Black powder load
I build this all Steel HighPressure canon based on the 1857 US Napoleon. Scale 1:4.62 during the December/New Year holidays.
Caliber is 1.000”
Total weight is 130lbs, Barrel steel is Bohler M200, specifically chosen for smokeless powder loads.
Black powder load is 400gr FG propelling either a patched 25mm or naked 1” steel ball.
Accuracy 9”@110yrds. Velocity could not be measured, but definitely faster than sound barrier.
Smokeless powder load.
Last edited by Fisher; 05-14-2019 at 04:39 PM.
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Very nice. You said "all steel" but the barrel looks bronze in the first photo? Probably the lighting. Did you build it from scratch, or was it a kit?
Everything is steel, even the carriage. The barrel is painted to represent the brass barrels of the originals. Everything was build from scratch except the rear sights and the pins that hold the wheels on the axle. Took about 2 weeks from start to finish.
Last edited by Fisher; 05-14-2019 at 04:17 PM.
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Great job ! Talk about MUZZLE FLASH wow
4 shot group shot at 100meter/110 yards
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Originally Posted by Der Gebirgsjager
Thank you very much!
It was quite a fun project to do, and I was greatly rewarded with the way it shoots.
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My hat's off to you, sir. You are a good craftsman and whale of a good machinist! Nice job.
Very cool! Great job!
Due to the price of primers, warning shots will no longer be given!
why couldn't velocity be measured? are you gonna try again it would be cool to know ft/lbs. and that seems like a lot of work for 2 weeks, good work
I have a similar cannon but a mock up of a British man of war deck gun I’d only feel comfortable using a high speed camera to get velocity as the muzzle blast is massive especially with black powder and unless someone had a chronograph they did not minde being accidentally blown into bits if I hit it I’m not going to try we estimate mine Shoots a 3 3/4 oz 1” lead ball in the neighbourhood of 1000 FPS with 275gr Ffg black and around 5300ft/lb of energy
Well... I couldn't understand why such a little cannon could weigh 130 lbs... Till I saw it all in the white and you did say it was all steel, it just didn't register till that photo.
Impressive project!
I tried the LabRadar, but there is just to much stuff flying around that it fails to pickup the bullet.
For two weeks I pretty much did nothing else....
Here are photos of a hard steel plate 12x12” x1/2” thick,shot at 50yards. It passed through another mildsteel 5/16” plate at 25yards
Last edited by Fisher; 05-15-2019 at 12:21 AM.
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Cool.
Now ya need a all steel, scale, siege or coastal defense mortar to go with it.
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I made a 30mm 1/5th scale coehorn based mortar bofore I dit the canon, now planing on a fullsize mortar, and oneday a full size operational 3” Ordnance Rifle, that will definitely not be all metal...
Last edited by Fisher; 05-15-2019 at 01:53 AM.
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Nice work!!! Good accuracy too. How's the recoil?
Mines 7/8 bore, only use wool socks for projectiles. I use 400gr fg. Nice bang to bring in the new year!.
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It's do-able.
The folks over at Graybeard's out doors helped me a bunch when I built a all Steel bowling ball mortar a few years ago.
I bought a ordnance rifle awhile back and built a new oak carriage for it. The barrel is 3" schedule 120 oil field pipe with a 2" bore.
Last edited by Winger Ed.; 05-15-2019 at 02:40 PM.
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Joh! Very impressive Winger Ed!
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Had it out on 330yards, accuracy is bad compared to rifles, but good enough to often hit a car size target, - on scale thats about good enough to hit the broad side of a barn @1700yards with a full size 12pdr Napoleon
Nice work!!! Good accuracy too. How's the recoil?
Mines 7/8 bore, only use wool socks for projectiles. I use 400gr fg. Nice bang to bring in the new year!.
Recoil is not much deu to the sheer heft compared to size, unfortunately posting videos to demonstrate the recoil is a hassle ....
Last edited by Fisher; 05-15-2019 at 02:22 PM.
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Well done!!!!!! I bet it's fun.
Thanks bro.
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When going down the road, nobody tailgates when they come running up and see the cannon looking at them.
In school: We learn lessons, and are given tests.
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OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
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Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
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