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Brianc

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I’m contemplating my next project being a full scale Civil war style mountain Howitzer , I know almost nothing about cannons but I have wanted to do this for a long time. I’m hoping someone here can steer me in the right direction? I’m wanting the simplest carriage possible but the safest barrel . Possibly someone here can direct me to the barrel manufacturer and start there
 
We had one of these, 40 years ago, in Dement's Battery, Maryland Light Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia CSA.
Mountain Howitzer
We also had two mountain rifles....

No idea where the carriage came from for any of the guns, and likely if I did the maker would be out of business.

These might help:
Mountain Howitzer Plans

Me and the boys 40 years ago. I'm the last guy on the right side of the photo in the kepi and suspenders. With the low amount of documentation compared with what we have today due to the internet..., we don't look half bad. Like they emptied the local schools to man the cannon for the latter part of the ACW....,

Dement's Battery Maryland Light Artillery CSA.jpg


IF I had been there at that age, then the year would be 1904 right now..., modern rifles, machine guns, and aircraft would've been invented in my lifetime.... o_O

LD
 
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I have my tablet so I can't put up a picture

But Fort Sill has one

Barrel weight 220 lbs

Barrel and carriage weight 500 lbs

12 pounder, caliber 4.62"

good to 1000 yards

Listed as model M1841

There's a cannon with about a two inch bore that may be for sale down the road from here, it is absolutely gorgeous

I would buy it before getting a mountain howitzer
 
Fort Ridgely, Minnesota. U.S. Model 1841 12 Pounder Mountain Howitzer. On display in the fort's reconstructed commissary, this Ames Manufacturing Co. bronze tube weighs 222 pounds, was accepted by Army Ordnance inspector Alexander Brydie Dyer, and has a bore four and five-eighths of an inch in diameter.

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Fort Ridgely, Minnesota. U.S. Model 1841 12 Pounder Mountain Howitzer. On display in the fort's reconstructed commissary, this Ames Manufacturing Co. bronze tube weighs 222 pounds, was accepted by Army Ordnance inspector Alexander Brydie Dyer, and has a bore four and five-eighths of an inch in diameter.

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That would be a living room fixture any wife would be proud to have 😇
 
I have my tablet so I can't put up a picture

But Fort Sill has one

Barrel weight 220 lbs

Barrel and carriage weight 500 lbs

12 pounder, caliber 4.62"

good to 1000 yards

Listed as model M1841

There's a cannon with about a two inch bore that may be for sale down the road from here, it is absolutely gorgeous

I would buy it before getting a mountain howitzer
 
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