Myth Busted

[Tin Falcon]

This was done by trained professionals do not try at home.
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/watercooler/article/181667/108/MythBusters-cannonball-tears-through-house-van
Tin

 

[kcmillin]

That is weird. I usually seem them taking precautionary measures for safety. What the heck did they have a cannon pointed towards houses for?

I wonder how long the cannonball traveled before hitting the house.

I hope they don't pull the funding for the show. MythBusters is my favorite television program.

Kel

 

[Brian Rupnow]

During the years of my miss-spent youth, when I was about 15, my two friends and myself came across the recipe for black powder. My friend Randy's older brother worked as a dynamite man in the uranium mines and managed to "appropriate" a roll of Thermalite fuse for us. We found a 4 foot length of schedule 80 heavy wall steel pipe, and one of us (I can't remember who now) had this supply of 1 1/4" steel ball bearings from a ruptured ore crusher, that were an almost perfect fit in the pipe. We never blew up any houses, but did manage to shoot one of our "projectiles" through the back door of our resident drunken Scotsmans 1956 buick. It went through the outer skin, through the inner skin, through the upholstery panel on the inside of the door, then bounced around and lay there on display in the back seat!!!!

 

[MachineTom]

I another article they said the cannon was elavated when it fired rather than the horizontial as planned. The range is surround by the town, not the greatest situation.

In NJ at the Picatinny Arsenal, which is a weapons research facilty. a few years ago, they fire cannons into a rock quarry, No pieces of the shells have ever left the site, until a piece travelled 2 miles, through the roof of a house and killed the family's cat. The engineer's said it could not happen, the cat proved them dead wrong.

Not the same calibre of projectile, but the St. Andrews golf course is in the center of town, bounded by public streets, and houses. Best way to get to one hole is shoot over the clubhouse, which is 4+ stories tall.

 

[lordedmond]

the 17th and its the hotel

st Andrews course does not it fact have a club house as sutch being a municipal course there are club houses alongside the 18 th but they do not belong to the course


Stuart

 

[Dr Jo]

Sometimes even the professions find that their guns do not do what they wanted, this is an Aussie 105mm light gun that had a "missfire":

Thankfully no one was hurt.

Jo