Gun Review: X-Products AR-15 Can Cannon

By Dan Zimmerman

By Roy H.

I took a gamble and spent $399 on an AR-15 upper receiver to see if it’s worth the money to use M200 5.56x45mm blanks to hurl still-full-of-soda cans 105+ yards down range. My high hope was that it would induce Universal Giggles. Universal Giggles is a recreational device-driven term I came up with to describe experiences capable of instantaneously, spontaneously, and reliably reducing uninitiated grown men to giggling uncontrollably like little school girls after during a particular experience. Other devices and products in this category that are capable of inducing Universal Giggles include machine guns, and exploding rifle targets. Did the X Products Can Cannon deliver the Universal Giggles response? Oh yes, yes it did . . .

And in big ways. Launching soda cans 105+ yards and watching pressurized drinks burst spectacularly against backstops in a violent fizzy rage is a joy in and of itself . And then some wise guy said, “Hey, grab that shotgun real quick.”

The ultimate fun from the Can Cannon came when we discovered that you can substitute soda cans for clay birds. I only wish we hadn’t run out of 24 packs of Diet Sam’s Cola so quickly. It …read more

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