Author Topic: What do you use for projectiles? (Read 870 times)

CU_Cannon · « **on:** November 28, 2004, 03:12:22 PM »

I have heard of using a lot of things to fire out of your cannon. Many people use golf balls, pvc pipe filled with concrete, beer cans filled with concrete, bowling balls, ball bearings and of coarse lead.

What do you like the best? What works the best? What is the cheapest?

Cat Whisperer · « **Reply #1 on:** November 28, 2004, 03:38:47 PM »

You've heard right.
Some threads echoing that:
http://www.graybeardoutdoors.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=30926
http://www.graybeardoutdoors.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=34111
http://www.graybeardoutdoors.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=41052

My preference is HEAVY and CHEAP. Heavy for me is concrete, cheap says free or such that I'm not thinking of the dollars that are disappearing out there in the National Forrest (just past the targets at the range).

On the other hand, if one can recover the round, a cast zinc cannon ball is majestic as it flies through the air to drop into the target area.

Will Bison · « **Reply #2 on:** November 29, 2004, 06:08:27 AM »

Yes to all of the above. As CW says "Cheap" is always good.

A number of years ago I encountered a young fella out in the Desert. He was loading an old car body on his truck. I observed that there were no "user serviceable parts" remaining in the hulk and why did he want it. Well it turns out that it served two purposes, it cleaned up the environment and he could trade it for bullet lead at the scrap yard.

Double D · « **Reply #3 on:** November 29, 2004, 08:06:25 AM »

Will bison, do you know Doug Tison from over by Redding?

Will Bison · « **Reply #4 on:** November 29, 2004, 01:10:38 PM »

Hello DD;

Can't say as I can put a face to that name. Redding is about 200 miles as the crow flies and considerably more by road.

glock29 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 06, 2004, 08:18:16 AM »

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Bowling Bawls !
Gotta go big....ditch them puny golf ball deals & go fer the GUSTO !
Nuthin' like sendin' 16lbs of projectile downrange.....

How 'bout what they used when shootin' those old "Blunderbuss" type guns; Rocks, Sticks, glass, nuts & bolts etc (anything you can JAM in the barrel!); probably would make for an entertaining shoot when people see you pouring random junk in the barrel after the powder charge !!
LOL