another Back yard cannon fun!!!

[Eyes Of Death]

Well not quite back yard but out doors at a friend of mine's deer farm. This was at a archery tournament that had twenty targets at varies distances. And a all walking course of just under two miles. This was a shot gun start. The teams wear randomly selected to walk to a target and what for the cannon shot.

[Double D]

We already have a long running post called Backyard cannon fun so I changed the name of this post to another back yard cannon fun.  The original backyard cannon fun post is the second most replied to post and the seventh most viewed post on GBO.

It is an active post in hiatus while author Ray recover from a nasty hand injury.

Nic shot was that a ball load or blank load?

[Eyes Of Death]

No problem with the name change. It was a blank load. A different friend does explosives, production and experimental. That was a type of black powder that replaces about 80% of the charcoal with sugar. It makes a ton of smoke or mostly water vapor. The bore will be dripping with water after the shot. I'm trying to get him to market it to reenactors. But he is busy with his other products. It is a large pellet. You can see some of the pellet that shattered and didn't light in the pics. And it was about 75% humidity out that pic was taken at 10:00am.

[dan610324]

your friend is quite smart when he doesnt sell it to reenactors if it shatter and shoot pieces of itself out of the muzzle .
sugar is quite hard and dense
what do you think it would cost your friend if one of the reenactors would lose an eye ??
if its possible to use in granulated shape it would be much better

[KABAR2]

Sugar based powder for used right away is one thing but the problem is long term storage
it is hydroscopic, in my younger years I used to experiment with different formulas for powders
including one that replaced the charcoal with sugar you need to keep it warm to get most of the
moisture out of the mix, I was using it in small rocket engines and it worked well but left a heck
of a residue I could not imagine using it in a cannon.

[Rock Home Isle]

Well not quite back yard but out doors at a friend of mine's deer farm. This was at a archery tournament that had twenty targets at varies distances. And a all walking course of just under two miles. This was a shot gun start. The teams wear randomly selected to walk to a target and what for the cannon shot.
 

Those pictures are absolutely COOL.