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I've build quite a few cannons, both air powered and combustion. Nice work.

 

Thanks

those 2 were the first cannons i ever fired, we picked up that old wooden fort from a junk sale for something to aim at, to be honest i wasnt exspecting so much power from them and it was great fun blowing that fort to bits.

since then iv been given a nice 1inch bore cannon, man does that thing have some kick and needs much tethering.

i will upload some vid/pics next time i fire it.

 

 

Paul

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Many, many years ago I knew a guy who had a Civil War cannon, muzzle was marked 1862, 3" bore, with rifling, non-openable breech. I made wooden projectiles for it slightly bigger than beer cans. Wrapped a rag around one, placed about 1/2 teaspoon of some kind (forget now) of smokeless powder, fired it in my basement at the brick wall far end of the house. Figured with all that volume inside, detonation extremely impossible; it made a sound ~ like a .45 Auto, which I had also fired down there. The wood can hit the wall, without damaging it much, cracked into pieces.

 

Muzzle end was about 6 inches in diameter, tapering to about 10 at the fat end. Had two round trunnions on sides for mounting. Wish I had taken a pic. This was in 1962. tenney

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I would love to build a black powder cannon . But even after a lot of searching finding something strong enough to make the barrel from has been near about impossible for me. I would like at least a 2 inch bore.

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There is a 14" cannon on the UK reenactor scene, the issues include transport weight, safe distances for firing and the cost of both 14" balls and the powder to propel them. Oh! and the legal complications of owning a 14" bore firearm that would take down big defences

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I stumbled across this on on a job one day. I had some ideas for it when I saw it, but never could convince anyone to give me bore diameter. It does get fired ocassionally.

 

I work often in an area that has a fair amount of civil war memorials so cannons are pretty common to see just driving down the road.

 

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Newbie here not trying to hijack a thread just following instructions. I bought a Black powder cannon and need some help. It arrived with no flash hole. The canon's barrel is 29.5 1/2 inches to the rear seam has a 2.5 inch bore and the bore length is 28 inches. How far forward of the end should the flash hole go and what should be the diameter....5/16?? Any help appreciated. Rick.

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Newbie here not trying to hijack a thread just following instructions. I bought a Black powder cannon and need some help. It arrived with no flash hole. The canon's barrel is 29.5 1/2 inches to the rear seam has a 2.5 inch bore and the bore length is 28 inches. How far forward of the end should the flash hole go and what should be the diameter....5/16?? Any help appreciated. Rick.

If it has no "touch hole" maybe it isn't made to be fired. I would be careful with this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZrcT1xQpaY

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Sakorik you should contact the person who sold you that cannon. Ask about the touch hole and why it wasn't drilled before. Ask if it was designed to fire, or be a non firing ornament.

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