Hi Rick, this is Carl Haggard from Northern California seems like we haven’t talked in a coons age. How the heck are you? I got a question I want to keep this stainless steel look on my golf ball canon. Can I achieve that by shooting it with a clearcoat anyhow, I hope all is well, happy holidays. Stay safe.
mis felicitaciones por esa maravilla realizada seguro artesanalmente,me siento identificado por la que yo he realizado ,es lo mas parecido que vi , la unica diferencia que el mio es en una escala mucho mas pequña,felicitaciones por esta hermosa construccion ,ojala podamos seguir comunicandonos,a pesar del del idioma,si te interesa te envio fotos de mi cañon ,saludos felicitaciones !!!!!
Fins, I've been experimenting with fins in my smaller mortars, 70mm, 3"(76.2mm) & 81mm. I started out using beer cans full of dirt in my first one, the 70mm. It left a trail of dusty dirt across the sky like a dust tracer & easy to see but tumbled the hole way getting lighter as it went. Then cans full of plaster in all 3. They went a lot farther also tumbling.Then i wanted fins so using steel cans of the right size for each one, 70,76.2,81mm i added a 1 1/2 thick plactic plate to the nose with an arrow for fins holding it on from inside with an 8-32 screw. So u load it nose first which is flat with fins sticking up. When fired it goes about a 100feet or so, turns around, wobbles a little then straightens & goes like hell, no more tumbling at all like the way they were before fins, but the arrows could break if hitting hard ground & bouncing around so next i tried fiberglass tent pole sections & added shrink fit arrow fins. Total success. I got first place the first time testing them at our cannon shoot, they were grouping about 20-30yds at 350yds. Nobody was able to come close to that. These all fire with dixie gun works cannon locks two use shotgun primers, one uses musket caps. I threaded The tent pole segments to install the same way. If the plastic nose gets messed up to bad just face a little off to clean it up. These all look like WW2 style mortars. So easy to make but i overcomplicate them to make them look even more cool😊
I've been shooting cannons/mortars since 1985, most of the cannons are rifled 40mm & full scale 3" ordnance & parrott rifles, both screw breech breechloaders & muzzleloaders. 3 bowling ball mortars WW2 style w/legs & baseplate, they fire with a dixie gun works cannon lock & shotgun primers, their is no chamber at all just the bottom of the tank. The flash hole is reinforced, a 2" trailer ball in the bottom, its the same thread except straight. The normal charge is 5oz or so. We proofed one with 2lbs & 16lb ball. It was fine after a rebuild, it sunk into hard rocky ground over a foot folding the 1/2" thick baseplate around it & sending the temporary legs flying. The ball was gone for a while. These tanks are plenty strong without all the extra work. Because there's no chamber the pressures dont even build up much in that big of space. If u use much less than 5oz powder then u can get air space under the ball. Thats not good. It got me first place at our cannon shoots.😊
I cant see if that carriage has a rotation lock like a wing bolt or something to hold it firmly when firing but it should. How big do u build? Dixie gun works has good blueprint books on civil war cannons & all cariage parts. The one i use is for 2.9 & 3" parrott & ordnance rifles, 1841 6pdr, 12pdr howitzer. They're 11"x15" fold out & clear. Its called artillery for the land services of the U.S. 1849-1865. Field artillery - I, book #12. 😊 happy shooting
I've been shooting cannons & mortars since 1985, there isn't any need of that long of a fuze. Only my small guns still use fuze, about one inch sticking out is plenty. It burns at 30 seconds a foot so there isnt any need to stand around waiting (waisting fuze). I suspect it over shot the backstop at that muzzle angle. On a couple smallish 40mm rifled muzzleloaders that use big minnie balls, i put am M15 rifle grenade sight on the end of the left trunnion, it worked pretty good at 400yds. Those look cool. Happy shooting😊
There's also the other kind of person, the one who sells a great looking cannon, without the fucking carriage. Fuck this. Why did this even show up in my feed?
great craftsmanship there. love the detailing that you put into them. i am hoping to eventually get the Black Powder Golf Ball 18 inch 19th Century Napoleon Barrel With Carriage whenever funds allow or i go viral on here.
