Author Topic: Firing the muzzleloading BP "panzerfaust"... (Read 1527 times)

Double D · « **on:** May 09, 2003, 04:15:55 AM »

Loaded!

Fire!

Cat Whisperer · « **Reply #1 on:** May 09, 2003, 04:42:35 PM »

If you've never fired a mortar (or cannon) like this, you NEED to!

NO, NO, NO; above sentence should read: "DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME".

The round was a 12oz (fluid capacity) Meisterbrau can full of concrete. (And I've never weighed one full of concrete).

Recoil is reasonable and the sensation of waiting for it to ignite with the fuse sputtering along within inches of your ear is memorable.

When it fires you can watch the can arch out there and drop into the target. Picture shows elevation for about 100 yard range.

WHO says homeland defense AGAINST terrorists can't be fun?

Jeff B. · « **Reply #2 on:** May 10, 2003, 05:04:34 PM »

Hmmm....I think I'll pass. :lol:

JeffG · « **Reply #3 on:** May 11, 2003, 03:41:01 AM »

I think a Campbell's soup can full of OO Buck would be better!! :-D :-D :-D

Cat Whisperer · « **Reply #4 on:** May 11, 2003, 06:56:15 AM »

I have heard stories about mortars and duck hunting. Something about two boats full....

Double D · « **Reply #5 on:** May 11, 2003, 07:20:33 AM »

Soups cans full of buck shot won't fit the tube, to big.

Besides soup cans full of buck are for when they are close, You break up the formation first with the beer cans full of cement, then when you see their bloodshot little beady eyes and smell their stinky breath, you let them have the cannister round...

CW next time I come that way I'll pick up a bag buckshot. We'll cut the top off a can, load the buck, then run the top down on top as a wad/cap...hey remember that turkey we saw....

S.S. · « **Reply #6 on:** May 15, 2003, 09:35:25 AM »

I have several Match lock "Hand Cannons"
But nothing like the picture above! Is that
an old Mortar Tube?
I'll bet that rattles the Heck out of your teeth
shoulder firing it like that!
I jes gots ta have one!

Double D · « **Reply #7 on:** May 15, 2003, 10:15:28 AM »

No it is not an old mortar tube.

It is a piece of seamless tubing with a welded in breech plug. It it loose powder loaded and fired with a cannon fuse.