My god goggle screwed up you tube. It took me an hour to reply to you. If you are looking for a cannon there is a magazine called the artilleryman. They have cannons for sale or you can just search cannons for sale on the net.
+Dennis Cat No. As long as it doesn't shoot a complete shell. The bullet powder and primer can't be all together in one shell. This gun is fired with a musket cap from the outside of the gun.
A reproduced Whitworth? Give Jeff Stafford a call. I'm sure he'll build one for you for 500K. Give Gettysburg a call to negotiate price for a real one.
I just got a reproduction smooth bore naval cannon it’s a lot of fun but the small wheels make it a pain to move around I’ve come to find that taking the 100 lb barrel off the carriage and re assembling on sight is less work in a sense but that truly is the only draw back. Stay safe and keep this amazing hobby alive
Love it and all the videos you have done about the withworth cannon, i've been aspiring to build myself a my own homemade version of a civilwar cannon, it will not be a exact reproduction by any means but will look froma short distance to be a Civil war type cannon, want to use it as a front yard ornament (with bore plug and all) but it will actually fire , as I have access only a a couple miles away via black dirt road to a sour water lake which is totally unused, it's about 20 miles in dia.
Yea, I saw it, along with others who posted it on Greybeards cannon sight. One of the moderators promotes welding a powder chamber to the bottom as the only "safe" way to make a bb mortar. I was reprimanded for suggesting that welding anything to the bottom would not make it stronger, and could compromise the integrity of an already strong tank. Experts are more interested in being right than looking at real data.
The new gun is pre-hardened 4150 and I know yours is milsurp so my question concerned accuracy. Yes, the eyebrows of the NSSA members will be going over the tops of their heads, but I'm guessing you're not worried about them or their load charts. From your videos it's clear that real world testing and experience is your guide. Thanks for getting back to me.
Thanks for the video, im doing some work on weapons technology between 1815 and 1918 but have been findingit hard to get information about Civil war artillery. Was the breech loading Whitworth rifled?
Steve, We finished the breechloader and when proofing even with the introduction charge only 2 oz. FFg the threads became so fouled that we had to use a lead mallet on the impact handle to loosen it. I noticed that the inside of the breech cap was not smooth from where it was turned and suggested to the machinist that this could be the problem. Do you have fouling problems, and do you have any type of obturating seal, or is it just metal to metal ( inside of breech cap to face of breech)?
Hi Steve, I am almost finished with a 1.7" 3 pounder Whitworth. I also have a full scale 2.25" rifled mountain rifle on a prairie carriage, and a 3 pounder Verbruggen Revolutionary war smooth bore. I have always shot either fg or cannon Goex. I have been considering using ffg Goex with the new Whitworth, and would like to know why you choose ffg for your Whitworth instead of fg or even cannon grade for such a large bore gun. Also, what is your opinion of my using ffg in my new gun.
It's a hole new deal casting a 11 pound bullet. One of the reasons I hollow point the end is sometimes there is a huge shrink hole in the end of the bullet. The hole I drill for the hollow point is 1" in diameter and 1 1/4" deep and sometimes that doesn't get all of the shrink hole. Casting and machining 44 bullets is an all day job
Hi Steve, We faced off the back of the barrel and the inside of the cap, and then checked the interface. It still fouled the threads so bad that we had to heat the cap with a torch and pound it off with a lead mallet. We have a half inch pitch with the original square threads. Do you think it's too much pitch? Are you using a shell? I'm using foil "bags". How can I send pics.
I shoot against "the twins" as they are affectionately called at the Grayling Michigan long range competition each summer. I'll ask them about grain size next year. I already ordered a case of ffg though.
Just like the original Whitworths. The bullet is seated in the bore followed by the powder. it's in a bag or a cartridge made of brass or tin foil and then it's set off by an external percussion cap or friction primer. The later guns started shooting complete cartridges (bullet powder and primer all in one) I think in about 1880. That made this system obsolete.
Oh I am actually looking into artillery from 1880 to 1900 but can't find anything so was basing my knowledge of this. Would you happen to know a good source for this period of time?
There is a video where civil war reenactors shoot a parrot cannon with live (yes live) impact fuzed BP explosive shells. Was that legal at somewhere in the US (whenever this was filmed), and are there still places where that can be done legally? No tricks, no SFX. The video has the title "Live Firing of Civil War Siege Artillery".
Steve, RU-vid would not let me put an email address on without altering it so that it doesn't look like one. Here it is. Replace the words att and dott to send me your phone number. Mpdstudio att sbcglobal dott net. Thanks.
