Comment Potato Guns are Fun! (Score 1) 672
This brings back memories. We used to play with these a bit in high school.
I have deduced that sweet potatoes make the best ammunition if you are interested in sheer destruction. The sweet potato is much harder than your garden variety russet potato, thus breaks much more stuff.
At one point, I even built a metal gun out of boredom and plumbing pipe at a summer job (working for the govt., your tax dollars at work). Never did get to test that one, but the theory was that we could a more fierce propellant (butane, Hydrogen, Plutonium, whatever...) for firing the potato. We never could decide who would have to be the first one to fire it though...
I have deduced that sweet potatoes make the best ammunition if you are interested in sheer destruction. The sweet potato is much harder than your garden variety russet potato, thus breaks much more stuff.
At one point, I even built a metal gun out of boredom and plumbing pipe at a summer job (working for the govt., your tax dollars at work). Never did get to test that one, but the theory was that we could a more fierce propellant (butane, Hydrogen, Plutonium, whatever...) for firing the potato. We never could decide who would have to be the first one to fire it though...
