2 Blasts from the past: Dont mess with texas and the Carrot

[biggsauce]

Here are two cannons that I had built years ago, when I had more ambition than sense, and less paitience than money. (neither amounted to much)

Don't Mess with Texas

This was my first cannon ever built, and it used a ghetto shrader propane meter. Only God knows where that is now. The chamber is 12" of 4" pvc, and 36-40" of 2" barrel. Piezo ignition, and the shoddy barrel knife helped with shooting spuds. Fun to learn on, but not quite a showpiece.

The Carrot Shooter

This has an ungodly cb ratio to start with. 12" of 2" chamber and probably just shy of 2' of 1/2" barrel. Piezo ignition, aerosol propelled. As the name says, carrots were primary ammo. Notice custom faded paintjob.

Nothing special, these are just from the past, so please spare me the noob flaming.

[jrrdw]

Shamless self promotion? These cannons where all ready posted?

[biggsauce]

No...

Never posted them until now... At least not to my knowledge...

[starman]

I wish I still had my first gun, a PVC spray and pray, 10" of 4" chamber, 10" of 2" "mid" chamber and 3' of 1" barrel, shooting wooden dowel slugs... back in 1995! I didn't have anything to go on, just a description by my brother-in-law...BBQ ignitor, screw-on cleanout, aquanet hairspray...screw tip spark gap....

Ahhh those were the days....

Anywho...it's nice you still have yours!

[biggsauce]

Yeah it was cool seeing these things again. Its amazing how much your approach to a project can change in only a few years. It brought back many memories and a few "what the hell was I thinking?" moments.

*sigh* the good ole days, when just getting the spud gun to make a noise was enough to chalk up as renowned scientific and engineering progress.

Hard-learned lessons, hollering moms, and nervous neighbors. Come to think of it, no matter how many years go by, some things never change.

8)
And a few more emoticons for good measure

[tmacd995]

Nice, I am gonna hang on to my first ball valve pneumatic forever. Its amazing how quickly people learn and improve their construction techniques. I like the sticker on don't mess with Texas

[FordGtMan]

Hey, i am from texas too . Nice guns, i made like an exact replica of that carrot shooter once.. without the awesome paint of course.

[biggsauce]

Hey, i am from texas too . Nice guns, i made like an exact replica of that carrot shooter once.. without the awesome paint of course.

Ah I forgot to clarify, I'm from Louisiana, although half my family is from an old oil town in east texas called Kilgore, ever heard of it?

[FordGtMan]

nope. I live in the fortworth region. I need to get me some of those stickers for each one of my guns

[biggsauce]

They make quite an addition

[Blitz]

That's a sweet sticker.

Doesn't it feel good to post oldies?

[biggsauce]

Doesn't it feel good to post oldies?

Yessir id does 8)

[Dussalater]

biggsauce what part of louisiana r u from?