Big Bore Pumpkin Gun

[Guy Miner]

Okay, it's not rifled. Yet. But it's big enough... Fotis, you may need one of these for pronghorn duty, it's bigger than your .416...

If you guys ever get out my way, to Central Washington, come in October to hunt mule deer (I don't promise one!) fish for salmon, eat fresh apples, AND see the Pumpkin Gun in action! It's about 10 miles from my home, at an orchard, and has been a fixture here for some time. The barrel is 8" pipe, and the "propellant" is compressed air, up to 100 PSI. He tries to hit the target on the hill, a couple of hundred yards away. So far it's got the range, but not the accuracy. Am thinking he could patch the pumpkins like a lead ball in a muzzle loader. He said a Number Ten can is almost a perfect fit... Range? He's shot it OVER that hill in the background. It's the accuracy that isn't so hot. The deer eat the pumpkin shrapnel.





There's something you don't see everyday, a pumpkin gun. :grin:

Enjoy! Guy

 

[FOTIS]

gotta get one!

 

[DrMike]

I suppose if one could launch enough pumpkins it is possible that the deer might be so fat that they couldn't run away. Might be worth a try.

 

[truck driver]

They actually have contest to see who can shoot the farthest with those things they call it pumpkin chunk-en, they also use catapults . There is one on a turkey farm close to my home and they have built transformers out of junk cars and boats to shoot at and entertain the yuppies here.

 

[JD338]

Very cool. We used to make potato guns that used hair spray for propellant.

JD338

 

[buckfever]

Its amazing how far hair spray can launch a potato but not as cool as a a pumpkin flying through the air.

 

[tim629]

To turn a potato gun into a "shotgun" a shop rag then a handful of corn creates quite the scatter

 

[buckfever]

Or maybe you could load the pumpkin gun with a punch of potatoes :mrgreen: