To paraphrase the former mayor of Chicago, never let a pumpkin go to waste.

Since pumpkin pie has long since been determined to be a plague on all of culinary mankind and a waste of valuable Thanksgiving table real estate, the highest and best use for the large orange gourds this time of year is as target practice.

So gather any pumpkins you may still have around the house and do what Henry did here; load up a good lever gun with some not-so-inexpensive-anymore ammunition, line up the orange orbs and let ‘er rip.

Enjoy.

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    • I agree, the video is not something new. With that being said, something makes me smile seeing a Henry lever gun in use.

      My Henry 22lr frontier with octagon barrel is not the fanciest gun I own, but puts a big smile on my face whenever I shoot it!

  3. OMG! Vegan violence. What have those innocent pumpkins ever done to you, you, you, you, deplorables!?

  4. I like pumpkin pie. And it is an affront to waste food, any food, for target practice when so many are hungry in other countries.

    First world problems, indeed.

    • “And it is an affront to waste food, any food, for target practice when so many are hungry in other countries.”

      {Scratching chin thoughtfully}

      I suppose the TTAG demented trolls could be converted into compost and spread on some farmer’s field somewhere…

  5. I’m glad those aren’t pie pumpkins. It would be a shame to waste the good ones. Perhaps someone’s mom was using the wrong recipe? That may explain this pie angst.😉

  6. some canned “pumpkin” purée is actually made from one or more types of winter squash, like butternut, Hubbard, Boston Marrow, and Golden Delicious. These squash varieties can be less stringy and richer in sweetness and color than pumpkin.

    Also Know, is there pumpkin in pumpkin pie filling? What’s inside is actually 100 percent squash. Most brands use a mixture of admittedly yummy squashes–butternut, Hubbard and so on. Libby’s, which claims it sells about 85 percent of the nation’s so-called canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie filling, took the deception one step further by developing its own breed of squash.

  7. I have eaten all sorts of squash, but I do not recall anyone, EVER, serving these jack-o-lantern pumpkins as food. Anybody?

      • Those Jack O Lantern pumpkins are actually animal feed. That’s where they all go after the holiday season. Ever see pictures of the gorillas munching down on pumpkin on Thanksgiving day? Cows love ’em. Don’t know if horses share cows; enthusiasm for pumpkins.

        Even shot up pumpkins would make good cow fodder. Although the greenies might scream about lead poisoning in the milk supply.

  8. Pumpkin pie isn’t all that bad. It’s just not all that good either. I’m ok with once or twice a year.

  9. I never understood shooting vegetables. Or soda containers. Or pretty much anything else except paper targets, steel targets, 10% ordinance gelatin a few times, live game and people if they make me.

    • That sounds very sad to me. Every once in a while I’ll shoot paper targets (they have their place, especially when it comes to sighting in a gun) but plinking is where all the fun is.

      Improvised reactive targets can provide the same kind of marksmanship challenges as paper or steel — but paper and steel can’t provide the fun of seeing a water fountain erupt or a piece of fruit burst when your bullet hits exactly where you meant it to. Shooting holes in spent casings (usually shotgun shells or the aluminum/steel cased stuff, not valuable brass) is a heck of a challenge if precision is your game, and the instant visual feedback is a lot of fun.

      • Soda bottles used to be made of glass. We would take an empty and lay it on its side with the open mouth towards the shooter. The object was to shoot a round through the open mouth without touching the sides and out the bottom.

    • Gadsden Flag, I like shooting that kinda stuff to watch it fly apart. Punching holes in paper gets boring to me.

  11. I like to prove my shooting prowess by hand tossing 1″ washers into the air and sending a shot right through the center hole… I’ve gotten so good at it that I NEVER miss.

    • I tried hand tossing a Maytag, couldn’t do it, had to use both hands, laid the gunm down and by the time I got it picked up the washer was back on the ground.

      • Well now, 2-3 years of steady practice and you could have gotten muscled enough to get some hang time, maybe enough that your girlfriend could have blasted it at least. There’s more than one kind of gunm that’s useful.😉

  12. I would never harm an innocent pumpkin.

    Brussels sprouts, however? It’s a service to humanity to off those little bastards.

  14. Since I prefer sweet potato pie over pumpkin, I have no problem in busting a few jack’o’lantern pumpkins. Watermelons work well too. Always fun to make a nice big mess while getting in a little target practice. And, where I shoot, local wildlife gets a free meal.

  15. “Since pumpkin pie has long since been determined to be a plague on all of culinary mankind and a waste of valuable Thanksgiving table real estate,”

    Utter nonsense! A good pumpkin pie is always yummy!

    “… the highest and best use for the large orange gourds this time of year is as target practice.”

    The fact is there are always many more pumpkins grown than can be made into delicious, yummy, tummy satisfying desserts. Ain’t a thing in the world wrong with the wonderful multiple use pumpkin!

    Useful tip, take your pump and make a hole in the top. Fill it with water. Maybe a little food dye for color. Shooting with a big enough, fast enough cartridge and the shockwave thru the water makes for a spectacular show!

    Good times, and you still get to enjoy dessert 🙂

  16. Pumpkins? I can think of far more liberal vegetables I’d shoot than a few docile pumpkins. Start with rutabagas due to bad manners.

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