Help me identify this cannon

[doubled]

Best place I could think of to put the post..

My father has had this cannon for as long as I can remember... It weighs about 30 lbs or so and there are no markings at all on it. It needs some TLC but I want to find out as much as I can. my goal is to fire it after giving it a super-douching to get it all cleaned up.

Any idea what this is/who made it?

 

[longguntoter]

Re: Help me identify this cannon

Whoa! Maybe you need to post that picture on some forum that covers old cannons or something. Not trying to be funny here, but I don't have a clue on this one. Sorry.

 

[armydog]

Re: Help me identify this cannon

Never seen a breech loading cannon like that, Shoot an email off to this guy, http://www.southbendreplicas.com/index.htm he's in South Bend Indiana. Maybe he can help or at least steer you in the right direction.

 

[doubled]

Re: Help me identify this cannon

I've posted it in a few places. I really want to shoot it but it definitely needs a really good cleaning and safety check first and i'd like to know if it was manufactured by a company. It might have been a home project for all i know.

It's a very hefty solid piece and I can tell it has been fired in the past.

 

[Wolvenhaven]

Re: Help me identify this cannon

Measure everything on it, bore diameter, outer diameter, length, and such and then google the sizes and hope you find a breakdown of cannons. Also look for proof marks, marker marks, date marks.

 

[doubled]

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thanks guys. I will shoot off a email to those folks and measure it all when i get home from this family visit. I am pretty excited to get my hands on this and see what it can shoot.

I have gone over every inch of it with a flashlight and there are absolutely no visible markings. The carriage is all cast iron and if there is a marking on there the other imperfections and time have erased their visibility to me....

 

[Three Guns]

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This is a shot in the dark, but you might try looking up the Command Historian at Fort Sill. The guy who was there 15 years ago was a wizard at at stuff like that. I am not sure who is there now.

Good luck.

To,

 

[armydog]

Re: Help me identify this cannon

its a reproduction, small and its got a liner in the bore, still lots of fun to shoot.

 

[Wolvenhaven]

Re: Help me identify this cannon

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: doubled</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I have gone over every inch of it with a flashlight and there are absolutely no visible markings. The carriage is all cast iron and if there is a marking on there the other imperfections and time have erased their visibility to me.... </div></div>

Take it off the carriage and check the trunnions, if I'm not mistaken a lot of the time the marks are on them.

 

[plastikosmd]

Re: Help me identify this cannon

looks like a witworth that I am working on building

 

[ArcticLight]

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Damn that looks like (similiar) to those cannons they shot on Top-Shot....

Nice, looks authentic too!

 

[Kilosierra]

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It's an old signal cannon. It's meant to fire a blank to start a race, signal your arrival in port, fire salutes, stuff like that.