Road trip

[Double D]

Thanks Swampman, already been through there.  In the morning I will hook up the travel trailer and head west to stop tomorrow night some where in  Ohio and Tuesday I'll be in Normal, Ill visit my  Daughter and a Grand-daughter.

[Zulu]

     Thanks guys, call us convinced.  We look forward to learning about some of those beneficial things you hinted at.  You are right about the 'rubber-necking', Double D.  We did lots and lots of that!!  Can you blame us?  Dom is such a friendly and interesting guy, that we wanted to see Everything.  And he showed us everything including the Gatling prototype.

     I don't think he will mind if we reveal, right here, his most important secret he uses to make his wide variety of cannons.  It is all about attitude.  He uses lots of research to get the design right and then a tenacious attitude, and great industry to move it along and stick-to-it-tiveness to get it completed.

Mike and Tracy

stick-to-it-tiveness?
I couldn't find that in my dictionary.
Zulu

[seacoastartillery]

      Try my favorite dictionary, Zulu, the Random House, College Edition. It not only has that word, spelled correctly, but thousands of photos and drawings to help the reader visualize a myriad of descriptive words.  It helps me become a better writer almost every day.  Today I learned that the word in question has only three 'T's and not four as I wrote it.  My last 'T' was unnecessary.

Tracy

A really good dictionary is pictured here.




The word and it's meaning and forms.

[Cat Whisperer]

Admirable!

My mother oft noted that her father kept a dictionary at hand - and used it often.

 

[Cat Whisperer]

And here are two pictures from this weekend!

The first, showing Douglas (in his element!) and my wife Darlene.

The second - an obvious one to those who know - more pix later of the rest of it.

Both pictures taken in the IMA showroom or warehouse, in Easton, PA.

It was a jam-packed full and fun weekend.

[Double D]

Tim, your wife's name is Delores, ask her...and that picture was taken right after  I discovered that rare Snider.

[Zulu]

Tim, your wife's name is Delores, ask her...and that picture was taken right after  I discovered that rare Snider.

Delores, Darlene,
Close enough in my book.
Who is to qibble over a few letters?
Zulu

[Cat Whisperer]

Tim, your wife's name is Delores, ask her...and that picture was taken right after  I discovered that rare Snider.

I'll agree with the last half of that statement.  Note the smile.  That is SMILE not SMLE nor Martini.

[dominick]

       ..............  Today I learned that the word in question has only three 'T's and not four as I wrote it.  My last 'T' was unnecessary.

Tracy

Yours is the phonetic spelling. 

[Double D]

Damn, I look old!

[Ex 49'er]

Damn, I look old!

Must be the hat.

[Cat Whisperer]

More 'toys'.

[Mike H.]

Were the bottom pair converted to breech loading or originally that way?

[Cat Whisperer]

Mike -

I am by no means the (or even 'an') historian when it comes to cannons.  But here's the next pallet with a little bit of detail inside the breech.

I may be way off, but I'd be skeptical that a band of that size would be a good method of doing it.  As one casting, much stronger.

[GGaskill]

Did you get the prices on any of those?

[Cat Whisperer]

Afraid I didn't.  But, here's their website:  http://www.ima-usa.com/ .   Right much good folks with which to deal.

[Cannoneer]

Damn, I look old!

Must be the hat.

Must be the hat is right; that's one heck of a chapeau, Douglas, although you might look even better with that one that has a red fuzz-ball on top.   What's the other guy's costume supposed to represent?

[Cat Whisperer]

Scotts, or is that Scotish?

[Cannoneer]

Scootish, I should've known.   He's looking at Douglas like DD had just made some amazing utterance.

I just noticed this: Douglas; my mother would have slapped you right on the tops of your hands for being caught out in public with dirty mitts like that. What had you been handling at the show that left all that black on your palms?

Tim; the green painted cannon is a British screw gun from the latter 1800's that I've seen before on the IMA website, and I'd guess that those two (many) bronze cannon were originally muzzleloaders that have been converted to breech loading rifles.

[KABAR2]

I can throw a little light on these, they are Danish cannon that the British captured
aparently they had a large amount of these.... they were then sent to Napal,
As everyone knows during the late 1800's Japan modernized Napal sent engineering
students over to Japan to study in their arms industry, upon returning they set about
adapting and converting obsolete artillery as a stop gap for the fronter forts as time
went on they developed their own breech loading gun based around a Japanese 70 MM round.
hope this fills in some of the gaps.

