Thanks guys!  When the whole thing started I was envisioning a perfect throw and the pumpkin exploding into a thousand pieces.  I quickly learned that wasn't going to happen.  There were times I wasn't sure I would be able to put a video together with all the different things happening.  Losing stones, my backstop slowly breaking down, etc.

Here's a little behind the scenes info.  After throwing the small pumpkins, I wasn't going to go back to stones.  I actually tried to put the big pumpkin in the sling.  It was way to big though and would sit in the pouch securely.  Even if it did, it may have been too heavy for me to throw.  I didn't weight it, but I'm guessing it was close to 20 lb.  So I went and found a really big stone to throw instead.


NooneOfConsequence wrote on Nov 10^th, 2021 at 6:33pm:

You still could.  I did fail to get a hit.  I didn't know until I saw the video, but the cords got really twisted up when I was throwing the the small pumpkins.  Except for the last one, which came out of the sling pretty clean.  Some practice with those (and the sling I used for them) would have been very helpful, but I just had two of those pumpkins.

The stories and artifacts from Guam about "canoe breakers" are looking even more plausible.

joe_meadmaker wrote on Nov 10^th, 2021 at 10:25pm:


Two words: “pyrotechnics, Joe!”

Your video was excellent, but that’s not going to stop us from demanding more 🤣

Good video NOOC!  I like how you got to the same point I did at the end.  The pumpkin isn't quite destroyed.  The only thing left to do is go in and do it by hand. 

Rocks in the backyard! You're a brave soul!  Glad to see they got the send-off they wanted.