| Author | Message | ||
     Birdy |
Yep this guys a nuts as they come BUT he's got some cools toys! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbsgHbXubGU&feature =feedu What you have to ask yourself is NOT how do I carry the gun BUT how to a pack enough ammo on my Buell! | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
Check out the video where he obliterates a mannequin with a 40mm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSp7CipN1pw&feature =iv&annotation_id=annotation_667918 | ||
| Americanmadexb |
Love that dudes video's.. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
@ FPSRussia Given the recent events in Norway don't you think this video is rather sick and in bad taste? No? If someone went on an insane rampage with a baseball bat would you expect the MLB to shut down for a day? I think not. What happened was a tragedy but its more of a mental health issue than a gun issue if you ask me. tochna | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
FPSRussia actually lives in the U.S. | ||
| Aesquire |
Fun stuff. I'm surprised how much control you have on that Glock. I'd love one for Coyote, & Plinking, but can't afford to practice enough to carry it. ( also live in the Imperial State and it's not registrable here. ) Also to be honest, I'm pretty sure I can hit better in semi, and that's what counts. The 40 is just a hoot. Think about a Civil War era cannon. That 40mm is generations and centuries newer. Wouldn't stand up in front of either. ( check out the bounce at 2:48 ) On gun rights. Just love us our guns. | ||
| Skntpig |
Look at the misfire on the original vid at 2:08 | ||
| Just_ziptab |
 I made this target cannon a number of years ago..all from scratch,cept the wheels. Proof charge was a pound of powder and two one pound lead balls. WHAM!! It will shatter 18" boulders and flip a fifty pond steel target like a football. Range,5 to 7 miles! I did missed a stump once and the ball skipped across the plowing ,out of sight..like it was never going to stop. Smooth bore and very accurate. The barrel tube is contained inside the outer tube with around 80,000 pounds of stretch. Quite the rick to get that accomplished. The bore warms up in firing,but can not over come the stretch built in .......so it stays as true as the proverbial violin string with multiple firings. Fun stuff and never lost a match with it .........  | ||
| Aesquire |
Sweet! Did you heat the outer tube red hot or ( and? ) shrink the inner with liquid nitrogen? Either way is impressive to watch in it's own way. As a safety aside, cannons balls really do go quite a ways. The purpose of round shot is either to batter castle walls, or skip through crowds of angry people. Nasty. 12 ga slugs also go great distances skipping along. Bullets from rifles and handguns tend to hit the ground and stop, while slugs skim away for hundreds of yards. In the "Russian" with the Glock vids I couldn't help but wonder how deep those woods were on the other side. At least 1 of those 40mm'swent quite a ways... ( the safety nazi in me..... ) | ||
| Ducbsa |
His ammo bill must be pretty high. | ||
| Blake |
Wow, nice video Patrick. Bill Whittle is on the mark! He has lots more that are excellent too. | ||
| 01x1buell |
i love guns. | ||
| Cowboy |
I sure hope that my 23 is as tuff as that 17 | ||
| Just_ziptab |
Aesquire.........cannon inner tube was heated up 350° above ambient and the thing expanded a quarter of and inch. Then the muzzle nut was screwed down to the ambient outer tube to take up that expansion. I machined everything to float, but it isn't going anywhere with that kind of capture. Engineering friend calculated the tension on the bore. The rest of the barrel parts were added and welded only to the outer tube,trunnions and all. I leaded the muzzle flair with melted wheel weights.If you don't shake a can of trunk spatter paint(like the instruction call for) you end up with a nice cast look.The breech plug is about 6 inches long and threads into the bore.......only hand tight........ removable for cleaning. It covers up the inner tube weld to the back cap....one of my best looking welds ever with All State 275. It was a do or die weld..had to be right or start over. When the carriage is tight,pop can size groups at 50 yards is easy. Three cannons were made from the same hunk of seamless,extruded pipe. Mine is the only one that works. The others warm up with every shot and the inner tube buckles inside the outer tube with no place to go..throwing every shot a different path. | ||
| Chauly |
I love it! I want one... Crap, I guess I'll just have to build my own. | ||
| Aesquire |
So you welded the inner tube in place at the breach, then heated it to get it longer, then tied it down in tension with a barrel nut? Gee. wish I was there to help. Sounds like crazy fun. what's the concentric clearance on the floating barrel? | ||
| Just_ziptab |
Yep! Clearance is near an inch, First cannon was filled with plaster or some shit like that to make it more ridged before the muzzle washer was welded on and to possibly,keep it from ringing. Fair shooter. Second gun was left hollow and shoots "wild". Mine ended up being the cats ass in design. I threaded a stainless bolt through the top of breach,into the inner barrel for the flash hole and welded it in place. Found an info card I had on it, when it was on display: Thinking time and collecting bits,9 years. Build time, from a pile of iron to finish,6 months(can you say 2:00 A.M. every damned day?) Oak logs to completed field carriage,23 days!! Material cost,$150.00 Weight,400 pounds. Bore,1&5/8ths inch. Projectile,1 pound lead ball. (bigger bore and you DON'T use lead,too heavy) Target load,800 grains of 1F. Proof load,one pound of 1F and two, one pound balls. (WHAM!!) Approximate muzzle energy,14,000 ft lbs. The oak log was down for three years and was still wet when I started to cut on it......but no time to change that as the first match was coming up and it was do or die to get it done in time. Axle spindle was simply a taper on the square beam for the wheels to run on, with no iron sleeve. It worked well with grease,but has since shrank and the wheels are a bit loose. The tail stock twisted as it dried and gives it some character. The cheek pieces were of well dried planks and are still tight today,but loose on the axle beam from it's shrinkage.......all can be fixed,but a lot of rework. The whole thing was scaled from a single picture with a ruler...........knowing the wheels in the picture were 52 inches and mine were 36 inches Yeah,what fun! |