Allen <><

[Double D]

Scootish, I should've known.   He's looking at Douglas like DD had just made some amazing utterance.

I just noticed this: Douglas; my mother would have slapped you right on the tops of your hands for being caught out in public with dirty mitts like that. What had you been handling at the show that left all that black on your palms?

Tim; the green painted cannon is a British screw gun from the latter 1800's that I've seen before on the IMA website, and I'd guess that those two (many) bronze cannon were originally muzzleloaders that have been converted to breech loading rifles.

Actually John, what I had been handling were guns from the  Nepalese Cache.  These guns were put in storage over 100 years ago.  They were packed up and shipped to the US in 2003.  Other than being packed up then, they have not been touched since they went in storage. They were all packed in grease when they went in storage  and that grease become covered it 100 years worth of dust. That is what is all over my hand, 100 years of history.

Victor may have been looking at me like I said something amazing, and I did.  The rifle I was examining was a rare Snider with a Tower lock dated 1847.  Every time I check something on that rifle I found something incredible.  You can see the ramrod just pulled out from the rod guides.  That rod has been sitting in that rifle for over 100 years and came right out, like the day it was put in, amazing.  Since this a cannon board and not a British rifle board I will point you to this post for more details http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/11890/My-Snider

Here is a link to  some and I mean just a couple of the cannons they have.  http://www.ima-usa.com/nation/british-militaria/guns-of-the-british-empire/cannons-mortars.html

[seacoastartillery]

  Double and Cat whisperer, Mike and I have IMA in Easton. PA on our itinerary for sure after hearing about it and see pics of the Screw Gun.  That is top priority on our list of guns to make after retirement, whenever or if ever that is going to happen.  If Obama finishes his job of demolishing our economy, our retirement may never occur!  Anyway, we have always been fascinated with the British Screw Gun, mainly the 7 Pdr. Muzzle Loader, but the 10 Pdr. sure is interesting.  There are some very interesting
photos and history of both types on the IMA website.

T&M


The screw-joint.  This is the first close-up we have seen.  I have a picture of an Indian screw gun crew, circa 1880s with mallet in hand ready to beat the two halves closed for that last half inch, 12.7mm, Dan.




Decisions, decisions!  Which one should we make, the 7 pounder with all those world-wide adventure stories of British and Indian crews hauling it up and down snow-covered mountains all over the world or the 10 Pdr. with the cool Debange style breech, but thoroughly obsolete the year it was released.  The Indian regiments even dragged them around, early in WWI!

[Cat Whisperer]

...
I just noticed this: Douglas; my mother would have slapped you right on the tops of your hands for being caught out in public with dirty mitts like that. What had you been handling at the show that left all that black on your palms?
...

BUT that's HONEST dirt!   

[Cat Whisperer]

T&M -

I thought y'all would like it for more than just being GREEN.

 

[seacoastartillery]

     That is a really nice color, Tim, but there sure are many more reasons to be impressed by the 7 Pdr. RML British Mountain Gun and the 10 Pdr. as well.  Sometimes you simply needed a smaller, more mobile gun.  Mike and I remember reading about a successful use of a screw gun in the WWI Galipole Campaign.  Although this campaign was a disaster for the British over-all, there was an outstanding instance of having a perfect solution to a typical military problem and actually having the smarts to use it.

     Landed at the wrong beach on the Turkish coast, the British amphibious assault stalled at the base of cliffs and very steeply sloped hills.  The army commander needed to suppress Turkish fire from the plain above which was increasing continuously.  A British gun crew tried mightily, but couldn't quite get their field gun up those nasty hills, so an Indian crewed Screw Gun was called forward.  The crew hauled it up the cliff-side trail and dragged it by hand forward to a slight depression on the plain, undetected.  Assembling the gun quickly and mounting it on it's carriage, they fired two quick rounds, accurately  and turned the Turkish gun position into complete carnage!

Tracy & Mike

[Cat Whisperer]

There is a place in life for switch-blades!
 

[Double D]

There is a place in life for switch-blades!
 

...or kukris.  After seeing a real one on person at IMA, I couldn't resist and got one this weekend.

[Zulu]

There is a place in life for switch-blades!
 

...or kukris.  After seeing a real one on person at IMA, I couldn't resist and got one this weekend.

I have four but they are all replicas.  Show us what a real one looks like.
Zulu

[Double D]

Here is there listing....I'll try to get pictures tonight.

[Double D]

Cannoneer-John,

I have to go to Chicago Ohare Airport April 28th to pick my son up at 7:30 am the 29th.  Are you nearby?