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That was a bigger boom that I thought r/unexpected
No wonder he was hauling ass
Watching him run back made me 😊 which quickly turned to 😲 when it went off.
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probably similar to a large round rifle
I'm suprised it didn't flip. He engineered it pretty well to cooperate with physics so effectively.
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Isn't this just a toy from the 70s or current? here
Thanks for the link!
Definitely not. Those are much more tame than what’s in the video. Not much recoil, if any, on those toy ones you linked
Cool! I had the Major Field canon as a kid. Put a ball bearing in it once and put one hell of a dent in a metal garbage can from about 50’ away. Couldn’t believe I even hit the damn thing.
Those are carbide cannons. Calcium carbide mixes with water to yield acetylene gas, which is then ignited by a spark, and combustion occurs with ambient oxygen gas in the chamber. OP's video was a black powder cannon. Black powder contains it's own solid oxidizer. Acetylene-air mixtures have a lower energy density than blackpowder, resulting in carbide being "less explosive" (lower energy, lower blast pressures, less noise). This lets carbide be safe for small metal toy cannons. Blackpowder would explode/frag those toys and requires use of heavier iron barrels.
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Fuck Me...That's one way to wake someone up.
When I was a kid, my Boy Scout troop had one that we took on camping trips and the adult leaders would fire it in the mornings to wake us.
Parry this, casual
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All I wanted from this was for the guy to go a lil run away and a big boom
The way ol boy scampered off tells me all I need to know
I got to ad informing me if I was sexually abused I can join classaction a lawsuit for some school in Rhode Island Then reveille video played I'm just sitting here staring at my phone like wtf not being able to to process the contrast
Whoa - that was some Tom & Jerry level bigger-than-you-thought blast
As a 42 year old that’s in pretty good shape, I more and more relate to the “old man fast-walk not-quite-run” method every passing day
The Hatfield-McCoy feud still going strong.
Guarantee you there is a couple roll-tide-double-wides slightly off screen.
I wonder what caliber that's comparative to 🤔?
It’ll be on /r/theydidthemath in no time don’t worry
I have one similar to this and it is .50 cal so it is a 1/2" diameter bore
And here I was laughing when he quickly moved away. Even and 40, I still haven't learned: Never judge a book by it's covers.
"Yeah" after the bang is so american
You just know he drank a bottle of moonshine and invited his cousin over after this
Cannon. Canon is accepted body of works in a story, or a style of musical piece. Cannon is the one that goes boom.
Also … the camera. I was looking for tiny R5 MarkII.
Unless you name it Pachelbel.
I took care of a guy that tried to make a homemade shotgun. ended up with a 3 inch diameter lead pipe in his eye socket. Good times....
\*\_cannon\_
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But 3d printed guns are going to kills us all.
2 kids from my high school died doing something similar. They put a bunch of black powder in a decorative cannon, and it ended as well as one would imagine that ending.
that guy's smile on the run back was priceless
\>homemade canon The Council of Trent hates this trick!
Time to get a tiny pirate ship and be the scrouge of the local lake.
I like how an old man and a young boy both scamper away with the same energy sweet canon of course
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lol that little hustle away after lighting it.
Cannon
Fuck those gophers
Hey I built one of these in my metalshop back in high school! Ton of fun to build and test. The shooting range was more than a little confused when I asked if they wouldn’t mind me bringing in a homemade cannon: manger said “It shouldn’t be a problem, but we need to see it first” Mine had a 0.5 inch bore and shot (shoots? It’s got a thin layer of rust now, young me didn’t think about that) ball bearings. Definitely not as much power as a modern rifle, but a big boom nonetheless and coke cans didn’t stand a chance!
*cannon
I wonder how loud real ones are?
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Somebody somewhere will say that this should be banned because it could be used as a weapon... Sarcasm.
Got him.
arent guns just mini canons?