Shooting our 1/4 Scale Parrott Cannon !

[Tanksta]

Thought I would post this over here. The cannon is 1/4 scale.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZOejRvfv5g

 

[Kadmos]

Cool little thing, I guess that was blanks yes? Sort of looks like you are shooting at a roadway...

 

[Tanksta]

We used about 200gr of black powder and some wadding. It packs a pretty good punch.

 

[simonkenton]

That is cool!
A pretty little gun!

I wish I had that thing when I was 14 years old, damn I would have had some fun.
I would be dead, but it would have been fun!

 

[Hawg]

Pretty cool, I'd have to load it up for real tho.

 

[simonkenton]

That's what I'm talking about.
I would have found a projectile, whether rock, golf ball, or whatever, but I would have found a slug and fired it at something.

 

[BlackPowderSmoke]

I need one of those. It would be too much fun, though!!

 

[Tanksta]

We have some .69 cal lead balls, but will wait to shoot them when we aren't at our shop in town. We did use another projectile......skittles. Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/user/RedneckPawnStars#p/u/4/_PigZlZXYSM

 

[DG45]

I saw the crew from the TV reality show Pawn Stars shoot a bowling ball out of a mortar a couple of nights ago. You could probably top them by shooting billiard balls out of your little cannon.

 

[bamaranger]

conical projectile!!!!!!!

Hey,

Parrots shot a conical projectile, as you know I bet.

So a .69 minie would be "authentic".

Is it rifled?????

 

[notascrename]

Jawbreakers make great "plinking" rounds. Local store sells 2 1/4 inch ones that fit good in my mountain howitzer. They don't carry like an iron ball but at 100 yds. theyll go through a car. sorry no pics, I live in dial-up land.

 

[mec]

Jawbreakers make great "plinking

used to suck on those for 20 minutes to get them to fit our 1.25" cannon barrel. They would blow right through a two by four.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Neat. I have a smaller version in .50 cal, not rifled. Have fired blanks many times but no balls.