This basement engineering project is unreliable at best, and unpredictable at worst. Unless you're looking for a new nickname - like 'stumpy' or 'one-eyed jack' - a homemade bow and arrow would be your best bet.
Uh...get some primers...there are allowable backorders out there and scalpers are selling in places like Craigslist etc. You'd be surprised. Besides, if you're not sitting on 2-3 bricks right now, you're not in the game--get a crossbow. That friggin sh!t is sitting in the cup in powdered form (sorta) with who knows what from his workshop bench and fingers mixed in. You know it's interacting with the lower propellant layers. That just plain gives me the willies. Geeze, he should go all the way and play around with picric acid crystals.
I dunno. We used to build grenades and other things when I was a kid. Good training too.
I expect that we can build serviceable cartridges from scratch, for alarms and excursions, if need be.
We'll still be shooting while you excitable types are changing your pampers. By the way, we are talking about tech for war here under adverse circumstances and conditions.
Yes, I think it would be easier to make bolts ("arrows" for those of you in Rio Linda) for a crossbow than trying to fool with match heads, which have to be unreliable and way too time-consuming. Methinks there are some very good applications for a crossbow, anyway. They definitely fit in the "sporting use" category.
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Somebody is going to blow up a gun and get hurt with this bullshit.
No ideas of pressure levels, no ideas of brissance. No idea if the gun will function when and if it goes off and doesn't grenade.
This is crazy stuff.
Buy a black powder flintlock if you want end of the world arms.
Agree with Anony @ 1:05.
This basement engineering project is unreliable at best, and unpredictable at worst. Unless you're looking for a new nickname - like 'stumpy' or 'one-eyed jack' - a homemade bow and arrow would be your best bet.
I's all fun and games till someone loses some body parts. Any guestimate how many match heads I'd have to scrape to load up 1,000 rounds?
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Uh...get some primers...there are allowable backorders out there and scalpers are selling in places like Craigslist etc. You'd be surprised. Besides, if you're not sitting on 2-3 bricks right now, you're not in the game--get a crossbow. That friggin sh!t is sitting in the cup in powdered form (sorta) with who knows what from his workshop bench and fingers mixed in. You know it's interacting with the lower propellant layers. That just plain gives me the willies. Geeze, he should go all the way and play around with picric acid crystals.
Arkindole
I dunno. We used to build grenades and other things when I was a kid. Good training too.
I expect that we can build serviceable cartridges from scratch, for alarms and excursions, if need be.
We'll still be shooting while you excitable types are changing your pampers. By the way, we are talking about tech for war here under adverse circumstances and conditions.
Just thought I'd mention it for perspective.
Yes, I think it would be easier to make bolts ("arrows" for those of you in Rio Linda) for a crossbow than trying to fool with match heads, which have to be unreliable and way too time-consuming. Methinks there are some very good applications for a crossbow, anyway. They definitely fit in the "sporting use" category.
- Old Greybeard
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