Two injured when homemade cannon goes off at Epping home

Two men were injured Saturday night when a homemade cannon device discharged at an Epping home, police said.A man was trying to clean the loaded device, made from the barrel of a muzzleloader rifle, when it went off about 9:30 p.m. at the home on Jacobs Well Road, Epping police said in a press release. That man and a friend both suffered foot injuries.Friends drove the two to the Epping Fire Station, and they were then taken to two different area hospitals. The incident remains under investigation, police said.

Two men were injured Saturday night when a homemade cannon device discharged at an Epping home, police said.

A man was trying to clean the loaded device, made from the barrel of a muzzleloader rifle, when it went off about 9:30 p.m. at the home on Jacobs Well Road, Epping police said in a press release. That man and a friend both suffered foot injuries.


Friends drove the two to the Epping Fire Station, and they were then taken to two different area hospitals.

The incident remains under investigation, police said.