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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Jim Kennedy-ar154me on February 15, 2016, 09:55:43 AM
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From
http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_29513765/san-francisco-pedestrians-hit-by-blow-gun-darts?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
SAN FRANCISCO -- Two pedestrians reported being hit by blow gun darts Friday afternoon on the Golden Gate Bridge, authorities said......
Oh My!!!!!! Can't buy a firearm but can still get those deadly blow guns. I wonder if curare was used ;^)
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It just adds to the long list of proof that you can't legislate morality, and if you take away one tool another replaces it - Nature abhors a vacuum.
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I had one a long time ago. Surprisingly accurate!
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I had one a long time ago. Surprisingly accurate!
I think they would be fun if my old lungs can handle them. I would think they would be good training / exercise for lungs.
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blow guns are a felony in ca
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blow guns are a felony in ca
Are they really??? My God, how has it gotten that stupid on the left coast.
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actually that law traces its self back to the gold rush days when people feared the Chinese numbchucks are a felony too. as are most scary asain weapons.
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blow guns are a felony in ca
The statute of limitations has elapsed on my felonious possession of a blowgun in CA!
What a phuqued up state...glad I left...
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actually that law traces its self back to the gold rush days when people feared the Chinese numbchucks are a felony too. as are most scary asain weapons.
Nunchucks were legal in California in the 70's. During the era of Kung Fu, school kids were playing with them, and Dojos were training their use. Of course, our school made them a no no, but it was ok to have a baseball bat. Oh yea, they banned throwing stars of all type and description as well.
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The statute of limitations has elapsed on my felonious possession of a blowgun in CA!
What a phuqued up state...glad I left...
I have never met a single person that has not commited a felony.
most of them are just flat out dumb.
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We used to wrap a welding carbide with masking tape, put it in a piece of 1/2 inch conduit and power it with the 100 psi air line. It would penetrate a 3/4 inch sheet of plywood at about 15 yards.
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I have never met a single person that has not commited a felony.
most of them are just flat out dumb.
So your family are all felons too?
BTW, it's only a misdemeanor in CA these days...guess my going on the lamb ain't necessary after all!
:)
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So your family are all felons too?
BTW, it's only a misdemeanor in CA these days...guess my going on the lamb ain't necessary after all!
:)
most of my family is felons... and rightfully so. not stupid felonys like a penny on a rail road track or shooting off a fire work( in az all of them are illegal) removing cats from your car... yep all of them are felonys. I call all of them part of growing up.
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I just checked Cold Steel's website and their blowguns aren't available for residents of CA, MA, and Canada. I guess they're okay in other states.
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We used to wrap a welding carbide with masking tape, put it in a piece of 1/2 inch conduit and power it with the 100 psi air line. It would penetrate a 3/4 inch sheet of plywood at about 15 yards.
.250 Carbide shanks (broken end mills) in air nozzles (facility air was around 100 psi) with .251" reamed bores may or may not have poked holes in the roof at my first job as a machinist. ;D
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.250 Carbide shanks (broken end mills) in air nozzles (facility air was around 100 psi) with .251" reamed bores may or may not have poked holes in the roof at my first job as a machinist. ;D
Well at least it is not a confession. (or is it?)
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.250 Carbide shanks (broken end mills) in air nozzles (facility air was around 100 psi) with .251" reamed bores may or may not have poked holes in the roof at my first job as a machinist. ;D
I may or may not have put holes in the side of the house with 1/4" black iron pipe, 000 buck, end cap and a fire cracker...
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I may or may not have gone fishing with M-80s.
I wonder if this was an assault blowgun, with a bullet button, a pistol grip, a forward pistol grip, a large capacity magazine and a silencer?
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Have you ever put a gallon of gas in a black 50 gallon drum, rolled it 50 yards out into a field and let it set in the sun for a few hours before shooting it :o
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In the event of a metal fire in a dust collector, DO NOT POUR WATER ON IT !
Unless you've already moved it to the middle of the parking lot and want to see the biggest damned sparkler ever LO
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You all have had entirely too much fun. I now feel my sheltered life has denied me some of the finer experiences in life.
