Big Boom?

[20th_NYArtillery]

Two shots from a parent of one of our members. First shot is of our reproduction of a 12 pdr Mountain howitzer and the second is of our 1872 12 pdr Light Dahlgren. Mind you, we were only firing roughly 1/3 lb of powder for each shot. That mountain howitzer though was making a few of our guys jump if we weren't expecting them to fire. Sure as hell got our infantry all excited though when we would fire. Share your shots from reenactments here with stories if you want.

 

[UCVRelics]

Here are 2 videos of howitzers that I build firing. Enjoy

 

[JOHN42768]

Welcome, enjoy. Mighty fine flamethrower

 

[major bill]

The term "big boom" is in the eye of the beholder. For example at Camp Grayling when I was in the National Guard, booms were the 155mm guns while big booms were the 8 inch guns. Mortars are "pops" even though they kind of go boom.

 

[bankerpapaw]

The term "big boom" is in the eye of the beholder. For example at Camp Grayling when I was in the National Guard, booms were the 155mm guns while big booms were the 8 inch guns. Mortars are "pops" even though they kind of go boom.

When I was in Vietnam, we provided perimeter security for a 155 outfit. They mostly fired at night. Might fine alarm clock.