How to Make Chain Shot, Bar Shot, and Grape Shot 

Hopefully we will catch you at the civil war show in Franklin! Thanks for checking us out and I hope you’re doing well!

@@TheCannoneer I never miss that one. Hollar at me if you see me walking by. I'm pretty clueless and might not see you all.

@hickok45 will do!

Thanks for the awesome ideas! I was just thinking about a video on cleaning it too. It's cleaned every time we're done at the range and that's some black water when we're done. I'm add the rest of your ideas to my list! Thanks! Are black powder guns regulated as much as cannon in Canada?

@@TheCannoneerAntique firearms (manufactured pre-1898) are immune from licensing and registration. Black powder long guns (matchlock, flintlock, wheellock) are considered antiques, even if manufactured on or after 1898. Firing a projectile from a black powder cannon is covered by one set of regulations. Firing a black powder cannon without a projectile is covered by another set of regulations. I think I'd have to be a lawyer to answer your question. I don't know how different calibres are regulated. I know people who shoot black power long guns and pistols at the gun range. I don't know anyone who shoots a real black powder cannon (though I am told that our historical fort in our valley had occasionally fired black powder blanks on special occasions at some point in the past). I do also know someone who made an improvised cannon from an old acetylene tank and used it to fire 10-inch rubber-skinned air-filled toy balls with a tiny black powder charges from the top of a coulee into the valley (the balls were retrieved later). The neighbours down the road panicked and called the police. I think there was a talk with the local sheriff. Not sure what came of it, wasn't told what was said, but the sheriff drove off.

So sorry I just saw your reply! Yeah we've had the cops show up a few times, and one of them was today when we were finishing up tomorrow video. I don't know how a cannon would do in an indoor gun range but I've wondered. It might go through the back wall though!

@@TheCannoneerI think you replied to the wrong comment. You already replied to this one a few months ago. I still have a backlog of your videos yet to watch, sir. You're making videos faster than I watch them. Huzzah! Infinite content!

My dad’s a full time blacksmith so all those tools get used all the time. I do quite enjoy shop days as well!

Or half the chain shot in this case!

We usually wear a mask, we've got full respirator sets in the shop but I also keep the windows and fans open in there when we're pouring in big amounts too. As for clipping everything off, just a pair of wire cutters and it's super easy. You can usually break it off with your fingers once it's cold as well. I'll keep the washers in mind as well! I'm hoping there's some interest in seeing them shoot a sail and ship replica one of these days.

@@TheCannoneer Excellent. Lead poisoning is no joke.

Our new video is just that! Thanks for tuning in!

They would shoot anything they could fit down the barrel including broken glass bottles, nails, bits of metal scraps, anything that would hurt someone. I need to make some of those rounds one day. The French were known for their trash rounds.

@@TheCannoneer isn’t that type of shot called a langridge shot that uses whatever miscellaneous junk they can shove down the barrel? I also have another question, since the British Challenger 3 tank runs the Rheinmetall 120mm L55A1 smoothbore cannon and can fire US made M829A4 APFSDS round. Do you know of anyone who has tried to create a modern APFSDS for an older cannon? Since back in the day they used to fire incendiary arrows/ bolts out of them so it should be possible

Thank you!

Thanks for sharing!

Thankfully it's got big windows in the roof and fans everywhere!

We’re planning on making a video of historical grape and canister shots and showing on how to make them with the actual springs and the wooden base and bags. I actually talk about canister shot in our upcoming video and address how our loads are more similar to canister rather than grape given the wad we use to hold everything together. I think the historical grape will be a good video. Thanks for tuning in!