Man builds gun to fire pumpkin a mile

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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From Ananova:

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What if this fell into the hands of Saddam Hussein?

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He picked the right name for it, that’s for sure.

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Great, just what we need . . . A pumpkin-sniper, shooting from up to a mile away!

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Police have released this preliminary sketch of the suspect . . .

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Eve and Shirley, you silly girls. Thanx for the Fri p.m. giggle.

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Witnesses to the pumpkin-sniper cannot agree on whether the pumpkin was smiling or frowning. But all agreed that the pumpkin had an eerie glow behind his triangular shaped eyes.

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THat pretty much made my day. I mean who wouldn’t love to see a pumpkin fly a mile.

(yeah, I know, small things, small minds, amusement, blah blah - I don’t care.)

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My potato gun is suddenly passe?

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“The contest is sponsored by Indianapolis radio station WRZX-FM and is the brainchild of morning show host Gonzo Greg and his colleagues.”

Some brainchild.
The World Championship Punkin’ Chunkin’ event has been taking place in Lewes, Delaware since about 1986.

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Funny, some of the witnesses at the crime scene gave the police a description that fit this guy pretty well, too.

Guess it just goes to show you can’t always trust eye-witness accounts.

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Oh, and every year my High School’s Physics classes have a pumpkin launching contest, but they’re not allowed to have any hydraulics or anything.

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The story sounds wrong. 900mph is supersonic. I doubt you can get a pumpkin to supersonic speeds in a 30 ft long barrel without destroying the pumpkin. The resulting pumkin pulp would not travel a mile.

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Exceeding the speed of squash.

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Starfish, perhaps the gentleman uses a sabot, such as those used in shotguns to limit the in-flight spread of shot pellets.

–Nott

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The words that stike fear into any Brit:
“Only in America”

egg

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It’s the Great Pumpkin Cannon, Charlie Brown!

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And the Punkin’ Chunkin’ happens to be about ten miles away from my house…

It pretty much sums up the mentality of Sussex County Delaware. :rolleyes:

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God, please let someone get a video of this thing onto the internet :smiley:

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From what I saw in the paper this morning I think it should be “900 feet per second,” not 900 miles an hour. 900 fps is about 600 mph, just under sonic speed. It is about the same as the muzzle velocity of a cal. .45 Colt Automatic Pistol bullet. It would still require a pretty stout pumpkin.

But, what a hoot!

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…meanwhile, on the other side of Noblesville, the residents were heard to say…

“Where the HELL are all these flying pumpkins coming from?”