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Offline moconfed

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Full scale or?
« on: August 18, 2010, 03:06:24 PM »
How many here have full scale guns, as compared to smaller models?

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2010, 03:12:30 PM »
I've got a 1/3 scale ten pound Parrott.

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2010, 03:14:04 PM »
I own a full scale Morko gonne .
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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2010, 03:29:39 PM »
All the guns that I am currently using are full scale.  I have a couple of working subscale guns that I am not using at this time.
Norm Gibson, 1st SC Vol., ACWSA

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2010, 03:58:45 PM »
How does a bowling ball mortar fit in? I say scale do to it's light weight.

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2010, 04:29:33 PM »
Scale?

Hmmm.

Mine shoot: firecrackers, 20ga, 12ga slugs, 3/4" copper tubing (90 cal), 1", golf-ball, beer can, 16-20-24oz soda pop bottles, and 4" pvc pipe (4.500").

Scale to something perhaps, but chosen for availability of ammo.
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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2010, 05:21:14 PM »
1 full scale reduced bore 2.25" Coehorn
1 half scale 2.25"  Parrott
1 third  scale 2.75" Coehorn mortar
1 sixth scale 1.67" Seacoast mortar
2 sixth scale 1.0"  Dahlgren & Sawyer
1 sixth scale 0.75" Napoleon
1 10th scale 1.0"   Seacoast mortar
Way too many and never enough!
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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2010, 05:39:23 PM »
I have a couple of working subscale guns that I am not using at this time.

Norm,
What do you have in the way of subscale pieces?
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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2010, 05:40:26 PM »
1 full scale reduced bore 2.25" Coehorn
1 half scale 2.25"  Parrott
1 third  scale 2.75" Coehorn mortar
1 sixth scale 1.67" Seacoast mortar
2 sixth scale 1.0"  Dahlgren & Sawyer
1 sixth scale 0.75" Napoleon
1 10th scale 1.0"   Seacoast mortar
Way too many and never enough!

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2010, 05:50:44 PM »
Hi ;D
I have a full scale 10# parrott and a 12# mountain howitzer
Gary

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2010, 09:12:21 PM »
    I am not a collector, so I own just a few cannon.  They are ALL shooters and some are lookers too.  An 11" Paixhans Monster Mortar tops the list and weighs 1,250 pounds.  It's only 2/5 scale though.  I'm proud to own a Dominick creation too, a 1" Dahlgren Shell Gun.  Then there is the Mallets Monster Mortar Jr. in 1/21 scale, a golf ball gun.  There is a 275 pound, 1/2 scale, 8" seige mortar, model 1797, in 4" cal.  A soda can coehorn mortar on a traditional bed was used recently for guided projectile testing.  A nano cannon, 10" Rodman Gun in .177 cal. was fun to make using an electric drill lathe.  Mike and I own a half interest in several 1/6 scale seacoast guns and now a Krupp Firecracker Cannon.           That's it, oops, not quite, sorry Gary, but I also "collected" two Lorenz, bronze guns, a Morko Gonne and an 1838 bronze 6 Pdr.  However, as soon as the backlog is down a bit, I will be shooting those as well!

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2010, 05:19:33 AM »
Zulu, Spoken by a guy who has run out of room to keep his Kewpies much less his guns! :D
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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2010, 05:54:10 AM »
I also own a full scale Morko!
I've also got a 5/8 scale Carronade.

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #13 on: August 19, 2010, 08:13:35 AM »
  1 full scale 2.25 csa mountain rifle,
  1 full scale 24 lb trediger mortar
  2 full scale 24 union coehorn mortar
  1 full scale 12 lb trediger mortar.
  and i want one of dom's GB dictator.

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #14 on: August 19, 2010, 09:03:15 AM »
1     Full scale coehorn mortar, sub-bored SBR
1     1/7 Dahlgren 9 inch (GB bore)
1     1/3 field howitzer(GB bore)
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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #15 on: August 19, 2010, 02:06:48 PM »
Hi ;D
I have a full scale 10# parrott and a 12# mountain howitzer

Gary,
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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2010, 11:38:02 AM »






 1 full scale 2.25 csa mountain rifle,
  1 full scale 24 lb trediger mortar
  2 full scale 24 union coehorn mortar
  1 full scale 12 lb trediger mortar.
  and i want one of dom's GB dictator.

rick bryan
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Rick,  I am working on the new golf ball Dictator.   I got the barrels from the mahine shop. [one on right]  Just have to assemble it.  Dom



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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2010, 12:24:50 PM »
I have a couple of working subscale guns that I am not using at this time.

