Shortened Barrel

[ol vern]

had this bulged barrel so I cut off the damaged part re breached
it and made this can't call it a canoe gun how about a buggy trunk monkey?
50cal 17 in barrel

 

[Rifleman1776]

Too short for my liking. I would have rebarreled. But, if yer happy that is all that matters. Wear yer ear plugs, those shorty barrels blast sumptin' awful.

 

[coloradoclyde]

How does it shoot?

 

[Cowboy]

Don't know what you would call it but I think it looks really cool! The whole setup looks great.

Thanks for sharing your pic!

Respectfully, Cowboy :thumbsup:

 

[eggwelder]

you "could" cut the butt off at the pistol grip, reshape the wood nice and smooth, heavy duty dragoon (ish) pistol.....

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Another option might be to have a smith heat the end of the barrel and use a mandrel to slightly flare it. Not as massively flared as the currently offered blunderbuss muzzles, but enough to be noticed, and to help loading.

LD

 

[ol vern]

About all I have done is make sure the lock worked and it was
safe to shoot with 50 gr. of fffg.

Haven't worked out a load or set the sights yet. Right now
I would say it shoots around minuet of barn door. :rotf:

 

[Loyalist Dave]

HA! :haha:

"That would make a terrific weapon, ya know dat?"
I says, "Well..., you'd have to get right on top of the guy..."
Bob Newhart - German Rocket Scientist

LD

 

[don hepler]

I cut a White Mountain Carbine, down. The stock had a plaque or something on the butt, and someone used a screw driver to remove it, before pawning it. I rescued it and cut the barrel and stock and made it into a Mare's Leg, canoe gun, blanket gun, coach gun, or whatever you want to call it.

 

[Commodore Swab]

If Im not mistaken there was a cut down musket recovered from the wreck of the Whydah.

 

[Elkeater]

Can be reloaded quickly while sitting. Horseback or ......
Looks cool

 

[Brokennock]

I'll look next week. The Whyda museum is 15 minutes from my cottage on the cape. Been following its story for years.

 

[Walks with fire]

I have a .50 caliber with a 20" barrel and it's not bad on recoil or muzzle blast with a round ball over 80 grains of 2f. I wouldn't push it much over 75 yards though. I sight mine in an inch high at 50. You should still get 1400/1450 fps. out of the 17".

 

[TAC2]

I like it :thumbsup:

 

[bpd303]

This one was put together with scrounged parts. Has a 16 inch 40 caliber 1:66 twist barrel. Fun to shoot and pretty accurate with 45 gr fffg goex.