Blackpowder, bowling balls and sewer pipe! (Fire in the hole!!!)

One Fine September Morning... ^

[Squantos]

Do ya lay out a grid for a dollar pool and play anvil bingo ? We do..........we bring a native american so it's OK to gamble of course.........:o)

Stay Safe !

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Night Fire

[Centurion2000]

Re: H110 in .454 Casull. I use about 31 gr w/300 JFP to produce 1800 fps and about 55,000 CUP. I don't shoot 45 Colts in it. I can load 14 gr of Unique under the same 300 JFP and get 1275 fps with only 38,000 CUP, which is easy shooting.

I find that 29.5 grains produces a much more accurate load with a GC bullet. Of course when building a cylinder bomb I pushed it up to 36 (it hits hard and sharp on the wrist) .... faster but not as accurate.

[Squantos]

Whew........glad yer still with us ! I had a buddy that was loading 231 powder @ 4.5 gr in his 45ACP plinking ammo. Well he wound up "babysitting" and reloading and thus charged each round with 9 grs of 231.

He was shooting a Norinco clone of the 1911A1 and it sounded like the old super vels of old. Rockets. After about a box and a half of super noise on my side of the indoor range barrier I asked him what in hell he was shooting ? He told me , I hoisted the Bullshit flag and got out my puller and checked one of charges on one of the ranges scales .

We stopped using that load. Took the Norinco to work next day and had our NDE folks run it thru the system. Nary a burp or crack showed. He was lucky he didn't frag the entire firing line.

Reloading is a task that one must pay attention to or they get hurt very easy. Sometimes before they even get the ammo near the firearm.

Zen and the art of reloading ...........:o)........Stay Safe !

[Centurion2000]

Reloading is demanding, exacting and definately requires attention. At the same time, it is relaxing and addictive to me.

[U S Army EOD]

I am really sorry people died but thats something you have to get over. I am sure if it had happened to somebody else the Aggies would be making jokes over it. I've met to many of them.

[knews_hound]

BTTT

[stands2reason]

I think you meant to reply to another poster. I just made a comment that I wish I knew about FR back then.

[Old Professer]

That last photo looked like an awfully tight group for something aimed by propping it up on a chair with a plank.

That's where the butt end of the pipe went in the ground on recoil; to keep from drilling the hole deeper than the length of the "cannon", the shooter simply moved it, chair and all, a few inches each shot.

[Darksheare]

Night shoots were always such visually interesting deals.

[Joe Brower]

I plead the fifth. $;-)

[epow]

Re: H110 in .454 Casull. I use about 31 gr w/300 JFP to produce 1800 fps and about 55,000 CUP

Ouch! Now that's gotta hurt.

I have never fired a Casull, but my shooting buddy is interested in them so I may get the chance to shoot one soon. I have enough land to shoot on so he brings his new toys up here to try them out.

I recently built a range out back with 2 covered shooting benches, steel target stands, and a pile of oak logs for a backstop. So now I can try out my handloads for accuracy at a measured distance instead of just burning powder punching holes in soda cans. Keeps me pretty busy at the loading bench though, and my wife isn't too happpy about that.

[thackney]

For those of us 4,000 or so miles away, pictures would be appreciated.

Just a suggestion (if not already said a couple hundred times) let someone else fire it first.

-todd

[mhking]

You know that pics are required for the rest of us when you all pull this off...

[Eaker]

You know.......it is great that so many people are worried about my health!!!

;<)

[Eaker]

You bet!!

I think that a "peep hole" cam stuck in a finger hole would be great. I just don't know if it could hold up!!!

;<)

Thanks for posting this!

[Tijeras_Slim]

I would think with your luck, you might want to build up to this...

It won't blow you up, but you might shoot your eye out.

[Gamecock]

That's the coolest thing I'ev ever seen. Even beats the pumpkin chunkin!

[in the Arena]

I think archy made a great point...if you fabricate the breech plug to hold the charge, the "tube" doesn't have to be able to hold all the pressure. You might have picked this up already, but it's worth a repeat if you're still in the R&D phase.

[Squantos]

Agree........Things I did as a child would have moved me into the criminal column too !

Stay Safe !