Lets See Your Cannons and Mortars !!!

[Mooseman]

Here is My first 1 pounder...Lathe Turned by Richard Knierem who became an Engineer for Winchester Corp. doing Load development.
Shoots golf balls out of sight !
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[mazo kid]

Here are a couple of mine. Will have to take more pictures! The small cannon is a 45 cal., made it 30 odd years ago. My kids used to really like it as I shot salutes on July 4th, etc. The larger one is a commercial barrel, 1" liner cast in place, 24" long. I built the carriage. Still needs more work.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/mazokid/Navalcannons.jpg

[mtnman31]

I don't have any photos. When I was a kid I made a cannon in shop class. It launched a dirt filled soda bottle a couple hundred yards. I made it to use in a homemade movie some friends and I did for a high school english project. It was built to look like a mortar, base plate and folding legs. We used smokeless powder in it!!! Suprising we didn't hurt ourselves. I think what saved us was that the projectile would exit the barrel before most of the powder had a chance to ignite. After firing it we could find unburnt powder all around.

Looking back, I wonder how I made it out of my teenage years alive (although a homemade M-80 and a jar of homemade napalm almost did me in once). The things I did as a kid, nowadays would get my parents thrown in jail... I miss those days.

Now that I'm older and can't get away with the things I used to, I plan to buy an old demilled artillery piece of some sort and put it on display in my front yard. A twin 40mm Bofors cannon would be fantastic. The kids could play on it and rotate the guns, elevate them etc. Somehow, I think that the Home Owners Association would have an issue with me doing that.

[John Taylor]

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l132/johnptaylor/Mortar4.jpg
future build or sale.
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l132/johnptaylor/canonproject.jpg

[HotGuns]

This one shoots concrete filled coke cans.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/HotGuns/IMG_0523.jpg

[Hardcast416taylor]

A fellow plumber was awakened at 10 a.m. after working all night by a Coast Guard officer and a Port Huron city cop. Seems a golf ball with my friends name on it was recovered from the deck of a freighter going down stream by the city. My friend said he lost golf balls everytime he played the game so what did they wish to say about that. The officers left. My friend confronted his son about this and the boy admited he had made a mortor in metal shop that shot golf balls. Seems the boy was shooting at shipping that plyed the river. The mortor was brought out of hiding and the boy was made to sledgehammer the thing unusable. Some of the shots were in excess of 300 yds out!Robert

[Shiloh]

A fellow plumber was awakened at 10 a.m. after working all night by a Coast Guard officer and a Port Huron city cop. Seems a golf ball with my friends name on it was recovered from the deck of a freighter going down stream by the city. My friend said he lost golf balls everytime he played the game so what did they wish to say about that. The officers left. My friend confronted his son about this and the boy admited he had made a mortor in metal shop that shot golf balls. Seems the boy was shooting at shipping that plyed the river. The mortor was brought out of hiding and the boy was made to sledgehammer the thing unusable. Some of the shots were in excess of 300 yds out!Robert

Great story!!

Glad no one was hurt. Shame about having to destroy the cannon.
Scorched golf balls per chance??

SHiloh

[kywoodwrkr]

Bought this rig a few years back from my local gun dealer.
He had it in his front yard.
Thought it would be a good restoration project.
In researching it, discovered the local group, Kentucky Mountain Artillery, and in talking with some of them decided they would make a better home.
They pack their artillery about on mules so they ended up trading it to sister organizations for smaller barrels etc.
All in all, glad it found a good home, but sometimes wish I had now to work on. Like I need that particular 'to-it'!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v127/Kywoodwrkr/th_DavesHeadache.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v127/Kywoodwrkr/?action=view&current=DavesHeadache.jpg)