Potato gun shoot

[Mazin]

Scoring based upon distance and accuracy, you should also get a point if you don't blow yourself up

[spleify]

Scoring based upon distance and accuracy, you should also get a point if you don't blow yourself up

Nive, I like that. So most folks will have a point straight away.

I thought there would be more interest in this, maybe it is not as cool as I thought it was gonna be

[JM Ver. 2.0]

Nive, I like that. So most folks will have a point straight away.

I thought there would be more interest in this, maybe it is not as cool as I thought it was gonna be

I thought there would be more too... But there never was... That's why I didn't bring it back up... But in the old thread... We discussed potato skeet...

[jreifsch80]

could i use a potato gun that has a bottle of map gas and oxygen on it? hahaha

[Chrispy]

Any suggestions on how to create some basic guidelines

open notepad... start typing..

or start by clicking Here

http://bit.ly/LncE43

hold this on a Sunday and im down. (my only day off)

[00tec]

I think my home brew golf ball cannon is out. Can't ever find the ball. Pretty sure it cleared 1/2 mile.

[Irving]

How will distance be measured? People standing down range?

[J]

I'll volunteer to help run officiate. I'll even help propose some rules later today. I used to build these a bunch when I was younger.

I like the idea of accuracy and distance. With distance, you do one point per yard over 100 (or some number). With accuracy, you do a noticeable object. Touching is, say 300 points, and you lose 3 points per yard away from the point.

Any explosions or dangerous malfunction = disqualification.

Ideally, you weight distance and accuracy equally. So 50% of the score is distance, and 50% is accuracy.

[asmo]

Just putting this out there as a strawman for people to beat on.


Competition Entries:
1. Limit of 1 gun per team.
2. No set limit on number of team members per team.
3. At least one gun from each team has to have been made by a member of that team.
4. A maximum of 4 warm up shots will be allowed prior to competition.

Gun Production Regulations:
1. Fuel

1. A pressure above 1 ATM (15psi) may not exist in the combustion chamber prior to ignition
2. Permitted Fuels consist of:

• Hairspray
• Ether (“Starter Fluid”)
• Organic Fuels
• Compressed Air

3. Disallowed Fuels

• Acetylene
• Solid & Liquid Fuels (ie. Black Powder, Gasoline)

2. Chamber and Barrel Size

• Maximum barrel length of 36"
• Maximum overall length 60"

3. Safety

• Chamber must be sealed prior to ignition.
• Potato must be loaded into the barrel prior to fuel being added to the chamber

4. Ammunition

• Shot must consist of solid potato randomly chosen by a member of another team
• Shot may be dyed if desired (dying is useful in determining what shot belongs to your team, which leads to more accurate recording of attempts)

[Chrispy]

1. Fuel

1. A pressure above 1 ATM (15psi) may not exist in the combustion chamber prior to ignition
2. Permitted Fuels consist of:

• Hairspray
• Ether (“Starter Fluid”)
• Organic Fuels
• Compressed Air

not sure if this would work with compressed air/gas guns... typically a firing chamber is pre-pressurized though a low volume, high pressure valve of some sort... and then the spud is fired by opening a large volume valve of some sort, usually a 1/4 turn ball valve..


or would a compressed air gun be exempt because it has neither a combustion chamber, nor ignition?