Re: [Harp-L] Shooting a harmonica with my dad video, now shirt pocket legend

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, dad put it on ebay. We're done I think with most of the senseless harmonica violence and are moving to more meaningful harmonica violence.. We're working on some tests to test the harmonica in the shirt pocket legend. It's looking like that from where the legend probably originated, the wars of German unification in the 1860s to 1871, and/or the U.S. Civil War it's totally viable with the firearms of the day. We're also going to test the Teddy Roosevelt assassination attempt thing, where the bullet went through a folded up speech of Teddy's, through the glasses case in his pocket and lodged in the chest wall, short of the heart. Teddy gave the speech anyway. That's not harp related, so I probably won't say anything about those findings here, but I will pass along what we come up with on the shirt pocket. It's looking plausable, I've seen one harp deflect a .303 at a corner blow and the 45/90 buffalo rifle, big as it was, went through
 the bluesband, but then the bullet bounced off the compressed styrofoam backing behind of all things... you can see it bounce off in the ludicrously slow motion segment. That .45/90 is faster than the civil war bullets.


Dave
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----- Original Message ----
From: Denise <harmonicablue@xxxxxxxxx>
To: David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:27:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Shooting a harmonica with my dad video


Shame for killing a defensless harmonica even though it is only a BluesBand. At least hope you gave it a proper burial !
~Denise~


 
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:54 AM, David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The apple did not fall far from its tree: Dad and .45/90 Stevens buffalo rifle vs. Hohner Bluesband harmonica at 100 yards, open sights. The harmonica could not be seen at 100 yards, we had to put it in a circle and aim for where it should have been. Dad nailed it. Nice footage of the 565-grain bullet hitting the Bluesband, shot through a spotting scope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbNpxFH8GVA

Dave
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