How to Load and Fire a Cannon

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Today we're loading and firing our black powder revolutionary war style cannon. We will go over how to load powder and ball and talk about some of the historical processes involved.
If we didn't answer all your questions, drop a comment below and let us know!
If you have any ideas about things you'd like to see us shoot with the cannon or shoot out of the cannon leave them in a comment below and we will try to get those out for you guys!
Michael Elledge:
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00:00-1:00 Swabbing the Barrel
01:01-02:21 Loading the Powder Charge
02:22-03:38 Loading the Shot
03:38-04:47 Priming the Powder
04:48-05:22 Aim and Fire
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26 июл 2024

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@notmenotme614 Месяц назад

3:50 A cannons crew would “spike the cannon” if they were getting overrun by the enemy to avoid the cannon getting captured and used by the enemy. The crew would do this by getting a wedge shaped spike and hammering it in, so the wedge would get stuck, blocking the touch hole.

@TheCannoneer Месяц назад

I’d really like to get a video out one of these days about spiking guns and “show” people how they did it and some of the other ways they disabled cannons.

@Rusty_B_And_The_Gang 4 месяца назад

On nitrating things, interesting. I'm guessing historically potassium or sodium nitrate was used, but also potassium chlorate was around, too. Please do tell, or if you're up to doing a demonstration video, show & tell would be pretty cool.

@TheCannoneer 4 месяца назад

I’ll film it next time we make some and get a video up for you! It’s extremely easy to make and I’ll look up some of the history on what they used too!

@DH-xw6jp 2 месяца назад

Showing the nitrating process for your papers and matches would be cool. Also historical fuses if you donthat sort of thing.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

I’ve filmed that one I just need to edit it! Good suggestion!

@Kargoneth 9 дней назад

I would be nervous that the propellant would get set off by the friction of being rammed. Thank you for the demonstration.

@TheCannoneer 8 дней назад

We need to recreate that one of these days, an accidental discharge with the ramrod still in the cannon. That won't be a good time for the ballistics dummy.

@danielhildebrand6892 3 месяца назад

Now imagine being your age now in the civil war doing this as fast as you could.

@TheCannoneer 3 месяца назад

Yeah no thank you! My great great grandfather was 14 in the civil war and he fought for a few years. I can’t imagine what he was thinking or feeling.

@ludecom-cz1wz 4 месяца назад

If you shoot a ram rod any chance you can go for broke and sharpen the end like a giant dart?

@TheCannoneer 4 месяца назад

For sure! We've actually got an entire episode planned where we shoot darts out of it! That's kinda of the first protocannon called a pot-der-fer.

@victormartin2774 4 месяца назад

@@TheCannoneer Pot-de-Fer and later Bombarde, I visited a medieval fort in southern France that has a few of these.

@TheCannoneer 4 месяца назад

Gotta admit. I’m a bit jealous of that trip!

@TheCannoneer 4 месяца назад

What else do you want to know about out cannon? What do you want to see us shoot next?

@joearledge1 3 месяца назад

Not directly related to this video. If you're looking for inspiration or enjoy playing around with optimizing loads, there are several guys leading the way on shotgun research. Bubba Rountree Outdoors, Rodger Adkins, The Shotgun Scientists, and Buck and Slug Reloader are the 4 main channels doing legitimate testing. Anyway keep up the good work

@TheCannoneer 3 месяца назад

I shall check them out! Always nice to add new projectiles to the cannon. I think we might be getting a metal lathe soonish for the shop which will open a new world of possibilities.

@joearledge1 3 месяца назад

@@TheCannoneer Sweet, they may give you some ideas for wad design too

@TheCannoneer 3 месяца назад

@@joearledge1 I'll be sure to check them out! Maybe one day we can get a cross over video going!

@hellequingentlemanbastard9497 Месяц назад

Shouldn't you have someone keeping his thumb on the touch-hole in case some of the remaining powder residue gets oxygen and flares up?

@TheCannoneer Месяц назад

I’ve actually never heard that so I can’t comment on validity one way or another although I’ve never heard about that one! I will say if you plug the vent the pressure inside makes it rather hard to push the ramrod down the barrel!

@TheCannoneer Месяц назад

m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7LhEC4YgWJo.html Skip to around 27:30 or so. Apparently that was a common practice around the American civil war period and a bit before. They had a special leather glove called a thumb stall as well. Thanks for the info!

@hellequingentlemanbastard9497 Месяц назад

@@TheCannoneer - You're welcome. When I was still living in Europe I was in a Thirty Years War reenactment group we had 2 cannons the older guys operated. They used thumbstalls and always told us youngsters, that helped with the loading, that we should be always aware that the touch-hole is covered before we sponge out the barrel after firing.

@lilreb601 3 месяца назад

We’re you standing in front of the barrel while loading?

@TheCannoneer 3 месяца назад

I think it's the camera angel that makes it look that way. We always stand between the wheel and barrel just to be safe! I'm hoping to do a "cannon accidents" video where we simulate that with a ramrod and ballistics dummy who stands in front. Thanks for tuning in!

@lilreb601 2 месяца назад

@@TheCannoneer ok, just making sure you’re being safe.👍🏻