Try not to take it so personally :)
It's not like we 'hate' you or look down upon you now. Nothings changed, you've built a nice cannon and no one will be bothered too much when it comes to other contributions of yours to the forum in any of the sections. You say you shot half a mile, we're just ...

Alright folks all bullshit aside I will be hosting a "Potato Festival" at my house the 22nd of this month. Hopefully I can scout for an open field that is at least half a mile so we can shoot some video of the cannon in action for distance. If I find the area I'll place markers for various distances ...

You could claim that you didn't see a splash from it hitting the water, but I wouldn't take that as any kind of proof.
The shot didn't land in the water, it landed in the tree cover which we saw take the hit. The local avian are incapable of expelling 1.5" x 3" solid feces and there was nothing on ...

jeepkahn wrote:Are you using a burst disc??? with just a tater, how are you not launching with 55psi of MAPP???

I haven't yet but I'll give it a shot

Believe if you want to or not, I've shot it and seen the results 8)

Thanks for the feedback on the cannon I'm glad my first attempt at this wasn't a failure :D

Believe me, after all the duct tape wrapped ghettoness one sees on this forum, it's a relief to see that some people are still capable of doing it right first time around :) Yeah I still think I rushed a ...

I think you'll find that exceptional range claims on this forum are equivalent to "I once caught a fish and it was this big !" reports elsewhere :roll: :D

Either way, very neat job and a good example of what advanced combustions should look like, good stuff :) Hahahahaha I know what you mean. The ...

Moonbogg wrote:Thats pretty "sick". I like it. I like the green and the size of the whole beast.

Thank ya 8)

Well we were using somewhat frozen potatoes and MAPP gas. I say this is an average all shot from roughly 45 degrees. The measuring was done with a GPS. With usual ambient temp spuds they landed considerably shorter. But the confirmation was done after launching one into the embankment of a river ...

After my friend Zach introduced me to the magical world of spud guns I immediately drafted up some designs. After he reviewed them we decided to build a base platform to the basic specifications and add all the complex luxuries later.

Here is a picture of it so far:
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