1:7 model of 1857 Napoleon cannon made out of stainless steel, brass and mesquite wood. For a view of the channel where I learned wheelwright work see: • Civil War Cannon Wheel...
Great cannon! I shoot a .69cal artillery cannon built to English 12 pounder design in National Competitions in the UK. I use 65gns Vesuvius b/powder with a .675" ball + 20th patch.My barrel is Ardessa made but the carriage I made very similar to yourself just followed the English Napoleonic design. It is great fun and I compete against a great group of guys in the Muzzle Loaders of Great Britain club.
Wow! Sounds great what you do with your cannon. Where I live I know of no other cannon owners or shooters. Would be fun! I’d like to see a picture of yours. Oh, thanks for your kind words.
Would you ever consider building one of these carriages for a price? I have a cannon barrel and would love such a carriage to mount it on. What I don’t have is all those tools and the knowledge to build one. If this is something you would consider please let me know and maybe we can discuss.
I saw the powder charges you used and my mouth dropped. For context, the military load of the civil war Pritchett cartridge was 2.5 drams, or roughly 68 grains of 1f.
In a book called “Round Shot and Rammers”. Pages 84-85. They are just drawings and I measured everything with calipers and resized with 1.82:1 scale. I used information in the book and other places for original sizes and got the scale from the barrel I had made so many years ago. Didn’t want it to be out of scale. If I can help with anything just let me know.
That is a seriously good looking cannon, have u fired any groups with full dia balls or shot only. Our cannon club shot smooth bore at 200yds & rifled guns at 400yds, the accuresy of the rifled guns is realy something, when all goes well they shred the bullseye, iv'e even managed to score first place a time or two
Thank you. I shot a ball bearing out of it many years ago with only the barrel laying in the grass. It went about 4 inches into a railroad tie. Since then I have not shot anything except powder and lead shot. That sounds interesting what you are telling me though about smooth bores at 200 yards. I will have to get some balls and try it out. Thanks again.
@@MotoFelipe that 200yds night be stetching it for a small one, ours have sights, 2 of mine have scopes also. When test firing before they have sights I use a rod sometimes in bbl as a pointer. One time we fired it w/the rod still in it just because we could. It went about 50yds before tumbling, now maby with some fins
@@michaelpierson7256 I imagine 25 yards would be more like it. I can unscrew the breech to line it up. You’ll have to send me a picture of some of the ones you have. Sounds pretty fancy.
I would give you my email but then it would be open for anyone to see. Maybe you could put some pictures or make a short video and upload it on your channel and then I can see them.
