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On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:36:24 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 8/29/13 3:28 PM, wrote:
I saw that video and it was a joke. People have been making better zip
guns than that for decades and they don't need anything you can't find
at a decent hardware store.
A single shot, smoothbore like that gun is trivial to make,
particularly if you only plan on shooting it once or twice.
You go first ;-)
Now you've done it. I was hoping Herring would give it a try.
I made a very serviceable 12ga shotgun when I was about 13. We found a
box of shells in the woods and wanted to find a way to shoot them.
All 25 went down range without a hitch or a blown off finger.
When my dad found it he made me take it apart because it was clearly a
NFA34 violation. (the barrel was too short and overall length was too)
The strange thing is, I could have registered it as an OAW for $5 if I
was old enough.
We made lots of very fine cannons when I was 10 years old or so. My dad
owned a large commercial machine shop, and I could run a lathe early on,
and we make them out of 1.5" hot rolled round stock, and would use fire
crackers, gun powder, jetex fuses, etc. mostly 30 caliber.