Post #805599 by TIKIGIKI on Thu, Sep 15, 2022 4:59 PM

Some sound advice: NEVER let Army blokes drink FAR too many Mai Tais in your Tiki Bar where they can see a piece of potential ordnance at hand. You will end up out on a shooting range, in real fear that you may very well see your newly found focal piece and its carriage shattered to a million bits in a monumentally disastrous attempt by four "big kids" to fire the thing! Thankfully all went well. No photos unfortunately.....Army property and I was a civilian. Not even sure the Army blokes were authorised to be there, or doing what they were doing.... Where they obtained the required black powder I thought best not to ask, specially since they gave me some to use later. Purely for effect I hasten to add. I think my neighbours might take some exception to having cannonballs shot through their walls ....however small those balls may be.