Junkyard wars... so coulda been PB

[Lohman446]

So... I was watching JunkYard wars yesterday - when they announced the topic - to try to pop as many mylar ballons at range as possible... Im instantly thinking paintball style airgun to shoot ball bearings (and could have been self carried)

So anyways... they are building these HUGE potatoe cannons... and the expert tells us all how slow air cannons are - they are loading single potatoes at a time... Im looking for the hopper.

Am I nuts are was anyone else thinking the same thing?

[nippinout]

What would have been smart would be to use the potatoes as sabots with a payload of ball bearings/nails/glass/prairies dogs/anything that can hurt mylar. Pretty much anything

[wobbles82]

Prairie dogs? LOL, you mean the animal or something else? But I agree, potatoes is like so something the French would go to war with.

[FreakBaller12]

the french woudl actualyl go to war!!??

[LaW]

They have done paintball on junkyard wars before, it was on an episode last year or a couple years back...

[BobTheCow]

Yeah, it was like "paintball tanks" or something... haha it was fairly amusing.

[LaW]

eh the show isn't as good as it was a couple years ago

[UltimatePaintballer]

have you ever seen a potato gun before, the canon types, there are no hoppers. you put the potato in, shove it down to the bottom and fire! no hopper what so ever

[elpimpo]

my spud gun shoots patatoes like 300 yards its awesome. then we made it so u can unscrew it and put some half inch thin pipeing on it and it fits paintballs perfect. it almost put a marble threw a stop sign that was cool

[RagingFalcon]

yeah i remember seing the junkyard wars that had the "the paintball tanks" one was a van and the other was a golf cart. one was using a high pressure air and the other co2 from a fire extiguisher. and they too were loading with a handfull of paintballs at a time looked like a paintball shotgun

[Bolter]

we had scrapheap challenge in England and a guy called John Bonich who works for Powerball and AGDeurope was the expert. They had to make a golf ball gatling gun. It was waaaay cool!! He took an e-mag and let them all have a go and apparently they played with that for most of the day!!!

Cool eh? I have some piccies somewhere.... hold on.

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in the last picture Bonich is on the right....

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