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4 Antworten zu „Christmas Salute“

1. 27. Dezember 2012

   Juha Haataja

   Just before looking at this posting I read a news item about American gun owners, shown on a map so that you can check who owns a gun in your neighborhood. That is surely a relaxing thing to look into during the holidays…

   This posting was a bit of a shock. I guess salute rounds are such that they disintegrate on firing or contain only gunpowder? I remember seeing on tv how in some parts of the world people fire assault rifles in weddings etc. – I wouldn’t like to be too near this kind of celebration (a couple of kilometers might be safe distance, hmm…).

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   1. 28. Dezember 2012

      Markus

      Juha, even more disturbing I found Slate’s piece about the number of killed-by-gunshot people in the U.S. since Newtown. Not so relaxing…

      The salute pistols here use cork caps to keep the powder inside – beforehand fir wood was used, but that proved to be too dangerous. Still, loads of 13-20g gunpowder create *tremendous* noise!

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2. 29. Dezember 2012

   Taken For Granted

   Love the „Christmas Salute“ photos. They look like they are having a wonderful time saluting Christmas with unique, beautiful black powder weapons. Never seen any „pistol“ (or are they hand cannons?) this large fired, and can imagine it is a loud report. Looks well organized and completely safe. No need to fret about the American murder rate here. It is a sad, and unrelated subject while your photos are all about joy.

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   1. 30. Dezember 2012

      Markus

      Jeff, these are indeed more like hand cannons than pistols, and are of tremendous weight – quite impossible to hold them horizontally except for extremely trained people. And quite a number of my images were blurred – I blame it on the shock waves, not my shaky hands

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