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Potatoes (Spuds): This is the primary type of ammo. It's dense, tough, and it can be shaped into a perfect cylinder.

Fruits and Veggies: It doesn't matter what kind, just stuff it down there and let 'er rip. If it's too small, stuff a larger fruit down first.

Dirt in a Sock: Shapes to the size of your barrel. Reusable.Confetti:Fill the barrel with tons of confetti and shoot it. It's great for parties

.Balls: Get whatever kind of ball will fit your barrel and launch it. They fly well and are reusable.

Hard Boiled Eggs: These are better than balls. You may have to grease it up with Pam first, though.

Toilet Paper: In your T.P. gun, you shoot whole rolls, but in a spud gun, wad it up and get it wet, then launch it. It makes quite a mess.

Rocks: This one's simple. Just drops a few in after your spud, and it'll go through some thick material.

Full Soda Cans: You'll have to have these going fast before they'll blow up, but it's very impressive.

Snowballs: Gives you the competitive edge in a snowball fight, eh?

Glow Sticks: Cut off the ends of a few of those Halloween glow sticks and gently drop them in the barrel after your potato with the cut end up. Fire it at night or you've wasted your time and money.

Grass: Just grab a wad and stuff it in the barrel.

Paintballs: Put a bunch into an old rag and push it down the barrel. Great for a prospective Modern Artist.

Dirt: Just pile a bunch of dirt in after the potato.

Smoke Bombs: Mount a smoke bomb into the back of a potato and put a little gasoline on the end of the wick.

French Fries: Just drop a bag of fries in there and you've got a shotgun.

Potato Shrapnel: After you've cut a few spud cylinders out of a whole spud, you have scraps left over. Cut them up and drop them in after your potato. It's similar to the french fries.

Water: If you find yourself getting soaked in a water fight, Put a really tight potato into the barrel and pour about a half gallon of water into the barrel after it. This'll get your opponents REALLY wet. Watch out, though. It KICKS bad!

Frozen Stuff: Be CAREFUL when freezing fruits and veggies for the gun. You need to remember to cut it first and watch where you shoot. Since these and frozen, they don't splat, they penetrate!Ice

Plugs:Take another extra piece of barrel scraps, much like your spud cutter, and seal one end with two-part epoxy. You now have an ice cylinder mold. Fill it with water and let it freeze overnight. Pop out the ice and load it down your barrel. This makes one hell of a weapon.B-B's:Pour a bunch of them in after your potato.

Ice Balls (Winter): Grab a handful of snow and crush it to fit your barrel, then soak it in water and let it freeze.

Paratroopers: Get some of those cheap little plastic army men with the built in parachutes, pile about 10 of 'em into your barrel.

Canned Fruit: Pile some in after your spud and it makes a mess!Bolts, Screws, Nuts:Just get a hammer and pound some metal into your spud. It does five times the damage.

Snow: Get the really powdery kind of snow and pour some in your barrel. It makes a huge cloud when you fire it.

Leaves: Same as the snow. Just stuff a bunch of leaves into your barrel and raise a storm.

Batteries: Simple, and effective. Wrap some D-Cell batteries in duct tape to form a perfect fit, and these babies are hard to stop!

Limes: Work very well. They're more aerodynamic than potatoes, but they don't lubricate your barrel like a potato does. They also have to be the right size, so I have made a lime gauge. When you build your launcher, cut a thin ring off of the end of the barrel and you can take that to the store when you buy your limes to make sure they're the right size.

A very good thing to use as ammo for the potato cannon is a tangerine. They are very good because they have great aerodynamics and most every one is the perfect size so there's no taking off any of it.

You can put basically anything in front of the potato if you want to launch it too. Some of the things I've tried are: toliet paper, bouncy balls, dirt, strips of colored paper, small rocks (shrapnel), and a water bottle. The possibilities are endless, just find something you can fit in the barrel and have fun.

