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joe_meadmaker
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Pumpkin Challenge 2024
Sep 16th, 2024 at 8:50pm
 
Pumpkins are hitting the stores, so it's time for the Pumpkin Challenge!  We've certainly covered a lot of different ideas over the past handful of years.  Let's see what we got this year!

This challenge is pretty open, but I'll cover the general idea.  I'd love to see some new faces join this one.  Any sling, any style, any projectile is fine.  Just make sure to keep yourself (and things around you) safe if you're going to take things to the extreme.  All you need to do is get a pumpkin and smash it up in whatever way you see fit.  Using a sling of course!  If you need some ideas, just scroll back through this board and take a look at some of the previous years.  It's perfectly fine to try out something that someone else has already done.

And last, there's no real time limit on this.  But by the end of November is a good point to try to get a video posted if you want to participate.

I got a good idea from a friend of mind.  I'm going to try to get it posted within a few weeks.  Let's destroy some pumpkins!  Cheesy
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Reply #1 - Oct 27th, 2024 at 1:35pm
 
Here is my entry for the year. I included every single shot of the session, but cut it down to be less boring to watch.

https://youtu.be/BkgmoqShjSA

More pumpkin destruction... Clearly I was much more tired. These shots are pretty slow, lol.

https://youtu.be/w7IOEVzKNUw
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Reply #2 - Oct 27th, 2024 at 5:44pm
 
Awesome man!  We're on our way!  Your lefty is really good.

I got mine recorded today.  I should have the video cut together by the end of the week.
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Reply #3 - Oct 27th, 2024 at 9:53pm
 
Nice! A lot better with your left than I would be. Not even going to try that yet  Grin

Here's mine!

https://youtu.be/2nfpGa1o2Fc
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Reply #4 - Oct 27th, 2024 at 11:56pm
 
Nice work! I very much enjoyed that.  You're brave to use re-usable ammo. I hate retrieving it and also usually end up losing it. Thanks for participating! We seem to have fewer and fewer entries each year.
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Reply #5 - Oct 28th, 2024 at 11:29am
 
Nice one!  Those bolt/nut projectiles did really well.  Lot's of good hits! Thumbs Up
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Reply #6 - Oct 28th, 2024 at 2:47pm
 
Yeah the bolts performed a lot better than I was expecting based on what I saw in the prior year's videos with rocks even of pretty good size. Even my wobbly releases did ok and took out some major chunks!

I was lucky to have a giant(well-mowed) field all to myself, otherwise I almost certainly would have lost them all and given up very quickly. Since they're staging all the hurricane cleanup there, they shut down the fields for normal activities or it'd be full of high schoolers that would be difficult to aim around Grin I can't say I was a fan of retrieval either, but it wasn't so bad because they were always very visible.
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