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A golf ball mortar I just finished building. Fore!!

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Menno van Coehorn would be proud!


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Fired it yet?

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Not yet. Gotta look up load data in the new Sierra manual.


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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. 😊


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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!

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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.


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Originally Posted by Mule Deer
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.


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gnoahhh, when do you go into full production?

Would make a great stocking stuffer for loony who has everything.


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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!


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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.


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Thanks gnoahhh.


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Originally Posted by gnoahhh
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!


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WOW!!!


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