CANNON FIRE!

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CANNON FIRE!

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Couldn't get the youtube code to work...CLICK HERE

Here is a short vid of a guy firing my dad's home made replica of a old cannon....
It is built to spec and fires a 2.2 KG ball of lead....


To those who own a muzzle loading rifle, it takes about three shots to empty a can of sannadex, that is 166.6666666666667grams of sannadex per shot!!!
(For comparison, a normal muzzleloader uses not much more than a tablespoon of powder (Around 15 grams)

He does have permits for everything, (This ingenious country made it legal to own a cannon whithout a license, but you need a license to own a #2 pallet :roll: )

This is one of our small arsonel........ :twisted:
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Awesome O_O

Its a serpentine right?
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Errm.... I really dont know about this one.... All i know is that it is a 4 pounder... the first one we buold was a Napoleon Cannon, also a 4 pounder. and the third is Griekie, the cannon the Boers used at Blood River... the others are 1/4 pounders, about 9 of them....

what is a serpentine??
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Adagio wrote: Errm.... I really dont know about this one.... All i know is that it is a 4 pounder... the first one we buold was a Napoleon Cannon, also a 4 pounder. and the third is Griekie, the cannon the Boers used at Blood River... the others are 1/4 pounders, about 9 of them....

what is a serpentine??
It’s the type of cannon.
Like a Culverin, Howitzer, Demi-cannon,

a Serpentine is a very old cannon used against large groups of people instead of walls.
But its not that since its been used before Napoleon was born. :P
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thnx! I'll gi check it out... Got any idea where we can get blueprints? we have a lot of trouble finding them....
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I honestly don't know.
You are going to have to work off of descriptions.
I guess you can try a museum :P

We are more into counterweight and tension siege weapons.
Blueprints are surprisingly more common.

This is the trebuchet my high school friends are building. (or finished building)
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I got some awesome footage of our Rhino G5 and G6 cannons that I took at a artillery open day, but I need to edit the videos lol ^^;
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I made some cool small trebuchets a while ago, nothing nearly as awesome as your friends' one though Splicer O.O
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