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A potato cannon, also known as a potato gun or potato launcher, is a pipe-based cannon that uses air pressure , or combustion of a flammable gas (aerosol ...
A typical factory-made toy die-cast spud gun. The cap attached to the muzzle converts it into a water pistol. A spud gun or potato gun is a small toy gun used to fire a fragment of potato. To operate, one punctures the surface of a potato with the gun's hollow tip and pries out a small pellet which fits in the muzzle.
M61 Vulcan, a hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon; M134 Minigun, a six-barrel rotary machine gun with a high rate of fire; Potato cannon, a pipe-based cannon that uses air pressure, or combustion of a flammable gas to fire projectiles, usually potatoes
The Colt–Browning M1895, nicknamed "potato digger" because of its unusual operating mechanism, is an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute.
After testing the gun and noting the power of the gun's recoil and the gases that emitted from between the barrel and the chamber, Adam and Jamie built a pair of chicken hands to test the damage these gases can cause to an unprotected hand. While Jamie's less anatomically correct hand suffered only some minor flesh damage from the gases, Adam's ...
Backyard Ballistics is a how-to book by William Gurstelle that was published in 2001. [1] [2] [3] It is full of experiments that can be done relatively inexpensively and can be easily executed.
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M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun "Potato Digger" (USA – heavy machine gun – c.1895) M1895 Lee Navy (USA – rifle, bolt-action – 1895) Mannlicher. Mannlicher M1886 (Austria-Hungary – rifle – 1886) Mannlicher M1888 (Austria-Hungary – rifle – 1888) Mannlicher M1894 (German Empire – pistol – 1894)