Potato guns

No kidding, there is a company in Nevada that is selling an apparatus to kill squirrels that way. They, however, use a measured dose of propane, designed to kill them with concussion.

Blowin' 'em out of the hole is alot more fun. Hello, Rocky & Bullwinkle!

P.S. crexrun - GROUND squirrels!!! Whaddaya think, we're nuts?
 
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Ahh, I see, I should have put my deductive powers to work first! See, up here in the sticks known as South Dakota, we don't gots too many uf dem der ground skirrles, we only gots da kind up in dem treez. So when somebody says squirrel, my space-for-rent cranium says "oh, tree squirrels!" Thanks for clarifying, bentpencil! Crexrun
 
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You should have shot them BEFORE they were emptied! Would have been more dramatic! And the propane in a tree sounds like a great recipe for smoked squirrels! Or maybe woodchips! Good ones guys! Crexrun
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I shot one that was half full through one side of an old plywood deer stand. It exploded on its way through the plywood, and made quite a mess inside the stand. It was an old unused stand that the legs had rotted out from under, so no real property was destroyed. If I knew someone with a brick wall they weren't using, I'd love to see what kind of splatter pattern it would make on a solid surface!
 
Meant no disrespect to tree squirrels. What you have to watch out for is a skunk that may use an abandoned squirrel hole. Can cause a backfire, and that ain't fun.
 
It just dawned on me that the people who gave me crap about hunting squirrels with propane are probably the ones who go fishing with a stick of dynamite.
 
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I think there are 2" and 3" metal pipes. Why not use them for a spud gun? "

I have wondered this myself, I have started to use large sections of iron pipes for my firework mortars and have found them much to my liking.
Get a BFH and pound the iron pipe into the ground and you're ready to rock, it doesn't matter what I load or what possibly could go wrong as it has no possible chance of rupture or being toppled and firing somewhere you don't want it to go.
I also have an aircraft aluminum version but for ease of use and safety, who cares about the extra weight.
Tal
 
Spud guns rule

Several years ago, I built one out of PVC, powered by a gas grill sparker hooked to 12g wires that arc inside the chamber. I have shot walnuts through sheet metal with it using cheap hairspray as fuel. The most explosive fuels that I have used were genuine ether starting fluid, followed closely by Ban deoderant powder spray. Apples, onions, chunks of watermelon or pumpkin, etc. are all good projectiles. I beveled the inside of the barrel end to get a tighter plug, and I used to lube the barrel with dish soap.

Here's the kind of power that you can get with a spud gun -

While I was out on a boat one time with some other zeros, I did the following:
Shot a potato up into the air
Put the gun down
Stepped over to the cooler
Opened a barley pop
Slugged down half of it in one gulp
Then, in the middle of a huge belch, the potato splashed down about 50 feet away.

I'm kind of afraid to shoot it anymore. I have thought about wrapping the body with several layers of fiberglass packing tape to help contain a backfire. I have also thought about using the black schedule 80 - much stronger. Metal pipe would be good, but it would be heavy. Also, I couldn't use my sparker ignition system because it would ground out on the gun body.

But then, I could just f***ing grow up too, I guess.

I used to be a bigger a-hole than I am now, but I think can still hold my own!
 
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We really enjoy our compressed air model built with an irrigation valve.We have several interchangeable barrels. Our favorite targets are large pine cones we have lots of lemons for ammo smells great too.
 
We used to build them in high school for shits and giggles.
Nothing fancy jsut a bbq igniter , a master cylinder and a PVC barrel.

THOOONK !!!!
 
I'm thinking of a chicken wire or hardware cloth wrapping to slow down the shrapnel if it fails.

Never built one, but neighbor kids had one they shot tennis balls out of back in the 70s/.

Anybody who thinks this is juvenile is just...well. My 80 yr old FIL still flies kites and loves to shoot fireworks. :cool:
 
I built one but it's a real one. The only way to go 1911
 

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I built one but it's a real one. The only way to go 1911
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Topic is "Potato Guns" - yours must be for some small 'taters!

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