July 9 2021<\/p>\r\n
Full disclosure YES, I thought it was HOT. Not only HOT but HHH&HHH Hazy HOT Humid & HOT HOT HOT!!!!! \u00a0Maybe the humidity wasn’t terrible but for a few minutes it cranked up there. Fortunately some clouds rolled in for about an hour with a SLIGHT breeze making it semi bearable! We heard the rumble of thunder a couple of times and I thought for a few minutes it might rain but it never did. The entire area is under a severe thunder storm watch until about dark.<\/p>\r\n
Fort Laramie National Monument which is about 105 miles, by road, from the town of\u00a0Laramie WY, go figure.<\/p>\r\n
Shortly after we got there they had a live fire canon demonstration, they shot 1 round, they called it wet moss, it didn’t go very far and the shot was not nearly as loud as I was expecting. \u00a01\/2 pound of canon black powder, he said that canon power is not the fine power you think of, he said it’s, big chunks, more about the size of rock salt. The canon they shot was a Mountain Howitzer.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Mountain Howitzer is more like an over grown grenade, it sends shrapnel or round balls at the enemy. With a time delayed fuses of up to 6 seconds depending on how far away the target is. It takes 4 people to fire the canon.<\/p>\r\n
It’s hard to see but there is a house in the distance, he said they could hit it at a little over 1000 yards.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\n\t\t