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Re: 4th of July CANNONFIRE 2011
« Reply #30 on: July 04, 2011, 05:09:06 PM »
Rain here in Pulaski.

All is quiet on the Eastern Front....
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Re: 4th of July CANNONFIRE 2011
« Reply #31 on: July 04, 2011, 06:36:37 PM »
I stopped by a fireworks tent today in search of some black cat crackers, and they were only selling them by the brick or half brick.  I asked the guy there if he had any smaller packages, and he gave me 5 packs of them for free.  :)

I ended up going over to a friend's house (who was firing binary explosive mortars and larger BP cannon), and, after unraveling the string of crackers I brought with me, got to fire my Seacoast Krupp Howie for the first time!  It was very fun, and I've still got plenty of "ammunition" left! ;D
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Re: 4th of July CANNONFIRE 2011
« Reply #32 on: July 04, 2011, 11:15:33 PM »
     Gulfcoastblackpowder,   I'm glad to hear your collector Krupp got a chance to come out from under the glass dome!  We had one in the line-up too, but we concentrated on the 3/4" and 1" bores today.  I finally got a chance to shoot 3 pretty loud blanks from my Dominick made Dahlgren and caught two of them on movie clips.  Gary's neighbors added to the crescendo of booms and bangs until he made them pause after an ear-shattering bang from his Dom made French 75.  A good time was had by all.

Tracy

The lineup.  More pics and clips tomorrow.

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Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,
With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets
It's only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets - 'Tss! 'Tss!

From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling

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Re: 4th of July CANNONFIRE 2011
« Reply #33 on: July 05, 2011, 12:53:16 AM »
Looks like a great assortment of "fun size" cannon! 8)

My first shot, I tried the green fused cracker (fuse end in the front, folded back along the length of the cracker), which shot the furthest - probably 40-50 ft.  No detonation.  (Don't worry about it - it was subsequently destroyed by another member of the explosives team!)

The second shot (grey fuse end toward breech, folded forward) detonated in flight about 6 ft out of the barrel.

The third shot (same configuration as the second) went a solid 25-30 ft before detonating, and was the best overall shot of the night.
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Re: 4th of July CANNONFIRE 2011
« Reply #34 on: July 05, 2011, 05:19:30 AM »
My 1" thunder mug performed quite well.

We had to show the local predator who the boss is.
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Re: 4th of July CANNONFIRE 2011
« Reply #35 on: July 05, 2011, 05:28:38 AM »
Quote from: gulfcoastblackpowder on July 04, 2011, 06:36:37 PM
I stopped by a fireworks tent today in search of some black cat crackers, and they were only selling them by the brick or half brick.  I asked the guy there if he had any smaller packages, and he gave me 5 packs of them for free.  :)
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I gave my neighbor a string of firecrackers for the 4th.  The LONG one with 1000 firecrackers.  Maybe tonight.
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Re: 4th of July CANNONFIRE 2011
« Reply #36 on: July 05, 2011, 01:52:18 PM »
Quote from: seacoastartillery on July 04, 2011, 11:15:33 PM
     Gulfcoastblackpowder,   I'm glad to hear your collector Krupp got a chance to come out from under the glass dome!  We had one in the line-up too, but we concentrated on the 3/4" and 1" bores today.  I finally got a chance to shoot 3 pretty loud blanks from my Dominick made Dahlgren and caught two of them on movie clips.  Gary's neighbors added to the crescendo of booms and bangs until he made them pause after an ear-shattering bang from his Dom made French 75.  A good time was had by all.

Tracy

The lineup.  More pics and clips tomorrow.



Now that's an impressive line up.  I see German, British, American & French Artillery
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Re: 4th of July CANNONFIRE 2011
« Reply #37 on: July 05, 2011, 01:54:28 PM »
     Here are a few more pics from the 4th of July festivities at Rocklock's house.  Don't worry, Gary put the burning tree out. 
 
 T&M
 
 
 Gary's new carriage.
 
 


The Dahlgren gun with 1" bore.  Weight is about 30 Lbs. total.




Another view of the Howitzer/Mortar and carriage.




Movies later.
 
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Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,
With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets
It's only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets - 'Tss! 'Tss!

From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling

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Re: 4th of July CANNONFIRE 2011
« Reply #38 on: July 05, 2011, 02:15:29 PM »
Quote from: seacoastartillery on July 05, 2011, 01:54:28 PM
     Here are a few more pics from the 4th of July festivities at Rocklock's house.  Don't worry, Gary put the burning tree out. 
 
 T&M
 
 
 Gary's new carriage.
 
 

WOW!
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Re: 4th of July CANNONFIRE 2011
« Reply #39 on: July 06, 2011, 05:35:44 PM »
     Soot,   That's a really nice Thunder Mug pic you have there.  Even Mike said,  "Wow, we have to build one of those!"


      The short movie clip I have posted below is the third shot of the Dahlgren Shell Gun we brought to Gary's backyard on the 4th of July, 2011.  I started with 60 grains of FFg and worked up to about 200 which made the resounding bang shown on the clip.  I have been trying to think of a quantifying statement to describe the volume and decibel level of the blast.  I believe it can be descibed as slightly less than what gets your name in the news.  Another 30 or 40 grains and you might have local fame as described by the following:   Dateline Blah Blah, Colorado  July 4th, 2011  Local Stupid Man fired his cannon at his friend's house today blowing the bark off a nearby tree, dislodging a birdhouse just vacated two days before from the tree, knocking over a rowboat propped against the house crushing a section of perimeter fence and causing all of his host's neighbors to call the constabulary. 

Tracy

180 grains would be about right for this 1" bore.  Click on the image to start the movie clip.

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Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,
With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets
It's only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets - 'Tss! 'Tss!

From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling
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