Costco sells carrots in a uniform size in nice packages. Might be able to make a magazine for the ammo....

Post : Carrot gun packs a punch; improves eyesight
URL : http://hackaday.com/2012/09/04/carrot-gun-packs-a-punch-improves-eyesight/
Posted : September 4, 2012 at 4:01 am
Author : Mike Szczys
Tags : carrot, compressor, cpvc, PVC, rifle
Categories : weapons hacks

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Just in time for your garden's carrot harvest [Lou] shows us how to make a carrot firing rifle (http://howtolou.com/carrot-rifle) . It's cheap, easy, and quick. If you've got 15 buck and 15 minutes you can have one to call your own.

The loading method is quite easy. Shove a carrot in the muzzle as far as it will go, then cut of the excess. Finish up by using a ramrod to push the carrot stub the rest of the way into the barrel. Once you've gnawed down the rest of the carrot nub and connected a compressor hose to the rifle you're ready to do some damage. The video after the break shows a carrot fired all the way through a cardboard box, and penetrating a gallon jug of water.

[Lou] uses CPVC for the project. It takes just a few lengths of pipe, pipe fittings, a valve, and a threaded metal compressor fitting. After gluing everything together he threads the compressor attachment in place and heads to the firing range.

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