You can see the shell in flight

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tccox

WOW! Talking about muzzle blast! With a little triangulation, his position could be plotted to the inch. Tine to shoot & scoot Pronto. Tom

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quote:Originally posted by tccox
WOW! Talking about muzzle blast! With a little triangulation, his position could be plotted to the inch. Tine to shoot & scoot Pronto. Tom


That pile of shell casings on the right shows he ain't worried about counter battery fire or wants to meet Allah soon.

Rocky Raab

Rule #1 for everything from peashooters to ICBMs: If the enemy is in range, so are you.

Spider7115

Maybe that's an incoming round! [:0][xx(]

Tech141

Dude might want to get a longer Pull-String if he ever wants to shoot +P loaded rounds.... Just sayin.

andrewsw16

I remember during artillery training on 105 howitzers MANY years ago that I could stand behind the gun and see the departing dot for a split second. Only from behind though, I couldn't see it if I stood to the side. [:D]

11b6r

Night shoots- 8 inch howitzer. Stand WAY back, look above, and see what looked like a red hot watermelon in flight.

Oakie

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mmppres

that the new smokeless powder ????

kidthatsirish

quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
Rule #1 for everything from peashooters to ICBMs: If the enemy is in range, so are you.


Not always true...

themountainman

Take that ISIS

Rocky Raab

irishkid, who was that general who said, "They can't hit me from..."

11b6r

Major General John Sedgwick, Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse. His final words were "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."


He was wrong.

allen griggs

Yes, one of the great quotes of the War. "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
Caught a .58 Minie ball right in the face about 3 seconds later.

armilite

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1911a1-fan

i hope thats a projectile and not a shell [:D]

montanajoe

quote:Originally posted by 1911a1-fan
i hope thats a projectile and not a shell [:D]
I see what you did,,

10x100

Back in the early 1960's
my uncle was an Army WO at a test facility in Maryland. I would visit my cousin there and while lying on the sand at the pool we could see rounds from what they called the "Atomic Cannon" (I think it was about a 280 mm) go overhead to an impact area in the Chesapeake Bay.

ChuckWBIV

Yep - string-puller mouth WIDE OPEN (or else "huh?" forever).

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SG

Nice! I have a pic of the Wisconsin when she was first recommissioned in 1990,firing her 16's and you can see the rounds leaving the barrel.

I'll try digging the pic out this evening and upload it here.