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<blockquote data-quote="TheDoubleD" data-source="post: 3599563" data-attributes="member: 43754"><p>This one takes a special pressure bottle. The Pressure tank needed to make the expansion chamber for a bowling ball mortar is the 300 CF, DOT 3AA2400 made by Taylor Wharton. It is not safe to just plug the neck and dump powder in the tank and drop the ball in and fire fire. This needs a proper chamber built to safety spec. Most people put legs on these and build a replica of a stokes.</p><p></p><p>I am skeptical of a thousand yard range with a pressure bottle. My cannon shooting partner has one of these pressure bottle mortars and he struggle to reach 400 yards. That is a long ways for a bowing ball. Here is 450 yard with 6 ounces of blackpowder.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]fPlnAR35iPY[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Ah yes, this is exactly the type device I was referring to in my previous post. Start practicing the phrase, "we been shooting it like this for years, and never had a problem, <strong>before.</strong>"</p><p></p><p>Drill rod, drill pipe is super strong and tough and can be made into a pretty nice cannon--but construction like described is little more than a delay action pipe bomb.</p><p></p><p>Those of us shooting cannon get a bit defensive about this subject-not every plugged up pipe is a cannon and when they fail we get tarred by the media with that brush. Please forgive me if I seem harsh, I do mean to be frank however.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheDoubleD, post: 3599563, member: 43754"] This one takes a special pressure bottle. The Pressure tank needed to make the expansion chamber for a bowling ball mortar is the 300 CF, DOT 3AA2400 made by Taylor Wharton. It is not safe to just plug the neck and dump powder in the tank and drop the ball in and fire fire. This needs a proper chamber built to safety spec. Most people put legs on these and build a replica of a stokes. I am skeptical of a thousand yard range with a pressure bottle. My cannon shooting partner has one of these pressure bottle mortars and he struggle to reach 400 yards. That is a long ways for a bowing ball. Here is 450 yard with 6 ounces of blackpowder. [MEDIA=youtube]fPlnAR35iPY[/MEDIA] Ah yes, this is exactly the type device I was referring to in my previous post. Start practicing the phrase, "we been shooting it like this for years, and never had a problem, [B]before.[/B]" Drill rod, drill pipe is super strong and tough and can be made into a pretty nice cannon--but construction like described is little more than a delay action pipe bomb. Those of us shooting cannon get a bit defensive about this subject-not every plugged up pipe is a cannon and when they fail we get tarred by the media with that brush. Please forgive me if I seem harsh, I do mean to be frank however. [/QUOTE]
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