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hatsgoods
10-01-2015, 04:06 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvq7uFt-W0s
displayfireworks1
10-01-2015, 06:42 PM
If you own one of those firearms you will always have an excuse for storing black powder.
hatsgoods
10-01-2015, 08:30 PM
If you own one of those firearms you will always have an excuse for storing black powder.

lol true the loudness in the video did not do this justice. it was more like being like 40 feet away from 4 in salute on the ground. i know whats that is like due to i experienced it in my last years training course
NWPA
10-11-2015, 08:22 PM
I have two so I guess I have a reason to have black powder. lol
PGH_Pyro
10-12-2015, 12:49 AM
you ought to hear the 6" cannon that the Fort Pitt reenactors in Pittsburgh fire at Point State Park ... wow... hellacious bang with a big firey flash ...
pyromustang
10-12-2015, 06:19 PM
787DO you think I have a reason to have black powder?785786 I now have 5 working on number 6 with all brass barrel.
PGH_Pyro
10-13-2015, 11:18 AM
ahhh great photo - #3 ... captures it
displayfireworks1
10-17-2015, 06:31 AM
There is a nice size cannon at the sportsman club sitting in the meeting room someone donated years ago. I do not believe it was ever used. One of these days I should find time to shoot it. I would have to familiarize myself with how to do it properly. I never shot a cannon. The cannon the club has looks similar to the one you have in the middle picture.
countryboy7978
10-23-2015, 09:03 PM
lol true the loudness in the video did not do this justice. it was more like being like 40 feet away from 4 in salute on the ground. i know whats that is like due to i experienced it in my last years training course

A large cannon may sound like a 4" salute but there's no way that a handheld rifle of any kind would even approach the sound of a 4" salute 300 feet in the air much less 40 feet away. Most rifles are about as loud as an old cherry bomb.
Fire Art
11-17-2015, 12:46 PM
A large cannon may sound like a 4" salute but there's no way that a handheld rifle of any kind would even approach the sound of a 4" salute 300 feet in the air much less 40 feet away. Most rifles are about as loud as an old cherry bomb.

Depends where the 4" salutes come from LOL. Not us!