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BBQ this weekend
We are hosting a pre-4th of July BBQ this Sunday here in Bryan, TX starting around 5:30pm. All are welcome. I got confirmation we'll have the full scale Civil War cannon as well as my 6" bore mortar for some noise making. Fireworks are fine...bring them if you have them! (no skyrockets on sticks, though! everything else goes).
It's pot-luck so bring something to feed about 4. If you need directions, shoot me a PM or email. P.S. I never was able to recover my knifemaker-email list when I changed services, so if someone on the list could forward me an old message with the whole header I'd appreciate it! |
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Well, I won't be able to make it but will be there in spirit Donnie. And it sounds like you'll be bringing out the big guns too!!!!!
If you lost my contact you can always get it through my profile here. Shoot me a line when you have the chance. And take pictures of the cannon!!!! Chris |
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Don, send pics and story for the newsletter.
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No problem....We'll have lots of pics, but it's really not a knifemaker event...more of a redneck with cannons, knives, beer and brisket event! I'm sure I'll be showing knifemaking to some interested newbies, though.
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Sorry that I can't make it, Don. Fuel pump died in the Blazer last night and I've got to be the taxi to get my son to work and back.
See if you can blast the rain out of here for a few days! __________________ God bless Texas! Now let's secede!! |
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The weather was pretty nice...another 1" of rain early, but clearing the rest of the day. Unfortunately, we couldn't roll out the full scale mountain rifle since the ground was so soft and muddy (I didn't want all my purty grass ripped up ). We did have hours of fun with a coehorn and got to fire the first shots out of my 6" mortar I'm using for the Sikh project. I built a makeshift platform from large concrete slabs, cinderblocks and limestone rocks. We started at 2 oz loads and worked up to around 3.3 oz. (3 oz of black powder is roughly a slightly heaping third of a cup)
Highlights of the day were the inaugural firing of the cured ham...sure to become an annual event. We found a cured ham in the back of the trailblazer last week that missed getting brought in with the groceries the week before. Cured or not...a week of 100*+ temps in the back of the SUV deemed it unfit. I had to trim it a bit to get it to fit, but it slid ever so slowly down the bore. I used 3 oz and figured the ham would expand and seal the bore. It had an excellent report and it was quite spectacular to see a ham bone spiralling about 200 yards up in the sky. It rained pig fat out over the fields for the next couple minutes as well. We also discovered a new way to fertilize the fields. A 6" cheapo plastic flower pot (the thin black ones that come with plants) fits perefect down the bore. Filled with sand, it gives just enough backpressure to give a real nice report. I had a bag of weed & feed that got wet and wouldn't work in the spreader, so we launched a pot full with 2.5 oz. Gave an excellent spread and was a whole lot more fun than walking behind a spreader! The final load was 3.3 oz with about 3lbs of damp sand in a flower pot over top. Mortar recoiled (264 lbs) and cracked one of the thin cinder slabs being used as an elevation device in half! Seems like 3 oz is going to be the magic load for when is on a carraige...lots of uumpf and noise but not too much recoil onto the carraige. I got to fire some maiden shots from some new gonnes as well. I think I got some of the neighbor's hooked on cannons now as well. Although one did inform me that he was out cleaning his stalls when a big one went off and he "almost crapped his pants", but he was polite about it and bore no ill will and even thought it was interesting after we discussed it (the 6" mortar, not the pants) for a while. I think I will reserve the large bore stuff around here for the 4th and new-years and take it over to a buddy's with a lot more room for other days! The rest of the evening was roman candles and sparklers with all the kids. I got a kick out of one kid. He comes up and asks "Mr Halter, the cannons are cool, but do you have any non-adult fireworks?" They were quite excited to see me pull a case of roman candles from the back of the car. Later we had a show and tell of quite a few knives I have that are mostly finished. The small nessmucks were a good hit. Probably end up with a few orders out of it. Hmmm....the whole thing could be classified as a "tupperware party for real men" in an odd sort of way! Instead of sitting around drinking tea and chatting...we BBQ meat, shoot crap out of cannons, then retire to the TV room to look over the knive products. I think I'm onto something!!! KragAxe Partys are sure to become a hit across TX. All you need is a wide open space, a BBQ pit, and very understanding neighbors and local law enforcement! All I took was video, so I'll have to convert it, edit it down and pull some still shots before I can post pics. |
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Brightened my otherwise soggy day!
__________________ God bless Texas! Now let's secede!! |
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I love the tactical ham story. Chris |
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If I'm not mistaken, the last time he blew up the kid's Barney toy. And the kids were offering up other toys to destroy!
Yup, never boring. Just watching Donnie light his forge is an adventure in flames and singed hair! __________________ God bless Texas! Now let's secede!! |
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DANG Day late dollar short again.
Yep one thing about don's get togethers it's never HO-HUM |
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A 30" ceramic Tigger...not barney. My kids have never, ever owned a barney anything.
...and Tigger had it coming! I'm hosting an armour making event Aug 25-27th. I wonder if the store would give me all their old hams for free? Ya'll are all welcome to come up for the armour-in. We often do hot-raising and forging in the evenings. Last edited by Don Halter; 07-02-2007 at 05:26 PM. |
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Here's some still shots from the day:
The Ham shot. I wish I was quick enough and my camera good enough to have got the hambone up in the sky twirling around! Next was the heavy load with the sand-filled flowerpot. I just love the smoke rings the mortars create! Next time we'll have to shoot during sunny weather and not during monsoons! Here's my youngest son's reaction to most shots, right before he starts asking for "more guns daddy, more guns". Here's a new gonne I was mesing with. I made some sights for it using some copper rivits. Everyone laughed at them until I drilled to beercans dead center at 20 yards. ;D |
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Donnie,
Drop me an email to my Yahoo account. Everything Ive emailed to you has bounced back. Jim |
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I wondered about that. I always got the first message, but never any responses to replies. A few others here had similar problems with my old peoplepc.com email addy. For some reason, MS Outlook always defaults to that one for replies regardless which I sent one from. The krag@kragaxe.com will always forward to the proper one.
I'm a few rat-hairs west of BFE out in the Nevada high desert right now with spotty internet here at the mine site, but I'll be back in Bryan Sunday. PM me here with your phone number and I'll shoot you a call Sunday afternoon. I have some neat stuff you ought to like. |
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