Hoisted aloft and spinning in the wind

[hotfxr]

In Shakespeare's words (and he said it best) our own ignoble leader, the dastardly, burrowing night marauding Red Badger has been "hoist by his own petard". His battered and golf ball peppered body has been hoist aloft and is spinning in the wind, hanging just fore the mainsail as a warning to all plains staters that you never mess with a son of the South (egregiously transplanted to Northern California where it is a wonder that he survived) when honor and lives are on the line. Hoping to get one over on me by choosing a weapon that I did not own, he stood wide eyed in wonder that out of cast aside materials, Bruce. Badger Blaster of the Wild Frontier rose from the rubble and stood gloriously on the field of battle, hurling par 4 destruction his way. With his rather large and slow moving profile, he was impossible to miss. Decimated without firing off a single shot, it's a sad day in Oklahoma. He will use the excuse that his time was usurped by his studious avocation, but that is merely the ramblings of someone who has met his better and is cowering behind the thick walls of academia, somewhat like a frightened badger trembling in the back of his den.

So what say you, Mister Badger man, do you acquiescence? Best to do it now before suffering further humiliations before your peers.I am fully prepared to accept your unconditional surrender and since I am in such a generous mood, basking in the rays of victory, I will even capitulate on the formal rules of engagement and allow to to retain ownership of your weapons. I would not leave even a defeated antagonist without the proper weapon in the case of a Zombie attack. For we all know that as well as tomahawks and knives work against Zombies, the only true way to dispense with an oncoming Zombie Apocalypse is with a cannon.

While I await your formal sedition I shall go about my day confident in my dueling abilities and just glad you don't really know where I live so I have no fear of reprisals for all the stultiloquence that I just wrote out here.

[Hawken50]

    

[sweed]

  Me too!!!  Have we any real range results of these super weapons?.......
 

[punjab]

Huh is that english?

[Red Badger]

Don't see no video,  son.......  And everyone here knows you are an honest to God, mountain man and as such you words cannot be trusted to be 100% accurate.... you might be embellishing just a little bit....

[ArchieR]

"Stultiloquence".  Holy djoy.

My hat is off to you sir.

Mr. Faulkner trembles.

[beowulf]

   

[beezlebob]

Wow, this is great, I love it guys, thanks for a good laugh

[hotfxr]

I have run into technical difficulties as far as posting videos here. Mainly the last 12 year old moved out of the neighborhood and there is no longer anyone around here to show us elders how to operate these danged machines. Through lots of trial and (mostly) error I was able to get this video to work here. Unfortunately you only get to see the gunners perspective until I shanghai another pre-teen to help move videos from my phone to this forum. With the homemade lock the firing rate is up to and astounding 3 shots per minute.



Accurate range with lead cannonball is just over a mile, only because that is the limits of the range we shot it in. And when I say accurate, I mean that we can put three shots into a 12 X 12 foot target. To get that level we spiked the cannon down and spent a lot of time trying to keep it in the same spot for each shot. At 150 yards leaving it to roll free it can consistently hit a bathtub setting on end and on a dare we hit a 6" fence post (first shot) at 150 yards. Not bad for a smoothbore cannon made from scrap parts. Golf balls being golf balls can curve around and even come back at you depending on how skewed the patch is so they don't really count for accuracy tests, just distance.

[Patocazador]

I tried to watch the video but gave up after all the fading in and out and flipping of the icons while it was trying to load. I have slow internet service so the problem is probably on my end.