It's a projectile at the USS Texas display at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Houston, near NASA. The bore is 14"45 caliber; the projectile weight is around 1400 pounds and the maximum powder charge was 425 pounds.
There's a good video of the 16" gun propellant from the New Jersey on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2oDJDgEGGU.
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I can't afford to reload for that.
That would definitely have some stopping power.
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I remember another item that came off the 'Battleship Texas', or more formally 'USS Texas (BB-35)'...her propeller. It is massive, I was but 8 years old in 1958 when I first walked up on it and touched it. It boggled my small brain!
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I vaguely remember the ballistic coefficient on that round is 5+, not .5 but 5.! Also rounds could be kept inside a football field at 20 miles.
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Casting for that would get into your lead stash pretty quick!
https://allthatsinteresting.com/schw...av-railway-gun
"It was more like a small building than a gun. From the ground up it was almost four stories tall, was over 150 feet long including the barrel, and weighed over 1,300 tons – for scale, the Space Shuttle weighs 2,000 tons. This was no tiny tank.
The shells alone, which had been designed with pure destruction in mind, were taller than two men, twice as wide as one, and weighed 20,000 pounds each. It took several men just to load one into the barrel. For the gun to move around, the body was built on two parallel sets of rail wheels, allowing it to travel across special tracks.
Ultimately, the high command ordered two of these weapons, the Schwerer Gustav and a smaller model they called “Dora.”"
Needs a bigger meplate. Powder coated?
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Forget everything you know about loading jacketed bullets. This is a whole new ball game!
I just gotta see the boolit mould !
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I would love to add that to my Ammo display. My largest is my 8" 38 dummy projectile, Last used on the USS Chicago CG11.
Copper gas check?
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Caterpillar makes a dipper for that cartridge
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Caterpillar makes a dipper for that cartridge
RCBS will license this one.
Of course Dillon.
Oh, and of course the economical Lee.
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My mother used to work at a powder plant in Indiana sewing bags for the powder charge. They were not allowed to bring anything metallic in to the sewing room and it seems I remember citrus fruits were forbidden as well.
How can a flat base bullet be accurate, or maintain any velocity, at 20 miles?
On a visit to Iwo Jima many years ago there was a pill box facing the beach that took a direct hit from one of these, ostensibly fired by the New York. There was a crater on the side of the pillbox parallel to the beach that had a depth of an arm's length and extended 6 feet or more from side to side. There was rebar the size of a large man's forearm peeled back like limp spaghetti. It appeared that the entire pillbox had been shoved backwards by the force of the impact. One wonders what it was like inside when an metric boatload of explosives decided to visit.
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Here's a link that shows the calculation of BC for a 16 inch round to be 15!!!?
https://www.mathscinotes.com/2013/10...c-coefficient/
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