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Speaking of shots fired

peter nap

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Securiguard must have nerves of steel....or deaf.:lol:

[video=vimeo;40881502]http://vimeo.com/40881502[/video]
 

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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.
 
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Just conditioned lack of response

Critters on the range I use have no issues with gunfire. I have punched paper with an AR over the heads of groundhogs and squirels. Just proves you can get used to anything. That range has been there for many generations of critters. That cannon was there before those guys started working there, hell, I think it was firing in 1966 when I went with my 4th grade class.
 

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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?
 

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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.

Fried chicken bones can be dangerous when they catch in one's craw - they get sideways when you lie, doncha know.
 

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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).
 

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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!

I had forgotten about the muskets. I did a photo essay on them a few years ago.

jt1.jpg
 
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