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Wikkipedia:

Sandbagging, hiding the strength, skill or difficulty of something or someone early in an engagement, may refer to:

Sandbagging in billiards and other games, deliberately playing below one's actual ability in order to fool opponents into accepting higher stakes bets, or to lower one's competitive rating in order to play in a future event with a higher handicap and consequently have a better chance to win; the term has spread to chess, go and other such games.

Sandbagging (golfing), playing poorly until establishing a handicap and then raising bets, using the established handicap to gain advantage.

Sandbagging (racing), deliberately qualifying slower than what the car can actually perform Sandbagging (grappling), competing in a skill-bracket or being ranked lower than one is deemed capable of
Slow play (poker), deceptive play in poker

Sandbagging (pumpkin growing), Deliberately understating over the top (OTT) measurements forgetting that there are 12 inches in a foot.

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9/5/2012 3:32:15 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

How high can one stack sand?

9/5/2012 3:33:24 PM

Lakewood, CO

He he he...
Yep, I got that "story" from Joe (Cojoe) too Gary. I, for the life of me, couldn't figure out exactly how he missed measuring a whole 12 inches! Even while he was telling me how it happened - it didn't make any sense. I figured he was telling one tall tale...one way or another.

It's like I tell my girls, you keep up that kind of story telling and you're going to h@!&...Joe.
Betsy

9/5/2012 4:06:50 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

WOW....Before I could add verboZe.......WHAM...

Just like a Peyton Manning pass... or that first cast with a fly on the water....BAM!

9/5/2012 4:11:20 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

Buster.... It waZnt just 12 inches.... It waZ 12 inches to CC, W and L... thatZ 36 incheZ not 12!

"Lucy we have some splain'in to do"...... just sayin....

.... I love this time of year.....

9/5/2012 4:14:58 PM

Lakewood, CO

PS My 901 Grande is growing good - it only has 3 Dill rings, yep, three! Does the RMGVG give out ribbons for the most Dill rings? It's one funky looking pumpkin - but we like like.

9/5/2012 4:21:09 PM

Massachusetts

a note to all you sandbaggers, KEEP IT UP!, you guys are my hope for a eventfull end of the season, i do not want to know what you have till it hits the scales! its like telling me the end of a great movie while watching it for the first time! also if i know what everyone has, you have killed my hopes of winning anything before we even get there. what make people want to know what everyone has? do you all want to know if you have a chance at a certain weigh-off? someone please explain to me the need to know the ending early? please keep it up you baggers so i still have hope at the weigh-off! wham!lol......play nice....

9/5/2012 4:39:46 PM

Minnesota

The season started off so bad that I had to use 7 ounce Budweiser Pony's for my 30 day pics to make the pumpkin look bigger,
I cut the first 18 inches off the tape measure so I didn't feel so small...
I was germinating my seeds in the oven and my kid turned it on..
"I had a tough spring with hail, Then the floods came. While the plants were floating around the raccoons came through, Chased by a herd of cows that trampled most all the main vines..
If that wasn't enough tough luck, The Monster truck rally in the cornfield over upset the cosmic aura of the plants which slowed them way down.
The SVB's swooped in, Lost all the stumps to foam and had to set all pollinations well into August on secondary's, Actually, come to think of it I only had one on a secondary. The rest were on Tertiary's !!

My old lady, well, She isn't a big fan of all the time I spend in the patch so of course to pacify her I had to move the patch into the farmyard so I could hear her nagging 24/7 Think that doesn't make a leaf wilt?

With the main vine rotting off in August, 80 mile an hour winds , More hail I just had to give up on my plants and let mother nature give me what she could..
See ya at the weighoff !!!!!

9/5/2012 4:53:37 PM

Minnesota

I had dedicated the previous post to Chris Stevens a few years back.. Bill Foss is another wonderful local sandbagger and I have learned a lot from both of them. Not necessarily about growing anything but about sandbagging ..

9/5/2012 4:56:16 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

“Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? / It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” .......just sayin..lol

9/5/2012 4:56:25 PM

Honesdale, Pennsylvania

I heard Amelio has a WR contender... it seems there may have been something to his quirky ideas... just saying. Hope its a GPC event he takes it to.

