Quote:Ammo that can be slung a known distance and then causes serious drag to drop it mid air parachute style. It will allow people to have actual expensive sets of premimum ammo without fear of losing them. Backstops will no longer be needed to be a serious target slinger. Target slinging will be possible anywhere within reason at any time. But so far no one has come up with the answer.
As it stands that is the one thing that prevents me from practicing all the time. This absolutely maddening pattern of making or buying perfect ammo and despite ridiculous lengths taken to find them all they eventually all disappear. What a PITA.
Hmm, I can probably make that.
never considered it before. But then I mainly miss targets in competition. Like most of us I rarely miss when there's no bugger shoutuing at yoiu are trying to brain you with sideways rocks.
But yeah i can think of several ways to do that. The hard(ish0 part would be to make them individually tuneable.
But i could sell different inserts.
Doifferent slings and throwing styles impart different spin rates - as does different power throws.
So you couldn't guarentee a distance per insert just something: long, medium, short, really short and 'don't drop before you throw'.
The only issue I can see would be the braking mechanism.
A small parachute is probably going to be the most practical and easiest to make.
In fact that eject machanism is probably going to be the single difficult part of the whole affair. And where do you buy cheap rolls of parachute silk ?
(5 minutes later)
My brain must actually be working today.
there are two abandoned pop up tents in the local area
(one is where zud got the sticks for his captured pouch staff sling from).
Not silk - but just as practical and free and plenty of it.
Plus it should cut really easily on the laser cutter.
Now i just need a decent pattern for a small parfachute
Right that's materials sourced lol Now for the hard part.
lol or maybe not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYm1_nedVu0However I reckon you could also use the same basic mechanism (and yes i am being deliberately vague lol) to ignite a small smoke pellet. the kind of thing that plumbers and electricians use to trace old pipes should work quite well and are cheap and easy to buy.
bear in mind it would have to be based on the number of rotations
Well if you wanted to make a fairly cheap(ish) mechanical one.
If you want to put a mini gps chip in with an armature triggered brake - that's quite a bit more complicated and probably (definitely) beyond my limited electronics skills.
But a mechanical one - yeah i'm pretty sure I can make that
It might take longer than this competition to make the parachute eject mechanism -but we'll see,
there might be something in the workshop i can modify. And if you'd ever seen my workshop, you'd realise that the answer is: yes there is definitely something in here - the hard part is going to be finding it
It will need to be glande shaped, don't think ypou could do it with spherical ammo that tumbles more than spins. And you'll need to load and throw in a definite orientation.
But yep - distance braked ammo, I'm pretty sure I can produce a kit to do that.
As far as the jet glandes goes. I hadn't (well i almsot did) factored in shrinkage. Although it is why i made the fans squashable as i thought they would deform as the clay shrunk. Nah - you just get round fans and cracks.
So I'll make a couple and let them dry without fans and then make the fans to fit the final diameter of the shaft.
The ones i made are throwable - I just keep forgetting to take them with me. Plus not going anywhere I can throw them at the moment.
between phoebe recovering from a cruciate ligament operation and dream being distracted by all the bloody females in season in the area. I'm not currently doing my usual dog walks.
Right - distance locked ammo - I'm on it
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