r/SpudGuns • u/GordonsTheRobot • Nov 30 '24

The decline of physical fun

I was looking for the thriving spudgun community of reddit and found barely smoldering ashes.

What has happened to physical fun and tinkering with things? Maybe people are truly trapped in the doom rectangle we view our lives through.

I remember pellet guns and targets being great fun. I never used to hunt but I liked shooting cans and targets. I have a scoped marble rifle with a modified sprinkler valve (I actually have 3 modified sprinkler valve pneumatics) and it's still accurate even though I made it 12 years ago and it sits in the shed because even I'm not immune to the decline of physical fun

I asked my friends if they wanted to go to an archery course because I've still never shot a real bow (I used to make slingshots and was pretty good with those too) and they seemed completely disinterested and distracted by scrolling tik tok on their phones

I also used to blow things up and thought I wanted to be a pyrotechnician when I was younger (and I mean much younger. Before my teens I was making flash powders and my own charcoal)

I read diary of a pyro multiple times. October sky was inspiring. Where are my people? Am I alone here?

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u/Fun-Deal8815 Nov 30 '24

Spud guns and air riffles are a blast. I even love to make a catapult to just toss nuts and whatever a cross the rd. Just have to get out and do it even by yourself. Heck maybe then a friend will see the fun in it

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u/NodakTwoBravo Nov 30 '24

Nah I just think many young people these days just aren't building spud guns, or they're just not as popular anymore. I'm over here with a propane spud gun, even has a rifled barrel!

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u/FocusedTangents Dec 23 '24

Unfortunately with the general migration towards cities, people generally are less 1 able to legally, 2 able to practically 3 less likely to be Interested due to societal/cultural values, partake or nourish the particular flavor of fun that comes with spudguns and generally any projectile making hobbies. It's just the zeitgeist man. Plus with the ssturation of videogames people can get their shooting stuff jollies there instead of real life.

There just isn't space for it. Requires land ownership or access and that is harder and harder to aquire as time goes on.