Punkin chunkin 'n truck chuckin'

[230RN]

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.

[lee n. field]

https://youtu.be/UFqJaBbsPGk

[Scout26]

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 ??"

[HeroHog]

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?

[Scout26]

Wow, May I quote this with whatever attribution you wish please?

Always, I'm eminently quotable.  WIth would be nice.

[French G.]

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.

[freakazoid]

Like any other kinetic energy source, left alone long enough and men will play with it.

 

[230RN]

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