JH> there themselves...) was that one year the guy running a match was late
 JH> and asked someone to load the cannon. They did of 
 JH> course. Unfortunately so
 JH> did someone else. The result was an 8oz charge of black going off behind
 JH> about an hour. I guess all recovered and other than the glass, no damage
 JH> was done. That is likely only because this happened on a rifle range, we
 JH> all habitually wear safety type glasses and put our muffs on for colors.
If everyone was so safety conscious, why didn't a mark on the ram rod make it 
obvious that the cannon had already been loaded?  
Terry
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 274 PYROTECHNICS  Ref: D3^L3200 Date: 03/31/96
From: JAN HICKEY                                            Time: 05:53pm
\/To: TERRY S                                             (Read 9 times)
Subj: R: Re: Pyrodex

TS> JH> there themselves...) was that one year the guy running a match was 
TS> JH> and asked someone to load the cannon. They did of
TS> JH> course. Unfortunately so
TS> JH> did someone else. The result was an 8oz charge of black going off b
TS> JH> about an hour. I guess all recovered and other than the glass, no d
TS> JH> was done. That is likely only because this happened on a rifle rang
TS> JH> all habitually wear safety type glasses and put our muffs on for co
TS>If everyone was so safety conscious, why didn't a mark on the ram rod ma
 
TS>obvious that the cannon had already been loaded?
TS>Terry
TS>--- Maximus 2.01wb
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     Beats me, maybe they do, now! I don't know their current procedures,
Though I shoot at this range a half dozen times a year it is about 90
minutes away and I am not a member. In any event, in the last 6 years that
I have been shooting their matches it hasn't been nearly as exciting.
Maybe they learned somthing (shooters, learn somthing? I think NOT!)
                                        Dave Hickey
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 274 PYROTECHNICS  Ref: D3Y00000 Date: 03/27/96
From: MARK BUDA                                             Time: 01:28am
\/To: SCOTT HOFFMAN                                       (Read 9 times)
Subj: Pyrodex

In a message of , Scott Hoffman (1:2619/232@fidonet) writes: 
 SH>wet in any way from excess humidity, and then when it dries out, 
 SH>supposedly
 SH>it will get 'compressed' and that compression supposeldy can bring it 
 SH>near
 SH>to the point of spontaneous combustion..
This is an old wives tail.  Ignore it...  BP will not spontaneously combust, 
unless other chemicals are mixed with it or very high tempertures are 
involved.
        - mark
 
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