In my opinion,Yureks  long range casts are not only farther than previous records, but most likely were done at a much lower altitude in dense air. The former GWR(with stone)was done in Utah I believe where 4000’ altitude is common. The last GWR was done on a California dry lake at over 6000’ altitude! A possible 5-10 percent distance advantage due to just less air resistance.      

You see that's all I wanted to know - it was measured. end of the matter. Why you lot had to get so worked up about it I'll probably never know.

Now if any of you can tell me why that was such a big deal I'd really like to know. And yep I knew that telephoto lenses zoomed in make things look closer.

And for the record I never actually had doubts as to how far yurek could have slung a glande. Given his stye release pics, sling length and glande composition and knowing how far I can sling with much shorter sling and non-ideal ammo, I never had any problems with possible distance. I just wanted to know if it had been measured. If you look back through my posts that's all you'll find.

I asked a simple question - was it measured. To which 'yes it was' was all the answer I was looking for.

Thanks for finally answering. :-)

And unless yurek - you're still unnecessarily narked at me ;-) - I'd like to use quite a few of your pics on the dvd slideshows :-)

There's a simple adage I use all the time (on account of people invariably saying at some point during one of my visits: [i]'you'll probably think this is a stupid question - but..[/i]'):
It's this:- [i]'there are no stupid questions - just things you don't know and how do you find out unless you ask ?'[/i]

Surely 'small pumpkins' are just squash. Actually are pumpkins just big squash ?
Could get very confusing that, but depending on whether or not pumpkins are squash you could probably bamboozle your way to slinging small squash/pumpkins at the pumkin chunkin :-)

TechStuf,

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May I conclude from this, that you did get in touch with Guinness?

Scratch that.  I may conclude any thing I want.  Try again: Have you been in touch with the Guinness people?

At the end of the "Punkin-chunkin" all the pumpkins are squash!