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Surprised to see people talking about spudguns firing whole potatoes! I didn't even know that was a thing. The spudgun I had when I was young just fired small p
by m-i-l 2y ago
Surprised to see people talking about spudguns firing whole potatoes! I didn't even know that was a thing. The spudgun I had when I was young just fired small parts of a potato, with a whole potato enough to last for ages. I think it was the Lone Star Spudmatic. Not only safer but less wasteful.
FWIW, it looks like Wikipedia differentiates
the smaller spudgun from the larger potato cannon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_gun vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_cannon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_cannon
- spjwebster 2y agoYours is definitely the spud gun I remember, and I suspect that's true for most folks of a particular age from the UK: a small die cast red gun and a monster potato to feed it ammunition. If we're talking home made back garden arsenal, the go-to for my generation was the peg gun: https://www.instructables.com/A-Great-Peg-Gun/ https://www.instructables.com/A-Great-Peg-Gun/, which is, in retrospect, absolutely irresponsibly lethal with the right tension elastic bands.