Matt and I have been long time friends. I live about an hour and half drive north of him. I go to the Grayling Long Range Match every year. It is the only place that I can get to normally to shoot with full service charges. We have competed there with a 10 pdr Parrott, 12 pdr Iron Napoleon, 8 inch seige mortar, and 24 pdr coehorn.
Matt invited me to bring my Parrott to the Canadian shoot. We spent 2 1/2 days filming there. What you have to realize is that when you are dealing with a film crew you spend a lot of time setting up a shot and interviewing crew members.
The first thing that we did was to have the whole crew warned by the range officer that this was an artillery range that might have unexploded ordnance on it. We were shown examples of stuff that could be out there and then signed a statement that released them from liability. We were told not to pick up anything that we didn't drop on the ground. They also said that they regularly police the area and felt sure that there wouldn't be any problems. We we went down range we rode in their vehicles and we noticed that they were watching the path very carefully as they drove us out there.
Some of things that didn't make the program were shooting up cars with grape shot, bar shot, and solid shot. We put 10 pdr and 24 pdr rounds completely through a vehicle from end to end and the rounds kept on going. The bar shot was fired at the side of a van and caught it at the bottom. It wrapped around frame and floor and took it all the way to the other side of the van.
We fired into wooden walls made of 8 x 8 inch double layer beams with the 24 pounder. It went through both the first and second wall with solid shot. A round of bar shot embedded in the first wall and moved the whole structure.
A lot of the shots were filmed with high speed film. This helped us to determine what happened with one of the 24 pdr shots at the front end of a car. The action was to have both the 24 pdr and 10 pdr fire together at the car. We could all see exactly where the 10 pdr round went, but did not see any new holes made by the 24 pdr. We it was played back in slow motion it showed that the 10 pdr round arrived on target a split second before the 24 pdr and popped the hood open about 6 inches. The 24 pdr round went in through the opening and the hood closed. This had happened so fast that we didn't see it.
This is more typing than I am used to.