Milsurp After Hours

Here is a video (no sound) of my mortar barrel undergoing a test firing

Enjoy

GG

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v315/ ... g00019.flv

Civil War re-enactors during live fire had some stakes and line to use for reference when making corrections left and right as an observer directs..

Niner,

Okay, I'll be old and 60 in another month so I am practicing to to be forgetful.

I have seen these pictures before some where else, can you tell me where?

DoubleD, I turned 62 last month and my memory isn't all that great either.

The pictures were posted at the old ezboard site and here as you see them and pictures that connect with them here:

http://milsurpafterhours.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=564

Sometime after I posted one or other of the sets, someone from a bp cannon shooting forum emailed me and asked me to post them at his site. I did......but only visited a time or two. The site had really a lot of forums to it as I recall..but don't remember where it was at the moment. It could come to me...like where I left the keys to the lawnmower.

Got it figured out. It was as site called Gray Beard Outdoors. You must have been the guy who asked since it looks like someone with your handle is a moderator.

http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/index.php

Niner wrote:DoubleD, I turned 62 last month and my memory isn't all that great either.

The pictures were posted at the old ezboard site and here as you see them and pictures that connect with them here:

http://milsurpafterhours.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=564

Sometime after I posted one or other of the sets, someone from a bp cannon shooting forum emailed me and asked me to post them at his site. I did......but only visited a time or two. The site had really a lot of forums to it as I recall..but don't remember where it was at the moment. It could come to me...like where I left the keys to the lawnmower.

Got it figured out. It was as site called Gray Beard Outdoors. You must have been the guy who asked since it looks like someone with your handle is a moderator.

http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/index.php

Hey, who turned the lights on!!!! Now I remember!! Yep thats why I remembered. I found your post also. Mortar live fire

We have a fellow over there who saw those pictures and copied the pattern. He has made two guns from your pictures. He has been trying to verifiy the base as an authentic Confederate pattern for sometime. I knew I had seen the pictures some where before and stumble across this post yesterday and bells started ringing...

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Just put it in real perspective here is a second photo of the red one.

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Thanks again for posting these pictures.

You wouldn't know by any chance how we might be able to contact those reenactors would you?

These re-enactors, as you know, are pretty demanding in getting the equipment right. The 21st Alabama unit is the one that is most active around Mobile, and although they probably weren't the unit doing the demonstration probably some one of them could put you in contact with whoever it was. The 21st has a site with contact information. http://www.geocities.com/ala21st/main.htm

By the way, my great grandfather was in the actual Company D of the 21st Alabama.