Cannon shooting

[USAF Medic]

Anyone here shoot a cannon?

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[USAF Medic]

This one has a 14 inch barrel

 

[Certaindeaf]

I love watching those guys on youtube shoot mountain guns at long range.. Krupp?
I've only seen a few cannons fired first-hand and it sure was fun.

 

[Bon Sauvage]

Cute.

 

[FordPrefect]

I fired one at the Albany full auto shoot a few years ago. Was a blast

 

[thorborg]

About once a month if my Magnum Research 45-70 revolver counts.

And even farther off subject---
When I was 10 or 11 my mom taught me how to make a carbide cannon. (she grew up in a house lit by carbide) A real window rattler. Haven't built on in years, the coffee cans aren't the same.

 

[jbett98]

I want one of these. I don't know why, but I do.

 

[Medic!]

Dose an 8'' howitzer with a 250lb projectile count?

 

[Member 34319]

Does this count?

30cal pocket cannon. Shoots the same ball bearings that you get for sling shots.

 

[2A2Dend]

I've made potato and apple cannons out of schedule 80 pipe, that send the load WAY out of sight. Propane and acetylene

 

[Camelfilter]

About once a month if my Magnum Research 45-70 revolver counts.

And even farther off subject---
When I was 10 or 11 my mom taught me how to make a carbide cannon. (she grew up in a house lit by carbide) A real window rattler. Haven't built on in years, the coffee cans aren't the same.

Forgot all about carbide canons. My cousins used to shoot one off when we'd visit, in rural Pennsylvania. Loud & fun!

Used to use the carbide lanterns for fun while visiting too.

I was too young to set them off or handle the lanterns, well maybe not too young, perhaps too wiley...

 

[U8395279]

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No, I have traditionally used a Nikon instead:



Although lately, I now use my Sony more:

 

[Flopsweat]

I've made potato and apple cannons out of schedule 80 pipe, that send the load WAY out of sight. Propane and acetylene

Well if that counts then soda can cannons count. Cut the ends off and duct tape them together. Ether, hair spray, lighter fluid, whatever we could scrounge up that we could make work. Could send a tennis ball out of sight. Now this was back when soda cans were a little thicker than they are now...

 

[xlsbob]

I have a Lyle gun and a bunch of smaller cannon, mostly I shoot golf ball or beer can mortars. Cannons are fun, cleaning them is a pain.

 

[Jim Colvill]

I did play with a .69 caliber ball bearing shooter. missed the target but shot through the frame.

 

[Dungannon]

Twenty five years ago [or more] when the kids were teenagers, we were camping at Silver Falls State Park during a Civil War re-enactment festival. I was talking to a guy that seemed to be in charge of the cannon shooting. When I asked where he got the cannons, he said he made them in a backyard foundry. I asked how many he had, and IRCC he said he had four left; the others were sold to pay for his divorce!

 

[mrblond]

I think it was maybe 20-25 years ago I was camping up by silvercreek falls. Below us they had a pretty large Civil war reenactment and I got woken out of a drunken stupor around 8am thinking there was a huge storm then realized that it was cannon fire. that bubblegum was loud.

 

[Brian Vedack]

I haven't shot mine in awhile but I made a black powder mortar that shoots pop cans filled with cement.

 

[Member 34319]

I haven't shot mine in awhile but I made a black powder mortar that shoots pop cans filled with cement.

You have my attention. This sounds too too fun.

 

[Brian Vedack]

You have my attention. This sounds too too fun.

Oh it is. I think the barrel is about 60° and I can get a good 300yds with three cap fulls.