What is the bore diameter?  I have a Lyle Line throw gun that is 2 1/2 inch and take coors beer cans.  A beer can full of cament makes a great hole in targets out past 1000 yard!

Det

Some day I intend to get a Lyle Gun. Not sure if the ASSRA is the correct place as it is a muzzle loader but they sure are interesting.
Cheers,
Laurie

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)    Paul Barnett's business is is a great source for all sorts of info and supplies. Studying their catalogue is an education in itself

  I also noted a book by Matt Switlick on BP artillery.   Both guys are incredibly knowledgeable.

 Paul has been building replacement guns for the National Park Service for years to replace the originals scattered all over the nations battlefields.  
He has also done numerous live fire accompaniments with major orchestras performing the 1812 Overture. he has a whole battery of Lyles for that purpose.
Matt has coordinated all sorts of BP artillery live fire events and was the first guy who recreated the Ferguson rifle.  If I recall correctly he also coordinated the live fire and impact recording for the sound effects for "Master and Commander"
Both guys have been expert wittnesses in BP cannon accidents and gave major testimony in Washington when the ATF was trying to shut down private BP ownership some years back.
They are two of the unsung heros of our sports

Nice job on the barrel Powderhead. Have you considered a disappearing carriage like the one on my coastal defense gun? You could shoot at the neighbors and they'd never know who did it.  

                          Joe.

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No no, I keep the breechblock down in the basement. That way nobody can shoot it when I'm not there. Ya have to be responsible with these big guns. Some dummy might lobb one into downtown Victoria BC. 


                                            Joe.  

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U. S. Army Coastal Artillery Corps.  Here's a link:  (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

David

There's something I've always wondered about those 'disappearing' guns. How can anything mounted behind massive concrete and stone abutments that belches 75 foot sheets of flame and smoke clouds as large as a four story house manage to disappear in a convincing manner? Oh Gawd, how I'd love to pull the lanyard on one of  things even if it was loaded with blanks! Yeah, I know, that has profound Freudian implications.   Well sometimes a 16 inch coastal defense gun is just --- a 16 inch coastal defense gun.