Nah, just about every piece of modern artillery is more terrifying than that thing. Heck, maybe even underbarrel grenade launchers. There's good reason why soldiers don't stand in formation anymore.
My granddaughter when she was 4 literally explained to me what is was like to experience what a cannon does to people. I was like"what are you talking about" then she said that was how she died. She explained like a life before this one. It was crazy , but if you listened to her , I believe she was remembering a past life. I'll never forget that conversation.
Well, they didn't use fuses like this, the powder bag, being rammed down the barrel, was pierced by a needle through the touch hole (where the fuse is, here) the hole was filled with powder, and a long stick with a slow match on the end was touched to the hole to fire it. They use fuses these days for safety, in case the cannon explodes you'll allegedly be at a safe distance.
@@daleslover2771 I was enlisted with an Indiana National Guard Field Artillery Unit. We had the old 105mm towed howitzers. I joined in February of 82 when I was a senior in Highschool. I went to Ft Sill, OK after I graduated in the summer of 82. Did my Basic Training and AIT back to back. I had my first drill in January of 83. We drove to Ft Campbell, KY almost every weekend drill except in the winter. I did my first 2 week summer camp at Ft Campbell. We had 3 summer camps at Camp Grayling, Michigan. And one here in Indiana. I did 6 years, getting out in 88. The first 2 years, I was ammo humper, fox hole digger, and loader. I moved up to Assistant Gunner and spent 4 years doing that job. I really loved that job ! They offered me my E5's and the choice of having my own Gun or to take over ammo truck. I wish now I would have taken their offer. But I had just gotten married and was starting my family, so I didn't sign back up. I did love being in the Artillery and I had a great unit. We were 38th Infantry Division - 163rd Field Artillery. Made some great friends there and had some very good friends.
I was in Kitzigen attached to DIVARTY guarding their special munitions at NATO site 35. The funny thing was that it was Creighton Abrams Jr was the brigade commander.
My Great-grandfather used to set his off at noon on Sundays after church. New Zealand used to be a proper country. Gonna get my own and carry on the tradition!
Grew up in south eastern CT by the Thames. Every morning at 6 am I would hear two Star Spangle Banners and two sets of cannon shots. One from the coast guard academy and another from the navy base. I miss my home town…and after experiencing Denver I also worry about the future of our nation…and the generations whom are to lead it. Some areas just don’t get it. They complain about America and yet utilize and benefit from everything it’s got to offer…
@@dystopianfuture1165 exactly they Submitted and started following orders from men before we were even born why would you submit to someone that Oppressives you and your people
@@gamerreb3114 My basic understanding is that since it takes a moment for soldiers to reload his musket it’s actually better to have multiple stand in line to allow constant volleys covering fire. This helps cavalry and other units to organize more efficiently. It just looks silly to use because most people aren’t familiar with how much better modern firearm compared to revolutionary era muskets.
The coolest thing is a mortar that fires old bowling balls. If you stand to one side, you can watch the ball go up and up until it disappears, then you can hear it coming down, with the wind whistling over the finger holes in a pulsing sound as the ball rotates. Then it hits with an audible thud.
For a firing order cannon probably a few thousand. Don't buy a rifled one if you looking to fire grape shot or smaller objects just find your self a smooth bore.
@@oldmanengie7790 you should also look into muzzle loading vs breach loading. I think they are under different requirements. Because of the way they can load. Plus the type of propellant used in them. Very important.
Looks like commenters need a history lesson. This isn't how cannons were fired, at all. I won't go into every detail, but basically, after the cartridge was loaded, it was pricked through the hole by with a spike. A charge (not a fuse like the one in the video) was inserted into the hole. An artilleryman with a slowmatch on a stick would light the charge through the hole from the side, and it would fire almost instantly.. There were a lot more steps than this, plus safety measures takes so cartridges wouldn't fire accidentally from embers, but trained artillerymen could fire 3 times per minute. Old timers knew how to fight with what they had. No. They would never light a slow fuse and expect the enemy to wait. They weren't dumb.
I would keep that chained to my front porch, and have it aimed at the house of the neighbour who knocks over my trash. Just a little psychological warfare, and if need be, Conventional Suburban warfare. If i could find a smaller one i would mount it on top of the stairs, keep my powderes wig and Kentucky Musket in the living room and conceal carry a Flintlock, just as the founding fathers intended.
U only need an inch of fuze sticking out, more is just waisting it. That was pretty cool. The fuze hole being off center can effect aim by moving the gun to the side a little with the flash hole back blast pushing the breech to the right a little bit, especially if the trunnions are at all loose in the cap squares. But then smoothbores only hit in the general area anyway. In our cannon club smoothbores competed at 100 & 200 yds, rifled guns at 400yds. Happy shooting 😊
Several years ago, I worked with a man that built a cannon using the lift cylinder from a dump truck. The bore was the same size of a plastic 16 ounce bottle. He would put concrete in the bottle. Black powder in the muzzle, plastic bottle, and a fuse. He would light it, the fuse would burn down and boom. You heard boom, whack. The cannon would fire and then you heard the bottle smack into a rock face. A fun tool., but it used a lot of black powder..
I served as a crewman for a three pound mountain howitzer from the War of Independence. Maybe not as big as this one (6 pounder, probably), but boy was it fun! Cheers!
Not only is it relatively easy to see the cannon ball fly from directly behind the cannon but you can stand directly in front of it and get the same effect.
I once saw the curass of a Napoléon Cuirassier Antoine Favreau which is pearced with a cannon ball hole. Brutal to think what it must be to get hit like this. My question is: do you think a bullet gets straight through the body like they tell us in the museum or is it impossible that the cuirass is that well preserved?
A friend of mine built a small cannon. I think it shot like 1½" shot I am guessing. It was back in the 1970's. He took it to his old family farm in PA and rattled windows for the local town for quite some time. He showed me some pictures of the VW he use for a target. It could only be used on Sundays after that because it was so holy. I just didn't know what you could ever use it for. Well maybe as another target.
Canons are no joke, during the Napoleonic Wars around 1780 through 1806, ships canons could shoot a 24 pound iron canon ball 1000 yards with no problems, the ball would mess that ship up…
.. It's like: without the invention of the first locomotive, we won't be having all the fast cars we're driving today.. So likewise, without those first early canons, we won't be seeing all the modern powerful guns we're shooting today. Human inventions..........it's so MARVELOUS indeed👍👍👍...
As kids in 50s Alaska, we could buy Cherry Bombs! We took a 4ft piece of water pipe, drilled a hole in the cap, so we could put in the cherry bomb and screw the cap on the pipe. Then we fastened the pipe in a pipe vise mounted to a bench. We found that old auto sparkplugs would fit "down the barrel. We aimed it toward a freshly harrowed field, touched it off, and could see the dust cloud where it hit, just short of 1200 ft!! Dad was was gone to work😅
Never expected a Canon to have sich range, and thus looks like a medium one. Imagibe having to walk that whole distance through that like at Gettysburg. 😅
