Another kaboom: blame reloads
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September 8th, 2011 at 10:13 am
Too much black powder? Geez, that’s never happened before, has it? 😉
September 8th, 2011 at 10:39 am
What is wrong with PVC and Hairspray as propellant!? When did Black Powder become involved?
September 8th, 2011 at 10:40 am
Or was it butane? I can’t recall.
September 8th, 2011 at 11:02 am
I used mapp gas and Oxygen… Of course I had a monstrous cannon too.
September 8th, 2011 at 11:36 am
I LOL’ed at “I saw him sitting on the ground and I said ‘hey you shot my house.'”
September 8th, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Metal tubular device, black powder propellant? I have made potato guns, shot potato guns, and outgrown potato guns, and a CANNON is not a potato gun.
September 8th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
What caliber potato do you use for zombies?
September 8th, 2011 at 12:47 pm
“What caliber potato do you use for zombies?”
Don’t shoot food at the Zombies. You need to eat that stuff.
Instead, make a 66mm cannon, which will be just slightly larger than the diameter of a standard dimension cola can. Drink the cola carefully, then fill the can with pebbles first, then dirt to fill in the gaps. Shoot the pebble-filled cans at the zombies.
Caveats:
– Make sure the cans are completely packed tight with rocks and dirt so they don’t deform on launch. If you have a stock of plaster of Paris, that’ll be a good dirt replacement.
– Hoard toothpaste. Nothing makes the zombie apocalypse worse than having cavities at the same time.
September 8th, 2011 at 4:27 pm
I blame Obama. The government should have stepped up regulation of EBTGs years ago. There needs to be more oversight, an EBTG Czar needs to be appointed.
September 8th, 2011 at 5:18 pm
I think the problem was not an overcharge, he just should have thawed the Tater-Tots® before firing.
September 8th, 2011 at 5:27 pm
My last potato gun was shoulder fired, MAPP & Oxy fueled, with piezo ignition. I’d bought a very nice toy Uzi at Toys R Us (just a few days before they banned toy guns!), which I modded to hold the piezo ignition button in the trigger guard), and used JB Weld to glue to the black ABS tube. That thing was bas ass! The typical potato gun would go “Puh!” when you’d shoot it, this bad boy went “BANG!” like a stick of dynamite going off. I even made some golf ball sabot rounds for it, using spray foam insulation in a baggie with the golf ball at the bottom, all dropped into a short section of the ABS tube. Anyway… I used it for a couple of years with no problem. One 4th of July, after the fireworks had run out, the neighbor and I started shooting the potato gun into the air using damp nerf balls as ammo (relatively harmless ammo, but does a good job sealing the tube; it also makes a satisfying heavy “SPLAT” when hitting the neighbor’s house). Basically it was just being used as a big noisemaker a the time. I shouldered it and let off another round, it went “BANG” right by my ear, the tube detached from the Uzi grip, and landed about 20 feet behind me. Damn JB Weld, the repeated concussions finally got the best of it (and this is why I don’t like JB Weld). I decided it was time to retire the potato gun, before I DID get hurt. ;^)
September 8th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
PS That should read “baD ass”, of course. 😛
BTW, onions also make excellent ammo. When you push the onion through the sizing cut bevel, the exposed layers/rings make great seals in the tube. It does stink up the gun something awful, though.