Amateurs. (new window)

The perfect gift to hide the fact that your child throws like a girl!

This device seems superfluous, but I'm going to gvs it when I get home to see if it is superior to thrown snowballs.

But what if I prefer compacting snow for a few minutes into a perfectly hard and nose-breaking, "fark you aerodynamics" Cube?

Pfft. Amateurs.

exactly how can this work to project a snowball up to 50 feet. CO2?

cgraves67: This device seems superfluous, but I'm going to gvs it when I get home to see if it is superior to thrown snowballs.

Well, I don't know about this device, but when you need to put a snowball out farther than you can possibly throw it, you could always use something like this:



Trick is to use lots of wadding between the powder charge and the snowball.

seems they could have designed it shovel-like on one side so all you have to do is ram it into a snowbank and press the snowballs. And viewing a youtube video on it shows its just a simple slingshot. Doesn't even have a trigger mechanism.

Video (new window)

Shopped. It only holds 3 snowballs, and two are shown coming out while three are still loaded. I can tell by the pixels.

This looks like one of toys which was cool in the ads, and you really really wanted one, but it drained your childhood spirit when it sucked.

Life has it's disappointments and this will be one.
Drink your Ovaltine.

I'm sure the infinitesimally narrow range of snow conditions, including temperature, moisture content, and packability, necessary to make this device function will exist for 2.8 seconds one morning in December. Then it's into the plastic storage tub in the attic for a decade, then into the yard sale, then into the trash.

I heard an interesting comment from one of those survival shows a few days ago 'The more you know, the less you need.'

We have some many 'inventions' that do stuff for us that we no longer know how to do, and for some things that's fine. I want my computer to be able to do complex equations and calculations and for it to be able to double check my spelling, and indent paragraphs when it knows I'm too stupid to realize I actually wanted that extra bullet point
*right there.
*But I draw the line at snowballs.

If you can't all see we are at the tipping point, humanity is lost. Picture this, years into the future after computers determined we actually did want to nuke the crap out of each other. Humanity is hovering on the brink in nuclear winter and the warehouse full of potted meat product that you are your radioactively deformed family have taken over is under attack by a group of neo confederates.

They come at you with guns that fire oil and flame. The risk of the building going up, and your family being horribly burned beyond recognition is undeniable. You whip out your trusty snow ball throwing 'gun' and it jams. What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO?!

If only you had learned how to propel a snow ball on your own, using your arm as a catapult to launch the ice packed frozen ball of death at your mortal enemies.

No. You never learned, and now you lie dying in the snow as the oil spewing neocons take control of your business and crush the will of your family, using their plight to strike fear into anyone else who dare oppose them.

If it does actually work and has the capability to fire projectiles 50 feet (and you know throwing only snow will last for a mere hour), you'll probably want to order the accessories, like the Pocket Umbrella Insurance Policy.

Hammer-Slammers always has the best toys!!!

Do you get an airstrike after 7 kills?

I would be impressed if this thing worked half as well as they claim. Sadly, It seems unlikly that you could accelerate a snowball enough to thow it 50 feet in the short length of that barrel unless it were very dense, wet snow.

I think something like this (new window) would be much more practical.

Torok: I would be impressed if this thing worked half as well as they claim. Sadly, It seems unlikly that you could accelerate a snowball enough to thow it 50 feet in the short length of that barrel unless it were very dense, wet snow.

I think something like this (new window) would be much more practical.

Its actually fairly effective too (i've used one of those on snowballs.

cgalant: Video (new window)

That dude has a real nice house. Snowball Shooter, however, looks worthless.

theresnothinglft: I think something like this (new window) would be much more practical.

Its actually fairly effective too (i've used one of those on snowballs.

If you are going to go the atlatl route, rather than using a wimpy Chuckit why not use a lacrosse stix?



Here is a YouTube of some laxer "drilling" his sister.