Homemade Cannon Shooting

[SciFiJim]

I found this while looking for something else.

Homemade Cannon Shooting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7dlgh6of_0)

Fun and interesting to watch. This gentleman knows his stuff.

[LUBEDUDE]

Thanks, that was fun to watch.

[308Jeff]

I always feel dumb when I think about just how many people there are out there who're smarter than me.

[DCP]

What a wealth of knowledge that gentleman has

[Jack Stanley]

It makes ya just WANT a cannon now don't it ?;-)

Jack

[MaryB]

That would be to much fun to use on a junk car...

[samari46]

Thought the cannon was pretty cool as basically it was his design,execution and finished into a firing cannon. Looks like he got the front sight globe target type from sarco which came with a card of inserts from Lee Shaver. Sarco was selling the sights and inserts a bunch of years ago so I bought three of them. All in all a pretty well old school gentleman. Frank

[Reverend Al]

He certainly has fun ... I wonder what his neighbours say when he touches it off?

:bigsmyl2:

[Jack Stanley]

He certainly has fun ... I wonder what his neighbours say when he touches it off?

:bigsmyl2:

Probably the same thing mine would say..................

Jack

[Hardcast416taylor]

I always thought that there was something `moving` in watching a bowling ball be shot and the distance it would travel, never mind about how deep it penetrated the ground when it lit` down.Robert

[woodbutcher]

:holysheep Well he`s into boolit casting and holy black.NOW,what will he hunt[smilie=1:?Would like to see what that would do the side of an old armored truck.He has an amazing amount of talent.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[Wayne Smith]

Although the narrator's grasp of history is somewhat lacking! A 'pirate ship' would not have a breach loader or a rifled barrel. For practical applied purposes both of those became available just before and during the American Civil War, for cannon, that is.

[rugerdude]

He certainly has fun ... I wonder what his neighbours say when he touches it off?

:bigsmyl2:

Attended a demonstration some years ago by a man who collected and restored cannons with his son. They went to schools and reenactments and talked about and fired them. He said he had examples from the Revolutionary War up to WW1 if I remember correctly. He said that the most expensive shot he'd ever fired was with the WW1 gun. They fired it with a full charge of powder and it blew every window out of their side of the neighbor's house...about 2 miles away!

[merlin101]

Very cool! Wish he was my neighbor.

[Wayne Smith]

For those who live around here or are visiting the Revolutionary War museum at Yorktown has just been upgraded and rebuilt - and opened this spring. Among the attractions is a cannon park, and they light one off three times a day by report. Gotta get up there, maybe tomorrow.

[flyingmonkey35]

beautifully done. true red leg at heart.

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[leebuilder]

196384

You have to tell the neighbors and only on holidays.
Be safe

[54bore]

That was fun to watch!! Thanks for sharing!

[KMac]

I always feel dumb when I think about just how many people there are out there who're smarter than me.
Don't let the 5% of people smarter than you make you feel dumb, let the 95% of the people that are dumber than you make you feel smart.