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Pumpkin carving and blasting with the Henrys !

Post by fortyshooter » Sun Oct 18, 2020 7:10 pm

Yep that time once again to carve a pumpkin and blast a few too. https://youtu.be/Vi3M9CghTbY

The "blade" of choice for carving was the 20 inch Henry .357 rifle. Turned out OK but I found a limiting factor with my ghost ring sight when trying to
precisely pick out the same point of impact with the other eye hole. The field of view around target is limited a bit but I guessed close enough! :lol:
Ammo used was my .38 Specials which were MB 158 gr. RNFP loaded with 5.6 gr. of Power Pistol.

Next was blasting time with the little pumpkins using the .44 Mag Carbine and those 180 gr. sizzlers that will make a mess of anything they hit going around 2000 FPS. As you can see they were vaporized into to fragments that traveled a good distance in every direction. I found a piece in the bed of my truck!

Then on to the Orange Crush bottles and sorry to say when I put the camera back on my hat it was pointed to low to show the target.
That's what happens when you are your own camera person...couldn't tell how it was angled till video was done. Well you got a good shot of the Henry hammer coming down! :lol: Yes the bottles were vaporized too by those hot 180 gr. 44 Mag rounds.

Hope you enjoy watching!
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Post by JEBar » Sun Oct 18, 2020 7:45 pm

our family is planning a Halloween get-together for Saturday, Oct 31st .... one of the activities will be the grandkids decorating pumpkins with magic markers .... the following Saturday we want to get back together and shoot the pumpkins
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Post by Rifletom » Sun Oct 18, 2020 7:50 pm

Oh yeah, pumpkin shooting at it's finest! Pretty good shooting as usual forty. Another fun video!
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Post by North Country Gal » Sun Oct 18, 2020 8:17 pm

Oh, that poor pumpkin! :) Great vid, forty.
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Post by Sir Henry » Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:42 pm

Nice carving! Great shooting as usual. Your place is a shooters dream.
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Post by BigAl52 » Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:49 pm

Nice Forty at least you didnt have a 30 mph wind to deal with like I did yesterday.
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Re: Pumpkin carving and blasting with the Henrys !

Post by fortyshooter » Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:19 pm

Yeah it was great to get out and shoot for a change and take a break from the shed project. No wind today but it was a bit soggy from the rain
we had Friday.
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Post by Headhog » Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:27 pm

Good way to spend the afternoon. Fun!!!

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Re: Pumpkin carving and blasting with the Henrys !

Post by zara_puppy » Sat Oct 24, 2020 10:26 pm

Nice video. Watched a few others while I was there as well. Nice shooting! And a nice place to shoot.
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Re: Pumpkin carving and blasting with the Henrys !

Post by fortyshooter » Sat Oct 24, 2020 10:43 pm

zara_puppy wrote:
Sat Oct 24, 2020 10:26 pm
Nice video. Watched a few others while I was there as well. Nice shooting! And a nice place to shoot.
Great and thanks for watching!
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