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Goverment took you Gun? Possible Replacment!
Posted: 2002-10-20 09:53am
by Mr Bean
Ind. man builds pumpkin-shooting cannon
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/18/odds_cannon.htm
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When Bristoe fires the cannon, a 10-pound pumpkin is hit with 11,300 pounds of force. The pumpkin projectile leaves the muzzle at about 900 miles per hour, he said.
During the test, the cannon fired a pumpkin through the rear of a Pontiac.
Posted: 2002-10-20 10:06am
by weemadando
Ooooh... WHAT THE.....
Posted: 2002-10-20 10:06am
by salm
hmm... i used to have a potato gun which was quite effective.
damn, that pumpkin gun rules!!!
Posted: 2002-10-20 10:08am
by Sea Skimmer
The annual competition in New Jersey has had several cases of shots reaching beyond 5000 feet. Every year they have to buy up more land for the firing range.
Posted: 2002-10-20 12:29pm
by Solid Snake
My friends and i have an arsenal of these fuckers. Our potato cannons are awesome... But we have the ultimate power... The Orange Cannon! This thing will launch an orange into orbit.
Posted: 2002-10-20 12:40pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
I want a pumpkin cannon!
Something to do after halloween.
Posted: 2002-10-20 12:42pm
by Kuja
SWEEEEEET!
Posted: 2002-10-20 03:20pm
by Sea Skimmer
SolidSnake wrote:My friends and i have an arsenal of these fuckers. Our potato cannons are awesome... But we have the ultimate power... The Orange Cannon! This thing will launch an orange into orbit.
No this is how you get an orange, or a few hundred, into orbit
Posted: 2002-10-20 03:36pm
by phongn
Playing with the 16"/100-cal HARP gun, I see.
Posted: 2002-10-20 03:40pm
by Sea Skimmer
phongn wrote:Playing with the 16"/100-cal HARP gun, I see.
Yes. Combined with the vertically fired guided round 155 tech the USN has been playing around with and installed in my bunker, It would make for a most impressive support weapon.
Posted: 2002-10-20 03:43pm
by Kuja
didn't the inventor try selling it to Iraq to get funding?
Posted: 2002-10-20 04:02pm
by Dirty Harry
salm wrote:hmm... i used to have a potato gun which was quite effective.
damn, that pumpkin gun rules!!!
My patato gun never works
But I do have a complete arsenal of ballbearing guns
Posted: 2002-10-20 04:05pm
by Sea Skimmer
IG-88E wrote:didn't the inventor try selling it to Iraq to get funding?
Not the actual weapon its self. However Gerald Bull was contracted by Iraq is build several superguns using technology and information gathered from his HARP work. One 350mm prototype was built. However the 1000mm full sized versions where never completed, the British stopped the export of the last pieces. However its unlikely they ever could have been completed as Bull was assassinated on 22 March 1990.
All the parts and the prototype where destroyed by the UN after the Gulf war, the invasion of Kuwait happened just four months after Bull's death. The main suspect is Israel, but not because of the guns, Bull was also doing work on Iraq's ballistic missile.
Bull also designed the G5 155mm artillery peice for South Africa. Most of the worlds artillery today is based off of this gun.
Posted: 2002-10-20 04:09pm
by Dirty Harry
Yeah,I heard about that. I also heard about the Israelis being the ones most likely to have assassinated Bull.