oh btw this thread is really old (2005) and I'm pretty sure everyone knows this now seeing as it is 2008, lol good necro tho :)

Would bags of water be reasonable?

I mean it would SUCK to get hit head on by it, but it's safe and shows splash damage. You could launch it with a cardboard base so that the initial blast doesn't break the bag.

Take a tornado grenade, attach a parachute to it, set the timer and launch it up into the air? Could make for a pretty effective spread/area effect. Tho the parachute would have to work 100% cause im guessing those grenades weigh a fair bit.

Why not just lob a paintball grenade? The pink or green would definately tell you who got hit. :rolleyes:

I love hosing my aeg down after a good game of paintsoft...

but the problem with paint and water is that you dont want any on your gun...


then the Tornado grenade idea, that stuff is expensive, and i wouldnt want to go pick those things up after a game

I'd just like to make a point here that we used while making all of our mortar shell designs:
Just keep in mind that sooner or later someone WILL get hit in the head with one of these rounds, it's your job to make sure it won't kill them :)

what about cherry bombs? they make a small flash and bang and are fairly cheap?

Fire hazard and now your going more into the flashbang side of things. They're talking about mortars.

Wow, my first necro-posted thread! I feels special....

This can be locked/trashed/whatever. These ideas haven't died, just 'evolved'.

dont trash the thread it still has good ideas. it is just that someone necroposted.

its great we are all wondering creating, home-made ways to make this work, but how about we put our heads together and suggest the producing companies a REAL idea. I mean we have airsoft grenades (you know the ones that dont spray but just blow up and if ur 20yards away ur out), so we just need to thing how can you engineer a similar 40mm item... Something that can be propelled by gas up to 100 yards(or even 50 would make us happy), and as it is propelled out is should strike the fuse, so it will explode around the time it drops. I think its a reasonable idea and its possible. what do you guys think?

Styrofoam cup packed with BB's and the opening taped shut. It hits the ground and WHAM BB's go flying....

Now getting one of these bastards on the forehead would be a bitch....

Here's the first idea that I thought of.
Reusable mortar round seems mechanically simple and can be made of materials that for the most part, wouldn't hurt if hit directly. Also a direct hit won't shoot BBs into your face as they come out the back.

It would have to be fired with either some serious pressure or maybe some sort of spring system. The round can be wide enough to create a seal around it if a gas launch is used.

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/6...rtartc2.th.jpg

Its just an idea but an AI grenade as a motar round wouldnt work to terrible. As long as it was fired using compressed CO2 and not pyroblasted out of some tube.
However it would get costly if you kept losing them and well...theres that other thing....you know ...that thing...about someone accidentally getting beaned with one.

Ive got a bunch of ideas on some decent motar shell designs but none are cost efficient.