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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Whatever happened to potato guns? Dec 1^st, 2016 at 8:25am
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Prime Minister for Canyons Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26906 Canberra Gender:	Re: Whatever happened to potato guns? Reply #1 - Dec 1^st, 2016 at 8:40am I'll ask my 18 yr old cousin, potato guns seem to be a juvenile deliquents thing.
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Baronvonrort Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17520 Gender:	Re: Whatever happened to potato guns? Reply #2 - Dec 1^st, 2016 at 9:44am Lord Herbert wrote on Dec 1^st, 2016 at 8:25am: Potato guns were outlawed in 1996 with John Howard's gun laws, just imagine how much safer that has made us.
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Re: Whatever happened to potato guns?
Reply #3 - Dec 1^st, 2016 at 9:45am

Baronvonrort wrote on Dec 1^st, 2016 at 9:44am:

Lord Herbert wrote on Dec 1^st, 2016 at 8:25am:

Potato guns were outlawed in 1996 with John Howard's gun laws, just imagine how much safer that has made us.

Really, seems different from what I know of.

Seems like you need a license in Victoria but you can still have one. It seems like more of a state based thing.

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No evidence whatsoever it can be attributed to George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair (in fact the same guy)

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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20232 Gordon Gender:	Re: Whatever happened to potato guns? Reply #4 - Dec 1^st, 2016 at 10:01am I blame the low carb diet.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 131612 Gender:	Re: Whatever happened to potato guns? Reply #5 - Dec 1^st, 2016 at 10:05am
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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 37681 Gender:	Re: Whatever happened to potato guns? Reply #6 - Dec 1^st, 2016 at 1:36pm We called 'em 'spud' guns. Rippers, they were.
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Re: Whatever happened to potato guns?
Reply #7 - Dec 1^st, 2016 at 1:42pm

Aussie wrote on Dec 1^st, 2016 at 1:36pm:

We called 'em 'spud' guns. Rippers, they were.

I remember I had one (a pistol) that you'd jam into a potato, and it would cut out its own "bullet".

It always presented a dilemma for me as a kid, as I loved firing off my spud gun all day long, but mashed potato was my favourite food.

I had to make sure I left enough potatoes in the pantry for dinner, while still satisfying my need to terrorise the local dogs.

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 131612 Gender:	Re: Whatever happened to potato guns? Reply #8 - Dec 1^st, 2016 at 1:45pm This was it:
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Reply #9 - Dec 1^st, 2016 at 1:46pm

I remember we used to make penny bunger guns out of a bit of galvinised water pipe with a thread on one end. We would screw a cap on that end with a hole in it for the fuse.

Put a penny bunger in it with a marble and stuff a bit of paper in it to stop the marble faliing out

Light the fuse and aim.

Shot a hole in the neighbours 44 gallon drum burner.

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Re: Whatever happened to potato guns?
Reply #10 - Dec 1^st, 2016 at 1:49pm

Redmond Neck wrote on Dec 1^st, 2016 at 1:46pm:

I remember we used to make penny bunger guns out of a bit of galvinised water pipe with a thread on one end. We would screw a cap on that end with a hole in it for the fuse.

Put a penny bunger in it with a marble and stuff a bit of paper in it to stop the marble faliing out

Light the fuse and aim.

Shot a hole in the neighbours 44 gallon drum burner.

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Neferti Gold Member Offline Posts: 7965 Canberra Gender:	Re: Whatever happened to potato guns? Reply #11 - Dec 1^st, 2016 at 3:14pm What is it about OLD MEN and reminiscing about their childhood? Should I start a thread about Cabbage Patch kids?
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Reply #12 - Dec 1^st, 2016 at 5:15pm

Neferti wrote on Dec 1^st, 2016 at 3:14pm:

What is it about OLD MEN and reminiscing about their childhood?

Should I start a thread about Cabbage Patch kids? Grin

Yes, you should! Grin

The Cabbage Patch Kids was one of the most intense advertising campaigns ever. The millions they spent on it was phenomenal - just to get every mother to buy their girls a cheap-to-produce soft toy Made in China.

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