Posted on 06/26/2014 12:33:22 PM PDT by aimhigh
Gene Kelley’s home was hit with the artillery shell after it was fired at the Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot and Trade Show. No one was hurt in the incident, but the cannon’s owner has agreed to pay for Kelley’s damages.
Homeowner Gene Kelley heard a huge crash and was shocked to find a 14-and-a-half-inch-long 105 howitzer artillery shell lying on his bedroom floor.
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It might have ricocheted off the ground and then flew back up into the air. When the Navy was using Indian Head, Maryland as a proving ground during World War I, the same thing happened, but only worse, when a 16-inch battleship projectile ricocheted off a plate of armor and wrecked a farmer’s house a couple of miles down range. As a result, the Navy moved its proving ground from Indian Head to the more remote Dahlgren, Virginia.
2LT + Back Azimuth = FUBAR
The Myth Busters did that once:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui-xBeqBNi4
http://www.cnet.com/news/mythbusters-make-apologetic-house-call-after-cannon-accident/
LOL!!!................
Didn’t you useta blow stuff up in Oklahoma?
There was a thread on here years ago where a tube artillery outfit at Ft. Hood somehow got 180 degrees out on the azimuth during a night fire exercise.
More than one projo landed in some guy’s back 40 a few miles off post but I don’t think anything was damaged.
(Other than some folk’s careers).
That is quite an ejection they have there.
OMG! ROFLMAO Sorry but I have to laugh! I’d have loved to see the look on Y’All’s faces.
Did the Packard survive?
Technically speaking, artillery projectiles are correctly referred to as, "shells."
If the shell hit the house how far did the round go?
This can also be caused by someone not checking his elevation and azimuth....................
That damn cannon must have one hell of an ejector to throw a shell 3 miles!
These days....I wait for confirmation on everything.
Would NOT surprise me to learn...someone was lying here. Of course not much surprises me anymore.....
Can tell you this....my buddy and I went there a couple years ago...and had a blast. It appeared to me that fire safety, and fire control was extremely good.
FRegards,
Yeah the Packard made it but Gramma bitched about the wind noise and how cold it was in the winter. Granpa muttered something about “When that little bastard grows up and gets a job, he’ll buy me two doors.” whenever we went to dinners. My Dad offered to make reparations but Granpa liked to stare at me with red manic eyes and mutter. So I let him. By the way, the car was willed to me.
Back in ‘96 or thereabouts.
Sounds like somebody fied out of the box.
Somebody losing rank at the very least for that.
Dayam! ~chuckling~
That’s why I pinged Sarge, it was His MOS.
Biggest I’ve shot was a .50 cal and a tennis ball cannon.
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