dude, i want a pumpkin gun! evil laugh
Two questions:
1.) What do you think is going to happen when this guy hears about it?
2.) When is someone going to post pictures/blueprints of the guns on the net???
Man.
Oh, man.
Words, for once, fail me.
I want to see it.
I want so, SO badly to see it.
I want DESPERATELY to see a pumpkin fly a mile. With a muzzle velocity of either 900 mph or 900 fps; I don’t care.
I have GOT to see this.
(And by the way, I agree with Starfish; having carved and otherwise dealt with many pumpkins in my life, I was skeptical of the chances of accelerating a pumpkin to that speed without squashing it. Har har.)
The little group I was in did some research on this sort of thing. We figured that the easiest way to get any pneumatic gun’s projectile supersonic would be to pump the air out of the barrel, with a bit of aluminum foil over the end to hold the vacuum. Amazingly enough, kitchen aluminum foil can hold 15 PSI. The projectile would then just bash through it.
The problem is that the projectile would be subsonic in the evacuated barrel, then suddenly supersonic when it pops through the foil. Since we mostly dealt with darts and cans of concrete, rather than the messy biological projectiles, no one was quite sure how it would hold up.
By the way, the record was around a mile and a half the last time I checked, shooting a rebar-reinforced PVC dart. That’s from a much smaller gun than this.
Fibonacci is right about the unorignality.
I think I’ve found pics of it and a couple of sites dedicated to the things. Them puppy’s is huge! It also looks like they hate the Partridge Family, judging by some of the photos.
And up until they moved locations, was about two miles from my house. (Badandi lives a bit further down the highway than I do.) I could sit on my roof and watch it.
And they wonder why I was glad to get out of Delaware…