Field Artillery picture thread

[Leatherneck]

Russian Gunner
HI RES (all Napoleonic era guns)
SOURCE: OSPREY PUBLISHING
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Austrian Gunner
 

 

 
Austrian 6 Pdr

 

 

 

 
French 12 Pdrs in action

 

 
 
Canister at close range takes out a chunk of the British line.

 

[Cannoneer]

Thanks for opening this topic, Leatherneck. For those with a fresh curiosity to learn about historical artillery, Osprey Publishing has a series of concise, well illustrated books on the subject.

[Leatherneck]

You're welcome. Im still reading up on the background histories of all the guns that I own so I have a complete picture and context in which they were used.
I recently read something where it read that one shot of canister was equivalent to a musket volley by battalion of infantry. Apparently over 50% of the musket balls coming out of the can would find their marks. Accuracy higher than than of a musket volley (according to the site)
 
I normally do small scale battle re-enactments where I line up a row of cardboard soldiers at about 30yds and try to see the effects of 1/6 scale grape and canister shot.
Shooting balloons at 50yds is also fun.
 
Anyways Im still learning, and it looks like this might be a lifetime hobby for me, beside shooting rifles and pistols in competition.

[Cannoneer]

Illustration D: Sperrschusse (Chainshot) is something new to me, at least in this form; and the text describes it as being primarily intended for anti-battery use (interesting).

[Leatherneck]

Ive taught about this myself and it would make alot of sense.
 
Im working on 4 Gabion baskets to place in front of my gun to add a bit more historic feel.
The idea is to protect the front and sides of the carriage wheels from something like round or chainshot. I read that even a single round shot fired at an oblique at an enemy artillery piece could chew up the wheels or the split trails and render the entire piece useless.
 
source:http://www.syler.com/SiegeWarfare/outside/gabions.html

 


 
 
 
Now Im just trying to find out if spherical case was ever shot from cannons in the 1810s.

[Cannoneer]

Now Im just trying to find out if spherical case was ever shot from cannons in the 1810s.

The answer is yes, if you're referring to Henry Shrapnel's "spherical case". Spherical case was put into production by Britain near the beginning of the 1800's, and was in use until the end of the smoothbore era.

[Leatherneck]

Canoneer, do you mean that spherical shell was shot from both howitzer and cannon? How common was this in non British artillery regiments in the 1810s and 20s?

[Cannoneer]

Leatherneck,
The British first used spherical case shot in battle against the Dutch in Surinam, 1804.
Here's a PDF titled "Henry Shrapnel and Family," with a list of "Correspondence Relating to the Use of Spherical Case Shot," and "Range Tables" that list the artillery pieces which used his invention.

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000372.pdf

[Leatherneck]

This is way more than I asked for