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Reply #15 - Sep 27th, 2021 at 7:34am
 
Nice one !
Those are proper armour plated pumpkins and no mistake Thumbs Up

As far as the hat trick goes, I'd just assumed you hadn't missed it at all lol

Was really impressed Smiley
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Reply #16 - Sep 27th, 2021 at 8:45am
 
Thank you all! I want to see more entries though. Get out there guys!

Curious Aardvark wrote on Sep 27th, 2021 at 7:34am:
As far as the hat trick goes, I'd just assumed you hadn't missed it at all lol

Oooh boy... I only included the hits because I didn't want to completely bore everyone to death. I was out there for over 2 hours (around that anyway) and with filming on the camera and on my phone I had 69 videos (lol) to edit together. Came out as 5 minutes of video including added cards so that tells you how out of practice I am with a staff sling... It took a long time to hit it and I almost gave up a few times. The magic of editing!
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Reply #17 - Sep 27th, 2021 at 9:32am
 
and there's me thinking: 'damn he's good with that staff sling, wonder how far away he can hit stuff.'

But those three together did some real damage. Loved the one that went in and then knocked the back end apart.

I'd just assumed you only had the one rock and were resetting for each throw lol
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Reply #18 - Sep 27th, 2021 at 2:04pm
 
Curious Aardvark wrote on Sep 27th, 2021 at 9:32am:
and there's me thinking: 'damn he's good with that staff sling, wonder how far away he can hit stuff.'

But those three together did some real damage. Loved the one that went in and then knocked the back end apart.

I'd just assumed you only had the one rock and were resetting for each throw lol
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I took six out with me this time which is about the limit I can carry comfortably in the bag and still sling. Lightest one is 231g the heaviest 386g so they really pack a punch when they hit. I wasn't even throwing full speed and power because I don't want to injure myself before the competition (and I'm super out of practice so was taking it slow). Staff slings are so fun. I still want to make a Hoopak style one.
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Reply #19 - Sep 28th, 2021 at 12:18pm
 
Hoopaks are great, much easier to make and control.

And great to improvise as most paracord slings can be fitted to one fairly easily.
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Reply #20 - Sep 29th, 2021 at 12:25am
 
Loved the first installment- the drama and suspense were awesome.. loved the fight scenes!
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Reply #21 - Sep 30th, 2021 at 10:20am
 
I did my pumpkin shopping this morning and I'm all set.  I'll see how fast I can pull off what I'm hoping to do.
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Reply #22 - Sep 30th, 2021 at 3:37pm
 
Can’t wait to see what you got planned
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Reply #23 - Sep 30th, 2021 at 6:34pm
 
Looking forward to it, Joe,

My pumpkin is the offspring of the small pumpkin from last year's video. I chucked it in the compost pile and I had about 10 pumpkins grow from the seeds. 

I tried this morning\ to make my video, but didn't get what I wanted. I'll try again next week.
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Reply #24 - Oct 1st, 2021 at 4:53am
 
I'm really looking forward to other people's entries.
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Reply #25 - Oct 4th, 2021 at 12:34pm
 
it's probably just me - but I I don;t feel right smashing up something you can eat lol

For halloween I always remove the flesh from the pumpkin and either make pumpkin pie or pumpkin soup - both are really good.

I might have a go after halloween with the door pumpkin.
But even then, he's been protecting the house from witches all night, just seems mean to smash him up with rocks.

I'm weird, I know.
You think that's bad.
Whenever i leave the workshop at night and leave the 3d printers running after turning the lights off - I always feel guilty that I've left them in the dark.
THEY DO NOT HAVE EYES.
No light sensing organs of any kind - they're basically 'tommy'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FjPt1fZsSs

But I always feel guilty. 

So we'll see Smiley
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Reply #26 - Oct 4th, 2021 at 11:27pm
 
Then print a pumpkin and smash that.
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Reply #27 - Oct 5th, 2021 at 7:35am
 
Now there's a thought !
Hmm...
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Reply #28 - Oct 7th, 2021 at 7:08am
 
I want to see that!
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Reply #29 - Oct 8th, 2021 at 12:32am
 
Man I just ruined my pumpkin.
Had it setup and wind blew it off the stand and it broke.
Back to the drawing board .......and the shop
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