I doubt this has been done with an Arc-AAA before.

I received this E-mail from a freind I sent an Arc-AAA to for Xmas:

I had an interesting experience with the nice LED light that you sent for
Xmas. I wanted to look at the bore of a Confederate Enfield rifle-musket in
my collection. The bore is .577, so I usually drop in a miniMagLite. But that
light seemed a bit dim, so I decided to use the new LED.

It was an interesting experience! I took off the clip, turned it on, and
dropped in the LED, and looked down the bore. OOOOOUUUUCCHHH! That sucker
is bright!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even down a 40 inch barrel, that is one hot bulb.

The barrel helped focus the bulb, however, and it allowed me to literally
"shoot" the light across the darkened house in a highly focused beam. It was
like having a .577 caliber laser that I could paint on target. Neat!

But then I discovered the problem. The well knurled LED body of the light
wedged at the bottom at a slight angle, and would not come out. Shaking the
gun didn't work. Pounding the buttplate with a rubber soled shoe didn't
work. Smacking the muzzle down on the carpet didn't work. Clearly, I
needed more force.....

So, I did what any red-blooded American rifleman would do. I got the hottest
percussion cap in my ammo can, pulled the hammer to half ****, put the cap
on the nipple, pulled the hammer to full ****, aimed at a pile of dirty
clothes, and fired away. The LED shot out at a nice clip, and landed gently
in a pair of jeans.

So, I invented what the world always needed...the first muzzle loading
tracer round!

Is this covered in Arc's warranty?? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/xyxgun.gif

Fortunately, the clip end of the light took the force of the
percussion cap... Still, I think this is a first. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yellowlaugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yellowlaugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

LOL! That is awesome Gandalf!

Peter

Great story.
ROTFLMAO /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hahaha.gif/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinser2.gif
Glad the AAA made it to fire another day.

I've contemplated it (less the clip) with my .50-70 or .50BMG. Groove dia is .510 on both, but it would engrave in the rifling. The HA might be a little hard on it though. Taxifornia-legal tracer. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin07.gif

Larry

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Man, I really like this idea, Im imagining a high power cannon with an Arc AAA in it to trace how fast the thing fires...forget potato cannons..I want an Arc Cannon!

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We need to make the light modulated though. Since the ARC AAA's output is CW, it is not feasible to measure muzzle speed since it would have to be going really fast to detect doppler shift! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Now with the ARC4, that would not be a problem. Of course I wouldn't want to be shooting a gun with sufficient caliber to fit the ARC4. (Not holding it anyways!)

Cheers!

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Expensive bullets, I might add... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Beamshots /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Now I understand the meaning of the word "bulletproof" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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sharkeeper said:
We need to make the light modulated though. Since the ARC AAA's output is CW, it is not feasible to measure muzzle speed since it would have to be going really fast to detect doppler shift! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Now with the ARC4, that would not be a problem. Of course I wouldn't want to be shooting a gun with sufficient caliber to fit the ARC4. (Not holding it anyways!)

Cheers!

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What about the Arc-RGB? Modulated and same caliber as the AAA.

Stef

Your friend is very lucky. It is well known that even a small amount of snow or mud in a barrel can cause muzzle pressures to rise to the point of blowing up the barrel.

The people that do shell re-loading are carefully aware of exactly how how to determine these pressures from indirect measurements on the shell casing.

It does sound fun however.

i doubt you could damage the barrel with just a cap.

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HarryN said:
Your friend is very lucky. It is well known that even a small amount of snow or mud in a barrel can cause muzzle pressures to rise to the point of blowing up the barrel.

The people that do shell re-loading are carefully aware of exactly how how to determine these pressures from indirect measurements on the shell casing.

It does sound fun however.

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that's hilarious /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

pretty sure it must be a first

LOL you are a visionary,hehe muzzle loading tracer round LOL.

Cool!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/xyxgun.gif
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Blades

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But what we all want to know is:

Did it still work after that? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

It's hard to find lights of this "caliber" . . .

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"Lux" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink2.gif

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That's a great story!

Mike