37mm launcher recoil?

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Well, my awesome money saving skills have cursed me again. I just bought a Cobray 37mm launcher. Just what I need, more projects to suck up my funds.

Any way, I've got some questions. What's the recoil on these? I want to mount it to the RIS on my AR180B and have a few ideas. One is to just mount a few ARMS throw levers to the top of the launcher and just slap it on the bottom of the RIS. Do you think that would work?

I've also seen pictures of a guy that simply cut the top of his launcher to slide right on the RIS, that would be option 2.

And I wonder why I never have money. :rolleyes:
 
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Armedsask said:
No 37mm owners can tell me the recoil? Would the ARMS throw lever hold up?
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The recoil is very little to nothing depending on what you are pushing down the bore. The big parachute flares give the most push but nothing a little child couldn't handle.
If you are thinking about damage from recoil if you mount the launcher on the bottom rail of your handguard , relax.
We had hade up a bunch of hardwood projectiles on a wood lathe back in the '80s and they went a few hundred yards when held at 35-40 deg. I have steel reloadable bases that we used with black powder. alot of fun and cheap to shoot. One thing though, I had the old style launcher made out of steel while the new ones are aluminum like the M203. The weight may have kept the perceived recoil down.
If you have access to a lathe I can shoot a print of the reloadable cartridge base to you.
Josh
 
The ARMS should work just fine.
I like the reloadable base because it is steel and uses shotgun primers. I had reloaded the empty cases but it was so long ago I cannot remember what I used for components.
What crazy things have you in mind for projectiles? I thought if I ever get another one I would make some massive trasers :D
 
Well some solid plastic slugs for sure, like the ones Koldt runs. Play around with some bean bag or rubber ball rounds. What's the diameter of golf balls?

Maybe some smoke or exploding rounds. By exploding, I don't mean grenades, I mean like fire crackers or something, just for the boom. As long as they don't explode on impact they should be legal by the way the law is written.
 
With those mounts, will one fit on an AR180B midwest-industries forend with the accessories rails? If not, would it fit on the standard forend? I think it would look good using the rail forend and mounting some lights and lasers and other great money-sucking stuff..... Is it possible to buy commercially-made 37mm flares, or is it basically all make-your-own? Also, do you have to order the cobray launchers before they make them? That's what I got the impression of off of their site.....
 
I sold mine last summer at my rummage sale for $35 USD.
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Ha, sucker!

Also, I'm sad. Brassmanbrass.com won't ship to Canada due to the post office loosing their packages! Grrr!

Any Americans want to forward an order of 37mm brass for me? ;)
 
hEY sASK,

you should try and use some model rocket engines and launch those babies!

mini tomahawk cruise missiles launched from your 180 B, I'd bet you coulsdsomehow contain it in the shell and ignite it with primer.

Model rockets - legal - AR-180B launchpad :D who knows they may be accurate too!

fed
 
Fed, I've got an empty LAW66 anti-tank rocket tube that I was going to make reusable rounds for that ran on rocket motors, just never got around to it. Maybe one day.

I've got so many unfinished projects it isn't even funny. :D
 
fed007 said:
Model rockets - legal - AR-180B launchpad
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Be VERY careful with model rocket engines. The "Explosives Regulatory Division of Natural Resources Canada" said "Model Rocket engines are exempt from restrictions ONLY if they are fired within 10 degrees of vertical, and are housed in nothing other then G10 or cardboard, period. Firing them in any other matter make you liable under the explosives act..."

So, using model rocket engines, you better be shooting your M203 straight up ;) , and make sure only cardboard goes up with it.

Use a heavy lift charge, they are neat to see blown out of the tube, then light up and take off. Kinda like those crazy missiles that are launched under water, then light up once they clear the surface. Sweeeet.

-Jamie M.
 
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