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The Guns of Argghhh!

By The Armorer on July 5, 2006 | | Comments (8)

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The Guns of Argghhh are silent now, just as the guns at Gettysburg fell silent, though it was a *lot* more fun here and there was alcohol involved (in safe amounts).

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Much powder (and a little tequila) were consumed in the making of this post.

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There might have been some bugs killed by the aerial bursts. I hope so, anyway. But otherwise, no mammals or non-flying bugs were harmed in the making of last evening.

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By beth on July 5, 2006 10:18 AM
However, the canine members of the family were none too happy and alternated between running to the basement and running to our bedroom. Houdini hid under the pillows. The felines honestly did not give a sh*t.
 
By John of Argghhh!!! on July 5, 2006 10:30 AM
That's cuz they trust their Daddy. The hounds know better.
 
By Gwedd on July 5, 2006 12:01 PM
Comrades, A friend of mine has a full-scale Coehorn Mortar that fires cement-filled soup cans. He paints them day-glo orange and lobs then out into the bay. Always a treat to watch, especially when accompainied by goodly amounts of Navy Rum..... If there are vessels nearby then he simply switches rounds from soup cans to tennis balls.... neat to watch a smoking tennis ball arcing over the skies towards someone's speedboat:) respects, AW1 Tim
 
By John of Argghhh!!! on July 5, 2006 1:27 PM
My Enfield Cup Discharger is also an effective tennis ball launcher. It's more fun at dusk, or early morning, with a touch of lighter fluid/charcoal starter (just a smidge!) on 'em. Given it's a bay, leaving off the petrochems would prolly be a good idea. Plowed fields don't really care.
 
By Dan Patterson on July 5, 2006 2:18 PM
Ain't it great to be an American?! We in the sunny South get all likker'd up and shoot at stuff, too. What did you mean by aerial bursts? Were you firing lit firecrackers, or do you have the means for miniature proximity fuses? Now that'd be REAL cool. Oh, how about an airburst projectile from a potato cannon! Work on that one for your next project and post more good gun pr0n. Keep up the good work. Dan Patterson Arrogant Infidel
 
By John of Argghhh!!! on July 5, 2006 3:59 PM
Dan - I stuck the firecrackers (3-4 at a time) into the mortar fuze-first. Which means they burst about 20 feet away. Unreliable ignition on fuzes if I stuck 'em in fuze out and tucked the fuzes (I tried, wanted to go for a cascade effect, like we used to do with 105mm howitzers at firepower demos for a 'trajectory demonstration - shoot 6 rounds at different elevations and fuze settings and have them all go off at once one hitting the ground, the rest at various elevations in the air...
 
By emdfl on July 5, 2006 7:58 PM
John - You need to hie thee over to www.wildimports.com and aquire one of their "beer-can mortars. Take a beer can, fill it about 1/2 full of flour (or talcum powder if you want to smell nice), drop an eight second fused bird-bomb in the can and light a four second mortar fuse. Aim toward the house of the neighbor you most dislike, heh, heh, heh. If you really don't like him, fill the can with round-up...
 
By John of Argghhh! on July 5, 2006 8:05 PM
Round-up! Now *that's* mean! I've been tempted, very tempted.