On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 5:40:31 AM UTC-5, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 4:33:51 PM UTC-6, Oren wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 21:29:38 GMT, (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

Micky writes:
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:26:18 -0600, Moe DeLoughan
wrote:

On 1/12/2016 4:05 PM, Micky wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:38:48 -0600, Moe DeLoughan
wrote:

On 1/12/2016 11:36 AM, Oren wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:38:21 -0800, "taxed and spent"
wrote:

This has been done before.


Las Vegas has a "Sandbox" _Dig This_

http://digthisvegas.com/


They're the ones who inspired the Sandbox guys to actually start up
their idea. They'd thought about doing it, but hadn't done anything.
Then they found out there was one operating in Nevada, and decided to
go ahead with their dream.

Not too far from this place is Drive A Tank, where you can rent a
variety of surplus army tanks and machine guns and have fun:
http://www.driveatank.com
Drive over a car, drive through a house. War games.

This sounds like a lot more fun than driving a bulldozer!

Even more fun than driving a forklift .

It's my dream. But I'm not selfish - if I ever won the lottery, I'd
bring the whole family, rent the place for the day, and let everybody
work out their mads with each other using tanks.

Do they let people fire the big guns on the tanks? It seems too
risky to me. Someone would pay the 300, turn the tank around and blow
up the waiting room. Then stop payment on the check.

All privately held tanks are demilitarized. That means the barrel
has been welded shut in such a way as to prevent re-activation.

And you can't go down to the ammo store and buy the right projectile.

A 155mm howitzer round is ~ 90 lbs with ~10 lbs of TNT. That doesn't
include the powder bags to launch it 20 miles. Or the cost of the fuse
for detonation.
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Army Mechanized Infantry Artillery

As I recall from what I've read in the past, the M60 through the early M1 tanks had a 105mm gun before the M1 was equipped with a 120mm gun. It's a smooth bore gun I think. As far as I know, there is no separate powder charge used in tank guns. Of course I'm no military expert but I like reading about and watching documentaries about tanks and other military vehicles. I remember something about civilian use of a 105mm howitzer to cause preventative avalanches and looked it up to find that The Alaska Railway uses the howitzer to trigger man made avalanches along the track. I wonder how the big guns wind up in civilian hands? There is a cool(no pun) YouTube video of the railroad workers firing the howitzer at a mountainside. There is also a website for the TV series that produced the video and other videos about Alaska. ^_^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m42jaXAgOO0

http://www.destinationamerica.com/tv...ilroad-alaska/

[8~{} Uncle Cannon Monster

Have you ever watched Highway Thru Hell?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Thru_Hell

"Highway Thru Hell is a Canadian reality TV show that follows the
operations of Jamie Davis Motor Truck, a heavy vehicle rescue and
recovery towing company based in Hope, British Columbia[1] and Lac
la Biche in Northern Alberta. The show focuses on the hardships of
operating along the highways of the BC Interior, especially the
Coquihalla Highway (Coq), and highways in Northern Alberta, around
Fort McMurray, which are notorious for rapidly changing weather
and big wrecks."

They have some pretty cool (no pun intended) recovery equipment. I
also like how they animate the wrecks so you can see how the semis
and other vehicles slid off the road and down into the gullies.

This is a full 45 episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6BlDZoFmbw

Cousin White-Knuckle-Ride Monster