My Dad's New Cannon :)

If you guys know what your doing then fine. If not then...'Proofed'? Sounds a little hasty to me ohnhai. 'Survive' is a relative term. The blast could have been such so as to damage the metal and introduce micro cracks (on the inside of the bore) which would, through metal fatique(caused by further less powerful shots), propagate until some subsequent blast resulted in catastrophic failure. And fatique is not necessarily a slow moving process.The blast also 'works' the metal causing it to harden (try bending a wire coat hanger back and forth a few times. It gets progressively stiffer and harder to bend - then it snaps like a pretzel)If some gun barrel engineer designed this then you should be fine. If its a piece of steel pipe salvaged from a scrap yard then when re-enacting civil war battles, chose the positions the enemy would be in as your observation point before firing this thingJust warning for want of knowing what the background engineering is. No offence.This message has been edited by iano, 26-Apr-2006 10:19 AM

Your post means I'll sleep easier tonight. You guys fall into the "know what your doing" class. It was that railway sleeper flying into the air that got the ?? going off in my headHappy hunting