Mortar question?

[mac_hunter]

Has anyone ever seen and read this webpage?

http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/c_mortars.html

Among other things, it describes why, during the Napoleonic Wars, mortars were redesigned from having a recessed cylindrical powder chamber in the breech to a truncated cone shaped powder chamber that tapered from the projectile bore diameter, plus windage, down to a diameter at the rear of the powder chamber.

I was wondering if anyone builds or has built mortars in this fashion today?

Either way, I thought it was a neat webpage worth sharing.

[moose53]

My mortars are set up with truncated cone chambers ,just seemed to make more sense.It`s good to know someone else had a good reason.Thanks for the information.