Thread: Making Black Powder

I'd like to see the 'hang time' for an anvil ...............

Thirty years ago I was at an informal black powder shoot on a farm above one of the smaller Rotorua lakes - one guy had brought a beer can mortar that fired beer cans full of concrete. At the end of the 'shoot' we were standing around and half a mile away and considerably lower than us was a swan floating around minding its own business.

"I got one can left, reckon I could hit it ?"
"Sod off, you haven't a shit show."

And that beer can went straight through the middle of that swan, just left the outspread wings and a bit of wreckage floating.

"You rotten bastard, what'd you do that for ......."

And thats what that anvil comment made me think of.