How would I go about and make a gun completely out of wood, only the firing pin would be metal.
Is it even possible?
How would I go about and make a gun completely out of wood, only the firing pin would be metal
Luke Baker
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Evan Campbell
It is called a bow and arrow
Jack Edwards
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thats how
Jace Jackson
I think it's just a bow, the arrow would be a bullwet in this scenario.
Matthew Wilson
>Is it even possible?
No, If this isn't bait, wood isn't strong enough to withstand the forces from the pressure of quickly expanding hot gas, the thing would explode in your face and turn you into a hedgehog
You could always make a Crossbow though
Aiden Adams
They did a myth busters episode about a wooden cannon
I seem to remeber it didn't end well.
Jason Jackson
wtf is a bullwet.
Carson Gray
not b8 m8. serious.
So maybe a crossbow with a bullet on the end?
Gavin Jenkins
>They did a myth busters episode about a wooden cannon
They did do a ductape cannon one however, which did do the trick (though I think it was slightly too damaged after the 1st shot for a 2nd to be reliable).
Gabriel Gutierrez
>Is it even possible?
Possible yes, but the effective range will be very short and the pattern somewhat sporadic depending on the grain of the wood.
Kayden Miller
Wouldn't it be a cartridge?
Charles Anderson
I think some central European city tried that in desperation while under siege a few hundred years ago.
Jaxson Rodriguez
Like this.
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Noah Ramirez
The arrow wouldn't be spent though, it's more like a bullet that could be reused without having to reload it. It's the projectile that is fired, and can be reused. So it's "casing" is part of the projectile.
Benjamin Miller
If you are willing to replace barrels every 2 shots and chamber it for a cartridge too weak to be practical, sure why not
Noah White
That would just make the feathers the barrel, the shaft the cartridge, the head the bullet, and the string the gunpowder.
Tyler Clark
I know there are some accounts of making very early one use blackpowder guns out of bamboo shoots in medieval South East Asia. Also claims of improvised one use small cannons made out of hollowed out logs that could only use grape shot in wild west times.
Isaiah Rodriguez
Yeah, no steel so they tried a tree trunk cannon.
After firing it over the walls, I think the king said something to the effect of "If it killed this many of our own, just imagine how many of the enemy must be dead!"
Daniel Kelly
We Avengers now
Elijah White
I'd imagine you can make a slamfire type of gun out of wood but the barrel could only take 1 shot so you'd have to keep replacing them
Joseph Morales
Wooden cannons were a thing. Hypothetically you could probably make a matchlock muzzleloader that could fire a few rounds if you bound the wooden barrel with rope or something.
Jonathan Taylor
its called a bomb
Andrew Stewart
A lot of ebony
Jace Lewis
We wuz kangz
Mason Morales
If you use really hard woods for the chamber, like Lignum Vitae and use a small caliber i think you could pull it off
Jaxson Mitchell
They had to jam a metal plug in the front of the wood one and stick a fuckhuge charge of BP in it to actually match the myth (that it catastrophicly failed). Worked fine as a canon when they shot it with a cannonball and a normal BP charge.
However, I think they went plausible due to the likelihood of people unfamiliar with cannons and black powder being likely to go too thin on the walls of their wooden cannon and go overboard on the black powder charge.
Jayden Gomez
Simple just use wooden bullets