Looking for a Place to Shoot a Cannon

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Originally Posted by coop68

you should check and see if dragonmans would let you its a gun range but from my understanding they allow everything there heck they blow up cars! it is public he owns a ton of military stuff i wouldent be surprised if he has a cannon! he owns like 6 different types of tanks! and museum full of real stuff!

http://dragonmans.com/

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Forgive me if this appears twice but my reply went poof!

I went to Dragonman's years ago and there didn't seem to be much adult supervision. Just people blasting away with almost no ceasefire to check targets. I'm certainly not comparing ti to Rampart range but it was mainly people firing guns and not much interest in hitting targets.

I have 4x8 plywood sheets with some supports so they can be screwed into the plywood and rebarred into the ground. It would take a few minutes to organize that.

Steve

One last question. The south site isn't that far from me. Is it at all possible there? I've never been down there but it looks like the foothills. I live in Sedalia so it actually is close.

Steve

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Originally Posted by CrufflerSteve

One last question. The south site isn't that far from me. Is it at all possible there? I've never been down there but it looks like the foothills. I live in Sedalia so it actually is close.

Steve

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I don't think it's large enough, 200 yards to shot, maybe?

Steve,

Check your PM's.

I don't think the south site is safe. There are trails behind the berms, so if a shot bounced high it could go a long way in an unsafe direction.

What about Ben Lomond Gun Club? There's a 600 yard range there. www.blgc.org

You could also take it to the machine gun shoot in Cheyenne Wells April 30-May 2. Contact Bob McBride at 303-934-1915, fcsavhp@hotmail.com, www.rmfcsa.org

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Originally Posted by rondog

What about Ben Lomond Gun Club? There's a 600 yard range there. www.blgc.org

You could also take it to the machine gun shoot in Cheyenne Wells April 30-May 2. Contact Bob McBride at 303-934-1915, fcsavhp@hotmail.com, www.rmfcsa.org

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I'm a member of BLGC. They tolerated my smaller cannon but put their foot down on this and only allowed the 100 yard range with really high berms. They don't have very large berms at the long range and they were worried about these shots damaging the berm or just skipping over.

Steve

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Originally Posted by Tim K

Steve,

Check your PM's.

I don't think the south site is safe. There are trails behind the berms, so if a shot bounced high it could go a long way in an unsafe direction.

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If there are trails behind the berm it isn't safe. Especially, if you can't see the whole path. 4 pounds of lead leaving the berm could do some bad stuff. I rather not shoot than shoot unsafely.

Steve

Side note here, but how come you can shoot a cannon on school property but can't even take a gun onto school property?

Well,, there are a couple of other spots at the south site that go towards a hill.. I haven't really checked them out, other than doing a drive by.. But there are several other spots down there..

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Originally Posted by CrufflerSteve

I'm a member of BLGC. They tolerated my smaller cannon but put their foot down on this and only allowed the 100 yard range with really high berms. They don't have very large berms at the long range and they were worried about these shots damaging the berm or just skipping over.

Steve

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Bummer. I wondered if that was the club you'd mentioned. Bring it to Cheyenne Wells and you can shoot it over the horizon! Get set up as a vendor, and you can charge us hicks to shoot it. Maybe make a couple bucks.