The ULTIMATE powder dipper

[Budzilla 19]

I believe I have found, at least for howitzer rounds, the ultimate powder dipper!!
If you have a weapon that’s on wheels, and needs a lanyard to fire, this is for your reloading efforts!
As always, be safe out there!


The above statements are strictly for humorous attempts to bring a smile to the faces of my fellow reloaders!!!

[John Wayne]

We need more humor around here!
I wish I had a barrel of powder to use that dipper in ;^)
JW

[country gent]

Maybe for a Krupp mountain gun

[Wayne Smith]

I was thinking one of those Civil War mortars.

[Winger Ed.]

If it dips a weight of 4 ounces of single 'F', its the right charge for a bowling ball mortar.

[Walter Laich]

Bowling Balls' Lives Matter!!

[Johnch]

Might have worked
As a number of years ago a fellow shooter made a bowling ball cannon
His barn was 1/4 mile from Lake Erie
So mid winter that year Lake Erie had almost no ice
So we would make sure nothing was visible on the lake
Then we LAUNCHED our old bowling balls 1 or 2 per day
We only saw a splash 1 time
But that was only about hundred yards off the shore line

I always wondered how far my 16 lb bowling balls flew

John

[Winger Ed.]

I typically got something close to 1,000 yards with mine with the angle shown in the picture..
But I didn't tweak the barrel angle to see how far it'd possibly go.
With 4oz. of 'F', pushing a 106,000 grain ball, I was impressed enough as it was.

They'd go up out of sight, then you could see them when they hit and bounced up about 20'.
That gave us a starting point for where to retrieve them.

We did fire a light weight bowling ball that belonged to the ex-wife.
We never found it.
We shot over a cultivated field and had to recover all the balls we shot so some big expensive farm machine wouldn't.
The lighter one went on out & over the property line into a thick, wooded, wilderness area.

[John Wayne]

I'd like to see that mortar.

[Green Frog]

There is a mortar event at many North-South Skirmish shoots. At the Nationals, each team has a specified time to shoot a half dozen or so balls at a stake 100 yds out (reduced charges). Our team uses pill bottles to carry premeasured powder charges. Great fun!
Froggie