cannon in action

Click on either picture to see video

This is a video of a couple cannons of mine. The large one is 1 Ľ” bore and is about 30” long and the small one is .610 bore and is about 12” long. The first three shots are 1oz of 2f BP the forth with the big fire ball is 1oz of Pyrodex RS the fifth is 500 Grains of RS Pyrodex, in the still shot you can see a gap between the wheels and the ground. The last shot is of the small cannon firing a lead ball at frozen grapefruit with 180 Grains of RS Pyrodex, the ball went through the grapefruit, 2” of dry wood and 6” of dirt but flipped the cannon backwards.

S. Benson (California)

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Two mortars firing (Wyoming)
July 2004

Mortar firing (See smoke ring!)

1 Inch bore
MM North Carolina

Phil Williams -1
(60 grains ffg)

Phil Williams -2
(50 grains ffg)

Phil Williams (CA) was nice enough to send a video of his 12 inch, 50 caliber cannon firing. What's interesting, is the 2nd video clip of the cannon firing a projectile through a chronograph which measured its speed as being 811 feet / second (553 mph).
Click on the two files to the left.

July 4th 2003
1/2 scale 1841 6pounder using 1/2 cup of fg black powder
Sent in by M.C. near Lakewood, WA

J.B. Douglas, Alaska

(Winchester barrel on Cannon-Mania built Naval carriage)

	See & hear a test firing of the Cannon-Mania 8 gauge cannon barrel? Click on the cannon! (The file is in mpg format, you need a media player. It takes a moment to load.)
	Here is another video of the 8 gauge cannon, shown on a specially built field carriage.

Cannon Mania
At the test range with cannon buddies. This is where we test fire cannons, perform sound tests, do demonstrations and well,... just plain have fun!

This my homemade 1" bore cannon that I use 1" rubber balls for shot. The barrel is made from baldwin steel and is 18" long and weights about 20 lb.. We got this shot last summer on an old shooting bench out south of town. Hope you like it. Thanks, your site is the best.

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Peter Meek, from Michigan sent these two photo's from January 1, 2000. The first picture & video is of a Herreshoff, 10 gauge after being struck by a mallet.