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Offline Cannoneer

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Some Tough Artillery Field Exercises
« on: December 24, 2009, 11:17:02 AM »
Man! These gents had to sacrifice some blood, sweat, and tears, in order to be able to move that ordnance across the field so quickly, and with such precision.
We've had this topic on the board before, but I never get tired of viewing these clips. You can see other years competitions in related vids at the bottom of the screen.
 
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Re: Some Tough Artillery Field Exercises
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2009, 12:42:35 PM »
now I watched that video 2 times , I still cant believe what Im seeing
thats incredible
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Re: Some Tough Artillery Field Exercises
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2009, 12:58:15 PM »
Most impressive !!!
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Re: Some Tough Artillery Field Exercises
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2009, 07:06:55 AM »
Combining brute strenght with incredible precision...what a show! That is what you call teamwork!
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Re: Some Tough Artillery Field Exercises
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2009, 07:40:24 AM »
Ah, the Gun Run.  Lot of history there -

Royal Navy History
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Re: Some Tough Artillery Field Exercises
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2009, 02:10:12 PM »
Here's another similar event.

Swartkop Challenge

The Cannons of the South African Miniature Cannon club are featured as the starting guns!!!
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Re: Some Tough Artillery Field Exercises
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2009, 05:38:27 AM »
I picked the right word to use in the title of this thread: Tough! This is a clip of one of the Royal Navy teams making practice runs in preparation for the competition, and in one of the other YouTube vids showing another years competition, the reporter says that one of the team captains had to miss the finals, because of a broken leg he suffered when one of the over 900 lb barrels came down on him in a practice session.

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