New DeWalt Nail Gun?
By J.R. Bluett
Sometimes Toolmonger news just rolls into my e-mail! Rod sent the following “press release” along with the picture above:
Just thought I would show you a picture of the new nail gun DeWalt just came out with…this baby is a Man’s Tool!
It can drive a 6-D nail thru a 2 X 4 at 200 yards.
This makes construction a real breeze — you can sit in your lawn chair and build a fence.
Just get the wife and kids to hold the fence boards in place while you sit back, relax with a cold drink — when they have the board in the right place, just fire away.
With the hundred-round magazine, you can build a fence with a minimum of reloading.
After a day of fence-building with the new DeWalt rapid-fire nail gun, the wife won’t ask you fix or build anything else.
We likey. Just make sure the fam is wearing safety goggles, and some Kevlar.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Today isn’t April 1st so I guess there’s a possibility that this is true.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
This picture has been floating around for years. It’s just an AR-15 with yellow furniture and a couple of DeWalt stickers that someone put on for fun.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Let’s say there is “true” and there is “real.” This is likely a real AR-15 rifle, but it’s not a DeWalt anything.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Nuts. I was all set to buy. If they have an IR scope option, you could build fences at night. That would be handy.
I wonder if they have a .22 long rifle brad nailer that you can get for interior moulding work…
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Wow, Bill…you sucked the fun right out of that one. Bet you’re a barrel of laughs in real life!
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Yeah I must agree,
Keep it fun ….. we can all dream with out Bill throwing salt
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Since the barrel of a gun is made to spin a bullet, maybe they could use this as a screw gun as well
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Yep. I have an earlier version, camo color. Made by COLT. Works fine.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:06 am
A buddy of mine sent me the link to this, as it was pinched off my website. That’s (my) real gun, and it shoots real bullets.
To Bill Bradford - close, it’s not an AR15, it’s an M16. (NFA registered, etc) otherwise, you’re right. I put some yellow furniture on, and stuck a sticker on it. The battery is a 20 round magazine that I epoxied into a dewalt battery casing.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:19 am
How ’bout giving them to engineers in the army. I can’t think of any military use for a nailer, but it sure would be cool
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:20 am
how about a silencer
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 am
oops. didn’t read all the comments
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:24 am
I have a silencer for it, I just didn’t take any pics with it mounted.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 am
Dave (a different one), thanks for speaking up on the source! I looked around on the web to see if I could find an original, but there were a lot of different hits. What is the link to the “Nail Gun” on your website?
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:20 am
JR -
go ahead and email me and i’ll give you the site w/ all the original pics. i’d rather not get my little server hammered
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
heh. it’s a tool themed site. “hammered”… get it?
yeah, it’s lame.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Awesome work, probably would have gotten that instead of my new air-nailer if i had seen it on the shelf at the H-D. Is the stock off a Tipman 98 Custom painball gun? Remindes me of my friend’s one. And you made hackaday by the way.
July 16th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I work on aircraft at tinker in OKC. I know some sheet metal
workers that would like to have something like this out there.
Since it is a government job, they could sit in the break room,
drive rivets at 200m and never get up. And the next great thing about it is there coffee would get cold either.
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:03 am
Hi Dave (a different one),
I’d love to see more info & pics re the DeWalt. Please send me the link….
Cheers!
CapnJim
February 5th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
this is not a nail gun..
its actually a real assualt rifel with i guess some kind of disguse??
but yea its loaded with real bullets no nails but it is cool
ive seen a variety of pictures and it loaded with blow ur head off gun powder all shells..no nails sorry
February 5th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
its not a nail gun its a assualt rifle ive seen many pics
and its loaded with real ammunition…
no nails.. but i guess its just a cool custom theme that was made for what is that an m4 i think
April 20th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
[...] Unfortunately, the buzz on the ‘net says it’s fake, and apparently the image has been floating around the intertubes for a while. Still: this one heck of a clever, well executed project. There’s a guy who claims to be the man behind the stunt here. [...]
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:16 am
Do they do a heat gun? I have some stubborn paint that needs “removing”
June 10th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Not sure Kevlar can stop a flying nail…
June 11th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Greetings. Where can I get one?
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Dave (not the one), I am calling bullshit on you, you are full of crap.
Oh and for the record, that is an M4, not an M16. I would like to call bullshit that it is even an M4, but I can’t see the fire switch.