Double D., Thanks for including that link to Rickk's build. Mike and I walked beside the garden featured in Rick's Carronade firing picture on July 4, 2007, a couple weeks before he posted those excellent build pics and spectacular firing pic. After I saw that photo, all I could think of was "Fried Green Tomatoes"!! He did a really nice job on that carriage. Check out Page Five.
Thanks for those nice photos, Dom. That's the style I would love to build. It would not be technically difficult to incorporate an under lug on a tube ring applied to the turned tube. With all that surface area on a 5" or 6" ring, a minor shrink fit would lock it so tight that you could fire 10,000 rounds and never dislodge it. Your carriage reminds us of those we saw in fort Niagara near Niagara Falls, NY.
Sounds like a good plan, Jeff. 1" is one of our favorites of all time. A 1" bore would get you a gun which would be similar in size to the one that Dominic posted. It would be in a category that Mike and I call 'Fun Guns'. Fun guns are easy to transport, easy to load and don't crush your foot if the gun recoils onto it!
KABAR2, I would contact cannonmn again. He may have picked up another one by now. You know how prolific a trader and buyer he is! Heck, he didn't ignore seacoast artillery either. He had an 8" something-or-other in the yard by his house and it wasn’t a mortar!!
George, We like your one pounder idea. A golf ball size bore on a relatively light-weight, Carronade might be more practical. A lot of gun weight could be saved with coming down to that size from a true half scale 12 pdr., from 2.31" to 1.72". The effects of a one pound lead ball on a stack of pallets would be splintacular!!
Add a Carronade to the list,
Tracy and Mike