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« Reply #120 on: February 01, 2009, 07:39:08 PM » |
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Cat Whisperer ask "what I planned to shoot?"
I have to start out kind of on the smaller scale to easy my wife into this hobby.
I am looking at the .69 caliber (1/12 scale 24 pounder) from Brooks-usa.com. I am planning to build a carriage for it.
I was a plebe at West Point years ago. While there I was on the Cannon Crew that fired the cannons for the rallies, demonstrations and football games. (WWII Howitzers)
Does it anyone have anything I should consider before I go with the 69 caliber I mentioned? Or is their another suggestion for a first cannon?
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« Reply #121 on: February 01, 2009, 07:46:51 PM » |
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The 69 from Brooks is a good start, but we won't be responsible for the fact starting in this hobby may not have a stop.  |
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« Reply #122 on: February 01, 2009, 08:09:02 PM » |
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I can see this being an addiction. I have been searching the web regularly to learn as much as I can and research the best bang for my money.
I am actually suppose to be "hosting" (storage for a good friends mother) an 1800's 3 foot deck cannon. It was salvaged from a shipwreck in the 1970's. My friends Grandfather helped sponsor the recovery efforts. When I get it later this spring I can post pictures.
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« Reply #123 on: February 01, 2009, 08:38:43 PM » |
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I can see this being an addiction.
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YUP! Good to see someone going into it knowing it's going to happen. There is no 12 step program either! We can help you get a fix from time to time too. |
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« Reply #124 on: February 11, 2009, 09:14:20 AM » |
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Hi.I'm a newbie and you guys want to protect your freedom where possible.I live in the U.k.and no doubt would be sentenced to 25 years for being in the possession of blackpowder.I read your posts with honest jealousy but will continue to mess around with my cannons until the thought police trace me with their scanners.I'm a Scotsman living in London.
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« Reply #125 on: February 11, 2009, 09:36:53 AM » |
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Welcome to our little gathering. Glad to have a Scotsman aboard. Mom was from Edinburgh. Never made it there myself, want to go there my self. Supposed to be some pretty neat Cannon up at the castle.
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« Reply #126 on: February 12, 2009, 04:28:35 AM » |
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I got some pics somewhere,will have a look and try to post.Edinburgh is ok but Stirling is much more interesting.One thing we do have in abundance is castles and cannons,we can't play with them though!
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« Reply #127 on: February 12, 2009, 10:19:53 AM » |
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please post all pictures you can , it would be nice to see them
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« Reply #128 on: February 14, 2009, 12:57:29 PM » |
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have sent to both your hotmail.
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« Reply #129 on: February 14, 2009, 04:19:57 PM » |
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Wow, I bet that's hard to heat.  Looks like they've hidden the cannons. |
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« Reply #130 on: February 14, 2009, 05:05:46 PM » |
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I see at least 7.
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« Reply #131 on: March 13, 2009, 12:55:27 PM » |
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Hey Guys, My cannon is located in Elizabeth, PA (Near McKeesport for the Penn Hills fellow  ), but as of right now I'm at NC State University studying Nuclear Engineering... I just sold my 6 pounder in my avatar picture to begin a project with a 1/2 scale Parrott barrel I'm ordering from Dom. See you guys around! |
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« Reply #132 on: March 13, 2009, 01:03:52 PM » |
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WELCOME to the board !! Keep the pix coming! Now we have 3 DD's |
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« Reply #133 on: March 14, 2009, 05:48:38 AM » |
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haggis particle accelerator,might be a handy guy to know,and one DD is more than enough thank you.
Just picked up this little model cannon and limber from e-bay for £8 detail is amazing,bargains are still out out there if you keep your eyes peeled.
