DECEASED ASHES

[Snooterpup]

On the amusing side, my brother also has expressed interest in having his ashes fired from a civil war cannon. When I asked why he replied:
Three reasons. First to spread ashes, second to give him his final black powder experience and third, the sulphur smell to prepare him for the fire and brimstone where he is probably headed due to his lack of politcal correctness.

 

[Colterkid]

I prefer a civil war cannon too.

 

[ML48]

I just had the unfortunate occasion to spread some of the ashes of one of my best friends into a river in Florida.
There were no bits and pieces big enough to identify as anything. Nothing recognizable as a piece of tooth or anything like that.
This is not the 1st time I've spread ashes or helped spread then. While they are not fine lightweight ash like well burned wood or paper ash, they do have some mass to them, they are also have not had any sizeable identifiable pieces.

You are totally correct.
If he had recognizable pieces left over in the ash, that crematorium does not do a very good job of cremation...period.

 

[Ian Straus]

About ten years ago a friend and fellow black poswer shooter died unexpectedly (heart attack on the couch), and his wife organized ths same thing, with the members of his motorcycle club and the gun club firing the ashes from his rifles. The ashes were finally divided, and it was no problem. The ashes were just loaded on top of the powder. It was not complicated.

 

[Dave Fox]

Shooting the ashes of a fellow reenactor out of an Ordnance Rifle into Pisgah National Forest about 15 years ago. there are a quantity of ashes. took two discharges. I'm #1 at the muzzle.

 

[Stony Broke]

I built a sort of mortar once and usually shot 2 1/2 inch cans of chicken noodle soup out of it. I would measure the powder in an old 35mm film container. They usually shot almost out of sight, but occasionally one would open up and you would be smelling chicken soup in the air. An old friend wanted to have his ashes shot over a range where we used to shoot in California. I hauled the ashes there from Texas and managed to shoot it all into the air with about half a dozen shots. I donated the mortar to the old Muzzleloading club there we used to belong to when we were through with it.

 

[Whitworth]

Having been a pilot in a former life I had wanted my ashes scattered from an open cockpit Fairchild PT 23 plane over my beloved valley. My grandfather helped build them during the war. Now this has me thinking about some sort of shooting. Wonder if I can arrange to have my ashes shot out of .50 BMG blanks from a P-51 Mustang? Think I'll just arrange to go fly a PT23 for now and save my ashes for the Mustang's guns