rockets or flares, what do you think is safer to fire from the shoulder?

I'm more or less trying to make a sub caliber kit for my law tube. I'm contemplating either making several single shot flare launchers with a sticky match fuse hooked up to a primer or some sort of small rocket flare.

hurm ... exhuast gases in the face are always lovly in the morning you know the flesh peeling and bacon/burnt hair smell .... that is if you can get one of 2 things to happen either A get a engine to burn under 3/4 a second or you have a main that burns at 3/4 to lob then delay and fire a main

not to mention CATO's suck

You could launch it out pneumatically after lighting a small delay segment in the engine so that it takes off after it gets out a ways. Thats pretty much what warweed said. But if indeed you can produce some near perfect rockets that dont CATO in your face you still have that tail on the rocket that can be several feet long with ease. I seen a video of a 1lb(3/4")nozzle-less rocket lifting 500g without any trouble and the flame front (correct term?) was still touching the ground when the rocket was a good 15-20 feet in the air! Thats not something youd want in your face for sure. You might consider using a star comp that has a minimal tail, something along the lines of a organic colored star.

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z132/benzowarrior/Untitled-1.gif

That would be my basic plan, although I would probably be more tempted to completely change the plan and fire it like a mortar with an e-match from a safe distance.

If you're planning on making the engines to go in there, as pysco says, try and find something with a minimal tail - KNO3/Sucrose often has a shorter tail than BP & charcoal compositions.

EDIT; sorry to be spamming this with images, but I just had a look through my rocket videos, and found a good example of where the tail could be - this, I think, is one of Al93535 from apc, so credit for the vid frames goes to him.

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z132/benzowarrior/rockettail.gif

ive made a launcher myself but never got to firing it.
heres a youtube vid. Its powered by D class motors. the fins are springloaded and wrapped with a kind of sabot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4z4_C861LU

Two or three years ago I made a shoulder fired bottle rocket launcher. Aluminium pipe resonates at such a terrible pitch when one explodes inside right next to year ear.

Nice!

care to take a few close up pics of the fins them selves ?
:)
EDIT:
Just realised i have been with totse for 6 years now as a active member ... well 2237 days

http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1130/3850820/14434969/216417062.jpg
those are three small brass tubes. the first and third tubes are epoxied to the rocket body tube and the middle is a free tube able to rotate. there are small torque springs epoxied into the small brass tubes.

_______ ________ ______
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if you have a hard time visualizing i can model it in cad