Scale Cannon Shooting
I recently purchsed two firing scale pieces; one is a 1" Yorktown mortar the other is a .34 cal Old Ironsides cannon. I am totaly new to black powder shootingand could realy use some advice. Nobody in the area carries real black powder due to insurance costs, so if anybody could reccomend a substitute it would be great. Thanks.
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Google galore will find you many answers. Do you know the maker of either piece?
Any of the black powder substitutes can be used (not the pellet types.
If you intend to fire a ball those powders will send them downrange. You need a good powder measure, funnel and ramrod.
If you just want to make 7/4 noise the sub powders are not as good;
they poof more than bang. Blank wads can be made out of just about anything. I use felt, cork and for night drama 0000 steel wool.
Why do you say it is an "Old Ironsides"?0 -
The "Old Ironsides" name is what the cannon is modeled after. It's a (roughly) 1/18th scale 24lb naval cannon, barrel is 7" long, made of solid brass, and .34 cal. 0 -
"Old Irosides" cannons, marketed by that name were by CVA and Traditions. CVA's were .45 cal. rifled. traditions are .50 cal smoothbore. Does yours have a maker's name on it? When you say "solid brass" do you mean the carriage as well as the tube is brass?
"Ray" in Rayfan refers to the Tampa Bay Rays?
Post your question on the blackpowder forum as well.0 -
Provide for recoil that may make your piece fly.
Ships' cannons used rope.0 -
I tracked down the maker of the cannons: John Joline on his site Bestmodelcannons.com and got the info from him. The barrel and all the metal pieces are brass and the carriage is walnut.
And the "Ray" is an old Buffalo Sabres player Rob Ray.0
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