Cannon 1 1/2" bore

[billjoe]

[billjoe]

This is an awesome picture I would like to share if someone can make it post.  Thanks.

bj

[Double D]

Pretty neat picture...I fixed it for you...tell us about the gun!

The link you posted was to your picture page and defaulted to some luttle gun in .375 JDJ.  We only do big guns here...

If you will go to your post with the picture in it  and click on the dit command you can go in and see how the link is suppose to look.  If you look at the bottom of the page in your photo album where your picture is posted you'll see the link that I cut an pasted for you.

[Cat Whisperer]

bj -
  Awesome is the correct term!

How about a few details on the cannon?  Bore, material, range, projectiles, etc.?

Thanks,

[Calamity Jane]

NEAT!

Tell us about it!

[Cat Whisperer]

BillJoe -

Western Wisconsin eh?  Anywhere near Ft. McCoy?

[billjoe]

for posting the picture.  I'll give your technique a try.

Cat- I'm about 100 miles west of Ft McCoy on the MN/WI border.

This cannon was built in 1983 by a small group of close friends called the Smouth Bros.  I’m not sure exactly what roll Pa, Elliot, Harley, or Buford Smouth played to generate the actual design and construction, but the cannon has become somewhat of a mascot for the Smouths for the past 20 years.

The 31” steel barrel supports a 1-1/2” bore with 7/16” thick sidewalls.  This came off a detasseling machine used by seed companies to detassel seed corn production fields.  The barrel is capped off at the breach with a trailer hitch ball flawlessly welded to the end of the tube.  A 3/16” flash hole allows for flashing the powder, though cannon fuse is most often used.  The 26” steel wheels were donated to the project by a brother-in-law of Harley Smouth and are mounted 30” apart onto a 1-1/2” steel axel and carriage frame.  Two handles are welded onto the end of the carriage to allow for easy maneuvering of the cannon.  The overall length of the unit, carriage and barrel, is 5’.  

2oz FF black powder or Pyrodex RS and some newspaper wadding will give a report that will echo 4 times in the valley where I shoot.  We usually don’t shoot projectiles but that is not always the case.  Like the time we shot the leaf rake…. Now that is another story.

Enjoy the shot.

bj

[Cat Whisperer]

bj -

I spent two summers at Ft.McCoy.  Good people, food and beer.

I guess we asked...

But I do wonder what the ballistic coefficient of a leaf rake is.