On one of my visits to a deerstalkers range I noticed big ball bearings lying around
Huh?
canonballs the fella reckoned.
Canons?
that sounds like great fun
so who knows whats the deal?
Thinking I need a canon now,too
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On one of my visits to a deerstalkers range I noticed big ball bearings lying around
Huh?
canonballs the fella reckoned.
Canons?
that sounds like great fun
so who knows whats the deal?
Thinking I need a canon now,too
I have a black powder Canon.....
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Pocket sized ....
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But don't let that fool you.
Shoots 1/4 inch bearings and blasts a 3 foot long fireball out the barrel in the dark... great fun.
mates got a couple.I think one is made out of a section of bofors barrel golf balls fir nicely in it and they go for miles. the other one is a very short morter type thing that shoots coke cans filled with cement a very long way as well..have a look on yt at cannon 001 cannon 005 and cannon 009 and thats one of them i put up
In the hayday of Blackpowder shooting the big shoot at Wanganui used to open with a canon shoot, maybe 10 of them. All scaled versions but still quite terrifying. They used to register a good solid thump through the ground if you were nearby. I never knew where the safest place to stand was.
The other biggie shoot used to be at Whangarei. One of the guys there had a half size replica of a Coehorn mortar. He fired tin cans out of it with explosive charges. Those Whangarei guys were mostly crazy,
Bofors barrel canons were quite common.
This may well belong to someone on here? Absolutely immaculate machining and woodwork. 1/4 scale American civil war Whitworth cannon if memory serves me right.
Half a Bofors barrel.
Came to my farm for a shoot some years ago.
Ka bloody boom:P
Used the front end loader and metal detector to attempt to find the projos in the backstop. 10 foot in and no luck!!!
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Excellent thread so far :)
Beginning of last year there was a guy at the range with a small cannon. I was standing way back when I recorded this (did not trust that the thing might explode). Was really beautifully made.
https://youtu.be/1IlwgrS7F-4
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I made a small naval cannon (1/4" bore) at high school and shot a hole completely through 3 walls and a door in our outside toilet and wash house. The olds thought it was a great lark until they saw the damage!
But the .25 is for girls... (<:
Seeing such damage helps teach to always point firearms in a safe direction. People just don't realise the energy in some firearms when they shoot into a back stop. Or they may shoot an animal and not appreciate how much energy the projectile retains on exit.
Back to model cannons and their no-FAL status. I have a repro medieval hand-cannon on a pole (aka "handgonne"). Takes .577 Minies. Just a fuse hole, not even a trigger like on an arquebus. Do I need to lock it up or could I hang it above my fireplace?
if its black and looks tactical you may have to hand it in
Greetings All,
I have seen a cannon with a 1 inch bore. This works out roughly to 4 bore when talking of shotguns and smooth bore or early rifled guns shooting round balls weighing about 4 ounces. Samuel Baker had a double he used on elephants, he had a 2 bore as well I believe.
Took a stupendous charge of black powder and the recoil must have been stupendous as well. Would have made a 460 Weatherby look like a .22 RF.
Regards Grandpamac.
I should have mentioned that it was a proof load, the projectile was 1" of 1/4" Whit bolt wrapped in a a layer of toilet paper and the full Ballistite charges from 2x .303 blanks. Instead of running back on its little wheels, it just went end over end until it slammed into the workshop wall!
The gunsmith I use builds cannons for a hobby, and sells them also, they are ultra cool, I’m pretty sure he machines the barrels, they’re about 2inch bore and sorta rust blues them so they look cast, has little wooden trolleys with cast wheels on them. Hopefully when we both get time spare I can be there when he lets 1 rip. If I had the money I’d own 1 in a flash.
That's the kind of thing I'm thinking of when I say canon.
Any more info?link maybe?
But in reality I am keen to build something in V-Can caliber.
https://antique-arms.co.nz/cannon.html
The majority of these are made from 40mm Bofors barrels.
Pretty certain I know the maker of the first cannon in that set of pics he used to bring it out to clevedon pretty regularly. He also made some other interesting bits and pieces.
well at least you know the barrel is proofed well above what you are going to load.
So where do we get 40mm barrel @40mm ??
v-cans 52.8mm :-(
Mythbusters put a bowling ball through a house by accident and they were only using compressed air, no black powder needed.:thumbsup:
As a teenager I worked as a fitter & turner for a hydraulics manufacturer. We made the full range of products including snap couplings. We had a test rig that the finished couplings were put on and run up to several thousand psi. One coupling got through production with the ball stop ring machined a bit too thin and the 1/2" ball blew out near the top of the test pressure. It went across the drive at shoulder height and completely through both walls of the next door business without touching any person or piece of equipment. Nothing rusted in our workshop as it was instantly smothered in vaporised hydraulic oil!
Oh cryptic :) Tyler maybe :D now to book my seat on mastermind :thumbsup:
I made a cannon once. I was about 15 yrs old from memory. Found an old heavy duty marking pen at dads work (ag machinery). Was made of seamless steel tubing, and had a screw in front and back. The front fitting screwed into the body had a 4mm hole in it that held a balsa wood nib. The back fitting was for putting the die in. The interior was full of fluffy stuff to soak up the die. It was used for writing on the plywood packing cases stuff turned up and, and then readdressed to NZ addresses.
Looked the part. Chromed outside and about 'mini cannon' long. Best of all was its inside diameter was 'Mighty cannon" diameter.
Remember those years.... actual proper fireworks???
Anywho, a few evenings in dads carpentry workshop had it mounted as a 'cannon'. Nib had been drilled out and was where the firecracker fuse came out. projectile: well bugger me if marbles wern't the ideal diameter, stuffed in with a bit of loo paper.
Proof firing occurred at the back of our half acre section in provincial Palmy. 2 thicknesses of Heavy gauge fibre cement sheet had a bullseye printed on them, then leaned up against dads chook house. Made from tractor packing cases. 3/4 inch ply both sides.
Cannon was set up at point blank range (10 ft) and the blue touch paper was lit and I stood well clear.
Marbles are pretty sturdy things. This one went straight through two sheets of fibre cement, 2 sheets of 3/4 inch ply, no chickens, 2 feet above grandma hanging out washing 30 yards away and embedded itself in the woodwork fully 2 inches from the only stained glass window in our house:o
Coool!!!
Gran was less than impressed, though didn't learn of the marbles final resting place until many years later...
Rang my mate and told him of my success. His dad was into shotgun reloading (remember paper hulls??) so he perked a few oz of #4 and off we headed to the Manawatu river.
Set it up in a gap in the willows, loaded up, waited for a covey of ducks that appeared to be floating downstream and lit the blue touch paper again. The cannon spoke and 4 ducks found their way into our schoolbags to present to an appreciative dad:wtfsmilie:
The next day I couldn't find my cannon anywhere???? :yuush:
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This is 1 of his creations, they’re really cool, I will ask him if he’s ok for me to pass on his details and then pm or get them thru to you.
Yea ,thats the one.
Would appreciate that Jamie