Mortar Rounds

[acheekymonkeyuk]

I am trying to make an airsoft morter, now i have looked into the legality of this for a good while, as long as not impact detonated or stabalised in flight then it is classed as a firework

Here is first attempt, very bad and needs refinment, to make sure fingers are kept, but the theory works

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNKQt...&feature=feedu

[b16jus]

Re: Mortar Rounds

Looks good, a friend made one out of scaffold pole and had on shoulder to shoot more direct

[Wølf]

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Mine is currently under construction (just needs legs and painting) but basically i tig welded up an air reservoir as the base for it and used a quick release valve into the barrel, the air chamber is filled via a car tyre valve on the end of the chamber so you just fill it with a bike pump up to about 120psi, drop a thunderflash in and release the valve when you want to fire :D

[-=256=-Swerve]

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Josh at gunman airsoft has been using something very similar in film-sim games for a few years, used it myself once or twice.

It's a right hoot

[Crysis]

Sounds stupid but what do you use? A list should suffice .

[acheekymonkeyuk]

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thermo as the charge, then a smoke as the package

[UndeadGhost]

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does the thermo not just blow the smoke up sometimes?

[Mavrik]

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Ive seen specalist mortar rounds that you can buy. Ive used them on anzio and you just lit them like a thunderflash and drop them down the tube. They work great

[Crysis]

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Mavrik - do you use pipe as well .?

[BraveMau5]

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I've seen this done before with regular 48rnd grenades. Scaffold pipe was used for the tube, with a make shift firing pin in the base. Then simply fill the grenade with gas and BB's, as you would do to pop it into your launcher, then drop it into the tube.

I'm no technical expert on this whatsoever, but this is just a method I have seen used before.

[Figure 11]

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I used to do something similar many moons ago with Airbomb repeater fireworks.
Light the firework, drop it down a tube, the first detonation forces the airbomb out with a second detonation mid flight and a third on landing.
Not sure if they still sell airbomb repeaters though?

[cornishpotshot]

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SWWargames have one of these, although they now use it as an rpg type thing, With a one piece charge/thermo thing.

[dfrear]

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F&O use one sometimes, again, one piece projectile

[Mavrik]

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At savaged wolf yeah launches out of a metal tube mounted at a 45 degree angle thats sealed at one end. you simply drop the lit end of the grenade in first

[Counting Count]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBJtgzMoawg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI25t...eature=related

50mm scaffold tubing with tlsfx's thermo smoke rounds