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Post by scoutmom on Dec 12, 2009 12:01:38 GMT -5
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Post by cbk on Dec 12, 2009 12:30:17 GMT -5
Tater Guns are FUN!
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Post by Tommy Thompson on Dec 12, 2009 13:11:47 GMT -5
CBK, did Bobby ever let you shoot his potato gun? We nailed his barn at about 100 yards away. Amazing how powerful a can of hair spray is. Tommy
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Post by jb on Dec 12, 2009 13:17:50 GMT -5
Dawn, in the one shot of your son David holding the gun with his back to the camera, you can see a 'schitt eating grin' on the side of his face! ;D
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Post by jerry on Dec 12, 2009 13:31:42 GMT -5
Thanks for posting these, Daughter. It was a good day for me, too.
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Post by jerry on Dec 12, 2009 13:34:36 GMT -5
My best distance so far is about 170 yards, or about a tenth of a mile. Fired close-up, it's fully capable of caving in a car door or stopping a heart. I've heard of guys waging naval battles on Logan Martin in boats with these things.
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Post by gloria on Dec 12, 2009 16:19:48 GMT -5
Great pictures Dawn.
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Post by kpolk on Dec 12, 2009 18:15:25 GMT -5
When I was growing up on Chula Vista Mountain one of the locals would somehow manage to buy mass quantities of what was at the time illegal fireworks. Black Cat firecrackers, bottle rockets and the time really good stuff like M80's and Cherry Bombs. He sold them out of his house and his son and several of us kids loved to have battles with them. We would take those Cherry Bombs and M80's and lob them at each other with slingshots. I can't believe we didn't kill each other or at least put an eye out.
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Post by H Abiff on Dec 12, 2009 20:19:26 GMT -5
When I was a kid I got in trouble for building stuff like that. The best was made from a Ford driveshaft. Potato's worked good but a full beer can was awesome. The local sheriff did not think so. But of course I was juvenile delinquent, so they said...
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Post by scoutmom on Dec 12, 2009 20:26:40 GMT -5
It is always great fun when PawPaw shows up! I can say that David is a chip off the old block when it comes to being ornery and imaginative. He is very creative and likes to build and invent things. He is A LOT like his PawPaw. Jerry, you are welcome (for posting).
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Post by jerry on Dec 12, 2009 22:57:24 GMT -5
It is always great fun when PawPaw shows up! I can say that David is a chip off the old block when it comes to being ornery and imaginative. He is very creative and likes to build and invent things. He is A LOT like his PawPaw. Jerry, you are welcome (for posting). I'm proud to share my DNA with such a fine kid. |
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Post by jerry on Dec 12, 2009 23:01:40 GMT -5
Hiram, did you ever make mini-guns out of motorcycle spokes? Stuff 'em with match head scrapings, force in a BB and turn the spoke until it tightened up real good, then hold a match under it to set it off. We also cut up an entire inner tube to make rubber straps to stretch between posts in the back yard. We could shoot folded-over wire coat hangers more than a city block. We were also real bad about knocking old golf balls slap out of sight with baseball bats. Our neighborhood was never real safe.
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Post by scoutmom on Dec 12, 2009 23:57:05 GMT -5
I'm glad David doesn't read this! I have to screen the Time Machines as it is!!!
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