Shooting 3D Printed Cannonballs 

What was your favorite 3D printed cannonball design? Want to see us shoot anymore printed designs? Have one of your own? Let us know!

2:37 What happened when the ball hit the wood is honestly more impressive than any exploding watermelon (although less flashy)

Need to get you connected with the Slow Mo Guys. Seeing how each of the rounds flew would be really cool, especially at impact.

I don't know how you came up on my feed...but anybody who tries this hard to make this kind of video...deserves My subscription!..keep up the great videos! 👍

holy shit finally a cannon youtuber!

A suggestion for your aim with 3D printed projectiles: Put a laser pointer in the barrel after loading the gun to adjust the aim before firing. Maybe you'll hit more

imagining you coming out of Costco with 50 melons and duct tape is priceless! love the content. wish we had slow-motion tracking for some of the designs you have tho

You should collab with the slomo guys to get a better idea of what those exotic rounds are doing in flight

Very cool 👍

Got this video in my feed, I think the algorithm found you.

The spiral cannon ball was my favorite

Nice scenes and editing crazy cannon Dude. Merry Christmas, your new sub in SOCALI

Bloody good video! Liked and subscribed.

I’ve just stumbled upon your channel and you testing different projectiles out of a cannon can be the beginning of a great series. Anyways you earned a subscriber 👍

Dang bro that's badazz glad you came across my feed

Yes, absolutely, aerodynamic designs are inherently more accurate. Though, like everything else in life, there's always a fine silver lining...like flat faced projectiles and most other things will travel reasonably well or accurately as a ballistic projectile if they're moving fast enough, heh. Probably build up something like a precision shooter's shot ledger and put up a poster-sized paper target with a point to aim [at] and develop some consistency with repetition of design and firing/aiming discipline. Build your own high speed camera if you can and record the shots as an after action report for post analysis. Probably record the building of the camera too and upload for the interested, hobbyists, et al., it'll need some more eyeballs. Keep consideration for title, description and keyword usage so you can net some more eyeballs from people of broader searches, kind of like getting sidewalk traffic with window marketing. Add in beginning, mid and end short in-picture animation for audience to like, comment and subscribe; and try to be active in comment(s) and with the build up [in] community and similar [topic] demographics, within reason, to develop your audience. Success is refinement of small things done well, consistently. Good luck, looking forward to future uploads.

cool video! got my sub and a thumbs up. happy holidays cannoneer!!

Huh. Very interesting how the shots flew. Suggestion for weighting them down is print them in halves, before glueing in some lead fishing weights inside. Alternatively, you could also 3d print a sabot around a more dart like design. Another suggestion is to play around with the flutes on the spiraled shot, see how aggressively you can make the fins angle of attack before it knocks it off course

Dont forget 30.06 there's still a lot of these rifles around.

This was fun to watch, though I would defer on what the rounds are doing without using proper slow motion equipment to capture what they're doing... The flat head diabolo shot (they aren't bb's) surprised me though... The main reason is simple enough, I use .177 and .22 round nosed diabolo's for pest control in my air rifles since the pointed ones tended to over penetrate when dealing with small game and I use the flat headed ones for target shooting. So long as there's no crosswind, they're VERY accurate

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Nice job printing and experimenting with these projectiles. I just found this channel and two minutes into this video i subscribed. I'll be watching every one of your videos from here on out, good luck with this channel. Merry Christmas to you and Happy new Year.

cannons aren't known for their extreme accuracy though

I'd have to see them grouped on paper to pronounce them inaccurate. The strung vertically but they were all different weights and designs.Otherwise the all looked to be right in line, windage wise.

I wonder if you shot a magnesium ball if it would catch fire and be a tracer/incendiary round

As someone who is getting heavily back into cowboy action shooting, I think I need a cannon now 🤔

Having shot a lot of lead airgun pellets, that diablo round really shouldn't give a damn if its pointed or not. The skirt does all the work of keeping it stable in flight. A flat point usually has better velocity and accuracy but sucky penetration. It just hit a higher point of aim than the pointed round did.

Metal 3d printer and hibspeed camera

You have got to edit out the repetition.

I would love to see what cannon flechette shot would be like 😮

What is your bore diameter? I’m wondering if you can find a small camera and shoot it out of the cannon.

Another great video. The Diabolo "pellets" were interesting. What's the bore diameter? If I can think of anything that would work as a projectile, I'll suggest it in the future.

Attach a laser pointer.. Come on now :/

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