1970: Making a BANG with ANTIQUES! | Collector’s World | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

[@actionbastard5307]

Man was living the best life!

[@garethcollins9950]

The dog seems more excited by all this than he does…..🎉😂😂😂😂

[@dannydavis2997]

Thank you Mr Grayson for a most edifying demonstration.

[@NogginMelodeon]

Note the subtle change of clothes and proper use of safety tie

[@STEVEH0LT]

At 8:34 I learned that you can light matches backwards. I bet that's really effective on windy days. Instead of taking the match to the box, you take the box to the match.

[@depniff]

Hats off to the guy releasing the balloons. Not sure that i would have stood in front of a man firing antique or any guns. I wonder if he lived in the shed

[@danorthsidemang3834]

This guy was the Bob Ross of antique firearms

[@caroliner2029]

This is great! I love antique artillery. So many of our ancestors were familiar with them and used them.🇦🇺

[@jtukko]

It`s like a Forgotten Weapons video 😄

[@robison5396]

A most gratifying demonstration, bet he was a hoot to get into conversation with at the village watering hole.

[@rocon86]

Fascinating. I loved how he said "well let's move on to the heavy artillery". If he was alive today he'd probably have tanks or missiles to demonstrate 😂.

[@jasonayres]

(5:02 - 5:22) Doggy looks like it knows this routine well. Time to play Fetch! Fetch the.. Bullets?

[@scaleartsg]

sounds like an episode of lock and load with William Keith

[@STEVEH0LT]

Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder what percentage of people shown in these videos are still alive? I've watched some where the children are now easily like 60+ years old. It would be pretty neat, actually, to find your grandparents in one of these videos as a child.

[@Ian-gw2vx]

Nope, quite normal as I think exactly the same.

[@andyf750]

Harry Enfield's Mr Cholmondley Warner in colour.

[@Ian-gw2vx]

This balloon killer could bring down a kids party very quickly 😄 Fair play to the bloke, he was/is a jolly good shot. I doubt any burglars chanced their arm at his home. Although I did see 2 holes in the shed and he only took one shot.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

Demonstrated where the saying "don't go off half cocked" came from!

[@Neil-Aspinall]

No wonder where Monty Python got their material from?

[@eemoogee160]

I wish I knew the answer.

[@shingitai5882]

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when he registered the cannon with the Police, wouldn’t get away with it today.😂

[@ajs41]

Those were more sensible times.

[@SandrasSpicySpanishSalami]

Can still hold and fire a muzzle loaded cannon on a Section 2 Shotgun Certificate+Explosives license from HSE.

[@jameshodgkins559]

Mr Chummy Warner

[@professormcclaine5738]

Would have brought down many a rebel in its time.

[@misslaracroft]

It would be embarassing if he missed the shed!

[@NoosaHeads]

Two holes in the shed - What gives?

[@SandrasSpicySpanishSalami]

There are two likely posibilities; -They loaded and shot twice. -More likely, the felt wad compresses between the ball and charge obturating the bore stopping blow by of gasses, this usually leaves the bore stuck to or immediately behind the ball but because of air resistance separates in flight. This now compressed felt has the density to make a second hole.

[@NoosaHeads]

@Sandra's Spicy Spanish Salami Sandwich Sounds logical.

[@feelsincorporated1918]

@@SandrasSpicySpanishSalami I think it might have been fired twice - at 6:54 - 7:05 you can see smoke rising from the grass, which could be smouldering bits of grass/wadding from the first shot

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Was this the type of gun in use when the second amendment was written .....?................................

[@SandrasSpicySpanishSalami]

Yes, amongst other things, including repeating rifles & pistols with up to and in excess of 50 shots on board. As for the cannon, Benjamin Franklin personally answered a letter requesting clarification that possession and carrying of cannon aboard a private vessel for protection was guaranteed for "the people".