death by potato

[yamarider]

Post any spud related artillery here (and don't try this at home, kids)

 

[JonS]

awesome. i've always wanted to build a potato gun.




maybe this will get the "potato" rolling

 

[yamarider]

Here's my biggest pneumatic one:
http://members.toast.net/rikoster/photos//Photo0026.jpg

About 7 feet long, 4" chamber and 3" barrel, should be able to handle about 250 psi but only tested to 100 so far. Ammunition of choice is actually a 16 oz beer can filled with water and frozen, stay the **** out of the way when it goes off though. It'll do a hell of a thing to a Nissan Sentra at 50 yards. Another fun thing, stuff a Nerf football down the barrel and catch your buddy in the back with it.

It takes 2 people to efficiently aim and fire it because of the size, i almost broke my collar bone once by charging it with air, filling the barrel halfway with water, and setting it loose. Kicked so hard it slipped out of my hands and the brace at the end (not in picture) caught me on the shoulder and knocked me down. Won't do that again...

Also have a small one with a 1" barrel that will shoot an after-dinner mint through a coffee can, load about 15 of them down the barrel and they break into pieces as they are fired, that's some squirrel killing shrapnel right there.

Ever shot a golf ball through a car door? Got one of those too, damn thing was a poor design though, about 14 feet long. Golf balls are shitty ammo though, they bounce way too much, catch something solid and it'll come back at you at about half the speed it left the barrel, it'll leave a mark.

Everything I have now is pneumatic, I had built a 2" barrel cannon powered by propane and a MSD ignition with 2 spark plugs, still not as reliable as air and a hell of a lot more dangerous. It's just hard to keep them consistent shot after shot.

 

[DeadLastRacing]

Noice, hahaha. Ill git some pics of our today and post them up.

 

[tyler]

Haha me to. But my other one that had the spark plug broke today i got mad at it, called it a piece of ****, threw it down and it snapped in half. :-/

 

[warriorgirl09]

largest one i built was 3inch bore 4 foot barrel, 5 inch gas chamber, the spark igniter out of a grill burning a mixture of hairspray and propane. trow a damn tater through one of the older thick glassed t.v.'s at about 45-50 yeards

 

[tyler]

Wow im surprised i wouldn't think that everyone would actually have a potato gun LOL

 

[91warrior]

haha me either but they are a cheap way to have fun. i think i have $50 in mine and that was about 3 years ago. has anyone ever shot theirs at night? its pretty awesome how it lights up the entire gun when it goes off

 

[tyler]

Haha ya thats best! it would be pretty cool if you could get a good picture of it when it lights up.

 

[DeadLastRacing]

heres mine, needs a new igniter though.

 

[DeadLastRacing]

Why does that picture look green? This new digi camera sucks balls.

 

[tyler]

lol ya most cameras all suck

 

[1998yamahawarrior]

well you guys bringin tater guns up i had to go and build one what do ya think

 

[jarheadoo7]

that one hell of a fume chamber!! how does it fire?

 

[1998yamahawarrior]

dont know yet i just finished it about an hour ago

 

[tyler]

Ahhh dude you should have used a spark plug that is not going to hold up very long like that.

 

[1998yamahawarrior]

we'll see i have a habit of over building things to stay together and take punishment

 

[tyler]

How did you seal it around where the sparker is in the chamber?

 

[1998yamahawarrior]

workin on that yet but im thinkin some kind of rubber washer or oring, as long as i can still get the nut on the bottom of it

 

[jarheadoo7]

if its threaded use teflon tape.. and lots of it.. i think thats what we did when we were kids.. but we used a grill spark thing to ignite the fumes..