Hey just got on a new kick and am about to build one of these. Your thoughts questions…
Wondering if any of you have seen them before?
And also has anybody made one.
If you want to make one good instructions are on this site. http://themanscave.com/very-cool-things-to-do/how-to-make-a-mini-cannon-that-shoots-bbs/
Good lord. You could hunt with that thing. Don’t shoot your eye out.
I had hours of fun making mini rockets as a kid:
That mini-cannon seems difficult to aim, and wastes a lot of energy in recoil. It seems like it would be a great engineering experiment to figure out how to shoot that thing very precisely at distance.
As for the video, firing any sort of gunpowder indoors is asking for trouble.
If you do make the cannon, be sure to do read up and fully understand proof testing, then perform some proof testing, before playing with it. Think of it as a miniature hand grenade until you’ve reason to believe otherwise. You don’t want to be around it if things go wrong.
(FWIW, my father was a gunsmith and made pistols, rifles and cannons… I ain’t trolling here)
Good point masetro about it being a mini hand grenade
Mine’s bigger.