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I’m gonna have to come and visit sometime.
That cannon would be fun!

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I built a much more primitive version, a scrapyard special if you will. I used a threaded breech with a male stud that accepts a percussion cap. Press cap on stud fill breech with 500 gr of 1F, install breech, drop projectile down tube...ka whump. I used beverage cans filled with cement. Great accuracy, I once had a 100 yard, 3 shot group. Fish ducks hated my 'mortar'. All things are possible with a scrap pile and a lathe.


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Very neat. Although it would present multiple challenges trying to chronograph that thing, (grin).

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Originally Posted by Son_of_the_Gael

WOW!!!


Yeah that.


Just how many pounds of FFG are in that fireball?


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Now that's a work of art!

Well done, sir!

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Originally Posted by 22250rem
Very neat. Although it would present multiple challenges trying to chronograph that thing, (grin).

Set it up to fire level or close to it and use a Labradar on the “handgun” setting.


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Or, calculate the time and distance of impact from instant of firing, factoring in the angle of the tube and weight/ballistic coefficient of the golf ball, and temperature/humidity at sea level where I live, and.....never mind.


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gnoahhh,

Your cannon at the Savage Fest in Wellsboro is what rekindled my addiction. I'm in the process of starting a wagon carriage for my golf ball caliber Napolean cannon barrel. I originally built a ship style carriage for it but have since learned that it was the wrong style for that cannon so I did what any gun nut would do, I had the correct 18th century Naval style cannon barrel made for it and started collecting materials for a proper wagon wheel civil war style carriage for it. First step was having an Amish wood shop build me some wheels and then I assembled some decent oak and some strap metal and hardware.

Your brass turn screw elevation implement is a work of art! I am going to repurpose an old "C" clamp for the elevation screw. I just about have all the materials I need to make a go of it. I just need to get some shop time with my buddy to get it all together.

We could really make some smoke together!

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Originally Posted by ROMAC
gnoahhh,

Your cannon at the Savage Fest in Wellsboro is what rekindled my addiction. I'm in the process of starting a wagon carriage for my golf ball caliber Napolean cannon barrel. I originally built a ship style carriage for it but have since learned that it was the wrong style for that cannon so I did what any gun nut would do, I had the correct 18th century Naval style cannon barrel made for the it and started collecting materials for a proper wagon wheel civil war style carriage for it. First step was having an Amish wood shop build me some wheels and then assemble some decent oak and some strap metal and hardware. Your brass turn screw elevation implement is a work of art! I am going to repurpose an old "C" clamp for the elevation screw. I just about have all the materials I need to make a go of it. I just need to get some shop time with my buddy to get it all together.

We could really make some smoke together!

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Love those wheels.
BTW, it looks like you have some guns mating back in the rack. 😁

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[quote=ROMAC]gnoahhh,

Youcannon at the Savage Fest in Wellsboro is what rekindled my addiction. I'm in the process of starting a wagon carriage for my golf ball caliber Napolean cannon barrel. I originally built a ship style carriage for it but have since learned that it was the wrong style for that cannon so I did what any gun nut would do, I had the correct 18th century Naval style cannon barrel made for the it and started collecting materials for a proper wagon wheel civil war style carriage for it. First step was having an Amish wood shop build me some wheels and then assemble some decent oak and some strap metal and hardware. Your brass turn screw elevation implement is a work of art! I am going to repurpose an old "C" clamp for the elevation screw. I just about have all the materials I need to make a go of it. I just need to get some shop time with my buddy to get it all together.

We could really make some smoke together!



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Indeed, Roger!

I've sourced wooden wheels from Amish artisans over the years, but a wheelwright in Colonial Williamsburg provided the wheels for a full scale 1790 Mountain Howitzer I built 30 years ago. A 3-pounder gun whose barrel was a scant 18" or so. A buddy cast two tubes out of bronze and gifted me one. Jeez I wish I had kept it but a fella offered me an obscene amount of money for it.....


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