Author Topic: Would you like your balloon popped? (Read 11356 times)

lance · « **Reply #150 on:** February 20, 2010, 02:32:50 PM »

O.K. i think we have showed that Balloons and Artillery have a place in history, and further history lessons.
As for rules, for the balloon popping event, use your brain and don't shoot down a crop duster, or hit your neighbors house miles away.

Cat Whisperer · « **Reply #151 on:** February 20, 2010, 03:01:02 PM »

I LIKE those rules!

Common sense.

But as Mark Twain is oft quoted, "common sense isn't as common as it's cracked up to be."

Most of us have demonstrated that.

lance · « **Reply #152 on:** February 20, 2010, 03:12:57 PM »

Didn't Mark Twain also say something about always telling the truth?

Cat Whisperer · « **Reply #153 on:** February 21, 2010, 12:25:44 AM »

Quote from: lance on February 20, 2010, 03:12:57 PM

Didn't Mark Twain also say something about always telling the truth?

Undoubetedly. BUT, it he didn't, something or many somethings about telling the truth have been attributed to him.

thelionspaw · « **Reply #154 on:** February 21, 2010, 10:49:48 AM »

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe. mark twain

lance · « **Reply #155 on:** February 21, 2010, 02:08:19 PM »

Mark Twain sure did say a lot of stuff.........Tim(CW) do you think my universal breech loading fuse lit barrel design, would that make for a decent golf ball sized balloon popper? That's if i'm still welcome at this summers shoot.

lance · « **Reply #156 on:** February 21, 2010, 03:09:12 PM »

Tim,do you want me to post a picture of my universal barrel? it's the same one you used at the range.

Cat Whisperer · « **Reply #157 on:** February 21, 2010, 03:22:39 PM »

Sorry for the delay - I'm changing over computers and my reply didn't get out.

YES, your design is good. Scale it up. Standard design principles apply.

AND, you best come armed to the NRV shoot! You brought some of the most interesting things last time!

lance · « **Reply #158 on:** February 21, 2010, 03:42:50 PM »

Well you know i don't have the materials or the machine tools to make something that big, so i'll be needing your help for the materials and use of your shop. If i don't get to build it, we can still have plenty of fun at the NRV shoot.

lance · « **Reply #159 on:** February 27, 2010, 02:44:38 PM »

Tim, here's something you can build,it's on topic and it's pre-1898. Tell me what you see:

KABAR2 · « **Reply #160 on:** February 27, 2010, 03:08:28 PM »

Wagons supplying the gas to fill up the balloon, not sure if it's helium or hydrogen.....

lance · « **Reply #161 on:** February 27, 2010, 03:13:25 PM »

Very good KABAR2, now how about which balloons these were used on.

Cat Whisperer · « **Reply #162 on:** February 27, 2010, 03:17:08 PM »

Judging from the vintage, I'd guess hydrogen. Helium wasn't employed commonly (because it's denser) I'd again guess until after the Hindenburg went up in flames.

lance · « **Reply #163 on:** February 27, 2010, 03:20:42 PM »

Anybody, which balloons were these generators used on.

Victor3 · « **Reply #164 on:** February 27, 2010, 09:11:34 PM »

Union Army observation balloons. As I recall, they didn't work out too well.

KABAR2 · « **Reply #165 on:** February 28, 2010, 01:03:04 AM »

Yep like Victor said Civil war era.

Here is a little history on the Signal Corps and the use of Balloons....

http://www.civilwarsignals.org/pages/aero/pages/firstusflights.html

http://www.civilwarsignals.org/pages/aero/aero.html

This site discusses the filling of balloons from the wagons....

http://www.floridareenactorsonline.com/baloons.htm

The CIA even has something on Balloons.....
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/civil-war/p25.htm

Even have a book...

http://www.civilwarsignals.org/pages/signal/signalpages/bookreviews.html

Cat Whisperer · « **Reply #166 on:** February 28, 2010, 03:07:27 AM »

There is an expression, still in use today, in the Army: "when the baloon goes up". (The observation baloons were launched at the start of the battle.)

RocklockI · « **Reply #167 on:** February 28, 2010, 07:02:22 AM »

isnt 'the balloon going up ' a nuke blast these days ?

lance · « **Reply #168 on:** February 28, 2010, 09:11:43 AM »

I thought y'all would get a kick out of that picture-T.S. Lowe's generators 7 and 8.

KABAR2 · « **Reply #169 on:** February 28, 2010, 04:48:14 PM »

I actually have a balloon story I have to find the photo's to go with it,
when I come up to the event I bring em along and tell the tail......

lance · « **Reply #170 on:** March 01, 2010, 01:57:57 PM »

KABAR2, are you bringing anything to the shoot to shoot with? i can let you use a small French 75, should be able to hit a balloon on a stick at 100 feet.

lance · « **Reply #171 on:** May 16, 2010, 12:49:26 PM »

Well it's been a while since i've made any posts on this topic, so here goes.......... This topic has drifted all different directions, so i don't see much harm in adding a picture of my big and heavy 8" MK1 powder holder:

lance · « **Reply #172 on:** May 16, 2010, 12:54:12 PM »

I keep finding new things to use that 8" MK1 item on or for, take for instance, it kinda looks like the mount for the 1870 Krupp 3.7cm Ballonabwehrkanone. Anyway here's my version of a balloon popper:

lance · « **Reply #173 on:** May 16, 2010, 12:59:07 PM »

But Wait! There's More!!!..........Remove the stock from the Ballonabwehrkanone, add a handy feature, use a bit of imagination........And the balloon popper transforms into an 1888 1-pounder Rapid-Fire Hotchkiss Gun.

Cat Whisperer · « **Reply #174 on:** May 16, 2010, 01:02:58 PM »

Ooooo Ooooo Ooooooo

Calendar PIX !!!!

That 8" piece of brass is a collector's item you know!

Zulu · « **Reply #175 on:** May 16, 2010, 01:16:58 PM »

The ultimate pipe bomb right?

Zulu

Cat Whisperer · « **Reply #176 on:** May 16, 2010, 01:26:30 PM »

Quote from: Zulu on May 16, 2010, 01:16:58 PM

The ultimate pipe bomb right?
Zulu

Not likely around here - no one could afford the powder!

RocklockI · « **Reply #177 on:** May 16, 2010, 03:34:33 PM »

Lance It looks like a serious late 1800 balloon popper to me .

with a sight radius like that a 1 lber will be penty .

Sweet country side too !

lance · « **Reply #178 on:** May 16, 2010, 03:48:33 PM »

Thanks Everyone, i'd be honored if my pictures made it on the calendar, dog gone, setting the timer on the camera and running over and hoisting that 8" brass on my shoulder was a feat, but i only took 3 pics today, and you see the 3 i took.

Zulu · « **Reply #179 on:** May 16, 2010, 04:11:53 PM »

We have given a few new guys a hard time about their guns in the past few weeks. I have to ask. Is the bore 1/3 of the diameter of the barrel? it looks like a pipe.
Zulu