Bouncing (Skipping) golfball?

[Santa Dave]

If one were to use direct fire (Not mortar) of a golf ball over calm water would it skip for long distances?
This is mearly a mental excersize for me as all our water has waves and it would not skip at all.
Surely one of you has fired over water?
Santa Dave

I can see it now: BOOM --skip-- Skip-- skip --- pitti/pat :lol:

[jeeper1]

Interesting question. I have no Idea. You could always drive over to the colorado river and see if you could bounce a few into arizona.

[GGaskill]

I would expect it would skip at least once, if not a few times.  Iron shot would skip if fired parallel to the water from a low elevation.

[Cat Whisperer]

There is a post in the not too distant past wherein someone (forgive me for forgetting who) mentioned doing it.  I think I would recognize the picture of the cannon with the water and the cliff on the opposite side.

[Powder keg]

I wonder if a Bowling ball would skip? Number 189 on my to do list :-D

[Cat Whisperer]

I wonder if a Bowling ball would skip? Number 189 on my to do list :-D

It may, with enough velocity.

But I'll bet the pinsetter would be furious!

[john pike]

I wonder if a Bowling ball would skip? Number 189 on my to do list :-D

It may, with enough velocity.

But I'll bet the pinsetter would be furious!

hook some 10pd test and some hooks to that,
and id give a whole new meaning to "casting" and fishing deep.

johnp

[Cat Whisperer]

I wonder if a Bowling ball would skip? Number 189 on my to do list :-D

It may, with enough velocity.

But I'll bet the pinsetter would be furious!

hook some 10pd test and some hooks to that,
and id give a whole new meaning to "casting" and fishing deep.

johnp

It may be overly cautious, but I'd go with at least 12 lb. test.  Maybe even steel leaders.

[john pike]

I wonder if a Bowling ball would skip? Number 189 on my to do list :-D

It may, with enough velocity.

But I'll bet the pinsetter would be furious!

hook some 10pd test and some hooks to that,
and id give a whole new meaning to "casting" and fishing deep.

johnp

It may be overly cautious, but I'd go with at least 12 lb. test.  Maybe even steel leaders.

just think, sitting on the dock, every body crabbin about the fish being just out of casting range, jumping out there,

BANG-whoosh, a hail of hooks three skips right on target,

fish jumping, and the hooks gaffing them,

reeling them in, with a BIG surf pole,
everybody just staring in shock.

jp

[Dictator]

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There is a post in the not too distant past wherein someone (forgive me for forgetting who) mentioned doing it. I think I would recognize the picture of the cannon with the water and the cliff on the opposite side.

Maybe something like this  :devil2:



Get it low to the water, and it'll skip a long ways

[Cat Whisperer]

Dictator -

Thanks for reposting those pix!  

I would have remembered if there'd been a FEW stalks of corn in the pix!

[guardsgunner]

A long time ago (Late 60's) I went to a shoot which held a artillery event which fired at ship targets ; about 4'sq. ; floating on raft's a around 2oo yds. out on an impoundment. The full size guns were up on a pluff twenty or thirty feet above the water. With the first volley the projectiles went skipping across the water, 4 or 5 times and across the dam a 1/2 mile or more down stream. The match was called when a ball skipped over a car on the dam. Did I tell ya there  was a road on the dam.... . :grin:

[mrlizzzard]

As a golfer I can tell you that a golf ball may or may not skip more than once.

[jeeper1]

As a golfer I can tell you that a golf ball may or may not skip more than once.

It would take a fair sized water hazard for it to skip more than once.