9/5/2012 5:12:02 PM

Nova Scotia

I think there are a few revese sandbaggers on here. those I call shiitbaggers. lol

9/5/2012 5:24:46 PM

Sourthern Utah

maybe its time has arrived .. the art of sandbagging ,, classes to follow,,

9/5/2012 5:33:49 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

Yep, I am guilty of reverse sandbagging, or shitbagging as Mr. T so elequently put it lol. The idea is to scare off the competition into going to a different weighoff even though in reality you have no idea what they have or even how big your own actually is. Kinda like how they tell you to stand up infront of a bear and waive your arms real high and yell and stuff. Yeah kinda like that.

9/5/2012 6:02:35 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

And for the record Kevin Snyder is still the king of sandbagging round these parts. I am sure he will not disappoint this year either.

9/5/2012 6:03:55 PM

Zurich, Ontario Canada

12 inches- I thought size doesn't matter!!!!

9/5/2012 6:12:20 PM

Midway, UT

Lol! Swen needs a new tape and a calculator.

9/5/2012 6:32:23 PM

Topsfield,ma.

Wiz,Are you finally running out of Z's after all these years? Keep it up it works! Respectfully Woody

9/5/2012 6:42:54 PM

Massachusetts

good eye woody, i just noticed. lol

9/5/2012 6:52:21 PM

Rhode Island

its the guys (and sometimes gals as well ) that dont talk, dont kiss and tell and, dont offer so much as a peep all year that you need to worry about.

to me theres no need to under state what you have. if you must talk? tell the truth. if not? shut up and sit down lol. ----- no one likes a liar.anyway that the way i have always felt about it.

pap

9/5/2012 8:17:23 PM

Mass

Hey I've got A Big un! or two and I'm coming to a weighoff near you!!!

9/5/2012 8:31:16 PM

Prestonsburg,ky

Frank Mudd "Enough Said"

9/5/2012 9:48:10 PM

Mulino, Oregon

well said Pap. Sooooooo..... Whatcha got?

9/5/2012 11:36:38 PM

London, Ohio

i like to put a 5 gallon bucket next to pumpkin and run tape around it with the pumpkin it makes for some good growth gains lol

9/6/2012 2:35:24 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

Hmmm, a retractZable tapeZ measureZ...that could tapeZ the BIG oneZ.....perhapZ....just perhapZ>...with incheZ on one sideZ and metricZ on the other.... A OTT device...

OopZ on the Z's...the medZ only lastZ for so longZ

9/6/2012 10:05:32 AM

Massachusetts

there's the zzzzzzzz!

9/6/2012 11:23:42 AM

nOVA sCOTIA

I agree with you 100% Scott.People don't need to know what everyone else has and if they do,they deserve to be mislead.Not much fun attending a weighoff when everyone knows the ott before it hits the scale.I've been known to stretch the truth once in a while lol and it really doesn't bother me at all what people think as it is all part of the game! I could care less about the BS that goes on throughout the growing season,as a matter of fact i thrive on it:)In my mind..it's the cheat that i would have absolutely no use for.

9/6/2012 12:51:21 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

Some doZ, some dontZ, IT'z all good.....But at the end of the day...it'Z only a pumpkin.... damnZ that waZ hard to type.....lol

9/6/2012 3:35:18 PM

Upa Creek, MO

Sandbaggging hall of famer... last names rhymes with Harsh and he doesn't live in North Dakota.

9/6/2012 4:23:58 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

And where or where is Barry Van SandBagus.. Pete?

9/6/2012 5:17:30 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

I could swear oneZ could hear a pin drop in CA...lol

9/6/2012 5:18:14 PM

Rhode Island

like i said earlier, its the ones you dont hear about that usually have the biggest pumpkins (and squash)
its all good.

9/7/2012 7:23:41 AM

Bristol R.I. USA

I have a small one...going.

9/7/2012 4:20:04 PM

nOVA sCOTIA

we will see about that soon enough Pap.:))

9/7/2012 5:38:55 PM

Rhode Island

yes we sure will.

9/8/2012 10:26:08 AM

Torrance, Ca.

This is getting good!

9/8/2012 1:10:26 PM

Albuquerque, NM

I've got no contender.... Just trying to squeak out 400 lbs. from a plant pulverized by hail months ago and keep it alive enough to make it to late October. Oh yeah and my golden retriever decided to jump the patch fence the other day and dig huge holes around all my vines... As if it needed to be beat up anymore! The plant I mean, not the dog, lol.

9/10/2012 10:20:27 PM