Pumpkin fun

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I love this time of year for many obvious reasons. One of them is the availability of cheap reactive targets, also known as pumpkins. Since my kids are too old to carve them anymore this is the only valid use of them. Pumpkin pie and any derivatives of such are just plain nasty! :barf: So turning them into targets is the best alternative. Oh, except for baked buttered and salted seeds, those are pretty good.

Anyway, post up your pumpkin carnage pix. Here are some of mine from last weekend.

Start of the day with my patented "Fat Steve" targets.
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Mr. Pumpkin, meet Ms. .204 Ruger
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Fat Steve thought a pumpkin helmet would keep him safe
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Not so much use against a .44 mag though.
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And my favorite
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Some of the best shots on pumpkins that we have done is with a intact pumpkin, cut hole in the top, fill with water and shoot with a high power round. Pumpkin mist!
 
1. Pumpkins are not food fit for a human, they are nasty.
2. Deer love them so they are really not going to waste.
3. If you have nothing to contribute why bother commenting?

This is a big part of what is wrong with America today. Too many people wanting to be offended for no flippin reason whatsoever.

Back to the subject at hand, let's see some more pumpkin carnage!
 
I like to shoot pumpkins, filled with water. Try it...not much left for the deer to eat, but I'm sure the birds still benefit. :D Cut a hole, about 0.5", pull the plug, fill it to the top, then put the plug back in, held with a tooth pick. Pop it with a rifle round, and there won't be much left...well, the stem. :D

Geno
 
Oh tempura, Oh morays, Oh the pumkinity! My heart bleeds orange!

My son got upset that his jack'o'latern pumpkin was rotting a week after Halloween, many harvest moons ago. So to make him feel better, I put it out of its misery by packing it with out-of-date clumpy pyrodex, left over 4th July fireworks, lighter fluid, etc. Since then the post Halloween blowing up of the pumpkins has become a family tradition. With the advent of Tannerite, the event has been moved to the old family place in the mountains. But it is always an act of mercy on pumpkins past their prime. Shooting up healthy pumpkins, especially those that could make pies or muffins, is barbaric in the extreme.
 
While I agree that pumpkins are an excellent food item, there are so many available and so many that go to waste I fail to see how shooting up a few pumpkins is going to change our food supply here in the U.S. or anywhere else for than matter.
 
Almost everyone who I know that raises pumpkins, do so by the hundreds so they can leave them for the deer and other game. That they end up splattered instead of left whole makes no difference. And, of course, the local kids can get a pumpkin for a quarter for Halloween.

Now, watermelons, that's nearly sinful to shoot those. :D

Geno
 
Hey guys, that's terrible torture for a harmless creature minding its own business:eek:. At least one guy suggested a quick, clean kill.

I'm gonna call the number for the PLA: Pumpkin Liberation Assoc.
 
LOL. Or PETP People For The Ethical Treatment of Pumpkins!

Great pics. Farmers have to plow under thousands and thousands of unharvested pumpkins each fall. I wouldnt worry to much about "wasting" them.

Im a produce man, if you were down in my neck o the woods I couldve gotten you a sweet deal on pumpkins by the bin.
 
I'd call and report it to P.O.O.P: (People Offin' Others' Punkins).

What's wrong with me?!?!?!

Geno
 
We used to shoot them with a shotgun, what a RUSH. The other thing we would do is a good old fashioned pumpkin chunkin competition. We would have teams build catapults, trebuchets, and other chunkin devices. Some guys have too much fun coming up with their ideas. :evil:

I have never thought of filling them up with water and popping them. I guess that will be the next big thing for me to try. There is NO WAY I can do that to a watermelon or cantaloupe. That would be a crime in my neck of the woods, a true capitol offense. I have also had fun shooting coke cans filled with water, milk jugs, ice cubes/blocks, and other rotten fruit. I figure the wildlife will love me for it.
 
Definitely going to try the water fill trick.

My tirade against the edibility of the nasty orange goo is mostly tongue in cheek. I truly do not like it though. Many in my family love the stuff in pie form, just never been a fan. Hmmm mebbe next time I'll bring a pie to shoot too. :evil:

I have been known to shoot a melon or two in my day, much different story on eating them though, nothing like a nicely salted watermelon or cantaloupe!
 
I have something to contribute!!

Pumpkins are not food fit for a human, they are nasty.
2. Deer love them so they are really not going to waste.
3. If you have nothing to contribute why bother commenting?
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The exception to #1 is good pumpkin pie.
Deer do love them so the remains don't go to waste, which is good.
Tinpig did have something to offer, you just did not agree with him. Ya gotta remember his opinion is as valid as yours or any I have.

So how about a little common respect for views you may not care for.
 
So let him start his own thread about pumpkin love. There really was nothing he had to say that added anything to the original purpose of the thread. Furthermore whining about "wasting food" has nothing to do with firearms, while blowing up food items certainly does.

No need to be a seagull.
 
So let him start his own thread about pumpkin love. There really was nothing he had to say that added anything to the original purpose of the thread. Furthermore whining about "wasting food" has nothing to do with firearms, while blowing up food items certainly does.
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Who other than you claimed anyone was whining? The gentleman had a different take on it and voiced his opinion which obviously disagrees with you, but this does not make him a whiner.

Or are you whining about his different take on it?
 
Ive always wanted to put an exploding target inside of a giant pumpkin! I think the results would be pretty impressive!
 
Potatohead:

Shooting those which can't hold water might be more fun, if the impacts and damage blown out the rear (from soft point 7.62x39) could easily be seen from 30-100 yards.
At least with an "insurgent" fragment from a concrete block, you can see a puff of gray dust.

If a pumpkin can hold water (no smile carved into it), then maybe so. A cantaloupe is small enough to be able to see the damage from the first hit, when it rolls over on sloping ground-make your own slope.
 
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