Anvil shooting....

www.museumofappalachia.com/
July%204th%20airborne%20anvil.jpg

www.anvilfire.com/iForge/tutor/July4th/top_index.htm
(video on that site)

See, at some point somebody figured out you could put gunpowder under an anvil and shoot it into the air.

Then someone else said that was really not a good idea.

This then hammered a major rift in the blacksmithing community which still has a lot of irons kinda hot....

www.anvilmag.com/comment/111d2.htm

This gets even better. Where's the yearly national anvil shooting competition?

Laurel, Mississippi.

www.2camels.com/festival107.php3