My Black Powder Cannon on the 4th of July Fun

[Rusty Heap]

One of my Moms BEST garage sale finds of all time. THANKS MOM.

.........and then she says, quote, "you're not really going to shoot it are you?..............helllllll yessssss Mom.......hellllll yesssssssss.

.68 INCH BORE, ~60 POUNDS OF ALL CAST IRON.


Best I can I.D. it, it's a late 1800's coast guard signal cannon.

[porsche4life]

Awesome!

[herr_oberst]

Your Mom found a black powder cannon at a yard sale and bought it for you.
Pause.
Pause.
Pause some more and just think about this for a minute...


That is just about the coolest thing I've heard in a while....

[Porchdog]

I helped a buddy build a cannon. 1-11/16" bore, it shoots a golf ball or 1# lead ball (we made a mold).

The barrel is about 100#, the naval style carriage is probably another 100. On smooth ground it recoils about 3'.

[Hard-Deck]

Excellent!

[Jim Bremner]

Originally Posted by Porchdog

I helped a buddy build a cannon. 1-11/16" bore, it shoots a golf ball or 1# lead ball (we made a mold).

The barrel is about 100#, the naval style carriage is probably another 100. On smooth ground it recoils about 3'.

Drill it out!

What could go wrong?

[pete3799]

My mom never bought me a cannon

[BlueSkyJaunte]

A buddy of mine builds bowling ball cannons. The one time I went out with him we got around 6 shots off before the cops showed up.

They were impressed.

[sc_rufctr]

Excellent! :d:d:d

[porsche930dude]

nice that thing is cool! my brother fired up one of his pulse jet engines to rouse the neighbors

[widgeon13]

I have a potato gun.

[Drdogface]

Great video of it too.. I had a bowling ball mortar but sold it....too heavy to take anywhere ... Built a tennis ball mortar out of Stainless steel pipe nipple... I have to fill the tennis balls with water or they just blow apart.

[Rusty Heap]

A teacher of mine in High School was REALLY into civil war reenactment's.........full on costumes, and oh yeah she owned a 4 foot long rifled barrel cannon. The slug was a pop/beer can filled with concrete, and they shot it at bedsheets as targets hundreds of yards away for accuracy.

Got expensive to shoot it a lot, but the popcan made for a good "full metal jacket" slug.

[Rikao4]

give your Mom a hug ...

Rika

[kach22i]

Cool, but beer (Corona) and things that go boom, just do not go together well.

You should be following the same precautions you would around firearms.

[Rusty Heap]

Originally Posted by kach22i

Cool, but beer (Corona) and things that go boom, just do not go together well.

You should be following the same precautions you would around firearms.

the beer bottle is still capped in the photo, so neener neener. I put the bottle into that short clip for scale only.



Here's a few of the real civil war days. I can't imagine that that sounded and smelled like. Note all the stacked cannon balls, with fuse holes.


Awesome stunningly good restored photos:

[BK911]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

Your Mom found a black powder cannon at a yard sale and bought it for you.
Pause.
Pause.
Pause some more and just think about this for a minute...


That is just about the coolest thing I've heard in a while....

No doubt.

Video was awesome, but the cannon was more awesomer.

What were you shooting? Shooting at?

Next video should show some targets being blasted!

Time for a craigslist search for "cannon".

[BK911]

Found one! And he references a '62 Porsche. Maybe a sign?

The Coolest Cannon EVER

[Laneco]

I think it's official... Dave has the COOLEST MOM EVER!!!

Anybody whose Mom can top the "honey I bought you a cannon gift" please step up!

angela

[Gooch1971]

All I got was a Squatty Potty.