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[emike123]

An interesting bonus to the tube I got is that almost 30 years ago it was discovered to have a round in it still.  After some effort, this was extracted from the tube:




Looks like a crude 10pdr bottlenose Parrott bolt with a funky high sabot, but I just looked in D&G and found it to be a rarity 10 CS imitation Parrott bolt. 

I think the provenance on this one pretty much nails it as CS which Pete had some question about in the 1993 edition of Dickey and George.

[ETEX]

You are one of the luckiest guys I know. You can fall in a barrel of %^% and come out smelling like a rose. Buy me a lotto ticket some time. How do you go about pulling a artillery shell from a tube. Glad you got the tube.

[speedenforcer]

Nice, but I would have left the shell in it and considered it a part of it's history.

[scottfromgeorgia]

Of course, then you wouldn't know if it was a shell or a lump of possum crap.

Mike, what is your new Southern address?

[CarlS]

One might be a bit curious what is packed behind it.  If not removed you'd have to make sure it's not aimed at the wife and kids but instead points at that annoying neighbor.

[Bill Ewing]

Did I miss the story of how you got a tube at your young age?  As I recall you are not too far from my age which is 40 something.  If so, you would have been a teenager at most.  Well do tell that story or is it somewhere on here?  And at that age, you must have hit the lottery or mowed a great deal of lawns with some good investment advice.

Bill

[emike123]

Bill:

I just got the cannon (see the "how I spent my weekend" post), but the round was removed from it ~30 years ago by another fellow who owned the cannon back then.  It was kept with the gun.  I did not get all the details of its extraction, but apparently it involved heating the barrel up.  Presumably, the extractors had it pointed in a harmless direction when they did this on the chance there was good powder behind it which I assume, Jay, is why they went to the trouble of getting it out.  I don't know but the round is out now and I am happy to have it to look at and keep with the tube.