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« Reply #134 on: March 14, 2009, 08:31:01 AM » |
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now I really can understand the large difference between scottish people and swedish people . you have much better eyes then us . could you please enlarge the picture that this swedish man also can see it |
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« Reply #135 on: March 14, 2009, 11:25:28 AM » |
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Dan,
£8 includes postal charges(smirk) brass 100mm barrel,will send you a pic later.Really cute little Spanish mortar on there just now.looks bronze-120mm long,nicely marked and looks shootable-seller is ' telesound' and item number is 300299260991-4 days+to go.Mortar is now at £8.60 plus post but there are bidders sniffing around.
you know I don't really go for these ugly guns.Worth you having a look I think.
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« Reply #136 on: March 14, 2009, 12:20:15 PM » |
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wasnt it any scale model of the extremely beautiful mons meg there ?? now I understand where the scottish destilleries got the model to their bottles |
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« Reply #137 on: April 04, 2009, 07:46:51 AM » |
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Hi I am up north Slave Lake Alberta. Canada.
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« Reply #138 on: April 04, 2009, 10:54:26 AM » |
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Hi I am up north Slave Lake Alberta. Canada.
WELCOME to the board! Canada eh? (sorry, couldn't resist) What's your pleasure in the big bores? Looks like you're about 10-1/2 hours north of DD. |
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« Reply #139 on: April 04, 2009, 04:08:34 PM » |
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I live in the great state of Mississippi right along the Mississippi River.
I have a 2 pound mortar I use to hurl juice cans and I am getting my daughter a golf ball mortar from irishman.
Also have a little cork mortar for the back yard. Need something bigger back there to keep the squirrels down a bit.
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« Reply #140 on: April 05, 2009, 07:22:35 PM » |
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In Mississippi on the Mississipi - north or south-ish?
WELCOME to the board, you're off to a great start!
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« Reply #141 on: April 07, 2009, 11:55:25 AM » |
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I live in Vicksburg.
Just wait until I catch up reading all the threads!!!
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« Reply #142 on: April 07, 2009, 04:26:11 PM » |
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Had a brief tour of one of the battlefields there - amazing to see the embattlements only a hundred yards from eachother (or less). We'd love to see about a hundred pix more or less of the cannons/mortars etc. from the Vicksburg area!
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« Reply #143 on: April 08, 2009, 07:00:22 AM » |
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You just might get your wish CW. My son and his new wife (whom I've never met) are coming to visit on the 20th and one of the places we will take them is through the park.
I might even ask if there is a list of the actual field pieces left on the grounds. I know a lot of what is there now are reproductions.
So stay tuned.
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« Reply #144 on: May 27, 2009, 07:03:41 PM » |
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Harrisonburg, Va.
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« Reply #145 on: May 27, 2009, 07:15:28 PM » |
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Presb4 - WELCOME to the board.
We just passed through Harrisonburg (from Pulaski) on our way up here to Maine; will be coming back through soon.
Lance and I get together from time to time ....
What do you like to shoot? (AND, what does the sign say (in your avitar))?
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« Reply #146 on: June 04, 2009, 01:56:13 PM » |
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Woodruff SC here, upstate in the Greenville/Spartanburg area
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« Reply #147 on: June 04, 2009, 04:53:52 PM » |
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Woodruff SC here, upstate in the Greenville/Spartanburg area
Cool! (WELCOME to the board!) I drive right by that way several times a year on trips to Atlanta! What do you like to shoot? |
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« Reply #148 on: June 04, 2009, 05:53:40 PM » |
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Actually I don't have any right now, just started one in the works, and ended up having two in the works. Have one 1.75" (golfball) that I've got in the works. And another (more in the works) for tennis balls/beer-soda cans. I'm mainly a longshot rifleman/reloader, with little t/c contender nut mixed in, but looking to expand my interests. Always liked the big booms from the cannons and mortars at the few reenactments that I've gone to, so here I am. Looking forward to talking more with you guys. Jim
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« Reply #149 on: July 13, 2009, 11:43:12 AM » |
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I am just north of the DFW area in Texas. Is anybody else in north Texas?
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