» Thu May 26, 2011 9:10 pm “What the hell are those things?” Danny shouted above the din at the old ghoul who was popping targets with trained lethality. Charon answered from over where he was with Carl.
“Home made grenade launchers!” Danny heard him say. Drew, seeing Danny’s continued puzzlement, took over the explanation in between shots.
“Take an average toilet plunger, right?” Danny didn’t know where to, but ok. “The handle is slightly thinner than the bore of a twelve gauge. Now take a shotgun, also twelve gauge and has a barrel shorter than the handle of the plunger, still with me? Watch it-” There were still dogs and the occasional needle tooth floater to contend with. “Right, now the trick, take any old twelve gauge cartridge, birdshot or whatever, and after scraping out the shot, refill the cartridge with some wadding, load the shell into the shotgun and then gently lower the plunger into the barrel from the top until it’s resting on the wadding from the cartridge. Then duck tape whatever warhead you want to the top of the plunger, angle it in the ground like you would a hand mortar, and woo-hoo, instant ghetto grenade launcher with an effective range up to a hundred meters or so.” Drew took out the driver of one motor that careened into a telephone pole, while three more flaming warheads exploded a little closer than before. “And by the looks of it, they have various sized molotovs taped to them, as well as simple pipebombs with push detonators attached- INCOMING!!.”
WHA-OOMP!!
“..as well as large, simple pipe bombs with push detonators attached to them.” Drew finished.
“Home made grenade launchers!” Danny heard him say. Drew, seeing Danny’s continued puzzlement, took over the explanation in between shots.
“Take an average toilet plunger, right?” Danny didn’t know where to, but ok. “The handle is slightly thinner than the bore of a twelve gauge. Now take a shotgun, also twelve gauge and has a barrel shorter than the handle of the plunger, still with me? Watch it-” There were still dogs and the occasional needle tooth floater to contend with. “Right, now the trick, take any old twelve gauge cartridge, birdshot or whatever, and after scraping out the shot, refill the cartridge with some wadding, load the shell into the shotgun and then gently lower the plunger into the barrel from the top until it’s resting on the wadding from the cartridge. Then duck tape whatever warhead you want to the top of the plunger, angle it in the ground like you would a hand mortar, and woo-hoo, instant ghetto grenade launcher with an effective range up to a hundred meters or so.” Drew took out the driver of one motor that careened into a telephone pole, while three more flaming warheads exploded a little closer than before. “And by the looks of it, they have various sized molotovs taped to them, as well as simple pipebombs with push detonators attached- INCOMING!!.”
WHA-OOMP!!
“..as well as large, simple pipe bombs with push detonators attached to them.” Drew finished.
It would be a specialist ammo for the single rnd shotgun, caravan rifle and sawed off shotgun (anything with a shortish barrel).
warhead requires
-a plunger
-12 or twenty gauge cartridge
-duct tape
-something that goes boom. A bottlecap mine, nuka grenade, molotov cocktail, standard grenade, mine, dynamite stick, or C4.
It would be a high trajectory weapon.
Thoughts?
