Cannon for New Years?

[scarry scarney]

Ok, so who all is getting their BP cannon ready to ring in the New Year? I need to dust mine off. Post some photos....

[triggerhappy243]

156670will this work?

[waksupi]

We used to do it every year. Now, most of us are home thinking about bed by 10 o'clock.

[dondiego]

You can stay up 'til 10 PM? Wow!

[OverMax]

Going Outside in the dark: To old!! might fall down and not get up. Besides those younger fellows are known to shoot horizontal instead of vertical these days.
Rather get a smooch from my Lovey before she calls it a day. Than me and the pooch sharing my recliner wait till the clock reads 11:50 or so. Get up pour myself a shot of Crown Royal to salute the New Year in. ~~~5 minutes later Night night!!

[reloader4410]

No cannon, but my cowboy blanks 45 colt, primer drilled out, makes pretty good noise. Happy new year.

[Hardcast416taylor]

Detroit TV stations are airing commercials that the city and police are asking that you just jingle a little sleigh bell rather that shooting guns into the sky. That would be a change since there seems to be enough shooting at each other going on there.Robert

[gnoahhh]

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.62 caliber, made by me from bronze bar stock. Loaded with 90 grains FFg and tissue wad she makes quite a racket.

[farmerjim]

I wish. I used to have a 1/3 replica Napoleonic. 2 (volume) oz ffg and tissue. Big bang and smoke at midnight.

[RonT]

Here's a pic of my Kansas Cannon Works 1841, 6 pounder, and no, it's not clip fed......:). A 35 mm film containers worth of Pyrodex in a tinfoil ball is our standard load.
Cheers,
R
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[John Taylor]

Anyone in the market for a canon barrel and a couple wagon wheels? I have had it for over 20 years and have not done anything with it. It's a 2/3 scale 6 pounder, weighs 250 pounds. It has been shot with blank charges.

[leeggen]

243 I can't afford the powder to fire that thing to fire it once in a lifetime, let alone every new year. Just think how much lead one would get just for scaping that steel. We are talking life time supplies.
Would much rather people in neighborhoods not shoot at all as to shooting straight up. That slug has to come down somewhere and sometime. Had a carport roof that got a hole in it,light weight tin, on new years. Others found some slugs that dinged their cars on the roof or hoods. The one in mine ,I found the slug laying inside on the concreate, so I looked up and there it was a hole. Not a fan of shooting straight up or just into the air at the clouds.
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[Mumblypeg]

Anyone in the market for a canon barrel and a couple wagon wheels? I have had it for over 20 years and have not done anything with it. It's a 2/3 scale 6 pounder, weighs 250 pounds. It has been shot with blank charges.

I wish you were closer... we would talk.

[John Taylor]

I wish you were closer... we would talk.
With both sets of wheels and axles it's more than a pick-up load. I suppose if you brake the wheels and axle down it would fit but to drive across the country and back would take a week.

[reloader4410]

I talked to an fella with a cannon, said they used 1 pound black powder & the rest flower.

[missionary5155]

Good Morning
243.. can you elaborate a little on that barrel ? I cannot imagine the work involved to get that "rifling" cut.

Couple years ago a cannon shooter in west Indiana suggested using dried grass as wadding. Been doing so since in a 1.1 inch. No more confetti laying about the yard.
Mike in Peru

[Col4570]

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The previous owner used to shoot this pair of 1 1/2" bore cannon.I have nt tried them yet but will in the fullness of time.

[John Taylor]

Good Morning
243.. can you elaborate a little on that barrel ? I cannot imagine the work involved to get that "rifling" cut.

Couple years ago a cannon shooter in west Indiana suggested using dried grass as wadding. Been doing so since in a 1.1 inch. No more confetti laying about the yard.
Mike in Peru
Thats what I recommend also, no mess to clean up and still plenty of bang.

[hoosierlogger]

I use red shop rags for wadding in my golf ball mortar. Most of the time the come out whole.

[6bg6ga]

I have no idea how to load this how much powder how to do the wad and so forth. Any help would be appreciated. Note* It is perfectly safe and has been fired a hundred or more times years ago.

The ball is slightly under 1.00

[6bg6ga]

So, how do you load one of these things?

[dondiego]

Pour in about 50 grains of 2F and place a wad of wasp nest over the powder. Add a projectile wrapped in same. Add fuse, light.........run!

[triggerhappy243]

[QUOTE=missionary5155;3489509]Good Morning
243.. can you elaborate a little on that barrel ? I cannot imagine the work involved to get that "rifling" cut.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL. HAHAHAHA. THIS IS A BARREL THAT WAS REMOVED FROM THE U.S.S. NEW JERSEY. it is a 16 inch/50 cal. Rifled barrel 68 feet long. On permanent display at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum In San Pedro Ca.

[missionary5155]

Thank you 243
So we are looking at the breech end where the block rotated and locked into the barrel. That is some interesting machine work.
Mike in Peru

[John Taylor]

Canon kit for sale.


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[hoosierlogger]

So, how do you load one of these things?
I load mine as follows.

1: insert 6" piece of fuse in touch hole.
2: stand barrel straight up and add desired amount of powder.
3: fold red rag in quarters, lay ball on rag centered over hole.
4: drive ball home.
5: point in barrel safe direction.
6: light fuse
7: run for cover preferably behind cannon some where.
8: repeat

[John Taylor]

Just for info, a piece of paper wadded up and shot from a 1" bore will go through 1/2" plywood set at 10 feet away. Also it will destroy a wooden lawn chair on the other side of the plywood that was used to hold the plywood up. Please do not walk in front of a canon, even if it has a blank charge.

[scarry scarney]

John Taylor, I would love that cannon, but would believe it would not be a good way for me to start the new year, if SHMBO found out. Guess I'll pass.

[Hotfxr]

We did a cannon shoot New Years day. My son in law came over with several of his friends and they all got a chance to shoot it. I have made a lock for it so the instant firing makes it (IMHO) more fun. I just crammed in a wet paper towel on top of the powder pack and it increased the boom threefold. The only thing we hot out of it was a mole that had gotten caught in one of my traps that morning.

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a603/hotfxr/Cannon/Cannon%20Shots/New%20Lock/th_DSCN0149_zpsuar7cdad.mp4 (http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a603/hotfxr/Cannon/Cannon%20Shots/New%20Lock/DSCN0149_zpsuar7cdad.mp4)

Way too much fun.

Oh, and Mr. Scarry, it's SWMBO. When I want to remind myself, I just look at the trip pak on the back of the 'Glide where it is prominently printed so I have a constant reminder.

[Gaucho Gringo]

[QUOTE=missionary5155;3489509]Good Morning
243.. can you elaborate a little on that barrel ? I cannot imagine the work involved to get that "rifling" cut.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL. HAHAHAHA. THIS IS A BARREL THAT WAS REMOVED FROM THE U.S.S. NEW JERSEY. it is a 16 inch/50 cal. Rifled barrel 68 feet long. On permanent display at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum In San Pedro Ca.

If I remember they used 1 or 2 25 or 50lb bags of black powder to light off the powder that propelled the shell. It was kind of like a breach loading muzzle loader as it used separate components as opposed to almost all other artillery guns which used shells that are like cartridges.