[geeks] OT: bang, bang, bang...

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sun, 07 Dec 2003 @ 14:25 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:

> > Have you ever tried building your own?  Interesting...
> 
> My own complete piece?  No.  But I've done plenty of carriage work.

Interesting.  Every restored a historic piece?

Around here, we have a lot of Revolution and Civil war artillery, and a
lot of it has no carriage.  Evidently hard to get people to do the work,
and of course the budget for parks is dismal.

It's fun though, to go to Yorktown and watch them fire the shore
batteries into the York River.

I came around the corner two years ago as they were firing an 8-inch
motar, and had no idea what was going on.  I saw the costumes, but never
thought about them firing a cannon.  They touched off the powder just as
I appeared behind the thing.

It was... startling.

> > > (And then there's my 1889 Mark II* .577/.450 Martini-Henry, which
> > >  *almost* qualifies as artillery.....)
> > 
> > What about shotguns firing slugs?  Or is that a howitzer?
> 
> I don't know, I think firing shell is required to qualify for howitzer
> status.  The trajectory's about right though -- shotgun slugs should
> definitely be considered indirect fire.  :)

Yeah, but some of them are fairly consistent at least.

I've had fun with them before at fairly short ranges.

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