Try wrapping a full CO2 in duct tape until it fits the barrel. It goes boom!

1. Take a ping pong ball, or similar container that will fit in the barrel, wrap tape on it to make the fit snug, the cut a small hole in it and fill it with your favourite explosive (I hear r.d.x. works well, but it is a complicated mixture). Now get or make a high quality fuse (that won't blow out) and put some in the ping pong ball. Make sure you have lots of fuse sticking out so you don't KILL the spud gun. Now seal the hole with nail polish and coat the whole thing with it for a really big bang. 2. Try to get some mercury fulminate of another impact sensitive explosive to use as a primer for all you crafty vandals!

Try shooting soda cans or beer cans after shaking them up.

Put the base of the cannon on the ground with the barrel pointing straight up. Set a pop can on the top of the barrel with the bottom of the can resting on the barrel. Fire it and see if you can turn it inside out! It also launches the can pretty well. But don't try to hold the can with your fingers!

First, hollow out a potato. Then in a pot combine 4 parts sugar and 6 parts saltpeter (also known as potassium nitrate, or epson salt. Epson salt can be purchased at a food store. Its some crap to put in your bath to relax muscles). Melt this mixture over the stove and it should become a syrup texture. Pour this inside the hollowed out potato and before it dries, stick in a fuse or a few matches. Light fuse and put down barrel. Then launch it. The mixture in the potato is a homemade smoke bomb. This will send a trail of thick, white smoke following the projectile. Have fun!

Put some of those nasty black jelly beans in your gun. It's like buck shot and when they hit they leave some of their color behind.

Paintballs! They are cheap (usually around 8-9$ for 200) and easy to clean up, they are not actually paint but rather dyed vegetable oil. Just take a rag put about 20-30 paintballs in it, shove a potato in the gun, then shove the rag in after it, And watch them go BOOM!!

Get some snake food [dead rats]. They usally fit in the barrel. They make a big SPLAT and guts fly everywhere.

Try shooting fireballs. Before you load the potato, cover it with your propellant. It won't work every time but when it does it is very cool.

Put some steel wool on the back of the potato and pin it in with bent paper clips or something. When you fire it the steel wool at the back burns like buggery and leaves a red streak across the night sky.

I don't own a spud gun but I plan to build one in the near future. When I do The first thing I'm going to shoot is a fresh pile of rover's leftovers wrapped in some newspaper or a plastic bag to prevent shit from smearing up and down the barrel.

Potato Gun Javelin: Get some thin-walled lightweight pipe that will just fit snugly inside your barrel. If you can't find it to fit snugly, wrap duct tape as usual. Plug the back end on the inside with whatever you want (a potato even) and put a big heavy cap on the other end. Drop it down into your barrel so the cap rests against the tip. Shoot. It goes flying. P.S.- fill that tube with whatever you want and hope it shatters for added fun.

Try getting a hold of Dynamite usally full sticks with long fuses. I once got hold of a 30lb package of it. NOTHING BEATS IT. Just pust a little wadding in your barrel, throw in the Dynamite, light the fuse,launch it and then duck and hide.

To give a really nice show, make a barrel about the same size as a flair. Then take a road flair, ignite it, then launch it as normal.

Wooden slugs kick ass, or eggs in toilet paper.

Take an old piece of pipe the same size as your barrel. Fill it with cement and take it out when it dries. It can go through a 1/2 of wood no problem. You can do the same with freezing water.

A great way to get a lot of ammo for less is to use watermelon rines.


Try shooting soda cans filled with sand\flour -- great smoke bomb effect. And if you ccan, make a small barrel that shoots FULL co2 cartriges -- bomb effect.

Get 4 or 5 of those green glowsticks (the kind you bend and they start glowing), bend them, and put them in your freezer. A couple hours later (or days, or weeks, they last long in a freezer), go outside on a REALLY dark night, load up the glowsticks, and fire away. They will shatter and spray glowing ooze on stuff, and generally look cool. TOXIC WARNING! If you use your potato cannon to shoot glowsticks up your nose, wash your eye's with water and induce vomitting, and see a doctor.

