Guiness World Record Pumpkin Chucker

Video shows the Aludium Q36 Pumpkin Modulator from Morton, Illinois, shooting a pumpkin 4,491 feet, setting a Guiness World Record in 1998. Three years later, the same air cannon launched a pumpkin 4,860 feet, which remains the longest pumpkin chuck ever.

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• pumpkin
• chuck
• chucker
• air
• cannon
• world
• record

[245crow]

ever think about using bowling balls for ammo?btw that thing looks scary if it had Russian writing on it i would swear that thing produced some radiation at one point in its life lol, nice canon though

[tquinn2]

@245crow,

The people who own the cannon once did fire a bowling ball when they were up on the east coast. They did it somewhere where they had a long range where there was nothing to hit. I asked one of them how far it traveled, and they said they didn't know, because they never could find it.

tq

[wooshma]

i wonder how accuret this are

[tquinn2]

Since the barrel is smooth-bore, and the pumpkins are not symmetric, over long distances it is not very accurate at all. This is not just determined by the side-to-side angle, but also because there is great variation from one shot to the next in distance.

But when they lower the gun and target-shoot, they can easily hit the side of a junked car at about 200-300 feet.

[psycolist]

how many P S I ?

[tquinn2]

It would vary, but I believe they ran around 60 to 70 psi in the tank. Too much and the pumkin would just liquify.

[theaxis2000]

im bummed, my fiancee fails to see the coolness in this...sighhhhhhhhhhhhh

[doctaheyhey1]

wow this guy sounds like he is about to die

[flyingmonkey8910]

Hey guys,

Really nice shot.

Very very cool video

[denielmaster]

Don't play with the food!!!! >:l

[mbcyclery]

wish i could have spent my 15th b-day watching this rascal instead of drinkin a bottle of 151 with the homies... why didn't they send me a memo about the launch???

[sebeks18]

narrator is a nerd

[dragoness615]

@derechaliberal u know i'm from Delaware where this is a national televised event that donates all proceeds to charity and I'm actually a minority. It's the little things in life you should enjoy and not slander at ppl for doing.

[hexhis85]

This is VERY SAD....!

[worldtravel101]

haha thats great! it was built by Parker Fab. i used to work there. good times!