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Check out the jewelry he creates from the expanded bullets he recovers.
Rick
Firing a Pistol Underwater
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That reminded me of stories I heard about submarine deck guns exploding when the crews didn't allow the water to come out of the barrels first.
Surprised this guy's pistol didn't explode in a similar manner. Maybe he had a cork in the barrel.
http://uboat.net/technical/guns.htm
The first time I ever saw a potato gun I was amazed. Made a few of them over the years and used to bring them up to my brother's place when the kids were young. My brother is a steadfast engineering type, always has to overthink everything. Well, one time he had a momentary lapse of judgement and somehow managed to put a water balloon in the barrel of the potato gun. We were firing them with Nair hairspray or WD-40 before they de-atomized the nozzles of the cans.
Well, he fired the gun, and the breech exploded, hitting his hand with pvc shrapnel. Luckily he wasn't hurt bad.
Surprised this guy's pistol didn't explode in a similar manner. Maybe he had a cork in the barrel.
http://uboat.net/technical/guns.htm
The first time I ever saw a potato gun I was amazed. Made a few of them over the years and used to bring them up to my brother's place when the kids were young. My brother is a steadfast engineering type, always has to overthink everything. Well, one time he had a momentary lapse of judgement and somehow managed to put a water balloon in the barrel of the potato gun. We were firing them with Nair hairspray or WD-40 before they de-atomized the nozzles of the cans.
Well, he fired the gun, and the breech exploded, hitting his hand with pvc shrapnel. Luckily he wasn't hurt bad.
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Had a buddy that built a mint one back in the day, out of PVC pipe & a rotary-activated flint system (still don't know where the hell he found that). We'd load it up with Aqua Net hairspray & let 'er rip! WHAM!! Right into the side of a dumpster with impressive force! 
Sent a few airborne out of my GF's apartment complex parking lot - must've landed on something ... was a pretty congested area over there. Good times.
Those are some high quality guns he's shooting there. That Kimber is north of 4 figures! I sure as hell wouldn't treat it like that ... unless I was getting 4 figures for each 4 flowers I sold. Law of averages says that barrel will breach eventually. Not sure how much less of an injury your arm would sustain due to the resistance of the water ....
Sent a few airborne out of my GF's apartment complex parking lot - must've landed on something ... was a pretty congested area over there. Good times.Those are some high quality guns he's shooting there. That Kimber is north of 4 figures!
I sure as hell wouldn't treat it like that ... unless I was getting 4 figures for each 4 flowers I sold. Law of averages says that barrel will breach eventually. Not sure how much less of an injury your arm would sustain due to the resistance of the water ....