If you have a 1.5 inch barrel you can use some shampoo caps or the old 1 gallon milk jug caps for a wad. They fit perfectly and they make a water tight seal. With one of these caps in your barrel you can fire practically anything that will fit. Also, I have filled ping pong balls with paint and then fired them at a hard surface. It makes a pretty big mess.

My friends like to see what irregularly shaped things you can put in front of a potato, since they don't have to be the barrel size if their is a seal behind it. Barbie looks neat flying 100 yards. A flaming barbie is neat too, her hair absorbs lighter fluid well. Also corn cobs, if a potato is behind them, will fire, going about 100 yards, all the way; they spin end over end like a throwing knife.

What you do is go to your local price club and buy one of those 128 packs of toilet paper. Then try to stuff the barrel with the rolls. To make them cool, soak them in gas and stick spam in the cardboard tube before you shoot. By the way, you'll probably need a specialized 4" barrel.

Old burnt out light bulbs! They're perfect projectiles!

Nerf Rockets that you find in WalMart or toy stores work great and are reuseable. You can also use larger model rockets found in hobby shops so long as you can find a suitable seal to shoot them out with and they travel pretty fast and are also reuseable with parachute in tip.

Take a raquetball (you know, them small blue bouncy balls) and take a knife and put a cut in it about an inch long. Then take a broom handle and shove the cut ball down your barrel about a foot with the cut side up. It makes a great noise. This can also be done with a tennis ball but it's not as good because the raquetball is smooth and the tennis ball is fuzzy.

1. Soak barbie in gasoline, lighter fluid or any thing flammable. Light her on fire and launch her.
2. Soak barbie in gasoline, lighter fluid or any thing flamable. Put a little flour on her and launch.

I have fun with my little sister's barbie dolls. I take a potato, load it, then place a barbie in the top of the barrel then blast it straight up. But watch for the potato when it comes back down. When the doll comes back down it should be blasted into pieces. I had the hair on a barbie smoking once.

A fun thing to try is to take a plastic bag and cut it into square or whatever shape you want, and tie string to it. Then take a toothpick and tie the string to it. Shove it into the potato (I have not found anything besides a toothpick to work--if you do tell me, thank you), fold the parachute and put it into the gun. Then just fire away. Its fun seeing a potato fly so far up and glide back down to earth. Make sure you have a big enough parachute for your potato. You have to fold the parachute just right to get it to work :) Have fun, its funny to watch!

Try taking a regular hunting arrow and sticking it halfway through a potato and shoot it. Or you can put a rag soaked with gas on the end of the arrow too; that looks really cool. But try not too start a fire.

I'm sure all you spud shooters have had a time when your outta potatoes. Don't cha' hate that? After a while the potatos start to burn a hole in your wallet. Problem solved! Slap some big leaves together in a tight ball, cram down your barrel, and throw anything you want in front of it! Pebbles, rocks, eggs, old pens that don't work, garbage, and anything your sick mind can think of!!! But be careful! Especially when you put pebbles in the barrel. Its just like a shotgun!! I am in no way responsible if you screw up. But don't get tight buns about safety. Have fun!

