Deadly Anvil in Orbit 2

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Ed, John, in cooperation with springfieldarsenal.com, fire four anvil shots, and recover the anvil each time. The first shot reaches only a modest height but others go up to 500 feet in the air and land no more than 30 feet from the launcher. The anvil launcher is a Navy 8-inch gun breech plug made in 1945. For the higher shots, we use 2 lbs. of FFFG black powder. All usual cannon-firing safety precautions, and more, are followed. Do not try this yourself unless you are experienced in black powder safety procedures.

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• springfield
• explosive
• blackpowder
• shooting
• anvil
• gun
• weapon
• cannon
• bomb
• mortar
• explosion
• boom

[ArtistBlade1972]

Are you shooting with black powder or something else? What is the weight of the charge?

[cannonmn]

FFFG black powder, 2 lbs. each shot.

[Lotum4n]

What machine part is that anvil sitting on ?

[cannonmn]

We use a WWII Navy 8-inch gun breechblock for our launcher-it already had a 5-inch diameter hole in it where we put the powder, and a grease hole coming in from the side where we put the fuse.

[rip3000gt]

going by an estimated hang time of about 10 seconds you are getting that thing around 800 feet high... not bad

[cannonmn]

Hmmm, one of our tables must be off. When we timed it we got 11 sec. and the book showed that was about 500 feet.??

[jiro9cuts0001]

I can see it now... the captain of an invading force says to a lieutenant- "What in the hell are they shooting at us?" L- "Anvils sir!" C- "Anvils?" L-"Yes sir, Anvils, like Acme anvils from the Wile E. Coyote cartoons sir!" C- "Good god, we've invaded the Warner Brothers Studios grounds..." -Captain palm slaps his forehead -

[raiun42]

They were shooting them in Scotland in the early 1900s. Probably before that.

Just think. If you put a bunch of guys from anywhere any time together, add whisky, anvils and gunpowder and a touch of boredom. How long will it take them to blow something up?

Nuff Sed?

[zx1400a7f]

We've got an old Peter Wright that would like to visit the moon. Currently, we consolidated our reloading with 452AA, but have others available, some dating back to the 60's. This would be a fun draw to our neighbors who also own weapons and would not be terrified to the sound of gunpowder.

[immortalass]

I laughed so hard at their unnecessarily complicated anvil recovery technique. A shovel?? AW HELL NAW!

[immortalass]

@jiro9cuts0001 ... and then proceeds to run like hell. No good can come from invading the Warner Brothers Universe.

[gargamel6699]

I'm calling BULLSHIT on Looney Tunes.

[chena3]

poor anvil...

[andrewCNC905]

what would happen with smokeless powder? would it wreak the 1st anvil

[MauveBovine]

@bigaxe87 now ask yourself is this is a real issue, or if you just wanted to say something to feel important.

[bigaxe87]

@MauveBovine me lol

[MauveBovine]

@bigaxe87 name one aspiring blacksmith you know.

[bigaxe87]

heres an idea instead of blowin the fuk outta those anvils why dont you give them to aspiring blacksmiths.its such a waste of a good thing