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Post by kevinharrell on Jun 19, 2017 19:35:06 GMT -5
Which is more macho? Cannon  Anchor  |
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Post by SylvreKat on Jun 19, 2017 22:22:50 GMT -5
Easy peasy.
Cannon. It makes a big boom and a big hole. Destruction galore. Jolliness. Gun machoness.
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Post by flyangler on Jun 20, 2017 9:55:31 GMT -5
Having been in an artillery unit,155 howitzers , gotta go with cannon.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Jun 20, 2017 18:39:02 GMT -5
The cannon is more macho because I have one just like the one pictured. It shoots a 45 cal mini ball with black powder.
I have been shooting powder only on national holidays.
In the USMC, we had 105mm howitzers but our 155s and 198s were called guns. Guns, by USMC and Naval definition, had a flatter trajectory than a howitzer.
I never served in an artillery unit, so it is quite possible that I have things reversed.
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Post by flyangler on Jun 21, 2017 3:12:21 GMT -5
Wheelbender, in Vietnam we had the M109 a tract vehicle that was a howitzer, looked like a big tank but you're right there was a 155 gun that was left over from the Korean war. These had a limited range and could be dangerous because of their tendency to blow the breach back.
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Post by spandi on Jun 21, 2017 4:37:06 GMT -5
Funny, but the most famous cannon of all couldn't exactly be called "macho" as it was the Mons-Meg. In the middle ages this lady was capable of hurling a 400 pound stone sphere some two miles.(If I remember, she just underwent a full restoration and is on display a a castle in Edinburgh Scotland.)
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Post by wheelbender6 on Jun 21, 2017 19:26:42 GMT -5
I can't imagine how loud it must have been inside that self propelled 155 while firing, Fly. Being around the helicopters ruined my hearing.
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Post by flyangler on Jun 21, 2017 19:33:07 GMT -5
WHAT? I can't hear you.  |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Jun 23, 2017 19:35:29 GMT -5
Gotta go with the CANNON...
In all honesty, ANCHORS really ARE mighty macho, considering the work they do with huge ships, but the CANNONS get all the attention. Unlike anchors, which are pretty much unsung heroes, cannons let everybody and their cat know THEY are doing THEIR job... LOL!
Explosions are just more fun than splashes...
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Post by SylvreKat on Jun 24, 2017 8:18:42 GMT -5
I just read in my Reader's Digest about some different summer camps. There's an etiquette camp, a medieval camp, a carny camp (for learning fire spitting and sword swallowing and stuff)...and an explosions camp in MO. Costs I think $1200 for a week of detonations, explosions, and destruction. Besides that parents MUST complete the paperwork, a teacher's recommendation letter is also required to ensure the kid isn't a nut job.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Jun 24, 2017 19:34:52 GMT -5
I want to go to medievel camp and fire the trebuchet.
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Post by oldchopperguy on Jun 24, 2017 19:54:20 GMT -5
I just read in my Reader's Digest about some different summer camps. There's an etiquette camp, a medieval camp, a carny camp (for learning fire spitting and sword swallowing and stuff)...and an explosions camp in MO. Costs I think $1200 for a week of detonations, explosions, and destruction. Besides that parents MUST complete the paperwork, a teacher's recommendation letter is also required to ensure the kid isn't a nut job.
Heck, being a nut-job is part of the job description for kids using explosives... LOL!Back around 1954 or so, I was eight or nine, and travelled from Chicago to visit my childhood pal who lived on a farm. First day, "George" the farm "hired-hand" told us to take the farm truck to town and get some DYNAMITE and come back and blow up groundhog dens.
I've posted this before, but it's SO chuckle-appropriate here...So, my 8-year-old pal and I took the old Chevy pickup to town, to the local Western Auto Store (where EVERYTHING "farmy-dangerous" was sold). We bought a case of Hercules Dynamite and headed home after the store clerk chided us "...be careful with that stuff kids, it CAN be dangerous: Don't ya'll be usin' it fer' firecrackers".We spent the afternoon happily blowing up groundhog runs, using up the remaining dynamite "recreationally"... Looking back, I really DO feel sorry for the groundhogs. Now for those who never were it in the military, or didn't grow up on a 1940's farm, there IS a MONUMENTAL difference between low-velocity explosives like black-powder and fireworks and high-velocity stuff, like dynamite, C4, Composition B, nitroglycerin and such... Oh, yeah! The high-speed stuff will kill ya without needing any shrapnel... It just uses its steel-vaporizing blast-velocity to turn anything nearby (including you and your cat) into invisible vapor... EEEWWWW!
Well, in all honesty, "George" warned us of that factoid, and we listened... Golly gee, if we'd have had an explosives camp to attend, no telling WHAT we might have accomplished... I would check out that camp though... It's not the nut-job kids I'd worry about, but rather that the camp sounding like a boot-camp for ISIS recruiting... 
Boy, growing up mid-century was sure a hoot!!!  Keep yer' powder dry!Leo in Texas |
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