Ever shot a D cell battery? At a brick wall? Ever shot shaving cream? It is a sight past words. My barrel is 1.5" so the lids to one gallon milk jugs (the blue screw on ones) fit perfectly. Put shaving cream in after the lid; about six seconds of hairspray will do (not too much or you'll end up with a spray). What I did for Halloween was I went to the local conveniance store and bought a pair of pantyhose, some polyester stuffing, and I cut off a leg and I put pantyhose and polyester stuffing on the out side of my barrel and I used rubber bands and duct tape with the pantyhose and polyester to make the barrel of my gun to look like a penis. (A 41 inch one) I used some rope and attached it under the gun and looped through my belt loops in my pants and to the other side to make it fit between my legs and stay there without having to hold it. It stayed in between my legs and It looked like a big dick. I loaded it up with the milk jug lid and I put shaving cream (the barbosol spray lather type) in until it was filled from the beginning of the barrel to the tip. I put a small piece of paper and used a little bit of paper and a VERY small amount of tape to put on the end of the barrel (so the cream wouldn't come out) I put on a black cloak (similar to the grim reaper's) and I'm walking around Halloween Night with a huge 41 inch Dick made of PVC and pantyhose and a rubber band and duct tape. The back of the cloak covered the rest of the gun. So I walked up the elementary school in our neighborhood. And aimed the gun and put my left hand behind my back ready to shoot and then a fat cop walks up to and says "I believe your costume is vulgar" hey baby (click) Split! A huge white creamy slime shot out of a penis and covered this guy. Running like hell and Laughing your head off at the same time is not fun. They made a brief mention of the event in the news paper.

A really good projectile is the wax pellets that you make by melting candle wax and pouring it into the same size PVC pipe as your barrel. A good way to make this pellet look good, and be more accurate is when the wax is still very watery, drop a nut,(rock,fishing weight,anything heavy, but not too big)to where it sinks to the bottom. This will help the pellet land on it's front end. Another thing to do is to break an arrow in half and stick the back of the arow into the wax while it's drying. Do not stick the drying wax in the fridge, if you leave it at room temprature the pellet should get a dimple in back that helps catch air. If you want to do some major damage stick the back of some nails over a candle, and when hot enough, stick the backs of the nails in the front of the wax pellet.

Take a glass and slip it over the end of the barrel and boom!

Take a piece of a pumpkin and shove it in and then put some water in--remember you WILL get some recoil!

My friend and I were shooting my gun in his huge backyard. We got tired of spuds, so we did other stuff. We crammed a spud in there a dead snake, some bb's, and some marbles. Somehow, we ended up taking out two windows on the abondoned house next door.

Instead of wet T.P. or paper towel as a buffer in your 2" or better barrels, take an old towel and cut it into 2" strips. Then roll the strip until it is the same diameter as your barrel and fits snugly. Tie it tight with numerous wraps of wax string and badda-boom badda-bing: ultra buffer. I've launched a barbie out of my 2" barrel over 100 yards!

Well I always shoot D batteries wrapped in duct tape. They don't go as far as a spud but when accurately aimed at a nice angle they can go straight up and come down at incredible speeds. They will go through just about anything if you get them high enough. Also the kick on my pnuematic cannon is about the same as a 12 gauge shotgun so be prepared.

I use the "pneumatic" variety of spud gun, although I rarely use potatoes. A PVC "coupler" for 1-1/2" pipe is almost a perfect fit for a 2" barrel. While at the hardware store, get plaster or QuickCrete, several 2" washers and the biggest carriage bolt (with nut) that fills the washer. Slip the bolt through a washer as the bottom, place the coupling over the washer and bolt. You may have to temporarily tape the assembly in place. Fill the coupling with the wet plaster or 'crete, allow it to dry around the bolt while keeping the bolt centered. Once it dries, add the second washer and nut, and tighten the whole assembly. This makes a projectile that will pierce a car door or the side of a refrigerator! I am working on a proper armor-piercing nose, and possibly a set of fins for stability.

This takes a little time so you might want to get a production line going with some friends. First cut a piece of pvc plastic preferably cut from your cannon, then get some small wax candles and place them in a pie tin. Once you've got this set up take your pie tin and place it on a cooking pot partialy full of water then set the hole set up on a range and get the water to boil. Once the wax is melted pour the wax into the piece of pvc pipe you cut earlier and finaly let the drying wax sit in your fridge for a couple of hours until hard. Now you have a wax bullet good to reuse. For a variation, while wet stick stuff like firecrakers in the end with only the fuse exposed etc.

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