I now feel totally inadequate and unfulfilled in my life experience. My bucket list is now growing by leaps and bounds. ;^)
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I may, or may not, have it on good authority that:
Three sticks of dynamite will lift a refrigerator around 10' in the air without a lot of damage....but six sticks will destroy said refrigerator.
A 2" galvanize pipe nipple 6" long filled with FFFg will wreak havoc on a beaver hut.
A large beach ball filled, with the proper ratio of acetylene and oxygen, will make quite the ruckus if allowed to swing back and forth via a string (from a tree limb) until it stops directly over a lit candle in a Mason jar.
35 lbs of tannerite creates a rather large disturbance and can be heard at least five miles away.
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I may, or may not, have it on good authority that:
A large plastic bag filled with O2 and acetylene and lit off with a thrown cigarette will cause the town police to drive slowly past your garage looking for damage.
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You all have had entirely too much fun. I now feel my sheltered life has denied me some of the finer experiences in life.
I now feel totally inadequate and unfulfilled in my life experience. My bucket list is now growing by leaps and bounds. ;^
TAKE NOTE
I may, or may not, have it on good authority that:
A large plastic bag filled with O2 and acetylene and lit off with a thrown cigarette will cause the town police to drive slowly past your garage looking for damage.
Fire Dept's also inquire about a huge glow in the sky behind industrial buildings and how did a cross bow bolt appear embedded in a fire alarm, (don't ask, I don't think the statute of limitations has run out on that one)
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the fire department takes a dim view of taking ballons filled with hydrogen, taping a fuse too them and releasing them...
or at least that is what I have heard ;D
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35 lbs of tannerite will cause two county deputies to show up.....and since it isn't illegal, ask you to call them the next time because they want to see it blow up.
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Bunch of damned killjoys.
It isn't like some ones going to lose an eye, or a hand. ;D
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Bunch of damned killjoys.
It isn't like some ones going to lose an eye, or a hand. ;D
or a testical...
had a good friend in hs, that was a semi pro dirt bike jumper( the guys you see now doing flips and stuff at the x games) he screwed up on a jump and landed on the handle bars. one exploded inside of his sack. to this day I have not left the ground on a dirt bike.
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I've never played with oxygen and acetylene but read about one guy that did. He was making "bag bombs" out of garbage bags. He made one too big and it put him through a garage wall. :o
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the fire department takes a dim view of taking ballons filled with hydrogen, taping a fuse too them and releasing them...
or at least that is what I have heard ;D
The old fashion Scotch tape, the yellow kind, not the invisible brand, makes an excellent fuse for such occasions.
The Air Police and military tower personnel take a dim view of this after midnight.
OR AT LEAST THAT IS WHAT I HAVE HEARD ;D
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You guys are all worser than anything I'm guilty of...
Geez!
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You guys are all worser than anything I'm guilty of...
Geez!
Sure!!!!! And the check is in the mail. ;^) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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I've never played with oxygen and acetylene but read about one guy that did. He was making "bag bombs" out of garbage bags. He made one too big and it put him through a garage wall. :o
If mixed in the right ratio, it can make quite a boom and concussion.
The first time I saw it done was in my HS metal-fab class. The teacher did a safety demonstration with a 6oz plastic coffee cup. He punched a hole in the bottom of the cup and turned it bottom side up on a welding table. He set the regulators on the proper ratio for cutting, stuck the cutting tip in the hole, and put a one-second burst from each line in the cup. Then he lit the torch (away from the cup) and then waved the flame over the open hole on the cup. It was louder than a 12 ga shotgun and the concussion rattled windows in classrooms all along the vo-tech wing....people were coming out into the halls to see what the heck was going on. He told us that was why you always close the tank valves when you get done cutting in enclosed areas.
I had used torches on our farm many times before.....and went into a job later that required their regular use for the next 20 years....and I always remembered that lesson when in enclosed areas.
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....and I always remembered that lesson .....
One of life’s greatest teachers is experience. Never, never ignore those lessons or you will relive them.
Something the liberals do not seem able to understand.
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If mixed in the right ratio, it can make quite a boom and concussion.
