Thread: Canons?

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

https://youtu.be/ji-6H3sdKMQ

We kept upping the charge untill velocity didn't increase which was around 750 fps from memory and 3 scoops of a lyman powder scoop

your not helping my urges

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Have made a 30 cal bronze one(many years ago)...still has a ball bearing stuck in it from a fail to fire.
And a inch bore with a workmate. Made my own black powder and Fuses from scratch.
Chucks ball bearings straight threw car bodys.

tap a grease nipple onto the touch hole and use a grease gun to push the ball out. Should work i fit all seals up fine.

Originally Posted by 40mm

tap a grease nipple onto the touch hole and use a grease gun to push the ball out. Should work i fit all seals up fine.

Yea I just kinda lost interest in that one as never got around to making a trolley or cradle for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kJx...l=FarmCraft101

I really like this guys videos. This is a short 17minute video of the overall process of casting his own replica civil war cannon.

He has a whole series of videos where he goes through all the metallurgy and casting problems in detail.
He also cast an AR15 receiver from alloy cans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb2v...el=GunCraft101
and
AR10 from brass, yes brass from cartridges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4qE...el=GunCraft101

But youtube was all butt hurt about videos showing people how to manufacture firearms.

Careful what you wish for, guys... a CANON (2 "n"s) is a law or body of laws of a church...a CANNON (3 "n"s) is a huge, single shot. kick-arse firearm, otherwise known in German as an
"Eargesplitten Loudenboomer." and formerly used for taking out the walls of a castle...

Originally Posted by dannyb

quite the opposite here I think the missus and kids would actually enjoy the cannon far more than shooting rifles

genuinely interested even in something smaller as long as it functions

Your a lucky fella having a wife and family that’s into that sorta stuff. My Mrs and daughter can’t quite understand where the enjoyment is of bombing stuff up and putting holes in things or trudging rnd in mud, swamps and bush hunting

Originally Posted by jamie

Your a lucky fella having a wife and family that’s into that sorta stuff. My Mrs and daughter can’t quite understand where the enjoyment is of bombing stuff up and putting holes in things or trudging rnd in mud, swamps and bush hunting

I bet they like venison though

Go back and read the links in Mimms post - the Coehurn mortar story is one of the funniest things I've read.

Maybe send it to G Morgan.

Originally Posted by 40mm

I bet they like venison though

They do mate, but they get a bit put off when I bring animals home and skin them or plucking ducks, but if they don’t see that they’re into it. Mrs seems to think it’s skin should be a plastic tray with gladwrap and a perfume scent😂

I read it, really well done, piss funny but real interesting, well worth reading. He’d be a good fella to have a yak to and look round his shed I reckon

Originally Posted by 40mm

Would is name start with a T?

Why yes and last with M

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Why yes and last with M

Top bloke I heard he just cracked his 100th cannon built!

Originally Posted by norsk

That is interesting, the BP of old over here was more powerful than the modern stuff.

There is a former powder mill in Bergen as well as a magazine by the sea.

Ullrich Bretscher found that modern Swiss ball-milled BP was denser than any homemade BP he could make, but that weight-for-weight his homemade BP was more powerful. So if loading cartridges go for factory BP, if loading a cannon/muzzle loader use homemade BP.

Originally Posted by dannyb

your not helping my urges

I can see a project on the horizon. Made one at high school.

Originally Posted by widerange

Yea ,thats the one.
Would appreciate that Jamie

My mate tried to join forum but bungled it up somehow, so said if anybodies interested in the canons or wants to have yak about them they can email him, his addy is
Goodguns101@gmail.com.
I can assure you he’s a better gunsmith and canon maker than a frustrated computer based forum joiner!