Tactical Tennis Ball Launcher, with Bacon
For Christmas, my son got Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices. So, we first made a tennis ball launcher, because we had all the stuff laying around. It wasn’t tactical enough so we put an angled forward grip on it. And we used bacon duct tape:
December 29th, 2015 at 3:29 pm
As I pointed out in the comments to the tacticool hammer, the Russian milsurp version comes with a bayonet already attached, and costs a few bucks less than the home-made version. But both are good fun.
December 29th, 2015 at 5:45 pm
What! No flash suppressor?
Everything is better with bacon, everything! You could dress it up with some cheese but none of that fancy Havarti stuff, just stick to Cheddar.
December 29th, 2015 at 9:24 pm
Banned in CA, NY, and MA…
December 29th, 2015 at 9:38 pm
I got that book way back in 2002. Made a pneumatic cannon – http://www.svandyke.com/tt200/tt200.htm
December 29th, 2015 at 11:52 pm
Hmmm, now who could have gotten him that book? His mother?
December 30th, 2015 at 10:52 am
I had to look up the fire kite, and I gotta say that it looks pretty cool. going to have to try that.
December 30th, 2015 at 4:00 pm
The fire kites are extremely cool. Make sure you have square paper, and use the smallest amount of tape as possible. For best results wait for a cold evening/night. My kids and I spent hours with these a few years ago.