Pumpkin Chunked 4,224 feet

The Leader & State Register ^ | Nov. 8, 2004 | Glenn Rolfe

[ArrogantBustard]

I found pictures from 2002 of a pumpkin chunker names "Sir Chunk-a-lot" .... if that's the same machine, it's a trebuchet, even though it's entered in a generic "catapult" class instead of the specific "trebuchet" class. I'm a bit mystified by the classifications, and looking at the official Punkin chunkin website doesn't help.

FWIW, the fourth place Air Cannon, "The Great Emancipator" is based in Port Royal, VA ... I watched them shooting it back i mid October.

[Ghengis]

Whoo! I read the headline and thought this was the Blue State equivalent of the firing on Fort Sumter. Bob Beckel and Lawrence O'Donnell would have to be leading the charge. ;-)

[Pyro7480]

We have GOT to go. The only impediment I can see is that it's in Delaware, and I share Wayne and Garth's opinion of Delaware.

I was born and raised in Delaware. It's true that there isn't as much there, as compared to our neigboring states, but there's no sales tax, there's a natural beauty (especially in northern Delaware, right near the Pennsylvania border), and there's a lot of history.

[birbear]

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.

Right. I remember seeing this on Discovery a few times. It looked like a heck of a lot of fun. (The blasting of the pumpkin, not the horticulture involved in growing pumpkins)

[birbear]

We have GOT to go. The only impediment I can see is that it's in Delaware, and I share Wayne and Garth's opinion of Delaware.

LOL.

"We're in........Deleware."

[Xenalyte]

Oh, I know . . . I'm just havin' a spot o' fun wi' ye, lad. ;)

[dfwgator]

Seriously, I don't know a blessed thing about Delaware.

All I know is George Thorogood is from there.

[Pyro7480]

lol

[SussexCountyDE]

1 mile is the holy grail of punkin chunkers. The event is one giant tailgate.