Submitted by jamescookenotthatone t3_11e410x in todayilearned
The Museum of Appalachia in Clinton, Tennessee has an annual anvil shoot every 4th of July.
Damn. I thought Monty Python and the cow catapult was an incredible range weapon. Now here’s this.
Cool as fuck to watch a pro do it too, a bit of black powder and something to seal the anvil - looked like peanut butter, then attach cable to battery hit switch then a PING noise then look up fast... iirc they are like 45# and go farther up than you would think with the amount of powder they used.
Just don't stand in the X when you attend one of those.
What's a worse idea than celebratory gunfire?
Angeratory gunfire?
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Or at least bring an umbrella
I would argue being able to see the projectile the whole time makes it a lot safer, than indiscriminate mm sized bullets.
Now combine this with Carbide Shooting (Carbide schieten)
I read that as 21 anvil sluts, and was surprised there are so many just in New Westminster.
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A 21 anvil salute sounds like something from the Animaniacs.
Anvilania....
Anvilania....
Anvilaaaaaaaaaaaaaniaaaaaaaa.........
They did this during "Pioneer day" at my school in like 5th grade, and I remember being just absolutely terrified the whole time because I just KNEW that thing was going to come down on top of me but they just made us sit there in the grass watching it.
Right. Was deployed to Bosnia in the 90s and they celebrated EVERYTHING with gunfire. Had to always be on high alert, especially when on patrol.
The original Lawn Dart
I actually was injured by falling anvil in real life as a young child. No memory of it whatsoever but I understand my finger was pretty flat.
45 pounds would be a tiny anvil.
Damn the anvil ringing while still flying up in the air was such a satisfying sound
Ok, this is METAL AF.
Malcolm (?) Or Seward (?) Nebraska used to launch these every year. Never went but heard about it. Not sure how far away they kept the crowd but always seemed like "yeah that's too close" when people would talk about it.
Sponsored by Acme.
Reminds me of the very first time I blew up a soda bottle with some dry ice and water in it. It launched STRAIGHT up and landed within a foot of where it started about 7 seconds later.
Never had one do that since.
Was it airborne, or did it just topple over somehow?
They "fire Anvils" here in the California gold rush country for 4th of July and other celebrations. We have anvils, Cannon are harder to come by.
The anvils go stright up and right back down not a couple of feet from the grounded anvil. Shooting a bullet goes a mile and will land almost anywhere depending on the angle of the gun being discharged.
From what I've learned, it was "decoratively" balanced on a wall and I liked to climb things. So it may have been airborne for a moment or two in transition.
I also like sy going wooooooo
Zzzzzzzzzz
I thought them shits were used as weapons
Boy 'owdy, can't wait ta go down th' anvil foire
I don't think I've ever seen someone use the # symbol this way. Interesting~
So my hope that anvils will drop on my many enemies is actually a possibility. Now, does anyone launch grand pianos?
This is why women live longer than men.
That's why they call # "the pound sign" in telephone menu systems, etc.
New West is a wonderful source of sluts of all varieties.
Crazy bastards sound like they're having the time of their lives!
A family friend of ours was into collecting anvils, for whatever reason. I remember one visit we all went to a vineyard where they had a demonstration of anvil firing.
They placed gunpowder between two playing cards between two anvils. It was pretty amazing, the shock wave would sting your shins, the top anvil would go straight up and come straight down hitting the bottom anvil with a satisfying clang, and all the kids would look around and for the burnt halves of playing cards.
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