Who wants some artillery?

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

I'm up for that! 

Don't know if I want to incur your wife's wrath before I even meet her, though. 

fear not  even if you were actually guilty she would punish me for it

[French G.]

The only ersatz arty that I want is an S cylinder turned into a bowling ball mortar. I know how to run a plasma cutter and a welder so I'll do that at some point. If I ever get to the *OMG who left this stack of c-notes on the toilet for me to wipe with! rich stage of life I will then buy a full scale mountain howitzer or somesuch. Then I will observe all appropriate holidays by firing it including the stroke of midnight on New Years and every hour on the hour for July 4th. If the neighbors object, guess I'll have to re-lay the gun.

[Bogie]

I must reiterate that, even tho we're going to be lathe turning it from steel (instead of bronze, cast iron, or brass), and plan on a nice overly stout construction, we will stipulate that you should use only black powder and the prescribed projectile.
 
Seriously. Saying anything else would be a lawsuit magnet.
 

[roo_ster]

you can shoot it at my house!  

http://www.buckstix.com/howitzer.htm

only 6 HITS . . . . . . ! ! ! ! ! !

Heh.

[Jim147]

I must reiterate that, even tho we're going to be lathe turning it from steel (instead of bronze, cast iron, or brass), and plan on a nice overly stout construction, we will stipulate that you should use only black powder and the prescribed projectile.
 
Seriously. Saying anything else would be a lawsuit magnet.
 

I had a white powder cannon once. Yep it was once.

I don't know how I'm still here.

jim

[Bogie]

My goal is to have the sucker fit in a USPS flat rate box... I'm thinking of a nice THICK hunka steel tho... Short and fat is where it's at.