The CCSA

The CCSA isn't really much of an organization really. We just skirmish. We play games of capture the flag, escape and evade, 5 lives, attack and defend, and more.

Glove Guns

Unlike paintball, which can be expensive, with age restriction and large bruises, our skirmish is very cheap. Ours guns are home made, and are called glove guns because they use the cut off finger of a latex rubber washing up glove to fire the peas from the barrel. In the most basic form, a glove gun is a piece of electrical conduit, with a glove finger on the end. However, we now have guns that can be reloaded by a variety of methods. The most basic are flick actions, where there is a hole in the bottom of the barrel, connected to a magazine, and you flick the gun upwards quickly to reload. Then came the pump actions, where the hole in the barrel is on the top and is exposed, and the magazine sits on top of the barrel, and is slid back to meet the hole in the barrel, at which point, gravity helps drop the pea into the barrel. And just recently, I have built a bolt action, which is a modification of the pump action, however, the magazine does not sit on top of the barrel, rather it sits on the side, and through working the bolt, the magazine is brought over the top of the barrel and back, to meet the hole, then back down to its resting position.  When you are hit by a glove gun, you bloody well know about it! At first there is a short, sharp stinging pain, which only lasts for a couple of minutes at most, and then a small welt may appear, or even slight bruising. This all depends on what range you have been shot at aswell. Everyone must wear safety glasses to prevent eye injury. Accuracy is a always a problem with glove guns. The way to make a glove gun more accurate is through a good mix of barrel length and diameter. My personal favourite diameter is 16mm, however, barrels range from 14mm, through to 16,20,22 & 28mm. The larger barrels being suited to shotgun style loads. However, glove guns will always be inaccurate, and unpredictable, as the flight of the pea is not very stable. Sometimes the pea will go straight, sometimes, they will curve in any direction, with varying degrees of deflection. Plus, the shooter must also endeavour to pull the glove back as straight as possible, and with enough force to propel it fast enough to travel at a decent velocity. The effective range of a glove gun is about 25m, any past there, and if you do manage to hit someone, then the pea will have lost too much of its velocity to do much damage. Our ammunition is quite easily and cheaply sourced from the local supermarket. For 80 cents, you buy a bag of dried peas, which probably have about about 2 thousand peas. The peas themselves range from having a diameter of 6mm to 8mm, and are not perfectly round (near enough), and are very hard, but at the same time light, so therefore they do not cause too much damage compared to ball bearing (force equals mass times acceleration). And gloves are cheap at a dollar for a packet. They are just normal latex washing up gloves. During an average skirmish you may go through 3-6 glove fingers.

Email me for more info
greigfam@tac.com.au