Sabot pellets and sabot darts may travel a lot further than you would think possible for blowgun ammo. Also, it's very important to make sure any backstop you're using is big enough and tough enough to stop any dart/pellet that gets by or through the intended target.ģ. With a blowgun, range is a lot more limited than with the cannonball, but it's still possible to get a nasty surprise if a dart or pellet ends up going further than you thought it could/would. This is an excellent example of why it's always vitally important to know what your projectile launcher is capable of. In the fairly recent "Alamo" movie that starred Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett (say, that reminds me of Lane's signature) the movie got the cannonball facts pretty accurate and showed the cannonball taking huge bounces off the ground, so it seems there do exist persons in the world who are aware that cannonballs are capable of such behavior.Ģ. One wonders if an actual artillery expert was consulted prior to shooting the "cantaloupe-sized cannonball".
As I noted in the title of the thread, there is not a little irony in the fact that you can't legally shoot a blowgun in California (unless you're a vet) but it's perfectly legit for homemade cannons to be fired at a bomb-disposal range near a suburban neighborhood. The cannonball did more damage, which you can read about in the article linked above. There, the 6-inch projectile bounced in front of a home on quiet Cassata Place, ripped through the front door, raced up the stairs and blasted through a bedroom, where a man, woman and child slept through it all - only awakening because of plaster dust." The cantaloupe-sized cannonball missed the water, tore through a cinder-block wall, skipped off a hillside and flew some 700 yards east, right into the Tassajara Creek neighborhood, where children were returning home from school at 4:15 p.m., authorities said.
One of the zany experiments staged by the "Mythbusters" television show nearly turned into a suburban tragedy Tuesday in Dublin when the crew fired a homemade cannon toward huge containers of water at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department bomb-disposal range. I already started an off-topic thread on this, but I thought there might be some on-topic thoughts related to the incident.Ī fairly good summary of what happened can be found at this article link: Here's a quote of the first three paragraphs of the article:
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