Posted on 11/08/2004 6:33:29 AM PST by SussexCountyDE
Drunken Punkin' Chunkin'....
I go every year. It's fantastic! Just about the coolest thing to ever happen in Delaware. But rumor is they're moving to Maryland because DE's not big enough...
Rock on. Those fundamentalist Muslims have nothing on us. NOTHING!
On a smaller scale, around here we have the annual Manitou Springs fruitcake toss, first weekend in January. It's a real hoot. My kids and I are planning to build an onager this year.
His gun fired a shell the size of a 55 gallon barrell around 150 miles. The gun was very gentile to the projectile because it used progressive charges down the length of the gun, something like ten firings to accelerate the projectile. I bet Bull's gun could chunk a pumpkin from maryland to Pittsburgh.
OMG, we went to this once years ago when I lived in NJ. I remember we took the Cape May-Lewes Ferry. It was such a fun day for us!!!
Great FReeper stuff! Thanks for posting - you brought back good memories :-)
The one problem with guns like that is that the pumpkin must leave the barrell intact.
just out of curiosity, I wonder how fast a pumpkin can travel before disintegrating due to wind resistance
"The gun was very gentile to the projectile"
I'm glad the gun was very gentile, especially since Bull was killed by the Mossad.
The skin on a pumpkin is like shoe leather. You could also coat it with a methacrylate or urethane. I would think the unbalanced movement or tumbling would cause the most drag. The progressive acceleration of Bull's gun was what made the idea attractive to launching satellites and electronics into space, as that was Bull's original intent. Nobody would back him until Iraq approached him by asking him if they could hit Israel with it. So instead of pointing it up at a vertical, they used a mountain ridge to point it toward Israel. Almost got the darn thing finished too.
I want to hear Les Nessman's version of this.
LOL! Sorry for the spelling....Gentle! Some slips have gotta be something else huh?
What is the wind resistance to a pumpkin laden European Swallow?
El Launcho Grande of Moriarty NM. We had the punkin' chuckin' contest on the same weekend as the Single Action Shooting Society Black Powder Championship... a wealth of activities in easy driving distance!
Mrs. F & I also want to check out that cool balloon thing that you people do down there. < |:)~
It is pretty cool, there were about 800 balloons this year, including the flag and shuttle balloons belonging to FReeper abner.
I knew it was a typo... but I couldn't resist the joke about Bull. He was a jerk.
IIRC the guy who shoots 'Second Admendment' grows his own hybrid pumpkin that is amost all shell, which allows him to achieve the high muzzle velocity without destroying the pumpkin.
I dont know
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