Coloured smoke and flame??

[Arcey]

Mouse pharts.....  Now, I wonder.  If ya feed 'em beans.  Stuff 'em down the tube 'n time a spark just right...  Could ya get a self propelled mouse?

[Ozark Tracker]

litl rooster,  this morning when we were off the air,  I went over to another board and they had this picture posted,  I don't recall who posted it, but ehy said  They use 5 pounds of the Holy Black per shot.

not a mouse phart.

[Delmonico]

Looks like a 20 Pound Parrot gun to me, see the band shrunk on the breech.  Them is nasty cause they is rifled and shoot a conical.

[Ozark Tracker]

I bet it would be something to see fire,  looks like all the crew have got the leaning back and covering their ears down to a science

[Delmonico]

Never been around a 20 pound Parrot goin' off, but been around a couple 20 Rodman Smoothbores, ya can feel it through yer feet.

[River City John]

That's a mite bigger than a 20lber. .
could be a 7.5 or an 8.5 inch Parrott or Blakely on a Naval pivot carriage, hence the Navy crew.

[Delmonico]

Could be, you know a bit more about those than I do, I enlarged it and it does look a mite bigger.  The one out to Fort Kearny is a 20 pounder and I was almost sure that is what they said they fire in it.  So I was guessing based on that.

[SFT]

Now that is impressive!

[litl rooster]

litl rooster,  this morning when we were off the air,  I went over to another board and they had this picture posted,  I don't recall who posted it, but ehy said  They use 5 pounds of the Holy Black per shot.

not a mouse phart.

Yep looks like Slim's shootin' the dreaded Texas Star agin.......................it's a Warthawg load.

[Ozark Tracker]

heavy duty warthog load,  don't ya wish ya could get that much smoke.

[Noz]

Report on the colored smoke rounds. Loaded some 20 ga square loads and added 1/4 teaspoon of red chalk to each load.  Lots of white smoke. Not even pink. Must take a lot more chalk than I'm interested in putting in the shot charge.

[litl rooster]

Report on the colored smoke rounds. Loaded some 20 ga square loads and added 1/4 teaspoon of red chalk to each load.  Lots of white smoke. Not even pink. Must take a lot more chalk than I'm interested in putting in the shot charge.

Yes it does take from the shot colum.............I cut my fiber wad down and place 1oz dipper full above the wad a wax paper card and the fill with shot.

[Noz]

Shot the disappointing loads Saturday, 2 Sept. I could not see the red in the smoke but the spectators could. Enough color that a spectator spent a good deal of time trying to get the smoke on camera. If I double the chalk I dont' think it will effect the shot column that much. Going to try it. Tried to restrain myself from yelling Ya-Hoo after each stage. Didn't work! I was yelling and hollering because this black stuff is a ball to shoot.

[litl rooster]

Tried to restrain myself from yelling Ya-Hoo after each stage. Didn't work! I was yelling and hollering because this black stuff is a ball to shoot.

Try

Ye                    Haaaaaw

Been back from a match about 2 hours now>Ithink I was the only Darksider<   I felt sorry for the other shooters.

[Arcey]

.......think I was the only Darksider

Good.  We need ta start thinkin' 'bout keepin' this good thing ta ourselves.

Whut I been thinkin' is replacin' the filler entirely with 'for'n' matter.  Powder, 1/8" card, let's say glitter in an equal volume to the grits I use, 'nother card wad, squirt ah Crisco, shot, crimp......

Need ta find ah wholesale vendor for glitter.  The stuff was too expensive it Michael's Arts 'n Crafts.

[Ozark Tracker]

Arcey, speaking of filler, I got ya some feathers in a zip lock bag.  if you will PM your shipping address,  I'll get em on their way,  I let them dry and air out a few days,  we'll see how they ship.

[Delmonico]

Let me do some checking Arcey, my wife may know a source for cheap glitter.

[SFT]

A little off topic but still has to do with colored smoke.
Many years ago (many, many years to be exact) my first expensive hobby was flying RC airplanes, for which all I could afford was a little two channel ARF job.  All the other guys in the club were mostly retired air force pilots with much more disposable income, and built elaborate 6-7 channel planes that could carry a small dog into the air, but the most inovative example was made by a retired pilot who had opened a hobby shop after his service.
He had mounted a bracket under each wing that held metal rods, which two small model rockets (A or AA size motors?), which he loaded with purple talc on top of the rocket motor in the tube along with the parachute.  The rocket motors have a small charge in the top which kicks out the chute and nose cone after the propellant burns up.  After 10 or 15 minutes in the air he'd aim his plane nose up and activate the rockets with an extra servo and battery pack built into the body and they'd shoot up followed by a purple clouds and parachutes.
Just thought I share this as I was reminded by this post of that experience.  Ya'll have fun.

[litl rooster]

  Arcey, watch the glitter, might look for some that's not made of plastic......................



SFT....sounds as if them Radio Pilot's is Darksider's too.

[Delmonico]

Try a custom paint dealer, bet they have some real good glitter, wonder what happened to that I used to have.