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Step 14The Operation And Features of the Hirsch Angocellum Rifle
page by page she leafed through the dilapidated field manual.
A growing sense of terror grew within her only strengthened
by the information each additional paragraph emparted to her inquisitive mind
A note on the name . . .Abstraction Abstraction Abstraction! the Hirsch part is an alteration of my own name and the Angocellum is a corrupted combination of Latin words roughly meaning to compress or squeeze together and sky/air. I hope this has a sort of victorian/steampunk sound to it but I'd be more than open to hear what you think of it!
ok to operate this thing you simply place your projectile into the muzzle and ram it down to just before the first elbow (not inside the elbow or you could get it stuck: this can be remedied by driving a thin screw into the barrel just in front of the elbow to stop the loaded item from traveling too far) then hook a bike pump up to it (one with a pressure gauge is convenient but not necessary) and put something in the neighborhood of 70-75 PSI into it (yes you can go higher but this pressure is just fine performance wise and I don't want to go much higher) making sure your valve is closed (if yours has the manual override like mine). Then take aim at something that will not be damaged and pull on the blowgun's lever and hold it down.
Open your valve to release any remaining pressure (sometimes the projectile leaves the gun before all the pressure is released). and retrieve your projectile if it's not biodegradable.
I've used mine to launch the following effectively:
Slainte!
Kaelessin
A growing sense of terror grew within her only strengthened
by the information each additional paragraph emparted to her inquisitive mind
A note on the name . . .Abstraction Abstraction Abstraction! the Hirsch part is an alteration of my own name and the Angocellum is a corrupted combination of Latin words roughly meaning to compress or squeeze together and sky/air. I hope this has a sort of victorian/steampunk sound to it but I'd be more than open to hear what you think of it!
ok to operate this thing you simply place your projectile into the muzzle and ram it down to just before the first elbow (not inside the elbow or you could get it stuck: this can be remedied by driving a thin screw into the barrel just in front of the elbow to stop the loaded item from traveling too far) then hook a bike pump up to it (one with a pressure gauge is convenient but not necessary) and put something in the neighborhood of 70-75 PSI into it (yes you can go higher but this pressure is just fine performance wise and I don't want to go much higher) making sure your valve is closed (if yours has the manual override like mine). Then take aim at something that will not be damaged and pull on the blowgun's lever and hold it down.
Open your valve to release any remaining pressure (sometimes the projectile leaves the gun before all the pressure is released). and retrieve your projectile if it's not biodegradable.
I've used mine to launch the following effectively:
- Paintballs (fit nicely but you have to wad it a little bit with tissue paper)
- pieces of potato (use another piece of pvc as a bullet maker and then load the slugs as any other projectile)
- dirty wadded up tissues and paper towels (great for testing the gun since they aren't hard and won't go too far once they open up)
- the above wrapped in electrical tape to form a ball shape that fits perfectly into the barrel make great reusable ammo
- a sharpened 4inch piece of coat hanger with a cone wrapped tightly around the back (like a blowgun(amazonian this time) dart) works wonders and will bury itself in a tree)
- Confetti makes a great scattershot!
Slainte!
Kaelessin
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it's made for a nerf gun but I think it could be modified to fit nicely