How many of you have ever fired a potato gun?

[kentauros]

[countryjake]

1. This one right here...

And it's still laying around in the haymow on my dead folks' property (in much better condition than the corroded one in the pic)

[kentauros]

2. That pictured one looks like it had been buried for a while!

I wonder if it was found next to a potato plant...

[countryjake]

3. Somebody probably left it in a potato sack (with the taters)

Actually, ours is wrapped up inside an ancient burlap bag but our mother had the foresight to dump out the rotten spuds and stick it high up on a rafter. She hated that thing.

[kentauros]

4. I can understand her hatred!

The spud-pellets can sting a bit, and then they get all over the place, to rot or be mouse/roach-food...

[countryjake]

5. When we found it after she'd passed away...

my big brother said that he'd always wondered where it got to. Last time he could remember using it, he'd almost put my sister's eye out (left a mark on her cheek) and Mother took it away from him and made him go eye the rest of the sack he'd been using as ammo, for planting.

Our chickens never left a thing edible on the ground at our place.

[kentauros]

6. "You'll shoot yer eye out, kid!"

I'm kind of surprised now that there was never a potato gun in "A Christmas Story."

And yes, chickens are good 'vacuums'