Incoming Mortar! Traditional Cache
forestfyre07: this cache seems to be a favorite among a lot of visitors. unfortunately it has to be archived due to the business owner relocating his firm to another part of the city. that includes that cache's home. he loves the idea and perhaps one may show up in front of his new place.
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A mortar is a muzzle-loading indirect fire weapon that fires shells at low velocities, short ranges, and high-arcing ballistic trajectories. It typically has a barrel length less than 15 times its caliber.
A mortar is relatively simple and easy to operate. A modern mortar consists of a tube which gunners drop a shell into. A firing pin at the base of the tube detonates the propellant and fires the shell.
A mortar can also be a launcher for fireworks, a hand-held or vehicle-mounted projector for smoke shells or flares, or a large grenade launcher.
Light and medium mortars are portable, and usually used by infantry units. The chief advantage a mortar section has over an artillery battery is its small numbers, mobility and the ability to engage targets in the defilade with plunging fires. It is able to fire from the protection of a trench or defilade. In these aspects the mortar is an excellent infantry support weapon, as it can be transported over any terrain and is not burdened by the logistical support needed for artillery.
Cache is in a small fruit jar filled with army swag. Cache has been placed here with merchants permission, however no solicitation of the business has been required. The FTF prize has been graciously donated by the merchant.
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