Kill the Pumpkin!

Today we got to watch our friend Brett and his high school students shoot their potato guns which they built. Yay science! First they put up a metal and wood target to hit. After quite a few near and far misses, they moved the target closer, and bam, direct hit.

Then they put a pumpkin in front of the target to try to hit it. There were several very near misses:

Finally after all the kids had their shots, Brett took one last shot and killed the pumpkin!!!

I had a lot of fun with this. It was a challenge. Setting the camera at the fastest shutter speed I could get with the available light, and not to mention the timing. All of these shots were total luck, but I'm pretty happy with them.