Okay, I saw this on reddit.
Yes, yes, I said it. I don't fucking care. The link is here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIYGuns/comments/165xu3t/a_real_mans_can_cannon/
I'm speaking to the goddamn magnificent wizard who manufactured this insane marvel.
I refuse to believe you are not a PrepHoleommando. It is impossible.
Please, for the love of fucking god, elaborate on how this is constructed. Take pictures, give me a general idea how much powder you stuffed down this fucking thing's tube, anything.
I beg of you.
For everyone else, description:
>It’s a black powder, percussion fired, “antique firearm” that shoots pop cans filled with concrete. It’s made of junk found at Habitat for Humanity so no exact build list, but it would be around $50. It even has folding sights made from locking cabinet hinges.
Go watch him touch this thing off. I promise it is worth it.
>It’s a black powder, percussion fired, “antique firearm” that shoots pop cans filled with concrete. It’s made of junk found at Habitat for Humanity so no exact build list, but it would be around $50. It even has folding sights made from locking cabinet hinges.
We gotta figure out how to make a shell out of steel and potentially make HVAP if we can get tungsten
-Steel mold that's the same diameter as soda cans, shape it like a WW2 AP shell
(diameter is approx 3 inches/76.2mm or so)
-Figure out how to rifle the damn barrel
-Put a cap on it to improve performance on angled impacts (if it doesnt overmatch)
Alternatively, make a 76.2mm HEAT warhead
>shoots pop cans filled with concrete
Someone get this man a ballistic dummy. I want to see what this is going to look like slamming into some idiot's noggin.
So wait, is it not a DD then?
As long as it's smooth bore, it's the same as a black powder cannon, which is perfectly legal in most states.
It should not be considered a destructive device since it is a black powder muzzle loading cannon.
However, if the ATF finds out about it they will probably try to argue that it is a destructive device because it is not a replica of any design from before 1898 and is therefore not an "antique" which will then allow the ATF to classify said device as a destructive device instead and screw the guy over anyways even though he made a black powder muzzle loading gun.
Considering how the ATF has already back pedaled and redefined arm braces, bump stocks, and attempted to redefine 80% kits, you know that I'm right about this assessment.
FUCK. THE ATF. God when did the pussies take over this place?
Hi Fed.
>the AFT
>black powder, percussion fired, “antique firearm” that shoots pop cans filled with concrete
Honestly and truly makes me cackle like a warlock every time I read this and imagine this guy out there somewhere launching stone aggregate filled Dr. Pepper cans straight through a pine tree.
Just fucking go back already
that's pretty damn cool. Wonder how it works.
Since OP is so fucking LAZY.
Thanks bby. I appreciate u.
Man, just putting that in there to get ahead of the BS in light of MEGA CAN CANNON
jesus christ, would it not have been easier and safer to just have a backblast or counterweight?
Like some kind of coward?
Unironically fine because it's black powder and doesn't fire a bullet; so it isn't a firearm by their own rules.
Do you prefer Coke or Pepsi fedboi?
New fetish acquired.
the hero we need
in these trying times
Thanks Anon. I'm not OP, but could you link a guide?
I support hillbilly Ironman making prolapsing shoulder canons
>recoilless? why the FUCK would I want it to recoil less?
What would that do to a car door
I imagine it'd punch clean through it, take a decent chunk out of the person behind it, then continue on out through the passenger door too.
No joke it's a 1 to 3lb projectile, probably moving in excess of 500 feet per second, that fucking thing is going to take a bit of material to halt, and a car door ain't gonna cut it.
Lol no, theres so much mass being shoved the other way it's likely more like a big dent. The can is going near the velocity of the captive tube getting shoved out the back. I'll wager they have about the same mass otherwise the thing would fly out of his hands since there's no counterforce from a backblast.
3d printed AT4s when?
I hate to tell you this OP but like the vast majority of PrepHole, all the actually cool and involved people who put forth effort are long gone to places just like reddit
>reddit is producing more OC and relevant content than PrepHole
>
the OP on reddit is replying to others in the thread; these are the current replies
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What the fuck even is that? And how much does it cost at Home Depot for parts?
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It’s a black powder, percussion fired, “antique firearm” that shoots pop cans filled with concrete. It’s made of junk found at Habitat for Humanity so no exact build list, but it would be around $50. It even has folding sights made from locking cabinet hinges.
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Can you post pics vid of it disassembled and the parts?
