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Offline guzzibill

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cannon losses virginity
« on: April 25, 2010, 11:24:56 PM »
this is the first shot out of my newest cannon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2es2agbz7rc&feature=player_embedded

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Re: cannon losses virginity
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2010, 11:45:00 PM »
wow thats a magnificent piece

please tell us some more about it
and lots of close up photos please
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Re: cannon losses virginity
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2010, 04:58:13 AM »
Overkill Bill  :D

Thats a darn nice boat gun  , who made it ?

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Re: cannon losses virginity
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2010, 05:26:34 AM »
Bill,

Nice gun!!!  Tell us more about it.  Post more pictures.


You need to get with Dom and have him build a proper carriage for that tube!!!  Then you would a spare carriage one of the other sponsors could build you a Napoleon barrel for.  You didn't know these things could breed didyou?

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Re: cannon losses virginity
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2010, 05:40:35 AM »
Here is the link to the photos "guzzibill " posted during his build.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19323179@N03/sets/72157617492288040/

 guzzibill,

 Thanks for posting the video. I enjoyed it! Your project turned out very nicely!
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Re: cannon losses virginity
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2010, 06:30:18 PM »
That's a great one! Looks nice, fires excellently!
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Re: cannon losses virginity
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2010, 08:46:17 PM »
 Thanks guys, it works flawlessly.  I missed the 100 yard gong by about four feet on the first shot. I had not planed on shooting it that day, but said what the hell and took it to the range. I only had two balls for it ( hard rubber LaCross balls )  but I had to shoot it.  this is no prticular "gun"  it was what I could do with what I found at the metal depot, a chunk of steel tube.  I then had it machined to my specs,( that I made up in my head  ) I had a plug / chamber made, pressed it in, pinned it, welded it , back plated and welded that also.  The carrage is bassed on a mountain Howitzer  the elevator is a brass acme screw from a large fire sprinkler valve. I still have a bunch of iron bits, handles and such to finish up....  but one thing is sure... it works, both with fuse and with musket caps.

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Re: cannon losses virginity
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2010, 01:06:02 AM »
What a feeling!
It doesn't get any better than that!
SO, repeat it often!
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Re: cannon losses virginity
« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2010, 07:41:12 AM »
this is no prticular "gun"  it was what I could do with what I found at the metal depot, a chunk of steel tube.  I then had it machined to my specs,( that I made up in my head  ) I had a plug / chamber made, pressed it in, pinned it, welded it , back plated and welded that also.  The carrage is bassed on a mountain Howitzer  the elevator is a brass acme screw from a large fire sprinkler valve. I still have a bunch of iron bits, handles and such to finish up....  but one thing is sure... it works, both with fuse and with musket caps.

That would be a MacGyver pattern cannon.
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Re: cannon losses virginity
« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2010, 08:53:10 AM »
Guzzibill,
That's some sweet "surf music" on the soundtrack of a video that features an even sweeter looking gun; ya gotta be from California. ;D

I looked up some info on the balls: About 2.5" diam., and weight from 5 to 5 and a quarter oz.; How did those solid rubber lacrosse balls hold up to being fired?
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