What weird weapons do you play with?

[Thorpe]

So I know there are alot of firearm enthusists on the site... A batch of guys into archery. What other things do you play with? Throwing knives, spears, harpoons?

I am going to pick up some blowgun ammo and a wrist rocket sling shot tomorrow to keep the geese out of the yard.... Even built myself a grappling hook a few days back (no practical use for one, but thought it was the kind of thing I should own...)

[Xpress]

I have been known to transform ordinary every day objects into flying projectiles to disable assailants... Like the TV remote, or a pen, or coins... :D

[WrEnCh HeAd]

Tactical Tomahawk, ol skool brass knuckle dusters... The old Irish shelalie... I know that was mispelled profoundly but you get the picture.

[hillbilly 200x]

old skidoo pistons are nice to through around, makes a nice mark to

[Vealmonkey]

I'm highly skilled in the black arts of the George Foreman Grill. Also my prowess with the military P-38 has caused one or 2 people to get so scared that they soiled themselves. A well placed flick of the P-38 can take an eyeball right out of it's socket. Then later it can open a can of beans around the campfire. A versatile weapon in the right hands.

[code200k]

baseball bats,and slingshots.flare guns too.Also its not really a weapon but still fun Propane bubbles..

[Chazz of Blades]

If it can be thrown, and is sharp, I've probably stuck something with it. I've always been good with spears and other staff like weapons, I even fight at the renaissance fairs with a mid length spear.


I can do pretty well with a hatchet, and I've always thrown a tomahawk, kind of a throwback to my Apache heritage.

Knives have always been a favorite of him, the bigger and curvier, the better.


And hammers. I bought a nice, hand forged warhammer at a fair one time, and have loved fighting with a long hammer ever since. It's just fun.



And, the weirdest weapon yet: The HellCannon. 6 feet of steel and pcv, made into the biggest, meanest airsoft cannon I've ever saw. We used to take those two seater gocarts, weld on some armor plating, and have some serious airsoft and paintball wars, and the cannon was the answer to that.

[NINJA]

First on the list is a pitbull and next is Kitanas, enter my home by B&E and your likely to lose limbs! Also a 12 ga. loaded with rocksalt for the brave tweakers. After that if your still standing meet my friend, Walther.

[Nevkilahonda3]

Potato Gun!!! Shot one at the garage door(Old wood pannel) I blew out a pannel.....Awsome.

[tomyt175]

x2 for the spud gun! we also made a home made mortar... got a 4 foot length of 5mm round tube, capped and welded one end and made some legs for it, we put in into our old beer keg that is now used as a fire drum, heat it up and drop aerosol cans into it.... 9 times outa 10 they shoot off into the sky in a fair bit of a hurry :)

[swifty]

Throwing knives and axes and studded trail pros on a big stick:lol:

[Billy Golightly]

I'm highly skilled in the black arts of the George Foreman Grill. Also my prowess with the military P-38 has caused one or 2 people to get so scared that they soiled themselves. A well placed flick of the P-38 can take an eyeball right out of it's socket. Then later it can open a can of beans around the campfire. A versatile weapon in the right hands.


I've cut myself pretty bad on a P-38 on numerous occasions. Those things ARE bad!

[dcreel]

As a teenager I went nowhere without my trusty butterfly knife. I was pretty handy with it, I still have the scars to prove it. lol

[Rockman]

Potato guns are the best. We would sit on the big dock at the lakehouse at night and have a few beers. While no one was paying attention, someone would always light it and shoot it straight up in the air. Everyone would run and duck under the tables so they wouldn't get hit from the potato on the way down...oh, too funny!

[plastikosmd]

How about oddball blackpowder guns? These were made in the 60's. Percussion is a 3 barrel set, .451 and .60 roundball, .485 slug. Then there is a flint, .515 roundball. Slug is lightest at 35 lb, rest are around 50lbs. Slugs are custom 2 part projectile that u swage, 700+ grains.

Slug gun with Mitchell scope
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/plastikosmd/91c1dde3-1.jpg

Slugs to right, compare to 55g 22, 168g 357, 250g 45
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/plastikosmd/80c19c81.jpg

60 cal at loading bench
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/plastikosmd/379c7e24.jpg

Flintlock
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/plastikosmd/MVC-001F.jpg

[jays375]

Woof!I don't like lugging around a big magnum rifle much.Those rifles of yours look down right imnpressive!What distance do you shoot with those?

[Thorpe]

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/plastikosmd/91c1dde3-1.jpg

Slugs to right, compare to 55g 22, 168g 357, 250g 45
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/plastikosmd/80c19c81.jpg

60 cal at loading bench
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/plastikosmd/379c7e24.jpg

Flintlock
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/plastikosmd/MVC-001F.jpg

YES! These definately qualify! Makes my 7mm mag look like a girls toy...

[Chazz of Blades]

That takes hand cannon to a whole new level!

[Mr_RPM]

fill it with bird shot and take down a whole flock in 1 shot. lol

[plastikosmd]

2 short reads with lots of pics, first the sport
http://www.blackpowdermag.com/featured-articles/blackpowder-slug-guns-precision-paper-punching-machinery.php

and one of the bigger guns, a 100 lb gun, shoots a 1700g projectile. The man who is shooting it built my scope on my slug gun
http://www.blackpowdermag.com/featured-articles/blackpowder-slug-guns-the-mitchell-gun.php

yea, they are heavy. you are not lugging them throught the woods! Dont forget, caliber is rather small for barrel size, my biggest is a 60 cal, smallest is a 45, and I have a 32 in something else. When you look at the muzzle, it is a tiny little hole in a big blank of steel. Here is a muzzle pic with the 'false muzzle' off. The false muzzle is for loading so that you dont damage the muzzle crown or rifling (it is a muzzle loader so lot of passing of stuff/rods etc for cleaning=accumulated damage) The post on the false muzzle is to remind u to take it off prior to shooting, it blocks your front sight=good reminder.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/plastikosmd/MVC-010F.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/plastikosmd/695637d1.jpg
here is how slug is made, cast in 2 pieces, front has lead/tin combo to keep it from getting mashed when u load it, rear is pure lead to expand and engage rifling on firing. you cast them each, fit together and swage to make one piece
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/plastikosmd/84b1fd80.jpg

this is another version, you still load the projectile from the muzzle, note false muzzle in place and the short starter (thing you hit the slug down with to get it going before using ramrod), but you load a round (brass/primer with a wad in it) at the breech, like a normal single shot. The slug sits about 1/16 off the case, this is checked with a fitted breach loader that mimics the chamber, and round, made of brass that you push in the breech end to check that the slug is in the right position (sorta like a fake round, it is the brass thing under the gun) Gun is sitting on boxes that all hold barrels for the other ones that I have shown
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/plastikosmd/54062cd9.jpg