Scoring based upon distance and accuracy, you should also get a point if you don't blow yourself up [Coffee]
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Scoring based upon distance and accuracy, you should also get a point if you don't blow yourself up [Coffee]
Nive, I like that. So most folks will have a point straight away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazin
I thought there would be more interest in this, maybe it is not as cool as I thought it was gonna be
I thought there would be more too... But there never was... That's why I didn't bring it back up... But in the old thread... We discussed potato skeet...Quote:
Originally Posted by spleify
could i use a potato gun that has a bottle of map gas and oxygen on it? hahaha
open notepad... start typing..Quote:
Any suggestions on how to create some basic guidelines
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hold this on a Sunday and im down. (my only day off)
I think my home brew golf ball cannon is out. Can't ever find the ball. Pretty sure it cleared 1/2 mile.
How will distance be measured? People standing down range?
I'll volunteer to help run officiate. I'll even help propose some rules later today. I used to build these a bunch when I was younger.
I like the idea of accuracy and distance. With distance, you do one point per yard over 100 (or some number). With accuracy, you do a noticeable object. Touching is, say 300 points, and you lose 3 points per yard away from the point.
Any explosions or dangerous malfunction = disqualification.
Ideally, you weight distance and accuracy equally. So 50% of the score is distance, and 50% is accuracy.
Just putting this out there as a strawman for people to beat on.
Competition Entries:
1. Limit of 1 gun per team.
2. No set limit on number of team members per team.
3. At least one gun from each team has to have been made by a member of that team.
4. A maximum of 4 warm up shots will be allowed prior to competition.
Gun Production Regulations:
1. Fuel1. A pressure above 1 ATM (15psi) may not exist in the combustion chamber prior to ignition
2. Permitted Fuels consist of:
- Hairspray
- Ether (“Starter Fluid”)
- Organic Fuels
- Compressed Air
3. Disallowed Fuels2. Chamber and Barrel Size
- Acetylene
- Solid & Liquid Fuels (ie. Black Powder, Gasoline)
- Maximum barrel length of 36"
- Maximum overall length 60"
3. Safety
- Chamber must be sealed prior to ignition.
- Potato must be loaded into the barrel prior to fuel being added to the chamber
4. Ammunition
- Shot must consist of solid potato randomly chosen by a member of another team
- Shot may be dyed if desired (dying is useful in determining what shot belongs to your team, which leads to more accurate recording of attempts)
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1. Fuel1. A pressure above 1 ATM (15psi) may not exist in the combustion chamber prior to ignition
2. Permitted Fuels consist of:
- Hairspray
- Ether (“Starter Fluid”)
- Organic Fuels
- Compressed Air
not sure if this would work with compressed air/gas guns... typically a firing chamber is pre-pressurized though a low volume, high pressure valve of some sort... and then the spud is fired by opening a large volume valve of some sort, usually a 1/4 turn ball valve..
or would a compressed air gun be exempt because it has neither a combustion chamber, nor ignition?