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Christmas In March AND MORE!
« on: March 08, 2008, 09:53:51 AM »
Yes, it's snowing.

Lance is HERE!

We're recovering from a fine dinner (lunch) at the local Japanese restaraunt AND

THANKS DIVARTY!  (see first picture below).

Then you will see the afternoon we-can't-go-outside because it's windy and snowing out BUT the basement is OK:



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Re: Christmas In March AND MORE!
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2008, 10:25:15 AM »
Indoor mortar range? ;D

Not bad penetration for it's size...

Did the wife say anything about the smoke and smell  ::)

So you guys have all the fun! Snow? All we get down here at the coast is LOTS of WIND and rain........ the sun is out now but the wind is a blowing pretty good here,
my neigbor's stuff is ending up in my yard........ sadly he doesn't have any cannon in the yard to blow over here :-[.......


Oh And Merry Christmas!
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Re: Christmas In March AND MORE!
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2008, 10:36:09 AM »
Quote from: KABAR2 on March 08, 2008, 10:25:15 AM
Indoor mortar range? ;D
Not bad penetration for it's size...
Did the wife say anything about the smoke and smell  ::)
So you guys have all the fun! Snow? All we get down here at the coast is LOTS of WIND and rain........ the sun is out now but the wind is a blowing pretty good here,
my neigbor's stuff is ending up in my yard........ sadly he doesn't have any cannon in the yard to blow over here :-[.......
Oh And Merry Christmas!

INDOORS - Yes (it WAS in the basement)!  AND it is WINTER.  (not to mention anything about cabin fever)

That direct hit was Lance's shot at the cardboard box!  (His OAK banded with STEEL mortar too.)

My shot was a carom shot off the ceiling into the area of the box.  Max range too - it must have been almost 4' away!

My rib is MOST understanding!  As a matter of fact she bought me a small catapult for an Easter present!

YES, it has been a Merry Christmas - thanks again to DIVARTY!

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Re: Christmas In March AND MORE!
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2008, 12:27:23 PM »
     Yeeeoow !!  I bet the concussion of that muzzle blast shook the dust off the rafters!  One of you guys is going to have to email us and explain how to capture stills from digital movies.  We are still ignorant of that technique.  We have thanked Ron (DIVARTY) more than once, but never publicly.  He sent us one of those beautiful trailer hitch covers he makes back in the fall to say thank you for all those hours we spent on the How to make a Rifling Machine.....A to Z thread.  THANK YOU  again, Ron; you certainly do fine work!  It occupies a place of honor on the Artillery Knick-Knack Shelf in the Seacoast Artillery office.  It is flanked by a chunk of 11 " Dahlgren shell and one of those handsome Greybeard Outdoors coffee mugs.

Indoor mortar fire.....yikes!!

Tracy and Mike
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Re: Christmas In March AND MORE!
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2008, 01:03:05 PM »
The muzzle "blast" was more of a "pfwhoosh".  So the rafters (3 story house) were about 40' above the firing point with three floors between.

How to capture stills from digital movies?  Don't know, haven't done a digital movie!  The FLASH picture was just that 'essetial moment in time' that by luck was the most precisely timed picture that I've ever taken!

And yes, indoors.  "You could put out your eye with that thing!"   ;)



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Re: Christmas In March AND MORE!
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2008, 01:45:34 PM »
First, I want to Thank Ron"DIV ARTY" for the Excellent hand made and hand painted trailer hitch cover Christmas present. Ron,sorry it took me so long to get to Tim's and pick it up,only 46 scenic back road miles away. Thanks Ron, i'm honored and my truck will wear it proudly!    Second, i want to Thank Tim and Darlene for the Wonderful meal and dining experience and the fun filled day! Third,Merry Christmas KARBAR2, and a Merry Christmas to all!   Fourth,YEEEOOW!!! Basement mortar fire, that was not the plan, but with the high winds and blowing pelting nasty snow, the basement looked purdy good. BB's do strange things down there, but we lived to tell the tale!
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Re: Christmas In March AND MORE!
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2008, 04:11:25 PM »
Quote from: seacoastartillery on March 08, 2008, 12:27:23 PM
One of you guys is going to have to email us and explain how to capture stills from digital movies.  We are still ignorant of that technique.

Used to be you could use the screen capture feature of your photo editing program to capture stills from Media Player, but that doesn't work with the newest versions of MP (at least not with my photo editor).

If you have XP, you can download Windows Movie Maker from the Microsoft website.

WMM allows frame captures up to 800x600 pixels, if your movie is larger than that it reduces the image to 800x600. You don't need to do any editing to capture frames, you just need to import the video into the program. I can walk you through the process if you need help.

My cheap video camera resolution maxes out at 640x480 so that's the largest image I can get from a video.
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