Tater launching.

Only in Louisiana.

And I can say that because I'm a native Louisianian, born and raised, living in Metairie, and I think the Tater Launch thing is a great and fun idea. Hell, I wouldn't mind seeing it.

I too am excited about the Tater Launch. Admittedly, my butt would be hauled to JAIL on base here. Although, it would probably just bounce on the pigeon netting! Have a wonderful New Year's!

That's sounds like a blast. But, what was the emergency room visit for?

LOL. That would be frightening if it weren't for the fact I'm willing to guess very few of your readers, or mine for that matter, would pass up the opportunity to participate if offered.

Hope you've had a great day!

-G

Wow, so many comments?? How do you do it!?

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Not just in Louisiana, friends and neighbors.

/lives in Tennessee

I've never heard of shootin' taters, but it's the same thing as Punkin' chunkin' I guess... Shooting pumpkins more than a half mile! I'd like to shoot the tater gun too!

There is nothing more important that establishing traditions with your dearest friends... especially if it involves the explosive propellent of produce. Happy New Year!

Toni, yanno.....

It's not just you there in the south that can be accused of being a little bit more than pink around the collar.

Here in the "north" (yeah like Ohio is soooooooo civilized) you might be a redneck if (1) you light something on fire (2) you shoot it from anything slightly resembling a firearm (3) you can laugh your hiney off in the process.

*sigh* It's considered high quality entertainment.

Oy Vey.

Save me?

Oh yeah....

I forgot to ask.....

Do you fire dem dere 'taters wiff dah skins on or off?

*snorts in laughter*

Hi, I just surfed in through Blog Explosion and wanted to say hello. I think that tater shooting sounds like a great way to ring in the new year - food and firearms together, what could be better??? :)

I wanna join your family. You guys are so cool.

I don't think they'd notice- we have the same name and all, so they might think I'm just a clone of you...just the Asian version.

Found your site through blogsexplosion. You book marked my site.

This is all a very new and novel idea to me, I saw the pictures and now I'm curious as to what the tater gun is actually made from... :)

The tater gun is comprised of PVC pipe, built with a chamber at the bottom end and a barrel protruding out from that chamber. If you look carefully at the close-up where I show the boys spraying in the propellant, you'll see a small round dot in the center of that chamber (just to the right of the duct tape)... that's a flint. The potato is inserted in the pipe end and pushed down into the pipe (which essentially seals up that end). Then the propellant is sprayed in there (we used to use hair spray, but Luke found some other spray worked better -- I think it was carbuerator cleaner). As soon as enough is sprayed in, you seal that end of the chamber (see the cap in Luke's hand) and then the shooter twists the little flint knob on the side of the chamber. That twisting clicks the flint, which creates a spart in the chamber, which ignites the propellent, which shoots the potato back out the other end.

There are lots of variations on design. I had a guy proudly tell me that he had made an "automatic" tater launcher with 8 barrels. He used car batteries to ignite his (and I didn't ever quite understand how, but he was kinda scary about how enthusiastic he was about it, so I didn't keep asking questions.)