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Say Hello to my little friend .....ooopppsss,  I mean , my imaginary little friend 
 

 
 
 
this topic gets me going ...i had to make this pic just to calm down ...
 
Kenny
 
 

You know you can buy those (the cannon) in the USA without a lisense or background check. Anything muzzloading is OK... if you can afford it. I have given serious thought to getting one to maybe do some enactments. I had a friend, deceased, who actually had a replica 12 lb Parrot gun. He had a lisence because he had a LOT of guns. He once supplied guns for a Chuck Norris movie filmed in Atlanta, don't remember which one. He had huge machine guns on tripods etc... calymores, the whoe gamut.. anyway he had this Parrot gun, it was a rifled gun from the 1860s and he, with his lisence could get explosive shell made. Without a lisence you can only shoot duds or round solid shot.. or grapeshot, or chain, or nails... so, he would go to Ft. Benning and have competitions with the active duty military, shooting the Parrot against (at targets) the military and modern guns... what FUN that must have been. I think you can get a used Napoleon for around 20K. Get a few friends, some earplugs, and hire out for ceremonies etc. I think it would be a "blast". We still celebrate "Decoration Day" here in N GA. The first Confederate memorial day was held in Kingston, GA about 10 minutes away from me... it started under occupation with permission from the yankee general in Kingston while the war was still on as long as the women doing it also honored the yankee dead. An agreement was struck and it has not missed a year.
As far as the hippo... you're on your own. No telling who he might bite... LOL
 
 
Thanks!!
 
J