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Offline cannonmn

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One serious cannonball
« on: November 15, 2008, 12:00:58 PM »
Here's a 20 inch Rodman shot, wt. 1000 lbs. 

Current Location:  South America

No, it didn't land there after being fired from New York Harbor. 

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b62/cannonmn/miscforumsetc/forums23/PROYECTIL_DE_1000_LBS_A.jpg
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Re: One serious cannonball
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2008, 12:06:36 PM »
well it aint exactly nano size   ;D ;D
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Re: One serious cannonball
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2008, 12:07:27 PM »
Wow, that's big! I guess he doesn't just "toss it" in the trunk of that Toyota.  :D Thanks, for the photo.
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Re: One serious cannonball
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2008, 12:57:01 PM »
One thing I noticed was the non-canted shot tong hole.  That means the two shot-tong holes are 180 degrees apart, unlike those on smaller shot and shells.
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Re: One serious cannonball
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2008, 03:45:21 PM »
     Thanks for posting that photo, John.  We have a particular fondness for those big cored shot and the two guns made to shoot them. Supposedly, during the testing of the gun which went to Fort Hancock located on Sandy Hook in New Jersey, the last shot fired went an estimated 8,000 yards according to Ordnance Officers and newsmen observing.  That's 4.5 miles.  That's as far as the 200 pounder Parrott called the "Swamp Angel" shot it's shells during Gen. Quincy Gilmore's bombardment of Charleston, SC in 1863.  If anyone is interested in  seeing how huge the 20" Rodman Guns really were, they can go to our site and highlight  "Photo Gallery" an then go down to the New York menu item and single click on it.  There are 26,000 lbs. of those huge shot in one pic. 

What's it worth, John, 50 cents a lb., scrap value?  We wish!

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Re: One serious cannonball
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2008, 04:48:27 PM »
How much powder did they use ?
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Re: One serious cannonball
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2008, 05:16:47 PM »
And why are there geckos crawling... oops, sorry! Those are his gloves.
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Re: One serious cannonball
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2008, 05:17:23 PM »
     Four shots only, then retirement.  First used 50 lbs.  Second, 100 lbs.  Third, 150 lbs.  Fourth, 200 lbs.  You could have obscured the Seventh Fleet with that much smoke.

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Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,
With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets
It's only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets - 'Tss! 'Tss!

From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling

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Re: One serious cannonball
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2008, 04:24:46 PM »
Now all we have to do is have dominick build a mortar to shoot it.............. ::)

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