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It was only a matter of time before we saw this new flavor................

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Just some free advice about shooting pumpkins. They seem to have a lot of hollow space in them. If you cut a small hole and fill them up with liquid (orange soda) they respond much better to being shot.
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In college I worked on a farm mostly driving tractors. Grew many kinds of potatoes and many varieties of pumpkins. Such a farm must surely have a potato gun and we had a big one, also worked well with pumpkins...
Launched a big spud at a 55g barrel once at about 30 yards from the hip and dented the barrel 3" deep! Never ran out of ammo.
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Scott Tschirhart wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 3:42 pm Just some free advice about shooting pumpkins. They seem to have a lot of hollow space in them. If you cut a small hole and fill them up with liquid (orange soda) they respond much better to being shot.
.....instead of orange soda....try Tannerite... :twisted:
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AJMD429 wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 4:23 pm
Scott Tschirhart wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 3:42 pm Just some free advice about shooting pumpkins. They seem to have a lot of hollow space in them. If you cut a small hole and fill them up with liquid (orange soda) they respond much better to being shot.
.....instead of orange soda....try Tannerite... :twisted:
Oooh, I like both of those ideas! :wink:

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It is such a shame that the Gateway Dynamite Shoot in CO is no more. This tannerite stuff looks interesting, never heard of it before, thanks for educating me Doc. Might be worth buying some in the future. -Tutt
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CowboyTutt wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 7:10 pm It is such a shame that the Gateway Dynamite Shoot in CO is no more. This tannerite stuff looks interesting, never heard of it before, thanks for educating me Doc. Might be worth buying some in the future. -Tutt
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Shot it with a suppressed 223 so the blast wouldn't be drowned out, and the 'snowman' was pretty much flattened... 8)
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Thanks Old Friend and most of all for what you do medically. The CO Dynamite shoot involved actual soda cans of dynamite and involved the local fire department at very long range, even extreme range. It was epic.

This tannerite stuff can restore the days of target shooting glory maybe.

Thanks for what you do around here. My Mom and Sister took the "horse version' of Ivermectin with no problems with a correct dosage. Mom considering risk factors and being vaxed. Digressing, but thanks Pard. I appreciate what you do here a lot as a physician, it means a lot. Your firearms posts too. Keep up the good work.

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Yeah, I had just put together a 6.5-284 to use at the CO Dynamite shoot and then it was cancelled!!
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Yeah, I had just put together a 6.5-284 to use at the CO Dynamite shoot and then it was cancelled!!
That would have been a truly rockin' cartridge. Sorry to hear that. Always welcome to hear from a fellow 284 Wildcatter!

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Poor old Pumpkins, very few ever make it as far as the dining table... :cry:
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Ammo and component cost being what it is, I don't see me shooting a lot of pumpkins. :D
While I wouldn't be surprised if this was a factory offering, I'd think a little less of Winchester.

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Well pumpkins aren't considered a dangerous species so a .22 is plenty but an air cannon sending them down range would be a great thing to watch. Sadly the days of punkin chunkin are probably over thanks to chicom flu!
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CowboyTutt wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 8:34 pm Thanks Old Friend and most of all for what you do medically. The CO Dynamite shoot involved actual soda cans of dynamite and involved the local fire department at very long range, even extreme range. It was epic.

This tannerite stuff can restore the days of target shooting glory maybe.

Thanks for what you do around here. My Mom and Sister took the "horse version' of Ivermectin with no problems with a correct dosage. Mom considering risk factors and being vaxed. Digressing, but thanks Pard. I appreciate what you do here a lot as a physician, it means a lot. Your firearms posts too. Keep up the good work.

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I just saw this post - you're welcome...! I've been working about 80 hours per week, which I'm WAAAY to old to do, since my N.P. left for greener pastures, so I miss alot. The 'horse' stuff (paste, injection, and 'drench') is hard to measure accurately unless you use the injectable, and I would NOT inject myself with that, but HAVE taken it orally. It isn't "recommended" but when lives are at stake you may climb out the window in a house fire on a 'rope' made of extension cords and bedsheets, instead of an OSHA-approved climbing rope.
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Thanks Doc, this guy has it pretty well figured out for a safe dosage taken orally on an empty stomach with 8 ounces of water. The price of Ivermectin is skyrocketing, even the "horse version". Apparently the general public is not being fooled thank God! My Mom and sister took it (horse paste) both ways, on an empty stomach and after eating. No problem for either. Very safe drug. Obviously, if you can get a prescription from a doctor, and Front Line Doctors is a pretty good source, that would be better, but its a very safe and forgiving drug that won the Nobel Prize for its efficacy and safety. This guys methods allow for more accurate dosage of the horse paste.

https://www.maximpulse.com/permethrin/i ... -dose.html

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Paul Harrel filled pumpkins up with Orange soda. They blew up better that way especially with varmint type bullets. Hornady had Zombie bullets so guess this isnt to far off.
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There was a guy that made bullets from cut down magnum cases, turned the belt down to .510, and filled with shot, then formed bullets. Kind of like a glazer safety slug. Said it would turn a coyote into pink mist @ 600yds when shot out of his 50bmg bolt gun. Bet that wouldn't leave much of the pumpkin intact, if any.

Hmmm, wonder how that would work out of my 50 alaskan????
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