Black powder Cannons

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Anyone ever mess around with black powder cannons? looking online at some cannons that use golf balls or billiard balls as projectiles. Looks like fun.
 
Big thing is where you live. Some places it is best not to even think about the existence of such evil things. The fun wears off faster then you might suspect. Kinda pointless after you've blown a hole in every shooting car in your yard and all your friends have had a go.
 
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Shoot super balls in it. Shoot them in a hangar. Try it you won't like it.
 
I thought somebody on one of these forums built his own black powder cannon.
 
Building artillery would be another expensive hobby and I don't need another one.
 
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That's why you need to have an experimental aircraft - you don't need a STC - just fly off the hours for phase 1.
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Explosions...... good.....with a big cloud of smoke.......better..!!!

If you play with black powder..... protect your eye brows....:lol::lol::lol:




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Potato cannons are fun.

At least until you run across someone that thinks it's great fun to fire them at aircraft in flight....
 
Where in the country are you? I know people who target shoot with 3/4 scale or even full scale artillery of the US Civil War. Great fun, but you'd better have a healthy checking account. :yes:

Edit - I looked at the OP's address. Contact the North-South Skirmish Association. Their national web site is http://www.n-ssa.org/. These folks are serious black powder shooters.
 
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Try Dixie gun works. http://www.dixiegunworks.com/default.php?cPath=22_106_665 ..

The main thing with a cannon is get one that's either steel lined or made completely out of modern steel.

The thing with ductile iron cannons you buy at a gun show or whatever, is you don't know the quality of the iron and if they'll blow apart the next time you shoot them.

Also, review safety of firing one. A nonextinguished ash in the barrel has taken off many man's hands or worse. Happens all the time. There is a whole procedure to make sure when you fire that this doesn't happen, but even then, it still does on occasion.

I like the 1 3/4 cannons that you can fire a golf ball in. Although, I'm not much into shooting stuff, because it's pretty dangerous. If you were to shoot a steel ball out of a cannon, keep in mind that it's not rifled or spire pointed, so think pin ball, and it can and does bounce around, potentially back at you. As far as noise makers go. Yesterday's news paper, a lot of pyrodex and some cannon fuse can make for a very very fun day ****ing off the neighbors..
 
This is me firing a little 1" ductile iron cannon. It was stolen last year out of my garage last year, so if anyone sees a 100lb 1" ductile cannon on a pink dog leash, please let me know. Even with a 1" cannon you can feel the echo.. Not as loud as say a 30-06, however the boom has more legs. Shooting news paper out of it is much louder than shooting 1" ball bearings..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiQoZ_kBc24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gvJYBHsmkc
 
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Have a friend who took his cannon to work one day to demo it for his coworkers. He loaded it up and fired it in the propane storage tank yard of the company he worked for. He now has a new job.:hairraise:
 
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