For Spartacus53, and truckinbutch " Succsess "!

NGE · Sep 17, 2009

For Spartacus53, and truckinbutch " Succsess "!

Well you guys asked for it, and here it is. We loaded 3/4's of a aluminum screw cap of 4F black powder into the barrel, a piece of paper towel for a wad tamped down well, 25 Daisy BB's, and another Paper towel wad. Set the cannon up 20ft. from 3/8th" piece of plywood, used 4 inches of green fuze, started camera, then lit fuze and run like the bejabbers. Follow my youtube link here and you'll get a " Bang " out of my one dollar cannon. 5 BB's went clear through, and the rest stuck half way.......NGE

spartacus53 · Sep 17, 2009

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:laughing9:

That is the funniest video ever :laughing9:

I told you it was worth $1.00, but did it survive?

NGE · Sep 17, 2009

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Most definately! And we fired it 10 more times, with bigger charges. I have to buy some 3/8 balls. We found that the little hole in the back keeps ya from shredding the barrel

SteveDodds · Sep 17, 2009

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Where can I find one of those? I looked briefly on Ebay but I don't know what ones can actually be shot. I remember when I was a kid, my grandfather had one of these cannons on his desk in the den. Us kids used to play with it when we went over there. We used to use it when we played army men. Do they still have those little green army men? He used to shoot it on July 4th. This would be really neat if I could find one of these and carry on the tradition. Any help for me?

truckinbutch · Sep 17, 2009

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SteveDodds said:
Where can I find one of those? I looked briefly on Ebay but I don't know what ones can actually be shot. I remember when I was a kid, my grandfather had one of these cannons on his desk in the den. Us kids used to play with it when we went over there. We used to use it when we played army men. Do they still have those little green army men? He used to shoot it on July 4th. This would be really neat if I could find one of these and carry on the tradition. Any help for me?

Dixie Gun Works

truckinbutch · Sep 17, 2009

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nowgittineverything said:
Most definately! And we fired it 10 more times, with bigger charges. I have to buy some 3/8 balls. We found that the little hole in the back keeps ya from shredding the barrel

I was taught that you fire a black powder arm over clean snow to find the maximum effective
charge . Only so much powder will burn in so much barrel . When you see black specs on the snow you know you are wasting powder .
Watching the recoil , Scale that up in your mind and imagine what gun crews suffered under battlefield conditions using pike poles behind the wheels to keep their guns trained during a battle .

shaun7 · Sep 18, 2009

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That looked like fun, i want one

NGE · Sep 18, 2009

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Truckinbutch, I have some large springs. I may put a stake in the ground and attach the S-hook on the bottom front carriage and see if that helps.........NGE

truckinbutch · Sep 18, 2009

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nowgittineverything said:
Truckinbutch, I have some large springs. I may put a stake in the ground and attach the S-hook on the bottom front carriage and see if that helps.........NGE

stefen · Sep 18, 2009

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Sssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttttttttttttt man

Dats nuttin son.

Try makin a shoulder mounted bazooka using M-80s and a galvanized iron pipe...and pray it do'nt wrap around your neck :laughing7:

Brother and I did and shot up the barn planking

Couldn' sit for a month

NGE · Sep 18, 2009

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Must have flipped one of those boards around, and ya couldn't get away fast enough

.........NGE

NGE · Sep 18, 2009

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Here is another shot for you cannon lovers. This is from 20 feet away from a 3/8th.'s inch piece of plywood. same measure of powder, only this time we put a 3/8th.'s bolt in for a projectile. Worked really good, we heard the bolt hit his metal shed about 100 yards down range, after going through the plywood

..............NGE The phone that my friend is talking about is a wall phone in his barn that is about 100 feet away from cannon, it knocked the handpiece of the hook :laughing9: