just a thought about an airsoft mortar...

[donlee]

I was thinking about an airsoft mortar and i saw a lot of peoples ideas and they were really complex and it required fuses, fins, bottles, CO2 and pyrotechnics

and i thought...

maybe it doesn't have to be so complicated

so what i was thinking is
if you buy one of those $2 fireworks that shoot a shell up into the air and just make a loud noise, ("airbombs") and fill it with some 50-100 bb's

you have a mortar shell right there

then you can light it and drop it into a pipe that's about 1 inch in diameter

that way when the firework shoots the bbs and the exploding shell with it, the exploding shell explodes and scatters the bbs and could have an pretty good area effect

iam guessing



it should be safe...

as long as you don't shoot it at people
but then again a mortar doesnt shoot directly at a target

and you probably shouldnt use it in wooded areas



P.S. Canada Day is on July 1st or something so pick up some fireworks

[MestHead]

Ideas for grenades and mortars have been thrown around already on these forums and pyrotechnics is usually frowned upon for airsoft.

[Bowers]

Originally Posted by MestHead

Ideas for grenades and mortars have been thrown around already on these forums and pyrotechnics is usually frowned upon for airsoft.

woodland areas+anything with the word pyro in it=a very angry bowers

[MestHead]

This is probably a better idea....

YouTube - Airsoft Mortar

[Kyite]

Yeah that really doesn't sound like a good idea.

not the video... but the pyro stuff... >_>

[Gryphon]

It's a good concept but one of those "should be safe" fireworks has enough explosive content to remove your fingers. Modifying fireworks is also illegal and dangerous. Having been a professional pyrotechnician for twelve years I've seen a LOT of accidents from things more benign than these so I would definitely not recommend it.

[Dusti69]

to me "airsoft mortar" sounds like something that wouldnt work or is done better by the airsoft grenade
like basically youre launching a grenade into the air?? why not just throw an airsoft grenade into the air?
or throw a handful of loose bbs into the air so it rains bbs

[Corpo]

no need to modify if you tape the bb's to the outside of it, lol. all in all i think it is a bad idea.

the taped bb's may effect the flight of it

[CDN_Stalker]

One of our local guys had one of the airbomb grenades (loaded with dry peas) explode in his bare closed hand end of April. His fingers were numb for about 15mins after, but otherwise he was fine. Fine enough, in fact, to participate in a kickboxing tournament that evening. Lol, fucking guy. At least he busted the myth pretty damned good (should say that the airspaces in among the peas compressed and softened the blow though, wouldn't want to see anyone hold the charge itself in a closed fist and have it go off).

Anyways, Blastyman has made some very nice mortars in the past, that look real and launch Nerf footballs (the kind with the shaft and fins on them, forget the name) a good few hundred feet. They don't explode at all, but the entire thing is very cool.

[Blastyman]

I also built a tennis ball one. Its my main one now cause tennis balls are cheap and I can still shoot a few hundred feet. The nerfs can go like 400 or 500 meters though.

[wraithfmf]

I played a game with blastyman's tennis ball mortar shooting at us. It was pretty intense.

[deep in the bush]

Originally Posted by Blastyman

I also built a tennis ball one. Its my main one now cause tennis balls are cheap and I can still shoot a few hundred feet. The nerfs can go like 400 or 500 meters though.

dude...pm me I am working on a spring design as well.

[CDN_Stalker]

Dug around a few videos of airsoft mortars, found this interesting concept, using a M203 type grenade as a means to propel the "object". Actually is quite brilliant, have a fixed firing at the bottom of the tube, make a sabot to fit both the grenade and the "bomb" into one tube, drop it in, firing pin releases the gas and POP!

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=WYsVtZ9ieK8

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=YBIZZ1r-8-g

[The Saint]

Damn, that's the most realistic airsoft mortar I've seen. How does he get the grenade back out, though?

[Primus]

flip the mortar upside down?!?!