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Adult Supervision Require... Never Mind
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Ah, that is something we do here in the Netherlands as well, though we shoot the lid, not the barrel itself. Mostly a farmers thing, but there are competitions, of sorts...
Carbid Schieten Bij RRC 2011/2012 - YouTube here's a good example. And yes, it is a good 'thud' of an explosion and way too loud.
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Dear Sgoti:
Reminds me of the 1950's in the heart of Texas, anvil shooting stick of dinamite under a 200 pound anvil and boom into the sky. these guys are nutz. I just use a 5 1/2 inch dia wooden ball out of a 24 pound Cohorn Mortar model 1852, used to set up under one goal post of a football fiels and shoot a field goal through the other. Wild, MILES |
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It does look like the new national sport of Texas! Rick Perry would love it. I especially like the guy who sets his off with a pistol shot.
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Reminds me of a customer of mine who liked to make "interesting toys". One day I dropped by and they had just finished a potato gun. The gun tube was 20 foot (6 meters) long. They used butane gas as the propellant and a spark plug as the igniter. The potato was loaded in a rotating breach like a revolver that could hold 4 rounds (spuds??). When fired the potato was forced through a cutter that cut it to a cylinder shape.
I spent a fun afternoon watching them shoot it. Max range was just short of 500 yards. This was done in large industrial park and they were shooting over 40 foot tall buildings. Every once in a while we would hear a car alarm go off had he would drive down and put a note on the windshield with is card. He later told me that he had paid out over $10,000 for the damage to cars but he said that it was well worth it. I should add that $10,000 was chump change to him Jim Nunn
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