CrufflerSteve
36 Cal.
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I'm going to have some money soon, assuming my son and car stay out of trouble.
I have some fun blasters but I've been thinking about a historically correct field gun that I could take to shoots
and re-enactments. My car can tow 1800 pounds so that rules out full size field guns and pushes me in the mountain
howitzer direction. I'm not overly thrilled about that. In my part of the country, if you have a small field
cannon, it is a mountain howitzer, usually on a prairie carriage. I'd like something different.
I'm thinking about buying the whole deal, barrel & carriage to have one that I can use as model for future
projects.
Wild Imports has interesting guns at a good price. There are problems. The tubing is not seamless. They are not
NSSA approved and have no plans for that. Even with my amateur eye, there are some differences between their
carriages and 'correct' ones. I've looked at some of their barrels and their casting around a tube seems to leave
quite a few voids.
I looked at the King howitzer. Its very nice looking but it is small. From the quoted weights of the barrel,
a ball round would be darned near sticking out the bore.
I've been looking at other, more expensive manufacturers. Cannons Online has a cool looking Pack Parrot. I
checked with the fellow who runs 'The Artilleryman' and he feels this is historical fiction, that not a
single Pack Parrot was ever issued and the short barrel would have made the Parrot's progressive rifling useless.
Cannon Ltd. has a ductile iron mountain howitzer barrel with a 3" ranter than the usual 4.62" bore. If I'll
be casting zinc balls, that would save a lot of material and make me feel better shooting lighter balls.
It is looking like a mountain howitzer by default but I'm open to suggestions about cannon and suppliers. I'm
not totally attached to US Civil war cannon. If I get one of those it would be union. I'm a northerner. Whatever
I get should be historically correct and made to NSSA standards. I do think subcalibering is fine and a good
safety feature.
Steve
I have some fun blasters but I've been thinking about a historically correct field gun that I could take to shoots
and re-enactments. My car can tow 1800 pounds so that rules out full size field guns and pushes me in the mountain
howitzer direction. I'm not overly thrilled about that. In my part of the country, if you have a small field
cannon, it is a mountain howitzer, usually on a prairie carriage. I'd like something different.
I'm thinking about buying the whole deal, barrel & carriage to have one that I can use as model for future
projects.
Wild Imports has interesting guns at a good price. There are problems. The tubing is not seamless. They are not
NSSA approved and have no plans for that. Even with my amateur eye, there are some differences between their
carriages and 'correct' ones. I've looked at some of their barrels and their casting around a tube seems to leave
quite a few voids.
I looked at the King howitzer. Its very nice looking but it is small. From the quoted weights of the barrel,
a ball round would be darned near sticking out the bore.
I've been looking at other, more expensive manufacturers. Cannons Online has a cool looking Pack Parrot. I
checked with the fellow who runs 'The Artilleryman' and he feels this is historical fiction, that not a
single Pack Parrot was ever issued and the short barrel would have made the Parrot's progressive rifling useless.
Cannon Ltd. has a ductile iron mountain howitzer barrel with a 3" ranter than the usual 4.62" bore. If I'll
be casting zinc balls, that would save a lot of material and make me feel better shooting lighter balls.
It is looking like a mountain howitzer by default but I'm open to suggestions about cannon and suppliers. I'm
not totally attached to US Civil war cannon. If I get one of those it would be union. I'm a northerner. Whatever
I get should be historically correct and made to NSSA standards. I do think subcalibering is fine and a good
safety feature.
Steve