2019 - "Five Peat" at Punkin Chunkin Colorado

This is a tune we'll never get sick of singing! Over the course of six rounds we had three shots over 4,500' - the best was 4,560', which was good enough to take home the trophy for the fifth consecutive year! 

Now we're off to Rantoul, IL for World Championship Punkin Chunkin!

2019 Event Schedule

September 21 & 22
Punkin Chunkin Colorado
Arapahoe Park Racetrack
Aurora, CO

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November 1-3
World Championship Punkin Chunkin
Rantoul National Aviation Center Airport
Rantoul, IL

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2018 - "Four Peat" at Punkin Chunkin Colorado

In typically Big 10 Inch fashion, we saved our best for last! Our final shot of the competition traveled 4,276 feet, which was good enough to claim our fourth straight Punkin Chunkin Colorado crown!

2017 - Back to Back to Back in Colorado!

Fair weather prevailed and the Big 10 Inch rose to the occasion. The Big 10 Inch set a field record with a shot of 4,970 feet, good enough for a "three-peat" at Punkin Chunkin Colorado!

2016 - A Tragic End to World Championship Punkin Chunkin

After two wind-affected days of competition, the Big 10 Inch was in the lead with a shot of 3,866 feet. Sadly, disaster struck on Sunday when an air cannon malfunctioned and critically injured spectators. The event was immediately called off. Out of respect for all parties involved, we won't be making any more posts about the incident.

2016 - Back to Back in Colorado!

For the second straight year, the Big 10 Inch has been crowned champion of Punkin Chunkin Colorado! Ultimately, our Saturday shot (4,448') was enough to fend off tough competition from the likes of the Death Star and Big Red, et al. We intended to push the envelope on Sunday, saving our 'best' pumpkin for last. Sadly, we received an unpleasant reminder that we shoot fruit, not lead slugs, and made pumpkin pie!

2015 - Punkin Chunkin Colorado

It was a beautiful weekend at the Aurora, CO contest. We won with the longest shot ever in a World Championship Punkin Chunkin Association licensed event with a chunk of 4,787 feet. A shout out to the City of Aurora, event volunteers, our fellow CO competitors, friends and family, and our fans! Thank you! (Teams pre-selected which three of their shots would be official WCPCA championship rounds. Our best 'WCPCA' shot went 4,440 feet.)

2014 - Make Do With What You Have

World Championship Punkin Chunkin ran out of time to complete arrangements for the 2014 competition. We used our championship rounds (pumpkins) to good effect. On November 9 we set up and fired off a 7-pack. It was a great day on our practice range as we launched one 4,573 feet. Next year competition resumes among the big guns!

2013 - World Championship Punkin Chunkin

The contest was decided on the first day. Winds out of the southwest led to field records in four adult categories. We had a personal best of 4421 feet (1.34 km) on the field. With pumpkin patches in three micro-climates, we had good ammo. And our improvements worked. But second place is still first loser.

2012 - World Championship Punkin Chunkin

This year we turned in a respectable 5th place out of 23 adult air cannons. It’s otherwise mediocre and far below our standard performance. We had great pumpkins this year. So did everyone else. La Estrella pumpkins have become the standard. The continual headwind and cold temperatures knocked all cannons’ shots down. So what else is new?

2011 - World Championship Punkin Chunkin

A strong wind Friday and Saturday blew into the muzzles of the air cannons but helped set world records for adult torsion and adult trebuchet. Way to go “Chucky III” and “Yankee Siege II”. We were in 1st place Friday but had slipped to 4th by Saturday. Sunday saw a front move in with a warm, mild breeze to our backs. Six guns shot over 4000 feet. For us it was like the driver of a dragster in the finals who misses 5th gear. We’ve been here before, but 8th place really sucks

2010 - World Championship Punkin Chunkin

Hats off to the ladies of “Hormone Blaster” for being this year’s overall distance winner. “Emancipator” had the second longest shot and “The Big 10 Inch” came in third (second in our division). With 10 competitive machines, it’s down to luck, the vagaries of vegetables and the weather. We’ll see what next year brings.

