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Offline Owen

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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #30 on: January 14, 2011, 12:44:58 PM »
Im not, But all my family and some very close friends are :( .... all safe so far, have had some very close calls. water within 30cm's of the floor level and lost stuff my sons had stored under his house.
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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #31 on: January 14, 2011, 02:35:08 PM »
Nice sunny Sat morning with nothing else to do


I like it, looks great!!!
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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #32 on: January 14, 2011, 06:13:36 PM »
Owen,
I'm glad to read that you and your family are safe. The Blakely and carriage turned out excellent.
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: New widow blakely
« Reply #33 on: February 09, 2011, 08:51:29 PM »
More work done ... the base will be ready this week as well

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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #34 on: February 09, 2011, 08:55:16 PM »
So will they let you fire that in your socialist paradise?
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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #35 on: February 09, 2011, 09:17:35 PM »
That's a fine looking cannon , Owen.
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: New widow blakely
« Reply #36 on: February 09, 2011, 11:05:11 PM »
So will they let you fire that in your socialist paradise?


Thats the problem ... have to take it to the cops for a serial number that they might not give and have it put on my licence if they do. In the state regs it has to be under 19.8mm or 10 guage but no length it has to be is in the regs and have now had differnt cops give me differnt answers to what it has to be, so far 70cm is the most common answer but guess ill see on the day. If it dosent pass it will be taken as an unregistable fire arm and destroyed. So im not going to drill the touch hole till it does as I think thats what makes it a firearm (again no clear answer from the cops).

LOL wish me luck

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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #37 on: February 09, 2011, 11:44:44 PM »
get a written ansver before you do anything more
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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #38 on: February 10, 2011, 03:28:40 PM »
More work done ... the base will be ready this week as well


This is a fine piece of artwork, anybody that don't want you to drill a touch hole and fire it, well, i think they are a bunch of sissies.
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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #39 on: February 27, 2011, 12:31:11 PM »
Hi again.

The base is ready will have pics this week. Quick question what did they use to aim this thing? Is it a sight of some sort that was placed on the barrel or a sight system fixed to the barrel.

For comps here we need to use period aiming systems. I have looked for pics etc but come up short on info

any help would be great.

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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #40 on: February 27, 2011, 04:43:24 PM »
     Owen,  the short answer is "Sights".  But I bet you already knew that.  Hope we can help a little bit with the following pics.
Almost all seacoast guns that we have studied have breech and rimbase or trunnion ring sights.  I have seen blakely 20 pdr. field guns with graduated rear sights with a simple "V" notch and a blade front sight.  We never have seen a seacoast Blakely with sights, but the two pics might give you some ideas.  Love your gun and carriage!  Very nice execution on the Chassis too.

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The “Canon de 30 par Voruz” 1864
The last major contract fulfilled by Captain Blakely for the Confederate States was that for the armament of four corvettes, CSS Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, ordered by Commander J D Bulloch, CSN, in France.

Forty-eight 16 cm cannon were ordered with 200 rounds of shot and shell per piece of J Voruz, Nantes, France; founders and engine makers. Unlike all of his other dealings with the south the details of the financial arrangements for this contract exist.

The correspondence quoted below is from Washington’s Official Records; the translation from the French is theirs. The repeated reference to “30 pounders” in these records is a mistranslation of “canon de 30”, actually a piece firing a 30 kilogram (68 pound) cylindrical shot. The forty-eight Voruz guns were of 6¾ inches calibre and each weighed 6,400 pounds.

“Canon rayé de 30” - Blakely Voruz 1864

A reconstruction from a casting by the volunteers of the Brigada Naval,

exhibited at the Escuela Naval, Callao, Peru

         All of this from www.captainblakely.org/TheGuns.aspx   You will notice that these naval guns have breech and rimbase sights.  Larger seacoast guns are  likely to have them too.




This is a close up of the 100 pounder Parrott rear sight that we made for our 1/6 scale Parrott seacoast rifle.  Having windage and elevation adjustments made sense when you had a stable seacoast mount, less so with a naval application.  The Blakely sight would be very similar to these, while not exactly the same.  We have an aperature rear eyepiece; the Blakely is likely an open notch.

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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #41 on: March 04, 2011, 08:04:49 PM »
Ok all done but the shouting


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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #42 on: March 05, 2011, 02:17:52 AM »
And well you should shout, but next how about some shooting, stills and video please!
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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #43 on: March 07, 2011, 12:15:15 PM »
Ok so after all the worry. It went to visit the cops to get rego or not ...... IT PASSED ...... ok happy now


now for the smoke and flame
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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #44 on: March 07, 2011, 08:06:38 PM »
Ok so after all the worry. It went to visit the cops to get rego or not ...... IT PASSED ...... ok happy now
now for the smoke and flame

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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #45 on: April 18, 2011, 08:51:01 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj4rP8KXAPI

First day of it being shot :) very happy with it. Need to work out the sighting of it but will do that soon. Put 30+ shots down range and it held up well.

The cops wanted it to be passed by the club amourer and was asked to put a bigger than usual load into it. they wanted to see if it would leave the carriage if it was double loaded. 200 grains later and it didnt fail thats what the vid is of.

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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #46 on: April 19, 2011, 01:59:47 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj4rP8KXAPI

First day of it being shot :) very happy with it. Need to work out the sighting of it but will do that soon. Put 30+ shots down range and it held up well.

The cops wanted it to be passed by the club amourer and was asked to put a bigger than usual load into it. they wanted to see if it would leave the carriage if it was double loaded. 200 grains later and it didnt fail thats what the vid is of.

Owen.

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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #47 on: April 19, 2011, 02:31:48 AM »
There's something SPECIAL about a coffee-table cannon!   ;)
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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #48 on: April 19, 2011, 02:56:43 AM »
looks great, i love shooting guns on carriages like that.  i cant wait to get my brooke finished and on a naval carriage. 


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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #49 on: April 21, 2011, 01:06:45 PM »
Owen,
          Is that being fired at the Ripley Range at Ipswich?  I live a bit west of there in Hatton Vale.

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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #50 on: April 21, 2011, 06:19:04 PM »
No sorry in Canberra Oz
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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #51 on: April 25, 2011, 11:59:43 PM »
Did a few movies today of the cannon. Have some frame shots, it does recoil all the way to the end of the carriage.



















And a single frame from another one ... will get the movies up as well.

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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #52 on: April 26, 2011, 01:33:59 AM »
Very nice shots!

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Re: New widow blakely
« Reply #53 on: May 06, 2011, 01:29:32 AM »
Hi Owen

Jealous of your Widow...

Attached is an 1866 picture of the back-sight of a Blakely gun made in 1864. The brass sight pattern didn't change much from 1861...

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