A word of advice if you have a potato gun

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Lol this sounds pretty obvious but clean that barrel out everytime after your done with it.

Although this happened to me a few months ago i feel i must share this story to stop pontential uncomfortable situations.

Well i had a potato gun a while back. A combustion gun with a BBQ lighter for the ingnition. It was a damn nice gun. Looked sleek and sexy :). lol. But anywho... I was reading on the net that getting a glowstick, breaking it open, and sticking it ontop of the potato looks realy cool at night. Well i decided to try it. So i did it and it looked pretty cool, there was a nice glow in the dark cloud that came out of my gun after a giant cracking noise from the gun. Everything worked well.

Well the next day i went out with a few friends to do some firings. Well i didn't bother cleaning out the gun, BIG MISTAKE! The stuff from the glowsticks made the inside of the barrel un-smooth (if thats a word) and well nothing good happened. A girl was with us and realy wanted to take the first shot, thankfully it was me who took the first shot because her parents would have killed me lol. I took the first shot and well the last shot. The Potato gun stuck roughly half way in the barrel when the pressure got too great from the ignition. The Chamber, that was right next to my intestines and other internal organs, exploded. I heard an unusualy loud noise, about 10 times louder, and it felt like i got punched in the stomach. I looked down and saw a giant fire ball. Needless to say i was shaking for the rest of the night. Thankfully the gun expolded away from my body. But whew, that was a painful day.

So the moral of the story is clean out your potato gun every single time. If you dont you may be in a bit of pain. Pieces of the gun flew about 20 feet away. And the sheer force of the explosion ripped the barrel off of the chamber, which i sanded down, primed, and cememented on, so that was stuck on like a mofo.

But again, learn from my supidity. Otherwise happy spudding.

PS
Just so you get an idea how powerful that gun was, a potato shot almost straight up had a hang time of 6 -8 seconds. It cleared old growth trees behind my house. It shot potatos out at well over 100Km/h.
Oh yea and the reason i didn't clean my gun out. It was late durring the night before i was shootin, and i tired and forgot to clean it out the next day. It was a happy day after easter for me :).
 
Potato gun....what the hell is that? It seems like you shoot potatos out of it but....why?
 
Woah, dude that must of hurt:eek:

But then again if it were me and my friends we probably would have deliberately blown up the gun, so there ya go!:satan::flamedevi
 
You know what. I realy dont know why i made it. It started out as me being bored and finding the plans on the internet. Its kinda fun to have a gun that can strip the bark off of trees with a potato though.
 
PH - A potato gun is basically a plastic tube - open on one end, and closed on the other. You stuff a potato in the open end, reasonably tight so that it seals. You fill the closed end (through a hole) with butane (something like spreay deoderant or hairspray will do). You then have an ignitor - a switch from a gas barbeque works well. This explodes the butane, creating pressure that blows the potato out.

Furry - aren't you the one who had the "is there a doctor" thread?

(note to self.... Steer well clear of Furry Spatula, unless you want you limbs removed. Painfully):D
 
Yea, well thats me for ya :). I am quite the clutz. I dont know if its im just unlucky or i dont realy think things through to their logical conclusion. Holding combustable gases near body, nah i cant get hurt. Climbing a section of fence that doesn't appear to have anything to deter people from climbing it in an ammusment park, nah i cant get hurt. But ammazingly i have many many many scars at the age of 17, but i only had one broken bone, my wrist in three places in around 90 or so. So i better watch out, it appears im almost due for another broken bone.
 
Is Tim Allen fooling around with someone's computer pretending to be 18
 
:lol: That's a good story! Hehehe, a potato gun... Kinda wish I had me one... Course, I might get arrested for shooting potatoes at people in the swimming pool late at night...
 
Just remember that a potato gun isn't a firearm. At least in the states. Im not sure how legal it is up here in canada though. But i imagine all the cops would do is confiscate it unless of course i caused some property damage. Its pretty funny though. It looks or rather looked like a 6 foot long bong :crazyeye:.

And they are pretty fun and cheap, aslong as you dont explode your gun. You have been warned. And also if you do plan on making one, take a look around the net for saftey tips. There are so many stories of people cathing themselves on fire or burning their faces because they wanted to see what teh explosion looked like and they were looking in the chamber and fired the gun. Sigh even i dont have that ammount of disregard for my life :).


Oh and you're partially right AllhailIndia, my first name is Tim :)
 
Potato gun, eh? I never had to shoot my potatos. They usually just surrender. :cooool:



*rimshot*
 
Potato guns are fun... we got one once and ripped a hole in the bark of a tree. Apparently, the potato vaporized.... we never found a piece of potato left after firing it...
 
I love potato guns ,well "spud" guns alike.I have one for shooting potato's ,one for shooting toilet paper (basicly a toilet paper sized extension on the tube) and afcourse my "melon mortar" wich works really good with water melon's but is quite dangerous to fire (both from the trajectory and for the one fireing).

Nothing more fun than shooting of fruit and vegtable's over long distance's.Beware though ,under this curcumstance's fruit can kill.
 
i believe the site i pulled that info off of was www.spudtech.com I'm not sure though. But i remember reading that the standard Plastic tube potato gun is not considered a fire arm by the ATF. But in canada im not too sure. But anywho, all i know is that when i can actually get a job i'll make another, Economy is getting better my ass :mad:.
 
Originally posted by Becka
Potato gun, eh? I never had to shoot my potatos. They usually just surrender. :cooool:



*rimshot*
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Becka, can I worship you as my new goddess?
 
Originally posted by FearlessLeader2

Becka, can I worship you as my new goddess?
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Of course. :cooool: :p
 
potatoe guns rule - me and one of my friends made one in college - the thing rules - with a little practice, and one guy loading/the other firing, we could get off 4-5 rounds a minuted - we built one with a 4' pvc barrel - chamber that was 2 1/5 times the width of the barrell - screw on back, and apoxied the lighter into the chamber - tight all around - that thing would shoot a potato forever - the first shot we did out of it was against a brick wall about 5 feet away - vaporized the potato - couldn't find a piece bigger than a piece of sand -
the good old days
 
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