20 Things to Do With Your BB Gun

I don’t know. I just thought that it would be funny to make a post about BB guns since they’re my specialty.

 

Have you just bought a BB gun for your birthday? Or are you bored, staring at your coveted gun, wondering what to do? Or maybe you’re just surfing the web wondering what to do.

 

1. Shoot paper targets.

2. Shoot soda cans.

3. Go on an insect safari.

4. Revenge upon the stray cat that devoured your beloved pet.

5. Shoot the occasional annoying garden-eating squirrel.

6. Eradicate, eliminate, assassinate, destroy – the thing in the garage that your mother screams and runs away from.

7. Go cockroach hunting.

8. Go to the park and shoot down a kite (NO. Don’t really)

9. Pressurize a soda bottle (insert a short narrow tube into a drilled hole in the cap, make it AIRTIGHT, pump it up to 50psi with a bike pump, bend over and tape the tube to itself, and there you have it!) and blow it up. WARNING: only do this with a pellet gun. Or else the BB will go THoink… WHIZZZZZZZZZZ… sMACK. OWWWWW. (in English: richochet)

10. Blow up the old CD.

11. Pick a particular leaf on a tree and see if you can shoot it.

12. Go on a lizard safari.

13. Snipe trick or treater’s candy bags from behind the fence on Halloween to discourage them from celebrating the evil holiday.

14. Make little pouches of flour go PUFF.

15. Blow holes in a full water bottle and watch the water ooze out. (NO, Please don’t. Try NOT to waste water. Please.)

16. Shoot those little spinning target thingies over and over and over again.

17. Fire at the constantly-cawing crow that cackles the blubbersnappers out of you when you’re working outside.

18. Practice your shooting skills firing at the sun. x]

19. Splatter the flies bothering you in the summer with your superior BB.

20. The classic: Let the burglar know who’s boss.

(c) Joshua P., December 2008

Of zappers and lasers…

Over the past week or two, I’ve been working on making a shocker/zapper from a disposable camera with flash (the flash circuit inside it, to be precise) I got free :O (from a film developing center, Wolf Camera) by asking nicely! I want to zap insects with it, it would be really cool! I also modded another camera so its film advance wheel would turn forever, and drilled a hole in the camera so I could access the advancement control gears! Sorry if I sound like a nerd, not all people who act like this are real nerds (forget my blog’s title lol) in other words, I’m not a nerd). I took off the camera stickers. Now it’s all black, like a spy covert camera! The one that I modded can activate its flash whenever I advance the wheel and turn the advancement control gears now (for those of you who are thinking “It could have done that before you modded it”, I tried that, and ended up rendering one of the cameras I got free useless, so beware if you’re gonna try to do this). Here’s the site for modding the advancing wheel so it can turn continuosly if you want to try this: http://www.camerahacker.com/re-use_camera/index.php I figured out where to drill the hole myself, so if you want to know where to drill it, I’ll post a picture sometime soon, if there are requests for it. For making a zapper, just google “kodak zapper” or “kodak shocker” or “camera shocker” etc.

Oh, and my lasers… I’m attempting, that is, I’m still in the process of converting a 5mW regular laser pointer to a powerful 100-200mW burning laser. Somewhere someone said that you could take the laser apart (which I’m still trying to do, the part where the outer casing meets the inner casing of the diode is so hard to remove without damaging the pieces. If anyone knows how to do this, please comment or contact me) and disable the resistors on the laser diode’s circuit board, which will boost the laser’s power. Another way to do this would be to ask nicely at a computer repair/recycling store to get a >=16x DVD Burner and disassemble it to get the powerful (about 150mW) laser diode inside! I’m still trying to find out a place near here that does that, though. Just surfing the web…   Then, you take the diode and create a circuit connecting it to something (it’s too complicated for me right now to understand) and something else (?O_o?). Then you’ll have a powerful burning laser which will light matches, cut electrical tape, stuff like that (though not as powerful as cutting metal, but still very dangerous, especially to the skin let alone the eye).

Man, I can’t wait until I complete all these projects…

The first real weapon that I made!

Recently, I went to the Home Depot nearby to buy tools and supplies for making a longbow. I bought a sureform rasp, a set of files, and a red oak 1 by 2. A couple days later, I used the rasp to make a bow out of a piece of scrap wood I round lying around. The next day, I was tillering it (getting it into shape) and it snapped! Oh well, I made a sword out of it. Gee, that rasp is handy! I just sanded it with the files today. The hilt was the other piece of the snapped wood, with a drilled hole in it and glued on with Weldbond and Wood Glue, with newspaper for filling in the spots where there were big gaps. I made it to the style of a c. AD 1450 hand-and-a-half medieval sword. I loved making the sword. It was really exciting (and addicting).

I’m thinking about starting a business of selling weapons like these for the neighborhood, but I don’t think anyone would buy them. Maybe I can buy a grinder attachment for the electric drill so I can make small medieval sword shaped letter openers! Hmmmm, that would be nice. Here are some pics of my sword: