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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: 230RN on October 04, 2017, 09:40:28 AM
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OK, in anticipation of the annual harvest time rural sport of "Punkin Chunkin'," whereby pumpkins are shot out of various devices, including compressed air cannons and various forms of catapulty things, I searched for videos on it just for personal entertainment.
But I found this one of an aircraft carrier testing its catapult by tossing truck-like devices into the water. In some parts, you can see the trucks skipping over the water.
https://youtu.be/IrzgFpkzSlg
Beat that, punkin chunkers !
Terry, 230RN
Notes:
1. I have no idea what those truck-like things are.
2. Samples of actual punkin chunkin:
https://youtu.be/dmSyrGsqmg8
World record attempt:
https://youtu.be/MtKyCrfmInA
3. I have no idea why they call it "chunkin" instead of "chuckin'" except it rhymes better.
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https://youtu.be/UFqJaBbsPGk (https://youtu.be/UFqJaBbsPGk)
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When I see the Punkin' Chunkin' videos, I just think that those who wish to ban firearms need to see them.
"Look what a bunch of guys with too much time on their hands and a little mechanical bent can make. A device the can fling a pumpkin or melon almost a mile, without gun powder.... Do you really think that they wouldn't be able to build guns ??"
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When I see the Punkin' Chunkin' videos, I just think that those who wish to ban firearms need to see them.
"Look what a bunch of guys with too much time on their hands and a little mechanical bent can make. A device the can fling a pumpkin or melon almost a mile, without gun powder.... Do you really think that they wouldn't be able to build guns ??"
Wow, May I quote this with whatever attribution you wish please?
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Wow, May I quote this with whatever attribution you wish please?
Always, I'm eminently quotable. WIth would be nice.
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Note 1. It is called a test sled and is used to certify the cat for full weight shots. Most common on the east coast is bombing a section of the James River while the ship is berthed at NNSY. I used to live in the neighborhood right outside the yard, miss walking by and seeing the progress. I also did a 12 month drydock in the yards, despite walking to work I would rather do back to back deployments than ever set foot in another yard. I lived on the carrier in winter in Portsmouth yards, lived on an amphib in South Norfolk yards, and did another long drydock in Portsmouth with the gator. I think I would rather remove my own appendix with a spoon.
Somewhere is a vid of a vw bug taking a cat shot. Another tradition is when a catapult officer leaves the ship they fire his boots. Like any other kinetic energy source, left alone long enough and men will play with it.
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Like any other kinetic energy source, left alone long enough and men will play with it.
:angel:
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Hey, French G, so they float and are recoverable. I kind of guessed that from the GoPro on one but wasn't sure.
Kinda interesting about the boots. I guess there are a lot of nautical ceremonies like that.
Kinetic devices and men will play. True. It's the story of technological progress, ain't it? What I gotta laugh at is how those evil bump-firing stocks developed from the thumb-in-the-belt-loop-or-jeans-pocket method of bump firing. How are they going to legislate that?
Talk about "loopholes" on the belt loops, nyuck-nyuck-nyuck. Are they going to call owning a pair of pants "constructive possession" of a machinegun, like the shoelace thing? Or mandate suspenders for all men's trousers?
Despite the recent tragedy :( that's the way my mind works.
Hey, you legally define machinegun as able to fire multiple shots with one pull of the trigger and somebody comes up with a method of firing multiple shots with one pull of the gun (instead of the trigger), and that's a loophole. People find loopholes in the laws all the time.
Dem's de breaks, honey. And that's technology.
Terry