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    Cannon ID help needed

    Just side note. Salute cannons are the number one type cannon that kill and maim people every year. Every New Years and every 4th of July and periodically through out the year we hear reports of people getting killed or injured from them They are made from just about anything and everything...
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    Cannon ID help needed

    A clinky ring like that you would hear if you struck a cast iron skillet. I suspect this cannon may be a commercially made gun and it even may be safe to fire. That number stamped into it is made with modern hand stamps and is probably put there by the founder as their registry mark, and to...
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    Cannon ID help needed

    Casting lines, bore size and oversized reinforces are not signs of old cannon--more in line with typical cast iron piece from the 50's---1950's. Can't say that eliminates it from a fiesta gun. Few taps with a hammer to see rings like cast iron should tel the tale. Definitely not a shooter...
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    Mini Bronze cannon caliber???

    I shot with SAMCC this past weekend at Poinsetta range in Amanzimtoti
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    Mini Bronze cannon caliber???

    Paul where are you in SA? The South African Miniature cannon club Durban has a number cannons plans that they will share with you. Google South African miniature Cannon club.
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    pair of cannon id/info

    Well at best guess K.S.S. is the maker intials of the home made cannon. You need to post a lot more pictures with better details and description for us to help. The Fullsize picture of both cannons hint at a pair of home made cannons. The picture with the V or partial N hint at something...
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    The(long) Story of a Homemade Cannon

    You need to write this story up and fold up and put it in a small envelope and attach it to the bottom of the gun carriage...the provenance will be priceless to some one in your family in the future. Thanks for sharing.
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    Wooden (tube liner)Signal Cannon

    Something to keep in mind a wooden barreled cannon will not have the greater mass to reduce and dampen recoil and will need to be restrain as were the originals to keep it from flying off down the deck...even with blanks.
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    Video-Black powder cannon project

    Actually If Squire Robin seems a bit bitter he has every right to be. Several years ago he posted a video on the net about a cannon he has. There were some parts of the video that showed some unsafe loading procedures. There was nothing that a polite comment pointing out the issue would not...
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    Video-Black powder cannon project

    We may not be experts, but some of us have a pretty good idea what we are doing. You need to spend a little more time doing your research and learn about guns and cannons, how to make them and how to not make them. For the record your cannon may never blow up and you may never have an...
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    Video-Black powder cannon project

    Accident looking for a place to happen...
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    Sighting cannons

    There are instructions on how to aim a cannon on the South African Miniature cannon club website. http://southafricancannons.org/pages/aim.html
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    thundermugs

    Confused? Sorry did not mean to confuse you. He asked the question and the answer is yes. The answer is not No. But yes has conditions. Sorry you were confused.
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    thundermugs

    Well said 54ball. A proof load is a well calculated load to develop a specific pressure. Using the American standard of proofing, the design is proofed usually to generate between 140% and 190% of peak working pressure. The proofing protocol may call for one or more shots. That specific gun...
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    Windage

    Ouch what a massive over load. The maximum recommend load for a 1 inch bore is 185 grins of Fg. Okay so I use 200 grains of Fg. Here is 200 gr. Fg and a 9 oz. Slug. Here is 200 grain FG and a 3.4 oz round ball. You can see why I don't use the 9 oz slug any more...tears up...
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    Cannon School

    Contact the North South Skirmish Association for information Cannon schools.
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    Windage

    Went down to the Hardware store and bought some brass double blocks and strung them with real hemp. My blocks are very muck functional. They work in concert with the breeching to dampen recoil Have shot some blanks usually when every one else shooting firecrackers...
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    Windage

    I made the tube as a machine shop project in college....tapers, radii and deep hole drill. 4140 Anealed. Do you mean this photo? or or mayhaps... all the same gun
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    Windage

    I'll show you mine if you show me yours... I built this one in 1984 in Gunsmithing school. It is modeled after this gun from the U.S.S. Cairo First gun on the right.
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    Windage

    Yes pressure reduction upon firing is one benefit. The other is to make loading easier. Recall the increased resistance to load a patched ball in even a smoothbore over the resistance of loading an unpatched ball in say a .50 cal musket for instance. The resistance is from friction of the...
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