To: Willie Green
Poor kid, he must be heart broken. If it's 110 years old, what are the chances of it just spontaneously exploding?
3 posted on
03/30/2005 3:08:50 PM PST by
LongElegantLegs
(I considered getting highlights; but my smugness is easier to maintain.)
To: LongElegantLegs; Squantos
what are the chances of it just spontaneously exploding?Let's call in the expert... he probably worked on these when they were new. :)
To: LongElegantLegs
You know, if he's like most kids when I was young (stone age), he may even have tapped it a few times!
Ah. Youth.
To: LongElegantLegs
If it's 110 years old, what are the chances of it just spontaneously exploding? Real good, actually. The older it is, the more likely it has become unstable.
This is one time when the ninnies were right, but when you panic at everything you are certain to be right when you need to be. You just can't get anyone to believe you when you are right.
To: LongElegantLegs
If it's 110 years old, what are the chances of it just spontaneously exploding? Depends on the explosive filler...assuming it has any. Some explosives get more unstable as they "age". What you want to bet this was just a dummy "training" round, originally designed to allow loaders and gunners to practice with the possibility of blowing themselves, or some unintended target downrange, to smithereens? You see those for sale in Shotgun News all the time.
48 posted on
03/30/2005 3:55:28 PM PST by
El Gato
(Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
To: LongElegantLegs
Dear Elegant,
If in fact it was a shell, they were very wise to get the heck out. If it was a cannon ball, it is unlikely to be filled with anything. I have several of the latter, most from Vicksburg. One never knows when a cannon may become available and one should have a ready supply of ammo!
55 posted on
03/30/2005 4:05:58 PM PST by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(Redneck from a red city, in a red county, in a red state, and a former Army Red Leg.)
To: LongElegantLegs
what are the chances of it just spontaneously exploding? Good if the case is intact.
61 posted on
03/30/2005 4:13:21 PM PST by
RightWhale
(50 trillion sovereign cells working together in relative harmony)
To: LongElegantLegs
Poor kid, he must be heart broken. If it's 110 years old, what are the chances of it just spontaneously exploding?Actually, if it was live ammo, the chances are quitr good. There's nothing more dangerous than old ordnance. The stuff becomes much more touchy with age.
83 posted on
03/30/2005 7:21:04 PM PST by
Lazamataz
(Cleverly Arranging 1's And 0's Since 11110111011...)
To: LongElegantLegs
The last union soldier casualties from an artillery shell at a captured confederate fort happened in 1942 at Fort Macon, NC.
A pair of union soldiers used an old shell for a fireplace andiron in the casemate where they were bunked. Boom!
94 posted on
03/31/2005 7:57:27 AM PST by
Rebelbase
(Accused Culture of Death member.)
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