A few years ago my husband built a "potato gun". This consists of PVC pipe and a BBQ ignitor thingy. The ammo...potatoes, the eh, gun powder....Aqua Net hairspray, yes they still make it, you know as well as I do old ladies don't like change and the stuff holds.
Simply shove a potato in the end you want it to come out, spray the hairspray in the other end, screw on the lid and hit the button. KaWow! Out comes the potato, everyone cheers and we do it again. This is actually quite the powerful weapon, we've put a hole in our burn barrel. Why? For fun, of course! And whenever someone comes over, either a friend of one of the boys' or a local youth pastor, it doesn't seem to matter, the potato "cannon" shows itself. Cameron recently came upon some new ammo....walnuts, we have a couple walnut trees in our yard, they work great and they're freeeeeee, even better, and probably more dangerous. Christian timed several shots straight up in the air and they all came in around 11 seconds before hitting the ground. Pretty impressive, huh? Oh, it's just a little something real people do for fun or from boredom, either way the menfolk in my family love it and that's good enough for me.
We did this! It is so much fun, isn't it??
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