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Re: spud gun/T-shirt gun valve

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Originally Posted by fovea1959 View Post
The team took on an off-season project that includes a T-shirt gun. It's all working, but the range is a little short. We're using a sprinkler valve to shoot (Rainbird, I believe), shot tank is going to about 50-70 PSI...
What kind of range are you getting with that? We got up to around 300 ft. with that same valve and proper weighting of our payload.

I'll agree with GeeTwo though, you should go with a higher rated valve for safety reasons.