GRIZZLYONE
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First I dang near kill myself at work. Then today I try hard to get myself arrested!!! Late Friday afternoon I was straighting out the garage before Hula girl got home from work and I found almost a full can of FFFF black powder
I used for recovery ejection charges back when I was heavily
into high power rocketry. I have a 1/5 scale Civil War cannon that will shoot .750 dia balls. I fire this off on the 4th with blanks, shakes the whole neighborhood (they all think I'm unstable anyway). I use FF black powder in the cannon. You can't use FFFF, or the cannon will blow. So I wanted to get rid of the FFFF, I can't use it for anything and I don't want it around it's very volatile, and you can't just put it out with the trash! So I decides to pour it out in a straight line along the side of my house in the dirt away from everything and light it, no problem. I forget that it's black powder, not smokless. I lights it, it goes up in a huge mushroom cloud that could be seen for blocks. Next thing I know here comes my neighbor Al, (He's a soul brother in his 50s). He comes up to the other side of my gate and I quote " Rich! man you allright?" And I told him I was just getting rid of some old powder. He says "allright" and walks off. He allready thinks I'm crazy, Guns, hunting, cannons. I tell him it's a white boy thing! My house is real close to the 91 freeway and I was worried that a news chopper doing rush hour traffic might have seen this so I waited for the PD or the Fire Dept to show, they never did. Grizz /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I used for recovery ejection charges back when I was heavily
into high power rocketry. I have a 1/5 scale Civil War cannon that will shoot .750 dia balls. I fire this off on the 4th with blanks, shakes the whole neighborhood (they all think I'm unstable anyway). I use FF black powder in the cannon. You can't use FFFF, or the cannon will blow. So I wanted to get rid of the FFFF, I can't use it for anything and I don't want it around it's very volatile, and you can't just put it out with the trash! So I decides to pour it out in a straight line along the side of my house in the dirt away from everything and light it, no problem. I forget that it's black powder, not smokless. I lights it, it goes up in a huge mushroom cloud that could be seen for blocks. Next thing I know here comes my neighbor Al, (He's a soul brother in his 50s). He comes up to the other side of my gate and I quote " Rich! man you allright?" And I told him I was just getting rid of some old powder. He says "allright" and walks off. He allready thinks I'm crazy, Guns, hunting, cannons. I tell him it's a white boy thing! My house is real close to the 91 freeway and I was worried that a news chopper doing rush hour traffic might have seen this so I waited for the PD or the Fire Dept to show, they never did. Grizz /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif