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Feltwad

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Can a rampart gun which is 4bore rifled be entered in this forum .Rampart guns were used on defence wall and also on ship deck for blasting out the rigging ?
Feltwad
 
Is yours rifled? Mine is a smoothy :wink:

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Hi Robin

Mine is percussion and rifle .
Question
Do you still have that short video of you firing it
Feltwad :surrender:
 
Have you tried firing the gun from the shoulder??
(A fellow on www.pigeonwatch.co.uk has a 2-bore ML smoothie that he hunts sea ducks with. - It weighs about 15#.)

yours, satx
 
Feltwad said:
Hi Robin

Mine is percussion and rifle .
Question
Do you still have that short video of you firing it
Feltwad :surrender:
Enclosed is a image of my rampart gun the for wad mount is for display only, the barrel is damascus and rifle this type of gun was mostly used on ship for shooting out the rigging
Feltwad


 
Fwiw, our church's "Home Missionary" to the NA tribes of Northern AK (He & the family reside at North Star, AK) has participated in a WHALE HUNT using a ML gun that fires (What Roy estimated as) a TWO POUND projectile.

I asked Roy if he ever shot "the whale gun" & he said, "NO & I don't want to!!"
(Fwiw, Roy is definitely "no pussycat", as he "feeds his family with his rifle" & once tried to drive out & finally had to kill a hungry Polar Bear INSIDE the church & that had "decided to crash a baby shower" at the Christian Life Center.)

yours, satx
 
BillinOregon said:
Feltwad: That is a one very cool rampart gun. Surely it weighs 20 pounds or more, eh? Do you shoot it?
Bill
Afraid not it is part of a collection although it has some wait it would definitely shake your brains
Feltwad
 
BillinOregon said:
Lovely! How much does she weigh, Robin?

Around 28 lbs

The barrel tapers from 2.2" down to 1.3" over it's 47" length.

The ramrod alone weighs nearly 2 lbs
 
Smokey Plainsman said:
Do these have any relation to the "wall guns" used on land forts?

I would like a replica of one of these. Lyman needs to make one for under $600! :wink:
These are also what they were build for thus the name Rampart Gun.
Feltwad
 
There are a lot of guns in the museums and especially the Landeszeughaus in Graz which have hooks below the barrels (Hakenbuchse-hackbutts?)and later ones have a pin for trunnion use near the balance point. One is mounted in a pintle on a tripod which leads me t think they may have been 2-man mobile arrangements (Crew-served wpn) not just wall guns for fortifications.
Has anyone seen articles about tactical use of these weapons, or pictures that refer to them?
 
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