For a window shattering bang, light an oxyacetylene torch, and tune it to a lean flame with a small bright blue tip. Then extinguish it by pressing it against a piece of steel. Fill a small party balloon with the escaping gas to the size of a large potato and tie it off....... NO LARGER! Tape a lit cigarette to the end of a long stick, and touch it to the balloon. Wear ear plugs!
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blow guns are a felony in ca.
Yet blow jobs are a common occurrence in most California city parks.
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Then we have the fun with "Spud guns", and other forms of compressed air cannon.
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For a window shattering bang, light an oxyacetylene torch, and tune it to a lean flame with a small bright blue tip. Then extinguish it by pressing it against a piece of steel. Fill a small party balloon with the escaping gas to the size of a large potato and tie it off....... NO LARGER! Tape a lit cigarette to the end of a long stick, and touch it to the balloon. Wear ear plugs!
After WWII ended, my late uncle came home from the Pacific Theater and went to work for Lockheed in SoCal. He told me this merry tale of adventure in the 1960s.
Searching for a way to alleviate the boredom of a 9-5, post-war, regular job, he and his buddies struck a fine flame on an oxyacetylene torch, "kicked it out" with a boot, and fastened a common balloon over the tip. They filled the balloon to capacity, (about a 12"-14" sphere) tied it off, and placed it under a cardboard box. They then made a "fuse" of newspaper long enough to give themselves time to vacate the immediate area, and lit it.
Uncle Jack said the ensuing ear-ringing boom caused quite a stir at the Lockheed facility, breaking windows and rattling airplane hangers for quite a distance. Fortunately, there was no Facebook or similar, so they managed to keep their collaboration secret.
A teenaged pal and I may or may not have tried a similar experiment on a smaller scale with a much reduced volume of gas--maybe a 4"-5" sphere. If that actually happened behind my pal Dennis' dad's shop, it might have sounded like a pair M-80s. And it could have scared two teenage boys enough that they left the area and hid out until dinner time. I'm just sayin"...
Crusader Rabbit
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This is the same principal these Calcium Carbide Cannons worked when we were kids. A little Calcium Carbide with a little water and bingo, you have Acetylene gas. All it took was an ignition source and you had the big bang those cannons were famous for.
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Shredded MRE heaters in a Gatorade bottle with a little water used to make a big noise....but it was hard to time because it was dependent on the weakest spot in the bottle.
One of our neighbor's sons came home on leave from the USAF back in December and wanted to pop some tannerite. This video is 15 lbs shot about 150 yards behind our son's house. The video never does justice to the boom or concussion.
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Another fun item is a .68 caliber mini cannon.
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I heard about guys using MRE heaters in a water bottle with any unused Tabasco sauce they had to make a kind of tear gas bomb. :'(
P.S. Dry ice and water in a pop bottle can explode with enough force to put a dent in your ceiling. ;D
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You guys are all worser than anything I'm guilty of...
Geez!
Really???
How did you get on this forum ... Mommy's boy ;)
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P.S. Dry ice and water in a pop bottle can explode with enough force to put a dent in your ceiling. ;D
Be careful. I believe the ATF considers dry ice bombs to be Destructive Devices. You're good to go with Tannerite however. Go figure.
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Be careful. I believe the ATF considers dry ice bombs to be Destructive Devices. You're good to go with Tannerite however. Go figure.
if the only destructive device you played with was dry ice bombs... what were you a mommas boy?
;D
ps if you did not have a couple dozen cops and helicopter looking for you after said event... well you need a bigger boom. ;)
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My aunt is still pissed after the day's fun in the video a few posts up. The video I posted was around 15 pounds, but later we did a boom with 45 pounds. That one, even with the blast shielded by a pond dam, shook a clock off her wall and broke it.
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Really???
How did you get on this forum ... Mommy's boy ;)
I'll plead the 5th if pressed.... :):)
And mom wasn't a big fan of my shenanigans...
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funny my dad was actively premoting my "fun" and even providing things like black powder... it was my mom that put the fear of god in me. the belt was a deadly weapon of ass destruction.