hers the problem with your golf ball thing
the $263 BallFinder's Space Age technology cannot penetrate that wettest of substances.
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lol, i must be rural to goggle because i cant even pick out my house the res is so bad
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:21 pm

ya i have the live version its preatty cool but you have to reafresh it to see the new pic.
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:26 pm

Build a big bolt in the middle of your ammo, then get a cheep metal detecter, have it with your spotter who is standing down range in a suite of armer, then shoot spotter will hear it hit and know the genral area pin point it with the detecter, waaalaaaa. Now doesn't that sound easy?
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:43 pm

Kenny_McCormic has the best so far it seem cheap and easy to locate
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