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Vaughn McMillan

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12 Gauge Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients
1 - Large Pumpkin
1 - 12 gauge shotgun (any brand should do...I used a Mossberg 500 pump gun)
4 - 3" shotgun shells loaded with #2 shot (steel shot is best, because nobody wants to serve lead poisoning at Thanksgiving)

Preparation
Place pumpkin on dirt bank or other suitably safe backstop
Fire the four shotgun shells directly at the pumpkin
Laugh hysterically

Serving
We're still working out the bugs on that one :rofl:

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One of the guys in the my shooting club is a mechanic for a landscaping company called Just Sprinklers. In the autumn they also sell pumpkins. He brought about a dozen large ones that didn't sell and were just going to be thrown away. We picked up the larger left-over pieces, but left the seeds and pulp on the ground. The ground squirrels and coyotes out at the range will be eating good tomorrow. :D
 
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Dave Hoskins said:
Dunno, Mike. Seeing this pumpkin being whacked apart makes me think of that TV show called the "Great Pumpkin Toss" or something like that. They used full sized catapults, cannons, and other cool devices to shoot pumpkins as far as possible without the breaking until making contact with the ground. I know it was sponsored by The Myth Busters.
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Yeah Dave, that is the "punkin chunkin" contest where these folks build cannons, trebuchets etc. to see how far they can throw a pumpkin. Right now the record is over 4600 feet. That is a long way to chunk a punkin.

Here is an article about "punkin chunkin". https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/21/living/punkin-chunkin-trnd/index.html

And this is a video with a few highlights...

 
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One of the little towns about 30 minutes east of here (Estancia) has an annual Punkin' Chunkin' event every fall. It's a hoot. :D
 
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Mike Stafford said:
Do they still make M80's?
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The CPSC banned true M-80s and Cherry Bombs back in 1966 and the ATF made them illegal in the '70s. It looks like you can still buy "M-80" firecrackers online. I'm pretty sure that explains why they became so hard to find when my friends and I were blowing stuff up in our misspent youths, lol.

And yes, an M-80 would do a number on a pumpkin, lol. :D
 
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Ted Calver said:
I survived lots of years using M-80's and cherry bombs to blow stuff up, without losing any body parts. My dad taught us to respect the power...in more ways than one. :rofl:
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I had a friend come this close -->|<-- to blowing his fingers off with a cherry bomb back in the late '70s. He'd bought a batch of cherry bombs, but they were apparently old, as every one he'd lit just sizzled and smoked. He was convinced he'd been sold a batch of smoke bombs instead. He lit the last one in the batch and decided he was going to hold onto it while it smoked. At the last second he changed his mind and tossed it and it exploded just inched from his hand. He was sitting on the porch of his parents' cabin and I was standing just inside, with only the screen door between us. Once we got over the initial shock, we were both white as sheets (he was worse than me) and our ears were ringing for the next day or so.
 
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Well, I am not going to tell you the story about the big firecrackers we made with our own gunpowder. Nope, I ain't telling you that story. All I can say is you wouldn't believe the sound it makes when a huge firecracker goes off after you drop it through the hole in a manhole cover. :rolleyes:

I am afraid that the statute of limitations may not be expired.
 
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Mike Stafford said:
Well, I am not going to tell you the story about the big firecrackers we made with our own gunpowder. Nope, I ain't telling you that story. All I can say is you wouldn't believe the sound it makes when a huge firecracker goes off after you drop it through the hole in a manhole cover. :rolleyes:

I am afraid that the statute of limitations may not be expired.
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We used to fire off those helicopters then go and fine them. Then we would unwrap firecrackers and dump the powder in the tube and pack the ends with all the fusses. For the most part we made a stick of dynamite and boy did it blow up stuff and LOUD
 
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we used to take the whistleing fireworks (I believe they called em "Pickalo Pete") whe put them in a vise on my dads work bench. By pinching em in the vise about 1/3 of the way down it would compack the powder so when you lit it off it would still whistle until it got down to where you packed the powder and then it would explode., Kinda cool but umm well lets say no one lost and body parts while compresssing the thing but we were just lucky I guess.
 
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