View single post by Albert Sailhorst
 Posted: Thu Jul 29th, 2010 05:53 pm
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Albert Sailhorst
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 If this is the incident that occured a month or two ago, it was a Mountain Howitzer......My guess is, it was "overloaded".....ie, the charge was, in reality, too "big" for a reenactment, Some artillert units will intentionally overload their charges so as to get a bigger bang and recoil on the guns. I do not recomend or endorse doing this!!

We shoot an original 3 inch ordinance gun and fire about 7 ounces of cannon powder. This is sufficient to get a nice bang, but no re-coil......

I've seen artillery units with Mountain Howitzers fire more powder out of their small howitzers than we fire out of our full scalle, original gun.....Needless to say, we don't care too much when they're placed close to us.

As to praying at the alter of safety......You better bet that safety needs to be and must be practiced! However, when there's a car wreck at the Indianapolis 500, no one strats screaming to ban cars.......just a thought.....