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Shooting the naval cannon!
« on: October 14, 2009, 11:44:22 AM »
Got to get out and shoot some!!

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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2009, 12:54:01 PM »
thats a good one !  ;D
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2009, 02:04:23 PM »
Quote from: RocklockI on October 14, 2009, 12:54:01 PM
thats a good one !  ;D

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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2009, 02:07:18 PM »
Is it a Naval Parrot gun ?
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2009, 02:32:12 PM »
     
Quote from: RocklockI on October 14, 2009, 02:07:18 PM
Is it a Naval Parrot gun ?

    Don't mean to speak for the maker here, but this gun looks very much like the improved Naval Parrott Rifle made for the Spanish Navy with the longer reinforce.  We like the appearance of this gun a lot and it seems to be a good shooter too!

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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2009, 03:26:54 PM »
I modeled the gun tube on one at the D.C. Navy yard museum, they called it a Confederate parrot with Brooke rifling, and I just thought it looked cool.
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2009, 03:31:11 PM »
Ha a CSA brooke rifled parrot ! you dont see one of those every day .
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2009, 04:03:43 PM »
Quote from: FTB1-SS on October 14, 2009, 03:26:54 PM
I modeled the gun tube on one at the D.C. Navy yard museum, they called it a Confederate parrot with Brooke rifling, and I just thought it looked cool.

Quote from: RocklockI on October 14, 2009, 03:31:11 PM
Ha a CSA brooke rifled parrot ! you dont see one of those every day .

     Thanks for that extra info, FTB1-SS.  It's always nice to know where the inspiration came from!  You made a great looking gun, will you be firing any projectiles from it in the future?  What type?

     Gary, this question is designed to get our western moderator out from under his lathe long enough for a "What am I, chopped liver?" comment.  Our question to you is this:  Would you like us to put Brooke, Hook-Slant rifling in your Confederate Parrott next April when we start our Rifled Liner and Rifled Tube subsidiary?  We have determined, by actual test, that in the 1.0" to 1.25" bore sizes that the Brooke seven-groove, triangular rifling is actually slightly more accurate than the Parrott nine-groove, square rifling. 

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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2009, 04:36:02 PM »
The lathe, waits until I get back from Antelope hunting this weekend, depending on how much money I have left from the hunt.  I have to order 8 machine mounts for the new lathe.

I'll get my parrot barrel boxed up and sent right out.
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2009, 05:28:40 PM »
FTB1-SS,
A rich deep baritone voice, and an attractive profile to boot.
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2009, 03:40:36 PM »
Here are the projectiles, for it 1.950 iron ball that run 1.2 lbs should give 1/40 for windage. Had to do some grinding to ensure size.
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2009, 06:30:27 AM »
Where did you get them from?
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #12 on: October 19, 2009, 06:47:59 AM »
 ;D  You can experiment with dougs parrot , to get all the buggs worked out :o .

Ill be next or so . ;D

ETA I thought you were writing to Doug ! but CSA Parrot musta been me  8)   1.5" min ! please .

experimenting with Dougs might still be a good idea !  :D

Please include a replica bolt mold .  ;D   
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2009, 08:16:29 AM »
Here is the link, listed under balls

http://www.kingmetals.com/
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2009, 12:39:29 PM »
Are you shooting without the trunnion caps secured?  It looks like there are no trunnion caps in the second shot.
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2009, 12:31:32 AM »
The caps are on it, they are hard to see.
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2009, 08:40:28 AM »
Quote from: FTB1-SS on October 21, 2009, 12:31:32 AM
The caps are on it, they are hard to see.

Quote from: Zulu on October 20, 2009, 12:39:29 PM
Are you shooting without the trunnion caps secured?  It looks like there are no trunnion caps in the second shot.
Zulu

     FTB1 and Zulu,  I have looked for a reference to "trunnion caps" more than once in my reference books, but I can't find it.  Are you guys talking about those brass or bronze "end of trunnion caps" the British makers sometimes put on some of their seacoast and naval guns, (like the one in SOOT'S new Avatar), or are you talking about the Cap Squares that are used in Field and Naval Artillery to hold the trunnions down as the gun fires?


Trunnion Cap??




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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2009, 08:46:52 AM »
Quote from: FTB1-SS on October 19, 2009, 08:16:29 AM
Here is the link, listed under balls

http://www.kingmetals.com/

Good to know; thanks for the info, FTB1-SS.
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #18 on: October 21, 2009, 08:56:25 AM »
Cap squares and trunnion caps are the same thing
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Re: Shooting the naval cannon!
« Reply #19 on: October 21, 2009, 09:04:26 AM »
Thank you.

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Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
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With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets
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From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling
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