Minuture Black powder Cannon from shop bits & bobs.
The carriage is made from leftover Oak stair tread. Roughly modeling a Naval truck carriage. The barrel is a .32 rifle barrel cut down from a kit gun I picked up at a flea market many years ago that was missing parts. I'll blue it next time I'm set up, painted for now. The elevation screw and wheels are fully functional. Haven't put a ball down the pipe but it's very loud with 20 grains and just a wad. I had everything I needed in the shop, even the bamboo skewers holding the wheels on.
A friend and I had the chance to buy at auction a 1LB deck gun once. We decided against it, I'm sure we'd have wound up in jail eventually for something because of it. I could see the exact same thing here if I had it...neat. Very next...get'er out and do a vid on the proofing...
Reminds me of my youth, we used to be able to buy little canons similar to yours that used carbide pellets and water to make acetylene. Guess they've prolly been "regulated" out of existence...
I knew a bloke who made the most perfect 10" long or so .22" model of a wartime 4" British submarine deck gun. Elevated, traversed etc etc , all mounted onto a replicated section of submarine deck casing too. The only thing he said wasn't actually working was that it wasn't pressurised as the real one might be (for diving). Trouble was that it broke so many UK firearms laws he was having sleepless nights about doing 5 years in the can. Eventually he made a solid barrel.
I do not know for sure now, but Dixie Gun Works cataloge used to have a section on shooting bp cannon, I highly recommend you read it. There are so many ways you can hurt yourself or others with these items. Mine is from the place once known as Barneys Cannon Works (still in business under another name) and is a .75 bore navel gun. Really loud.
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