If your 458 Lott just isn't getting the job done anymore with the modern animals we have these days, might I make a suggestion:

http://www.gunsamerica.com/guns/976681720.htm

Cue Overkill: "What would that do to a mooze?"

Bob

I doubt that one will be legal for long.
...tj3006

wowuld be better if it was for bowling PINs

What would a cartridge belt for that thing look like?

It would be nice that you have two types of projectiles in one...load it with the 3 holes up and you have a "hollow point", with the three holes down you have a "solid". Talk about practicality!

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:
wowuld be better if it was for bowling PINs

Yep, better sectional density. No mass though.

It appears that Fjold's avatar is modeling the prototype for the cartridge belt for this weapon.

There was a video going around of that thing or one like it being shot.They claimed a 16
pound bowling ball would go 500+ yards
Dave

Seems like there ought to be more meat on that barrel, like the old Civil War mortars.

Looks good to me.

As for targets, Huydais, Toyotas, Nissons, mini-vans, etc.

Price is too high.

Hog Killer

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Originally posted by fla3006:
Seems like there ought to be more meat on that barrel, like the old Civil War mortars.

Civil War mortars and cannon were either bronze or CAST IRON. Cast Iron is quite brittle, and specifically why the C.W. Artillery was so "meaty." That bowling ball mortar was made from an original US 81mm mortar, so I would imagine that the modern mortar has a special high yield strength alloy making it quite a bit thinner than any C.W. model.

Sorry, but I just happen to be a "study" of C.W. Artillery for the last 6 years.

The only part that is original to the mortar is the leg assembly and maybe the pad but the pad actually looks more like a boom truck outrigger pad.

The barrel is definitely the top half of a compressed gas cylinder. I know because I have an unfinished one out in the yard. My legs will probably be an old lawn chair, LOL.

tiger, get those parts up here and "Let's get'er done"

Hog Killer

As an old cannon shooter I can tell you the funnest ones to shoot and especially watch are the bowling ball mortars. You can watch the complete flight and they will propel a ball well over 500 yards horizontal or vertical. The danger of having adjustable elevation is in getting it too straight up. One time I watched one fire to straight and the wind caught the ball and it landed behind the line. Fortunately no one was hurt but it was exciting.