Photography by Dale Dougherty
Big Blowhards
Who will be the first to make a machine that propels a pumpkin more than a mile?
WHAT WEIGHS 28,000 POUNDS, stretches 100 feet into the air, and shoots vegetables, frozen turkeys, and bowling balls? The biggest, baddest air gun of them all, dubbed Second Amendment. This is the machine that won first place in the 2006 World Championship Punkin Chunkin, as it did in 2002 and 2003.
Built by a team of arc-welding air gun builders headquartered in the exurbs of Detroit, Second Amendment is an enormous, truck-mounted breechloader, a howitzer capable of shooting a 10-pound pumpkin just ...
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