best speed/ distance?

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killagorrila99
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What is the best speed, distance anyone has ever achieved?


I myself have shattered the sound barrier 8)
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with what?
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With my burst disk gun. Try to post more than two words in futre?
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you might of missed it schmanman it was posted a few days ago, nice cannon really but killa try and spell "future" correctly in the future :lol:
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umm, killa, I am not new here. what else was there for me to say about it? and very rarely to I post two words.
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Goddamn "distance" braggarts... it's mostly dependent appon the aerodynamics of the projectile, as we can see in the attatched spreadsheet.

(pressure is using hot hydrogen through an overly large burstdisk... so it's essentialy liniar with muzzle energy - that is, "power")
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