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    Potato Launcher

    Anyone got any safe direction to make a potato launcher? Shot one yesterday and it had been ten years since I shot one and want build one for myself that way it wouldn't be another ten years.

    #2
    You should probably start out with the Tater Tot model. It's a lot safer.
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      #3
      Here is a link to a website with some plans

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        #4
        Originally posted by ChickenWilly View Post
        Here is a link to a website with some plans
        really? Where? lol

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          #5
          Originally posted by Chew View Post
          You should probably start out with the Tater Tot model. It's a lot safer.
          Funny

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            #6
            Be careful they are illegal.

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              #7
              Mine will launch them over 500 feet

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                #8
                I have a good plan at home I will look up tonight. As far as being illegal, only if they are used for something other than launching potatoes. I checked with my ATF friends before I built mine.
                My dad used to host potato gun contests and they built some pretty wicked looking ones, including one on bicycle wheels to look like a Civil War cannon and one that looked like it came off a Naval Gunship. They could launch them a good distance, but being an engineer with engineer friends, they had to ban the one that launched a potato over a half mile.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Chew View Post
                  You should probably start out with the Tater Tot model. It's a lot safer.
                  thats funny

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by LWArchery View Post
                    Be careful they are illegal.
                    why??

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by stickerpatch59 View Post
                      why??
                      they are considered a "zip gun"

                      PC 46.05(a)(9)

                      (16) "Zip gun" means a device or combination of devices that was not originally a firearm and is adapted to expel a projectile through a smooth-bore or rifled-bore barrel by using the energy generated by an explosion or burning substance.

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                        #12
                        Lemons/limes really fly out of one.

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                          #13
                          So if they are illegal then they need to arrest teachers making the soup can tennis ball launchers too

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by leoparddog View Post
                            So if they are illegal then they need to arrest teachers making the soup can tennis ball launchers too
                            arrest em? ehh.. make sure people have knowledge that these are actually considered prohibited weapons? yes.

                            is any good law enforcement officer going to arrest someone for having a potato gun or soup can launcher? prolly not.

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                              #15
                              Careful. My BIL was arrested along with two of his friends for firing and posessing a potato gun!

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