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A golf ball mortar I just finished building. Fore!! ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/hEw6h3Pl.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/ze7xRYil.jpg)
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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Menno van Coehorn would be proud!
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Not yet. Gotta look up load data in the new Sierra manual.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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Sierra has mortar loads for black?
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Coehorn….not to be confused with corn hole.
Nice job. I like that. 😊
NRA Life,Endowment,Patron or Benefactor since '72.
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Nice work! Guess you’re not entirely useless after all.😜
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Looks like great workmanship-which comes as no surprise from you. Wonderful work!
"Golf balls for the win"
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Very interesting!
In the early days of Ramshot Powders, on of the thing they did to entertain gun writers during their annual prairie dog hunt was to shoot their bowling-ball mortar. I was there the first time they tried it--and the ball disappeared into the "Big Sky" of Montana. It eventually landed about 300 yards away, but there was some concern until then, partly because the Western Powders property was very close to the Miles City airport.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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Very interesting!
In the early days of Ramshot Powders, on of the thing they did to entertain gun writers during their annual prairie dog hunt was to shoot their bowling-ball mortar. I was there the first time they tried it--and the ball disappeared into the "Big Sky" of Montana. It eventually landed about 300 yards away, but there was some concern until then, partly because the Western Powders property was very close to the Miles City airport. Jeepers, that'll pucker ya up.
Bore size is no substitute for shot placement and
Power is no substitute for bullet performance. 458WIN
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gnoahhh, when do you go into full production?
Would make a great stocking stuffer for loony who has everything.
Bore size is no substitute for shot placement and
Power is no substitute for bullet performance. 458WIN
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We deal in lead, friend.
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touch hole, conventional fuse, or electric ignition?
by electric I mean like the nichrome wire igniters used for model rocket engines.
Very nice workmanship btw!
GOA
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Conventional fuse. The tube is solid steel, no breech plug, turned and bored out of an old Mack truck axle. Now working on an idea I have for a gunner's quadrant so I have at least some quantifiable data to predict POI. Main use: shooting at crab pot buoys out on the Chesapeake Bay. Might use it for deer this fall, dunno.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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GOA
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I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Conventional fuse. The tube is solid steel, no breech plug, turned and bored out of an old Mack truck axle. Now working on an idea I have for a gunner's quadrant so I have at least some quantifiable data to predict POI. Main use: shooting at crab pot buoys out on the Chesapeake Bay. Might use it for deer this fall, dunno. Off your deck, or are you planning to mount it on the foredeck of a boat? In IIRC, Forester’s Commodore Hornblower, there’s a fair bit about the gunboats they used to shell the enemy. Cutting fuse to time the explosion of the shell, measuring out the powder for range, and using hawsers to swing the boat into alignment are gone into in some detail. Very interesting stuff.
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Very nice.
Many years ago, a friend bought a demilitarized WWII Russian mortar and drilled a hole in the bottom to fit a short length of cannon fuze.
A couple of empty shot shells of black powder would send a can of Ga-Red peeled tomatoes a long, long way without bursting the can before it hit.
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A friend ( who shall remain nameless) built one years ago, except it shot bowling balls. BIG fun!
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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'Four legs good, two legs baaaad."
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