Sep 20 2007Homemade 25mm Sniper Cannon
These kids have overprotective mothers that won't let them play with real guns, so they decided to build their own out of PVC. The gun "boasts a two-and-a-half-foot barrel that is one inch in diameter, has custom bolt-action mechanism, a modded sprinkler valve as the primary firing valve, and a $40 sniper scope." There is an instructables online if you want to make your own, but I suggest you don't, because that would make you a dork, like them (and these guys). Potato guns are fine though, because I made one. There's a video after the jump, featuring the gun shooting a CO2 canister THROUGH a cardboard box! All the way! It goes ALL THE WAY THROUGH. That's power. Wow. I mean, wow. I think I felt a little movement in my pants. Wait, no, cat crawling up my leg.
Video after the jump.
Homemade 25mm Sniper Cannon [techeblog, instructables]
Reader Comments
1. jazzman - September 20, 2007 12:20 PM
1st... yeah... the star wars theme pretty much dorkified em!!!
2. jazzman - September 20, 2007 12:22 PM
Oh snap... they play the theme twice... they suck!!!
3. nominus - September 20, 2007 12:33 PM
Target was pretty close for a "sniper rifle". I figure they would have displayed the accuracy. I was pretty impressed by the speed of it, but I couldn't help wondering why they don't just use a cO2 cartridge as if its a round. Use it to fire itself, firing pin inside, bow.
4. TQ - September 20, 2007 1:05 PM
should have made a minigun instead
5. Arkon - September 20, 2007 2:51 PM
T'aint nothin!
At the college of engineering at the university I went to, we had a contest for building potato cannons. Well, tennis balls.
One group made a pneumatic cannon that went up to 400psi. They shot a tennis ball through a 1" plywood board from 20 ft. Yes... through. Completely. The tennis ball turned to fluff and there was a nice round hole.
6. Vik - September 21, 2007 3:33 PM
people that geeky shouldn't be allowed to hold a gun like that.
7. dork - September 22, 2007 12:42 AM
What effin dorks! Man totally!
8. Mae - September 22, 2007 7:29 PM
Anyone who refers to themselves as "Czar" and isn't responsible for the deaths of thousands is a total poseur.
9. jake - September 24, 2007 12:05 PM
unless the box was filled with steel im not impressed
10. fuzzy lumpkins - December 1, 2007 9:00 PM
can u send me a picture of your gun to this email smoky119@hotmail.com
11. fuzzy lumpkins - December 1, 2007 9:03 PM
can u send me a picture of your gun to this email smoky119@hotmail.com