2010 - Big 10 Inch Breaks a Mile!!!

On September 9, 2010 in Moab, UT, the Big 10 Inch launched a 9 lb 12 oz La Estrella pumpkin 5,545.42 feet, that's 1.05 mile (1.690 km). Thin air (a mile high), a perfect pumpkin, favorable conditions, and the Big 10 Inch did the rest.

We actually we shot 2 pumpkins more than a mile that day. We’re the first Pumpkin Chunker in history to break a mile. View the Guinness World Record (tm) for “farthest distance to fire a pumpkin” here!

2009 - Big 10 Inch Wins Their 3rd World Championship!

Friday’s wind knocked all shots down but at day’s end we were in third. Saturday, with a slight tail-wind we moved up a notch, just 10 feet behind the leader “Old Glory”. A warm final day with a slight crosswind saw our 4162.65′ shot sail to victory.

The wet growing season meant all teams had some bad pumpkins. Sunday’s results included half dozen pies. Our win can be attributed to good luck, firing over 30 practice shots and a beer bath of Victory Hop Devil.

2009 - NEW GUINNESS WORLD RECORD!!!

On Nov 1, 2009 in Moab , UT, the Big 10 Inch broke the Guinness World Record (TM) for “farthest distance to fire a pumpkin”. We heaved a La Estrella pumpkin 4623.5 feet (1409.22 m)!

2008 - World Championship Punkin Chunkin

Three teams joined the 4000 foot club this year. We however, consistently shot poorly. We equaled our 1999 shot, but the world has moved on. The vagaries of vegetables plays with you each year. There are so many variables that it becomes a crap shoot. That said, 8th place really sucks.

2007 - The Big 10 Inch Has Risen Again!

On Friday, the first day of the 2007 competition, we were ahead with a shot of 3490 feet. The current champ, “2nd Amendment”, gets to shoot last each day. Theirs went 63 feet farther.

The winds from offshore hurricane Noel shifted from NE on Fri, to right into everyone's barrels out of the N on Sat. We had the best shot that day at 3416 feet, beating the champ by 178 feet.

Sunday, the winds died down somewhat and came out of their prevailing NW. We fired the best pumpkin we’ve ever had for a 4211 footer. This bested all others by 631 feet that day and matched our best shot in 2005.

The Big 10 Inch is now 2-Time World Champions!

2006 - World Championship Punkin Chunkin

How did we do? Not well. Actually, we sucked. Well actually, no one did well – the cold temps and wind knocked down all shots, but we were hit harder than many. Our poor showing (6th) relative to the other cannons could be attributed to our competition growing every year. There were 22 cannons this year. If you have 10 fully competitive foes your odds of finishing “in the money” fall off, just due to the “vagaries of vegetables”.

2005 - World Championship Punkin Chunkin

The competition got even tighter this year with 20 air cannons participating, including the 2003 and 2004 world champions, “Second Amendment” and “Old Glory”. We were very pleased to establish a personal best shot of 4211 feet (1.28 km) (That’s 8/10 mile)! This gave us a third place finish — hats off to “Second Amendment” and “Y ask Y” who edged us by 121 and 56 feet, respectively.

2004 - World Championship Punkin Chunkin

The competition got tight this year. Now a half-dozen machines have achieved mechanical parity. Since this leaves one at the mercy of the “vagaries of vegetables”, it becomes an odds game. All competitors had the same wind, though, and the Big 10 Inch rose to the occasion — at the end of the first day we were in first place with a hurl of 3770 feet. It was not to hold and by the end of the second day we dropped to fifth.

We will NOT, in the coming year, be like the football coach who plays for the “long bomb” and loses games because he didn’t drill the less glamorous basics. We may have spent too much time, as seasoned competitors, worrying about refinements at the expense of basics.