No shortage for these guns ...yet

[Lesliet]

ATF is keeping an eye on this.

 

[BigDog67]

We used lighter fluid and tennis balls. Made the tube from beer cans and duct tape. Good times. I somehow still have all my fingers.

That is the set up we used to shoot light bulbs at the MPs when I was in the Army.

 

[Josh89]

So how would one go about making one of these and using it?

 

[Flopsweat]

That is the set up we used to shoot light bulbs at the MPs when I was in the Army.

When I was an Electronics Tech (civilian - nothing to do with military) we had spray cans of freon that we used to test for intermittent components. They had a tube on them like a can of WD40 or BreakFree. We also had plastic end caps intended for small screws that fit perfectly over the tube and were the same color as the tube. I would leave the can sitting on my bench with a screw cap on the end, aimed toward the aisle. At casual glance you'd never notice it was "loaded". When my intended victim wandered into the line of fire, I would tap the top of the can and continue about my business. We all wore safety glasses anyway, so what could go wrong? Once a couple of people caught on it was like the Wild West in there for a few days. Then all of the end caps mysteriously disappeared. I don't think we ever ran out of juvenile pranks to pull on each other. Good times.

 

[BigDog67]

We were billeted in huge 3 story WW1 barracks in Germany. My Co. had 1/2 of the first floor, and all of the 2nd. The MPs had half the 1st and the 3rd. We would get in a couple of the windows and keep them from getting in the front door. Engineers don't play well with others.

 

[cigars]

Ice balls...perfect! Sustainable with little to no supply interruptions.

Until Prozanski finds out about it and then he will want to tax it as ammo.

 

[2Wheels4Ever]

Just wait until you upgrade to rocks and aluminum foil sabots! Once you get the sabots down, arrows, pebbles, skewers and whatever else you can find are fair game. My fiends and I used to build these all the time when we were kids. Great times!

 

[CLee0507]

Lot's of fun. A few years back I introduced my daughters to "arts and crafts". At the end of the day we had a few different models, experimenting with different lengths and chamber sizes. Mom wasn't too thrilled when she got home but they will remember launching potatoes with dad in the back yard for the rest of their lives.

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

Spud guns are no joke up close. I've built a few and seen some launches in the hundreds of yards easy.

$10/can of Aqua Net? Now I've seen it all.

first 9mm, 5.56 and now hairspray.... gougers gonna gouge

 

[Pahonix]

$10/can of Aqua Net? Now I've seen it all.

If you can't find hairspray, you could always try gorilla glue.

 

[ZigZagZeke]

We used lighter fluid and tennis balls. Made the tube from beer cans and duct tape. Good times. I somehow still have all my fingers.

Carbide and a spark plug (my ancestors were coal miners). Or we put shotgun powder in a capped 3/4" pipe and shot Lincoln logs out of it. We'd be felons these days and confined to a re-education camp.

 

[Flopsweat]

Carbide and a spark plug (my ancestors were coal miners). Or we put shotgun powder in a capped 3/4" pipe and shot Lincoln logs out of it. We'd be felons these days and confined to a re-education camp.

Number one threat to America today.

 

[ZigZagZeke]

If you can't find hairspray, you could always try gorilla glue.

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She's actually suing Gorilla Glue. I kid you not.

 

[Flopsweat]

She's actually suing Gorilla Glue. I kid you not.

I'm not remotely surprised. There are any number of warnings on the can but of course you have to read. My only surprise is that no idiot has sued Tide yet for their awful tasting pods.

 

[Deerhurst]

Ice balls...perfect! Sustainable with little to no supply interruptions.

They hurt though! Snowballs wouldn't hold up so ice balls it is!

I am pretty stupid. Don't be me.

 

[titsonritz]

Make Vodka!!

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[titsonritz]

Nobody needs more than 10# of potatoes.....

Certainly no honest man.

 

[wired]

Saw a guy launch one at a certain lactation capable marine species once. Oh yeah, I was never supposed to talk about that.

 

[DirectDrive]

The sweet Jessica shows how to operate the Spudgun

 

[TTSX]

Long range precision model?

Semi auto? Full auto? Potato shot gun?