PitchyPine
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It will be a while before I get to choosing the barrel for the canon i`m going to try and build, but I have a couple questions for you guys before that time comes.
First i would like to have a barrel that is 2 1/2 inch. so it can shoot tennis balls.
This canon will be the removable breech type and I want to be able to make smoke with as little powder as possible. Now figuring the powder and ball will be loaded in the removable breech if one only put say 100 grains of powder in then a ball, because of the size of the bore the powder will be completely covered with the ball. I don`t see how a smaller sub chamber would work out either. In one of the video`s the guy pounded a wood stave down the breech on top of the powder i assume to take up space then loaded the ball down the barrel but i`m not sure.
Any advice would be appreciated before i get to making the barrel. I want to be able to load powder and ball in the removable breech. Also i`d like to use FF powder which only makes the problem worse i suppose.
My thought and fear is with that big of bore and that small amount of powder that the the flash in the touch hole won`t even reach the powder.
Please help with these questions because they are holding up the thought process of building the rest of the canon if ya know what i mean. :hmm:
First i would like to have a barrel that is 2 1/2 inch. so it can shoot tennis balls.
This canon will be the removable breech type and I want to be able to make smoke with as little powder as possible. Now figuring the powder and ball will be loaded in the removable breech if one only put say 100 grains of powder in then a ball, because of the size of the bore the powder will be completely covered with the ball. I don`t see how a smaller sub chamber would work out either. In one of the video`s the guy pounded a wood stave down the breech on top of the powder i assume to take up space then loaded the ball down the barrel but i`m not sure.
Any advice would be appreciated before i get to making the barrel. I want to be able to load powder and ball in the removable breech. Also i`d like to use FF powder which only makes the problem worse i suppose.
My thought and fear is with that big of bore and that small amount of powder that the the flash in the touch hole won`t even reach the powder.
Please help with these questions because they are holding up the thought process of building the rest of the canon if ya know what i mean. :hmm: