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I seriously read it as hitting some furs hung up to dampen the balls travel and take some of the velocity out of it much like the rolled hammocks along the sides of a ship.
Your version is much more...

They keep telling me that the Orlop deck is the safest place to be, :erk: but why would any sailor wish himself there unless he were a Loblolly boy or Surgeon.
Rob.

Have you not seen this Chris?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2WdU3Zkeig

Rob.

It was hard work keeping up with the gun team Gary.
They had four breeches. One on the cannon ready to go.
One waiting, one empty one I was running back to the loader, and one the Loader had ready...

I have actually served on a gun crew for one of those BL Guns Gary. I was a bringer up and they don't half reload and fire fast.:cannonboom:
Rob.

This one is really just a bit of fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsN1GvqSG2I

Rob.

Yes! Another good find Jonas. A far larger example of what we found when we fired a musket ball at an old oak desk lid, and decided that gun fights from behind card tables or horse troughs unless...

Very impressive Jonas.
This adds not only a whole new view of the fire power, but for me takes us back to when we watched the raising of the Mary Rose, and its subsequent renovation over the last 30...

Cheers Sven. I will have a look for any more when I get a moment.
Rob.

And here are some 3lbr Naval Cannon in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NnUve9xS10

Rob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NnUve9xS10

Then I went and found this one for the AWI just to start the cannon ball rolling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9BiQv6gMLA





Rob.

Good to hear from you again Ken, and thanks very much for adding to our knowledge of ballistic weapons.
You have some very interesting dispensers for powder there. Mine are only measured powder...

I know your feelings Jonas. Until I went blind in my right eye it was my dominant one, and I am left handed.
I would like to have a go with the Remmington some time, but I doubt I will ever get the...

Good capture Gary.
Put that man in the Robarte's uniform on a charge for not securing his match sufficiently.
Bligh.

Ity was indeed the cap and ball early version John, and from the feel of it even steadied in two hands I'd say the kick would effect the trajectory. However, as I only had a couple of shots with it...

Interesting observations Jonas.

Of course the Reverend Forsyth's development of the Fulminate of Mercury ignition system was directly as a consequence of the delay in firing after the pan...

Not had any Percussion experience myself Sven.
Have you any interesting observations to make concerning the weapons?
Rob.

I am not really surprised at that Jonas. When we first fired our Muskets we expected that all the stories about the inaccuracy of the Flintlock and the uneven bounce and bad casting of the balls to...

Another sea service gun for your collection shipmates.

Nock volley gun.

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Good example of the lead in time needed to hit a target moving across your line of fire Jonas.
I have never seen a better example.
Thanks for posting.
My Duck foot may well give the odds a better...

Here is another oddity which could be related to our period.


The Duck foot gun.46800

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDvyLuSeJyk

Rob.

I put this in the history section on gunnery yesterday, but on reflection it may be of more interest here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCuVMx5h1x0

Rob.

Morning John.

I have fired all manner of Black powder weapons some with live ammunition, with 1.5 charges in some instances where the touch hole had been drilled a little too high up the tube, and...