Carnage! Updated (with more videos)

Cannons powered by pneumatic pressure (compressed gas) using a valve or other release.
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joannaardway
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goathunter wrote:About Myth busters,I quit watching them because a lot of the stuff they say can't be done can be done.
Often, a little logic would help them, but their incorrect science is no reason to stop watching them blowing stuff up.
Novacastrian: How about use whatever the heck you can get your hands on?
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...I'm sorry, but that made my year.
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Updated original post with video of 300 gram piece of dowel being shot through ~3" of wood. The backstop worked, and the door of my shed is still in one piece.
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DYI, it´s fired with a sabot. From a 120 mm cannon (smoothbore?) it seems.

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