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GrahamKennedy wrote:It's further forward than I thought, but look at the line around the barrel just below where he's scratching through it - that's where the gunpowder is, right? So the rope reinforcement is not that far ahead of it.

Assuming it's similar to bamboo, yes that's where the gunpowder charge will be. However using the rope that far up isn't going to provide much if any reinforcement, you need it over the charge to do what you suggest. Yeah that part of the barrel is now stronger but the most stress and pressure is generated in the weapons breach (which this basically is) and hence requires the most support.

Again, dunno if this makes any sense.

Cpl Kendall wrote:...Again, dunno if this makes any sense.

Makes sense to me, Kendall. Everything you said is correct.

You guys think Mythbusters would even touch this one???

Mark wrote:You guys think Mythbusters would even touch this one???

Why not, it's not like they haven't done incredibley obvious ones before. Like the "go airborne when you get shot" or the wooden cannon.

Cpl Kendall wrote:

Mark wrote:You guys think Mythbusters would even touch this one???

Why not, it's not like they haven't done incredibley obvious ones before. Like the "go airborne when you get shot"

I didn't get to see that one.

I'd love some bullets that would make someone go flying backwards when I shoot them, I'd just need a weapon that can absorb that much recoil.

An IDI .750 will make someone fly backwards... just in individual chunks.

I think I'm overusing the lol emoticon a bit, but still...

Tsukiyumi wrote:
I didn't get to see that one.

I'd love some bullets that would make someone go flying backwards when I shoot them, I'd just need a weapon that can absorb that much recoil.

To bad there's no rubber round for the Carl-Gustav...

Cpl Kendall wrote:

Tsukiyumi wrote:
I didn't get to see that one.

I'd love some bullets that would make someone go flying backwards when I shoot them, I'd just need a weapon that can absorb that much recoil.

To bad there's no rubber round for the Carl-Gustav...

I wonder what an 84mm beanbag moving at 230 m/s would do to a man...

I don't think he'd be getting up after that for a while.

Frozen paintballs are fun. Definetly not life threatening, but they are so much more fun to zap someone with.

Mark wrote:Frozen paintballs are fun. Definetly not life threatening, but they are so much more fun to zap someone with.

Ever use those rounds you can load in a firearm with a paintball replacing the actual bullet, simaids IIRC? They fucking hurt.

Can't say as I have. Are those what they were using in the military school in Childs Play 3?

Mark wrote:Can't say as I have. Are those what they were using in the military school in Childs Play 3?

Dunno, never saw it. There actually called Simunition.