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Obscure Object of Desire: Pumpkin Cannon

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Pumpkin in flight (courtesy youtube.com)

I’ve seen more than my fair share of potato cannon videos. While I’m glad that the hair spray industry has found a way back from the post-80’s doldrums, spud guns don’t thrill me at all. But a pumpkin cannon? Now that’s what I call entertainment! Which would be even better if a couple of Cucurbita pepo cannons competed for long range accuracy shooting pumpkins genetically engineered for optimal ballistics. I’d buy that for a dollar!

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Robert Farago

Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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  1. Have a look at the Mythbusters pumpkin chunk special from 2012. Some giant air cannons shot pumpkins about 1000 yards

    People spend years making cannons, catapults etc for the event.

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  2. I’ve been a member of USCCA for almost three years and haven’t yet had the urge to murder someone. It hasn’t made me think “gee, I hope that I happen upon some psycho today so that I can shoot them” a single time since I started my policy. However, if something happens and I do have to draw my weapon and defend my life, I have some piece of mind that I will not go bankrupt if some anti-gun, anti self defense DA decides that he wants to make an example out of me. Do leftards think that if you buy home owners insurance, you’ll automatically want to burn your house down? Liberals are nutjobs…..that’s just all there is to it!

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  3. It would be good if they had to lob them at each other. Performance of the cannons would develop more quickly.

    Or . . . a pumpkin skeet event.

    PULL! Throw up a (manned) CNN van.

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  4. “States” don’t have rights. States are a collective identity with an agreed upon boundary, also known as a government. Only individual humans can have rights. “States” have individuals in them who are awarded authority to carry out acts on behalf of those within the boundaries of said state. The state itself is not any kind of entity and only exists in the minds of humans.

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  5. The above posters that wondered why Colt couldn’t come out with a polished, blued finish like the old ones maybe don’t understand what it takes for skilled craftsmen to get that finish. You can’t just throw the parts in a tumbler and be good to go. The craftsmen who polished the Pythons used more than THIRTY different buffing wheels and various compounds to just prep for the blueing process (which has been changed by EPA regulations since the old days). At $699 MSRP, that type of blued finish just isn’t possible these days. At least the current vapor blasted finish (or whatever they’re using) doesn’t look nearly as rough as the Parkerized Agent and Commando Special guns of the 1980s strike-era when the few craftsmen capable of creating that Royal Blue finish were not available in enough numbers to handle the lower profit margin D-Frame revolvers (Python and Gold Cup models took priority). The Detective Special I carry is probably only an 85% finish gun; that’s why I carry it. Leather, nylon, or Kydex holsters, it does’t matter; you’re going to get finish wear. It doesn’t make sense to market a gun for concealed carry but take the time, effort, and money to put a beautiful, but delicate finish on it. Colt made the right call on the finish, anyway.

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  6. If it is someone I know, and we’re in an area where it might become an issue, then yes, I’ll make a quiet notification.

    Someone I don’t know? I’m minding my own business, except to evaluate who/what/etc the person in question is, and whether or not they might be a threat.

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  7. I was at a parade recently and I saw a guy printing his 2 extra clips on his left hip and his OWB pistol on his right. His shirt was so short that it kept revealing half of his pistol. I would have said something but he kept pulling his shirt down, clearly aware that he was no longer concealed. That, and he had a gold star next to his weapon. I make it a point not to tell an officer from the county sheriff’s department what to do.

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  8. If it were me, I’d appreciate the help. Assuming the helper uses a similar level of discretion I was attempting to go for with my concealed weapon in the first place. I don’t want anyone barking out “hey, you have a gun, don’t you!?” at the 7-Eleven.

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