Some women deal with stress or other angst by traditional methods. Ice cream. Shopping. Good old fashioned tears. Tried that. Doesn't work.
I prefer blowing something up.
Black powder therapy. Cannon ready. Range style.You just need a few spare parts from the shed, garage, or evil laboratory and perhaps a friend or relative to divide the blame. And a golf ball
The golf ball is essential.
Now I'm not going to explain how to build one. Sure enough I'd leave out one step, someone would lose an eye and the next thing you know, I'd have 5 drooling personal injury lawyers on my porch (zombies!).Do your homework, check your state and local laws for restrictions on such things (many modern subdivisions have a "no cannons" covenant). Don't mix blackpowder with tequila, alpacas or enclosed areas. But there are directions on the net on a number of legal, family-friendly, build this science experiment in your garage kind of websites and there are even golf ball cannons for sale, that look like something out of Bladerunner (and are about $280 and up).
With the right amount of black powder, dry, losely packed material (yes that is cloth) and a quick but thorough check of the area to make sure no people, animals, news choppers, Conservatives, or Girl Scouts with cookies are in the line of fire.FORE!!
Almost 1000 feet. You couldn't even see it go. Of course, the successful first strike raised the question.
What would this thing do with aircraft gun sights? Then, with sights, you could take it deer hunting. Kill AND gut the deer in one. . . . . no never mind. I still haven't heard the end of this
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Beats the hell out of shopping.
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Damn. You are one cool chick.
(Please don't aim that at me.)
Nice! I want one!
Had a neighbor once that built one that could shoot beer cans filled with cement. He only shot it a few times. Decided it might get him in trouble and cut it up. But man could that thing chuck a can.
Murphy wants to know if such a device could be mounted to...oh...maybe a Cessna 172? Maybe even a whole rack of them?
Did you chrono it?
This could really transform golf...
"Powder room". Snerk.
Murphy - I don't think they have a 337 for that mod.
I had a gunnie friend who called me over re: a large bore single-shot he'd acquired - a potato gun!
That was cool, THIS was better!
Knowing your gentility, I was concerned at the post title, and whether or not to read.
*whew*
gfa
Having never played with fused cannon, is the smoke in the first two pics of the sequence just the smoke from the fuse?
@Borepatch - Ha! I've read Brigid's blog too long. I went straight to "powder magazine" meaning of powder room and completely missed the joke.
That is just pure cool awesomesauce. I need one for the next big guys' event. We have the launchers for the AK, but that would be a ton of fun. It might make the zombie run more interesting.
Houston there is ignition at the range home of b.... blaster brid
the room of powder will circle the globe at one revolution per puffy powders
chemistry was so much fun mixed with some physics
now to mount as ornament on truck bed
Well, that sure beats my ol' tator cannon...
Dann in Ohio
"quick but thorough check of the area to make sure no people, animals, news choppers, Conservatives, or Girl Scouts with cookies are in the line of fire."
Can I take that to mean that you don't mind if a few lefties 'accidentally' get in the line of fire? Heh..
One thing old muzzle-loading cannoneers used to do was "sponge out" between shots. This involved ramming a sponge-on-a-stick (giant Q-Tip, basically) down the muzzle to extinguish any burning powder remnants, and to cool the interior somewhat. You do NOT want to ram a new charge down the barrel if this hasn't been done, there is a chance of the cannon firing prematurely. For your little gun, this could mean a golf ball to the side of the head at sufficient velocity to cause injury.
"Sure enough I'd leave out one step, someone would lose an eye..."
Me: "I want an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model golf ball cannon!"
Mrs. Paladin: "No. You'll shoot your eye out, kid."
Oh.....my dear.....if I were not married.....
Bob
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They are cool! I want a bowling ball mortar. We had a lyle gun when I was growing up.
Oooohhhhhh, imagine some glow-in-the-dark golfballs and a clear night..........
"Alien craft sighted" headlines in the paper the next day...
I want your children....
Heh... I could use that on #8, that damn uphill dogleg right... :-)
Rednecks one and all!!?
A family friend also has one made to shoot veggie cans filled with cement. TOTALLY WAY COOL AWESOME!(did I type that out loud?)
PS. I got the Powderroom reference right off. Who needs high dollar perfume and body glitter when you can have Hoppes #9 and Pyrodex?
As a former 11C (mortar man) I had always thought that golf would be much more fun using indirect fire weapons.
Now that would get me arrested and several years in jail in these crowded islands but that is so cool!!!
Now that would make the long tee-offs easier for my dad. But he would probably want a cart with a trailer hitch for caddying the thing around the golf course. Now why didn't I think of that for a Father's Day gift!?
It is probably good that you and hubby didn't know each other when growing up. You might have blown each other up. His cannon only shot 30 cal. lead balls. He's lucky he lived to adulthood; his father wasn't the best at choosing age appropriate toys.
Yes, people may tak exception:
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Loved it. Thank you, thank you ... life is too short :-)
This is easier, cheaper, and more portable. Works great on my SKS Yugo. http://www.bloomautomatic.com/
SO much more interesting than standard yard art!
I'm with ya...I rather shoot or blow something up! Crying and shopping are for sissies ;)
"take it deer hunting. Kill and gut the deer in one." ...I kinda like the one-stop shop concept. Very interesting, haha.
Dang. Kinda makes my half-finished trebuchet seem....well....inadequate. Although, if you need to lob something a little more circumspectly, ie "stealth", trebs are the way to go.
Looks like fun!
Just came across your blog and so glad I did! The cannon is awesome. What a great way to blow off some steam!
What could possibly go wrong?
And for what it's worth, when I saw the title of this post I mentally added "Black" before the "Powder" before I even read it.
And then I thought of the Bugs Bunny cartoon where Yosimite Sam had a pirate ship...
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