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Spudguns in the news
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:35 am
by jagerbond
We had a booth at the Honolulu gun show and were featured in the news.
http://www.kitv.com/video/18884976/index.html
Mike Bond
Sureshot Inc. / ultimatespudgun.com
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:52 am
by Carlman
i think you will gain a bit more cred if you took time to write detailed posts and set them out well mate. like give us more infor makes us want to read what you write.
That aside, nice work making it to the news!
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:57 am
by inonickname
Spud guns being shown in a good light, rather than being portrayed as deathtraps that explode if you put too much fuel in (we all know that's false, don't we- yeh I'm talking about Ryan from Iowa I think it was).
Good work, hopefully this doesn't provoke parents against everything action.
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:26 am
by jagerbond
inonickname wrote:Spud guns being shown in a good light, rather than being portrayed as deathtraps that explode if you put too much fuel in (we all know that's false, don't we- yeh I'm talking about Ryan from Iowa I think it was).
Good work, hopefully this doesn't provoke parents against everything action.
It was a good show for spudguns in general. We had about 2500 people in attendance and I personally spoke to approximately 400. It definitely was good to defend some misconceptions concerning our industry.
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:53 am
by starman
Yeah, I attended a similar gun show a few weeks ago in my area and saw the same potential there. There was a guy selling thick steel and black powder based noise cannons but no "potato cannons" as we would define them.
The quarter mile claim for shooting a spud can be pretty easily debunked...other hardened ammo, that's pretty easy to do. Otherwise, some nice PR for you jager.
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:50 am
by Hotwired
It's amusing the difference in damage between a little metal bullet and a massive chunk of *insert any kind of material here*.
The machined parts really do look the business on there.
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:46 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
Hotwired wrote:The machined parts really do look the business on there.
Ditto, it makes the price easier to fathom
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:54 pm
by frankrede
So spudguns cost about $1000 now to build?
Congrats on the TV coverage
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:29 pm
by Hotwired
frankrede wrote:So spudguns cost about $1000 now to build?
Mine'll probably be more like £1000 but that's for another year and I will be blaming machining costs for most of that.
Your average one won't and neither did those, point is the cost of building + labour + profit margin = $1000 for that cannon.
Gotta earn a wage somehow ^^
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:34 pm
by daberno123
Are you based in Honolulu? If so, shipping costs must kill you.
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:39 pm
by rna_duelers
Is anyone having trouble with the video?I cannot view it.
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:45 pm
by Hotwired
Worked fine for me, spudgun is the last 1/4 or 1/5 of the clip.
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:47 pm
by rna_duelers
I got it to work after revisiting the link a few times.$1000 you say,well profit is a must if you want to live off them.