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please provide photos when you get to shoot it   great photos  how I envy your ship  dick eesley

Once you get a stock on it, I'd like to see you shoot it from the shoulder!  And you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!     Seriously, looks like a great job so far.

Powderhead, as one who sometimes manages to come up with some off topic posts I saw welcome aboard and a fantastic cannon. Bet it was fun trucking that baby home. You may just want to post those pics over on the graybeardoutdoors.com black powder cannon and mortar forum. They will definitely love it. Frank

As old Chief Thunderthud would state"COWABUNGA,that only needs a single shot to win"! Magnificent arty piece,that Parrot should lay great eggs.  Thank You: Dick Stack

Maybe I'll try to rifle the next one, but this one's done.  I really don't know what I'll feed it.  I've been told not to shoot lead.  It's too dense and heavy.  I'll find something.  In the mean time I'm looking for some wheels that closely match originals in size.  I've been told to try the Amish buggy makers.  Where ever I find them I expect to pay a lot.  I've been told that they could cost up to $500 per wheel.  Maybe I better try my hand at wheel making!!!

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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.  

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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. 


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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.

What a piece!

As far as ammunition goes you might try to roll your own so to speak.

I've known some fellows over the years who would measure the bore diameter, and make up a cardboard mould and cast their projectile from concrete.

Sounds like cheap easily made ammo to me.

Nice work too by the way!

Bruce

There is a net site called the CDSG-Coast Defence Study Group, you'll find out what happened to the 14" Rear Turrents of the battleship Arazonia.They were removed, re-built and emplaced in the hills behind P.H..They were finally test-fired two days before the atomic bomb was dropped.Needless to say, they were scrapped in 1946, after the war was over.If you ever wonder why we did so little fighting in WWI, it was because all the army's money was sunk into fixed , heavy guns to defend us.There were 147 artillery units in the us army in 1914, only 17 were field artillery.It's no wonder we bought artillery from the French in WW1.I love them, but  Coast Defence guns are a monunent to Military stupidy.

 
There were 2   14"  disappearing guns guarding Honolulu harbor.  Constructed in 1911 as Battery Randolph  at  Fort DeRussy on Waikiki  beach, thay were scrapped in 1946.  There is a small but good museum at that location now where one can view the storage rooms for shot and powder.  A smaller 5 or 6" gun remains on display outside.
     If someone will post pictures i can email them.  They are of  a scale model of the original disappearing guns at DeDussy.
                            andyZ


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Army museum.