And still the humble potato launcher remains natures most impressive weapon. A true test would be to see if you could get it to go super-sonic and still hold together (no cheating and wrapping it in foil first).
Now I don't disrespect hunters here in NJ, but after feeding deer for a season, stalking out their trails and practically living in the stands and nearly raising the young ones so they'll come up and let you pet them for 20 minutes while they lay on the ground with their belly's up submissively. Then you sit in that tree (you could probably whistle and half would run up to you) and you blast them away from a rifle shooting 1200 ft per second. It's not really hunting, cause the deer are fenced in great areas of land around preserves and military bases where civilians can "hunt". I just have issues calling it hunting when you are at the designated spot where you plan to kill them every day refilling feeding stations along the path, watching them from the tree for weeks to get their patterns down on which trails they use and know how OCD deer can be, so you are at the tree stand at 2:37pm and only need to wait the remain 5 minutes before they walk by. And then similar to going to a seafood place and choosing which lobster you want from the tank, you blast the deer, and call it hunting.
Now, give them potato launchers! set them up in the tree with compressed air and micro fast opening valves and have them shoot a spud at the deer's heads knocking them senseless so that you need to climb down from the stand and choke them out before they get their wits about them - now that seems a bit more rugged and manly, besides you might have left over potatoes for a good roast. Yeah, hunting should involve potatoes and choke holds here, just to make it fair.
Now I'm gonna go and search potato guns on Youtube and likely do that until I go to work in 3 hours.
As one of the redneck Comedy guys said after hearing his friend say would sit still for 3 hours, not moving a muscle as he used a rifle that shot a bullet at 1 mile distance in just under 1.8 seconds, using a 40 power scope and on and on - the reply was, "Gee... I killed three, so far this season with my car, while doing 50 miles an hour, and drinking a beer and eating a bag of Doritos at the same time and by time I picked it off the side of the road, it was already dressed. Nice gun!.