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Originally Posted by RandyO  I've witnessed or been a part of my own teenage black powder experimenting......ok, some smokeless powder experimenting as well
what I have learned thru injuries of others .... don't fuck with home made cannons, or put smokeless powder in a 200 year old mortar cannon
you never exploded anything? |
I too had my share of black and smokeless powder fun. One of our favorite things to do was to drill a deep hole in the trunk of a tree using a brace and auger bit. We would pack it full of powder, cap it, and use a model rocket igniter detonate it usually taking the tree down with it! Most of our experimentation stemmed from building my own model rocket engines. Small changes to the formula can make the mixture burn significantly faster.