I finally finshed my rail-cannon last weekend...It is essentially a 2" steel pipe with a .75" bore 2.5' in length. It stands on a reenforced tripod, which is constant level, and fires sharpened steel dowels. The power and sound are amazing, It fires the 1/2 pound rails out of sight into solid pine trees. The accuracy however is terrible as the spikes tend to tumble after 100 yards. Point-blank however the sheer power will shatter young 4" pines. It is loaded with Pyrodex, but I suppose you could use NC as the barrel is EXTREMELY heavy. I raised it on two cinder-blocks, and hit it with a splitting axe and failed to bend it...only surface damage and cracked cinder-blocks :)

If anyone would like plans to this I will draw them up in Auto CAD, and put it into PDF format. It will take we a week or two tho as I am EXTREMELY busy with some waste-water treatments designs that were due LAST week! :(

I would be very interested in thses plans.
(sorry is this is a double as i can't see whether the post was successful or not)

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