Spud gun Safety rules

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Which is why you should probably load, then fuel, if you have that setup.
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Or the obvious solution is that you put your trigger somewhere were it can't be pressed accidentally.
Novacastrian: How about use whatever the heck you can get your hands on?
frankrede: Well then I guess it won't matter when you decide to drink bleach because your out of kool-aid.
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well i don't use a pezio electric so i would have to

1. fuel before i load which i don't do

2. quickly twist the entire gun quickly in order to spark my lantern lighter
(yes i use a lantern lighter)
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another important point!!
-when buying raw PVC for your cannon, make sure you get real polyvinyl chloride pipe. the stuff you need to watch out for is the celluloid core stuff. It is basically bonded foam. Great for water, but not great for high pressure combustion gasses. One of these things exploded in my face a few years back. It gets very brittle and fragments. you do not want it happening to you. believe me
spend the time to get the real stuff
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With Pneumatic construction:

Measure twice cut once

Use more glue than you need.

I had a end cap blow off for lack of glue once before...
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Common sense would dictate that these thing are fire arms and are classed as fire arms so the upmost care and gun ettiquate should be kept at all times!

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when muzzle loading barrel sealing piston valves be careful not to pust your ammo to far down so that your ammo pushes teh piston open, launching your ammo and your ramrod at hundreds of feet per second back at you potentially hurting you or someone else.
Personal experience Well lets just say that there was a 3ft long length of 1/4" threaded rod/bolt embedded in my garage ceiling.
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Bubba05 wrote:Common sense would dictate that these thing are fire arms and are classed as fire arms so the upmost care and gun ettiquate should be kept at all times!

Bubba
While they should be treated with the same respect, they are not classified as firearms.
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they are not classified as firearms.
they are here in australia, bubba is an Aussie to my knowladge.
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ohh, Sorry, lol, sometimes I forget that there is a world outside of the US.
haha, amd when I do think about the world, it scares me
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lol yer no probs, still our laws may be changing hehehe :twisted: pintball may become legal for miners
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Yep I'm an Aussie mate! Gday!!
frankrede no disrespect mate but if it can lauch or shoot a projectile using combustion of any chemical or reaction its classed as a fire arm in my books.
It aint just an Irish man running around waving his arm ablaze!

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chaos wrote:lol yer no probs, still our laws may be changing hehehe :twisted: pintball may become legal for miners
is paintball legal for people over 21 or do you mean for any one its illegal.

Sorry im dumb when it comes to your aussie laws.
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You have to be over 18 to play paintball at paint ball parks over here and now they want to change it so people over 16 can play!
I personly think if you joind up the Jnr Sporting Shooters with this paint ball thing you could have a realy interesting way of linking all Jnrs all over Australia.

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