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I am all for our traditions, but
Nov 5, 2015, 9:46 PM
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That d@mn howitzer that they shoot at Missouri is pretty freaking cool! It is amazing the sound that comes from ours, considering it is a 8 guage load. Just imagine a 75mm blank....you would feel that on top of hearing it. Plus, it would give the ROTC another reason to be involved.
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Didn't see your post until just now.
Nov 5, 2015, 10:07 PM
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I agree and posted the same above. My dog jumped 10 feet when that thing went off!
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I feel that it honors our militay history more***
Nov 5, 2015, 10:08 PM
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Re: I am all for our traditions, but
Nov 5, 2015, 10:10 PM
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As one who attended Army games in the mid 1990s that Howitzer gets old, real fast, when you're in the stands.
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Stay with the tried and true. Stay with what brung you here
Nov 5, 2015, 10:10 PM
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BOOM!
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I like this one.
Nov 5, 2015, 10:27 PM
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You couldn't run down the Hill with a cannon that large***
Nov 5, 2015, 10:30 PM
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Is that a challenge???***
Nov 5, 2015, 10:41 PM
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Very Possibly Germans, But This One Would Be Best
Nov 5, 2015, 11:24 PM
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BAM !
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Re: Very Possibly Germans, But This One Would Be Best
Nov 5, 2015, 11:29 PM
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Yea ,. get an 88 they will take out all the glass around it
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Nah, Oculus is reinforced. It is actually a stealth missle
Nov 6, 2015, 7:25 AM
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silo.
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One of the highlights of my life was pulling the lanyard
Nov 6, 2015, 7:58 AM
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on an 8" howitzer. I was too smart to be on the guns  (FDC) but I got to pull the lanyard on a few. I literally got a little funny in my tummy from that. Yeah, stand down soldier lol.
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Re: I am all for our traditions, but***
Nov 6, 2015, 8:02 AM
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Re: I am all for our traditions, but
Nov 6, 2015, 8:03 AM
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I don't think it's an 8 gauge. Pretty sure it's a 12. I have one of the shells from the cannon from when I was younger. This has probably been 20 years ago but I don't think it has changed. I will go see if I can find the shell and look.
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Correction...ours is a 10 Gauge load..Winchester Cannon....
Nov 6, 2015, 8:03 AM
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The biggest gun I have seen shoot personally is an 8" gun......long, long barrel, unlike a howitzer. You could see the projectile coming out and follow it for a pretty good distance. For a couple of months I had a 155 howitzer battery directly adjacent to my tiny compound (in Tam Ky between Danang and Chu Lai) and when they would turn the barrels pointing over my compound it would literally shake everything off the shelves of my hootch! I loved the artillery....especially when you needed it!!!!
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Re: Correction...ours is a 10 Gauge load..Winchester Cannon....
Nov 6, 2015, 8:05 AM
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Amen, I had the same experience in Nam. Had to tie everything down that was on a shelf.
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Yep... just wish they would have told me when they were...
Nov 6, 2015, 11:28 AM
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getting ready too fire. The first shot you didn't know where it was incoming our outgoing. The one thing I did like about having them beside my compound is that they always kept several flechette rounds right next to the guns. Think about charging a a compound with a 155 howitzer aiming right at you shooting hundreds of flechettes....scary!
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A bit of trivia: Clemson TE John McMakin was accidentally
Nov 6, 2015, 9:36 AM
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shot in the leg at close range by the blast and the wadding from the cannon when he scored a TD while diving for the pylon in a game back in 1969.
McMakin got a pretty nasty burn on his calf, but stayed in the game.
The cheerleader was probably pretty embarrassed.
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Ours is terrible. Its affixed to a set of handtrucks
Nov 6, 2015, 10:29 AM
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Need a legit cannon.
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Re: I am all for our traditions, but
Nov 6, 2015, 10:48 AM
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LOVED the 75mm when I watched Mizzou last night. Way cooler then our toy. I know ours is part of our tradition, but if I ever win the Powerball I'm buying our Army ROTC one like Mizzou's and the University will have to refuse it, AFAIC.
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