What was that "booom"?
The cannon at Jamestown. I sat in those bushes for over 6 hours and every time it went off I jumped.
Interesting day. Between the cannon and the guard eating fried chicken and throwing the bones in the bushes where I was sitting (I was turkey hunting...yeah, that's what I was doing).....My nerves were a mess.
Was it going off at about quarter of, and quarter past, the hour? Or was that once or twice in the afternoon, with other smaller stuff, more frequent?
The cannon at Jamestown. I sat in those bushes for over 6 hours and every time it went off I jumped.
Interesting day. Between the cannon and the guard eating fried chicken and throwing the bones in the bushes where I was sitting (I was turkey hunting...yeah, that's what I was doing).....My nerves were a mess.
About every 30 minutes.
That's not the cannon. Those are musket demos.
Musket: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl0tRnAvp6U
Saker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVmu_nfpQd4 I'm in the gun crew, left side of the muzzle.
The Saker got down-checked last year, so the biggest thing they're firing at the moment is a Falcon. Saker = 6-pounder, approximately, and usually loaded with 12 to 24 oz of powder. Falcons are about 3-pounder size, load is 4 oz. What you were hearing was probably one of the .75 to .80 cals, with 100 grains of 3fg (Three guesses where my Nom de Web comes from).
That makes sense.
Sure were loud!
Fried chicken bones can be dangerous when they catch in one's craw - they get sideways when you lie, doncha know.
Chicken bone attack:banana:
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GA! Stupid Vimeo doesn't work well or at all for me, and I've tried it on every browser I have. IE, Safari, Firefox and Chrome. WTHeck?