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<blockquote data-quote="TheDoubleD" data-source="post: 3133736" data-attributes="member: 43754"><p>Well the move has been made. My bowling ball mortar is now in Oklahoma.</p><p></p><p>Before I left Montana I made one last attempt at launching a bowling ball 1 one mile. </p><p></p><p>Here is my "shooting range". The piece of grass sticking out from the right in the stubble is 1 mile from the firing point. The ridge is about 200 yards beyond the grass. The ridge just flattens out and the stubble extends for another 1/2 mile.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/www.fototime.com_4E2B43B2C95F40E_xlarge.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I fired 4 shots. I started with 1 lb of Fa and a 105,000 grain round ball. (15 pound bowling ball.)</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]OSdMKjf1PMo[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p> I fired two 1 lb shots. When fired the balls, went beyond the ridge. I reduced my load to 12 ozs and fired two more balls, those also went beyond the ridge.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/www.fototime.com_BEAD72739DAB6A6_xlarge.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>When we went to look for the balls we could not find them. We suspect wind drift carried them off to the west-right into a planted crop area, close to an over grown grass area. This is pretty rock gravelly ground so I don't think the balls buried themselves.</p><p></p><p>I wish could have found the balls to take measurements. Oh well.</p><p></p><p>The Mortar and I are in OK now. My mile shot days are over. It take a lot of powder for those kind of shots. The recoil from that kind of charge is pretty hard on equipment. I will stick to shorter ranges from now on, say no more than 500 yards.. </p><p></p><p>I have a couple more fittings to make and then I will paint everything. Once that is done I will look for someplace to shoot in OK.</p><p></p><p>I had talk to OK F.A.S.T about shooting in Guymon in September. They said they would get back to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheDoubleD, post: 3133736, member: 43754"] Well the move has been made. My bowling ball mortar is now in Oklahoma. Before I left Montana I made one last attempt at launching a bowling ball 1 one mile. Here is my "shooting range". The piece of grass sticking out from the right in the stubble is 1 mile from the firing point. The ridge is about 200 yards beyond the grass. The ridge just flattens out and the stubble extends for another 1/2 mile. [img]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/www.fototime.com_4E2B43B2C95F40E_xlarge.jpg[/img] I fired 4 shots. I started with 1 lb of Fa and a 105,000 grain round ball. (15 pound bowling ball.) [MEDIA=youtube]OSdMKjf1PMo[/MEDIA] I fired two 1 lb shots. When fired the balls, went beyond the ridge. I reduced my load to 12 ozs and fired two more balls, those also went beyond the ridge. [img]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/www.fototime.com_BEAD72739DAB6A6_xlarge.jpg[/img] When we went to look for the balls we could not find them. We suspect wind drift carried them off to the west-right into a planted crop area, close to an over grown grass area. This is pretty rock gravelly ground so I don't think the balls buried themselves. I wish could have found the balls to take measurements. Oh well. The Mortar and I are in OK now. My mile shot days are over. It take a lot of powder for those kind of shots. The recoil from that kind of charge is pretty hard on equipment. I will stick to shorter ranges from now on, say no more than 500 yards.. I have a couple more fittings to make and then I will paint everything. Once that is done I will look for someplace to shoot in OK. I had talk to OK F.A.S.T about shooting in Guymon in September. They said they would get back to me. [/QUOTE]
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