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How many PDR is my cannon?
« on: August 12, 2006, 07:43:52 AM »
Been going through Gibbon's a looking at stuff and found this.

In the U.S. Muzzleloading Artillery were designated by the weight of a solid iron shot for the bore diameter of the gun.

Gibbon offers this method of determining the weight of a solid iron shot.

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To find the weight of a cast -iron shot of any diameter, multiply the cube of its diameter in
inches by 0.134. The result will be the weight in pounds.


I have to find a print copy of Gibbons!!!
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Re: How many PDR is my cannon?
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2006, 09:01:17 AM »
Hmmmm-- .64532 thats a nice number to work with! ;) I think I'll just call it a 1 pounder, (lead) ;D
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Re: How many PDR is my cannon?
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2006, 10:00:44 AM »
The easiest way to find out, in this day of the internet, is to click here and fill in the blank.
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Re: How many PDR is my cannon?
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2006, 11:02:38 AM »
DD,
     Them ole boy's new what they was doing. Cheapest I have seen it in a long time.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&an=John+Gibbon&y=0&kn=artillery&x=0

Abe books. $35.00

RCHJr.
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Re: How many PDR is my cannon?
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2006, 11:04:31 AM »
DD,
  By the  way, Where did you find it on searchable disk.?
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Re: How many PDR is my cannon?
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2006, 07:06:20 PM »
Quote from: guardsgunner on August 12, 2006, 11:04:31 AM
DD,
  By the  way, Where did you find it on searchable disk.?


I think if you go back and read that description real carefully on abebooks you will find the $35 copy is a DVD.  Books start at $70.   www.abebooks.com is my favorite online shopping place. ;D ;D
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Re: How many PDR is my cannon?
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2006, 09:59:08 PM »
Well I'll be................
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Re: How many PDR is my cannon?
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2006, 10:05:06 PM »
Actually the $30 book is smoak damged, the CD not DVD is $37.

If you Query just  "ARTILLERIST'S MANUAL" in Abebooks you will come up with a couple of more.
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Re: How many PDR is my cannon?
« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2006, 06:09:15 AM »
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The easiest way to find out, in this day of the internet, is to click here and fill in the blank.

That is really  great especially for a person with a vairiety of bore sizes to check on.
Thank You George.
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Re: How many PDR is my cannon?
« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2006, 07:54:25 AM »
Douglas asked for it and I thought he was going to stick it in the Reference section but he hasn't.
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Re: How many PDR is my cannon?
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2006, 09:22:52 AM »
That's because you are computer programmer George and you made the linklook  like the link to unsuscribe in a SPAM  email, hidden. It didn't look like a link to a cannon ball weight page it looked like the word here underlined and took me five minutes find.

Besides CW has the Reference Section.
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Re: How many PDR is my cannon?
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2006, 02:14:22 PM »
I picked up a reprint of Gibbon’s on ebay a few months ago. It is a good text much easer to use when you can flip thought it.  I also have an e-book copy that I downloaded from here  (It is a big file).
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Re: How many PDR is my cannon?
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2006, 07:27:18 PM »
Here is another reference CW has up inthe references section:

The Handbook of artillery, 5th Edition, 1863
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