Norm,
What do you have in the way of subscale pieces?

I have a 1/2 scale Napoleon (iron), a foot long, .58 cal., bronze piece that is not a particular model, and a 1/10 scale bronze 6 pdr.
Norm Gibson, 1st SC Vol., ACWSA

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #18 on: August 24, 2010, 01:19:08 PM »
Thanks Norm, I was curious because I didn't remember you ever mentioning the smaller scale stuff.
Did you start out with the half scale Napoleon, and then move up to the full scale?
RIP John. While on vacation July 4th 2013 in northern Wisconsin, he was ATVing with family and pulled ahead of everyone and took off at break-neck speed without a helmet. He lost control.....hit a tree....and the tree won.  He died instantly.

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #19 on: August 31, 2010, 03:19:38 AM »
1/2 scale 1841 naval
Full scale 2.25" CSA MTN Rifle
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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #20 on: August 31, 2010, 07:05:14 AM »
Thanks Norm, I was curious because I didn't remember you ever mentioning the smaller scale stuff.
Did you start out with the half scale Napoleon, and then move up to the full scale?

I started out with the 12 inch, .58 cal. working model first.  Bought a 1/3 scale "sea service" 12 pdr. barrel from South Bend and made a naval carriage for it as my second project.  Sold it and the third project was the 1/2 scale Napoleon.  Fourth project was the full scale Parrott, fifth the Napoleon, and sixth project was the Ellsworth.
Norm Gibson, 1st SC Vol., ACWSA

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #21 on: August 31, 2010, 07:54:45 AM »
Thanks Norm, maybe someday I'll be able to put something on a full-scale list; I know that in all probability it's not going to be a Napoleon, but if I pray and work hard, a bronze repro coehorn could have the possibility of becoming a reality. ;D
RIP John. While on vacation July 4th 2013 in northern Wisconsin, he was ATVing with family and pulled ahead of everyone and took off at break-neck speed without a helmet. He lost control.....hit a tree....and the tree won.  He died instantly.

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #22 on: August 31, 2010, 02:13:26 PM »
BoomJ, There are a lot of small full scale pieces that would make great projects. 
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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #23 on: August 31, 2010, 03:03:42 PM »


I started out with the 12 inch, .58 cal. working model first.  Bought a 1/3 scale "sea service" 12 pdr. barrel from South Bend and made a naval carriage for it as my second project.  Sold it and the third project was the 1/2 scale Napoleon.  Fourth project was the full scale Parrott, fifth the Napoleon, and sixth project was the Ellsworth.

See guys Artilleryman started out small and worked his way up to shooting the big guns in the movies!!!

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #24 on: September 05, 2010, 12:37:12 PM »
BoomJ, There are a lot of small full scale pieces that would make great projects. 

Norm,
I'm sure that there are many members that could talk about the one that got away, but this second model Daniel King howitzer repro always comes to mind when I think about a barrel that I passed up on, and now wish I hadn't. It sold for about $500 four years or so ago on an E-auction site, and it has a steel liner with a 2.75-inch bore. I've been interested in the D. King howitzers ever since learning about them, and this would have been the perfect size for loading in the suv and getting to the range by myself. There also would have been some design leeway in making the carriage, because it isn't known what exact style, or size the carriages for these small pieces were. At any rate, if I had got it at least I could now lay claim to having a full size artillery piece, even though it's kind of small. ;)





RIP John. While on vacation July 4th 2013 in northern Wisconsin, he was ATVing with family and pulled ahead of everyone and took off at break-neck speed without a helmet. He lost control.....hit a tree....and the tree won.  He died instantly.

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Re: Full scale or?
« Reply #25 on: September 05, 2010, 12:57:36 PM »
That is a nice one.  Wish I had seen it, though I can't remember if I had a lot of liquid cash 4 years ago.  I let a beautiful wheellock rifle slip through my hands on an auction site a few years back, and I feel the same way about that one as you do about this.