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It doesn’t really disassemble well, pretty much only the barrel comes out easily, but I can get some closeups.
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Brave man having that thing so close to your noggin.
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It’s not as bad as you think. The barrel is pressure tested 4 times the load shown in the video, but that would destroy the chassis and the shooters shoulder. The chassis is just made out of unistrut and PVC pipe to hold the barrel.
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Are there plans?
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No real plans because I bought most of the parts second hand at Habitat Restore, but the pipe is 2.5” threaded schedule 40 bored out, the springs are parts of straps that hold pallets on trucks (about a foot long), the chassis sleeve is 3” PVC to fit the barrel, the shoulder stock is wood, and there is a unistrut running the length of the chassis that works as a base to hold everything together. The trigger linkage runs through the unistrut to the hammer at the rear of the cannon.
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he also has other replies from cross-posts or whatever its called; if you really care, read them all yourself
https://www.reddit.com/user/Tater0909/
yeah, I want to know how the recoil mechanism works
I assume it use the same principles as barrett
Schedule 40 is for low pressure, right?
They just swapped out parts for an old potato gun man.
With the better potato guns you needed that otherwise you'd blow the gun or potato up.
He probably just black powered it if he was smart hed just use pentane hell even types of hairspray then do a musket style load.
That stuff is atlreast 30 years old. I built one when I was 12. I can dig if you need. You just need 2 spring, 2 metal tubes, 2 metal caps. Depending on how you want to do ignition, I'd use a grill pointer lighter and have the very tip in the ignition port. The thing will fire and kick back, the springs keep it from flying off.
Google potato launchers.
i demand blueprints
re:i hate the government
>reddit
15 social credits deducted
(But I guess the vid is cool enough)
The guy says in the reddit thread that there are no blueprints for it, so let this oc from 2019 PrepHole hold you over.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/j6yba8ickyle6tk/Gun_Plans_2019.zip/file
there's also this (no clue if any of these links still work)
I remember the ARPrepHole that and gun plans 2019 were the two big popular PrepHole archives around that time.
Even if the links are dead just type most of those ARPrepHole filenames (like the FOSSCAD mega pack) into archive.org and they will probably show up.
>(like the FOSSCAD mega pack)
There was a 4.8 version of that. I've still got it on a drive somewhere.
If people really want it, I can split it up and put it on a filesharing host somewhere. It was a ridiculously huge file and I don't know of any filesharing service that would take it all in one archive.
I could try setting up a torrent, also, but I haven't tried torrenting at the library, they might block the standard ports for it.
>pic
what's the point of having it electrically detonated with a fucking lighter element of all things instead of just a spring slamming a metal rod into a percussion cap like in a regular grenade? bonuses of this design include: not having the spring exposed between the casing and the spoon
also
>ANAL
lol
On my way to home depot to buy some anal
So it's a black powder HIWS? That's cool as shit
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holy shit I want one
We high impulse potato cannon nao
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Came here to post this,
Fuck i wish they had pursued the HIWS more.
>Okay, I saw this on reddit.
We’re on PrepHole, it’s alright, we know.
>Okay, I saw this on reddit.
Okay, now go back
To each their own, but I prefer the Fliegerfaust
And the flash
Did two of the rockets just drop out the back?
A soda can is 66mm
You can fuck off back to r e d d i t, cunt
>nu4chin thinks your post is spam
Gee i wonder why so many fuckers post that same sentence it's called spam if you dont mod it
>Hi there folx,
>Reddit transvestite here.
>I saw a post on Reddit
>but instead of replying to the post on Reddit I repost it here
Just fucking kys.
This is still better than another Ukraine thread.
Mega.nz and archive.org both allow files up to 50GB if I'm not mistaken. Mediafire can do up to 10GB.
Do you want to see the fucking shoulder cannon or not
anon, seething over reddit is more important then weapons
You are worse than a redditor
Nobody says that
McFucking have a nice day you tryhard dipshit
Probably didn't even do a lot of damage downrange and the recoil mechanism caused all the recoil.
Honestly surprised there's no option in the report list for reddit cringeposts.
>Honestly surprised there's no option in the report list for reddit cringeposts.
I asked for a 4chan containment option but was ignored
Find more stuff like that here.
https://twitter.com/Wild_Arms_RandD
>video goes straight into slow motion with the shot never being shown in realtime
cancer
based on this?
That is exactly what came to mind. He needs to do what they say to do in the video and he won't have it flip up out of his hands.