Not everyone’s always on the same page.
It’s cool. If we were all on the same page all the time, there’d be no arguments or war, or muggings or anything ’cause we’d all know how everyone else thinks, feels, and solves problems. We’d just be a big ol’ crowd milling around doing the same stuff for all the same reasons.
And there’d be nothing silly for the cartoonists to point out, since everyone would have the same opinions about wheat’s silly and whether it needed to be in a cartoon.
Boring.
So, we have different kinds of people, some of whom would build a machine gun for potatoes, and some who’d just carry an extra potato gun.
What about you?
I’m picturing a wide mesh mounted over the mouth of the muzzle…
(maybe no more than 3-or-4 very taut wires vertically, & the same horizontally)
… so that the potato gets reduced to “steak-fries” as it exits the gun.
RESULT:
Your single-shot “Potato-Cannon” has been upgraded into a “Shotgun-Equivalent” area-effect weapon!
*face palm*
You’d want to shoot it into a fryer then, wouldn’t you?
@[James Lindley]:
Well, OK … I can see where Paste might do that, yeah.
I, “OTOH”, have far too much respect for the painful consequences of the “BLAST_RADIUS” generated by splashing hot oils.
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I just figured that this would improve the odds of at-least SOME of the potato reaching the target.
“wheat’s silly” indeed.
I’d build a trick target board with all the potatoes preloaded in a secret compartment, and switch boards at night after everyone went to bed. ALL. THE. POTATOES.
When I was a kid my ‘potato gun’ shot golf balls. Nice accuracy, too much ricochet.
No Gatling potato gun? Okay, yeah, I’ll jump with two potato guns. That works too.
Is that a potato gun or a friggin Bazooka?!? All I know is some thing’s are going to be blown up.
I sure hope so.
No, you’d change the charging system to be propulsion included on the ammo.
You’ve clearly got a co2 chamber and a fast release valve. Cheap and efficient. BUT. If you wanted to reload quickly, either you make a bigger tank with a chambered release, or a dual charger with separate chambers. This is all weight adding tech. Bulk and weight will reduce lift and encumbrance.
You could get a co2 system to launch easily on the ammo, but the problem is mass to reaction. A simple co2 aluminum cartridge stores 500 psi. The common method of releasing said pressure is puncture into a seal system. Merely opening the “Neck” does not evacuate the entire pressure immediately or efficiently. You would need to re-engineer the storage units with a fatter neck and a quick release. Filling the tube behind the would be possible, as would a rail system that just uses a much smaller tube for generating ejection. Problem is, attaching the co2 tube to the potato turns it into a rather large BULLET, rather than a spud gun..
I can see you’ve thought this out. It would take a much larger co2 cartridge than the standard commercial ones. Maybe one the size of a small fire extinguisher.
Better carry a third…incase of a squib!
What the world might look like if everyone were on the same page, as per the Two Ronnies (Barker and Corbett):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUff02A6VNY
Wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, speaking the same words, making the same gestures…
Boring? Or rather weird and unsettling?
Isn’t it cheating to take more than one shot per jump?
Ask the Mark Twain guy. I love to read his answers.
I honestly thought about a double barrel model like a side by side shotgun.