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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.
A typical factory-made toy die-cast spud gun. The cap attached to the muzzle converts it into a water pistol, 2007. Spud guns are small toy guns 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 snugly in the muzzle.
Most Marlin M1917 and M1918 guns saw use in aircraft as defensive armament—however, as they retained the original M1895 "potato digger" ordnance's closed bolt firing cycle, these Marlin guns, weighing only some 25 pounds (11.34 kg) apiece, [26] versus the standard Vickers gun's 33 pound (15 kg) figure for aviation use, could readily be used ...
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The 9.3×57mm is still fairly popular among moose hunters in Scandinavia (among hunters in Sweden it is affectionately known as "potatiskastaren", the spud gun, because of the slow and heavy bullet). Factory loaded ammunition with 232 grains (15.0 g) and 285 grains (18.5 g) bullets is available from Norma of Sweden.
Spud gun, Ant farm toys Eli Joseph Cossman (April 13, 1918 – December 7, 2002) was an American inventor, businessman , entrepreneur and author. With Milton Levine , Cossman was the co-creator of the ant farm [ 1 ] and spud gun toys.
Dynamite gun, any of a class of artillery pieces that use compressed air to propel an explosive projectile; FN 303, a semi-automatic less-lethal riot gun; Holman Projector, a naval anti-aircraft weapon; M61 Vulcan, a hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon