Fort Taylor Civil War Ordnance Disposal 012809

Video chronicles the safe detonation of Civil War era ordnance found at Fort Taylor, a Civil War era fortress in Key West, Fla. The ordnance found consisted of Parrott Rifle shells, solid armor-piercing shells and cannon ball.

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Education

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• Civil War
• ordnance
• cannon ball
• EOD
• fort
• forts

[Civilwarbulletguide]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!­!!!!!!!!!!!1

[conchshot]

@Civilwarbulletguide We were required to because of the improvements being done to the old barracks building and live rounds could not be transported. The state determined the live rounds be disposed.

[conchshot]

schurr10:

It's quite obvious you know not about what you write. These rounds needed to be disposed of and the EOD Detachment handled it quite professionally.

[conchshot]

We have plenty of rounds that have been deactivated and are used for interpretive purposes. The rounds that were detonated were deemed not safe.

[Civilwarbulletguide]

@conchshot yep, law is the law. At least they went out with a bang!

[schuur10]

unprofessional waste of good mony ,

Devices who were not be in contact with water and dirt as they been found , cannot be inert.

The chemical substance has not been changed by rusting thru and natural accids via rainwater.

Only a 6th of the compound that they use for these poppers , wil do enough to blast 500 and 1000 pounders( wwII) here in the Netherlands.

12 ft deep ,in soft soil.....not hard rock undeep shit like this that just works like a fragmentation grenade!!!

[moleman1961]

I wouldn`t bugger about trying to disarm them!

[mrtommynazi]

How many thousands of tax dollars did these people spend on explosives?? These shells were loaded with nothing but black powder and could have been disarmed with a drill press and a bucket of water. Pussies

[grant6165]

Why detonate solid shot?

[imperialsfun]

That's a shame. They should have tried to deactivate the rounds for preservation purposes :(