9 Pounder Muzzle loading cannon

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Does anyone know who has, deals with, or produces 9 pounder muzzle loading cannons

Either the original article or the replica

Any ideas or insight would be appreciated
 
check out the back issues of backwoodsman as i recall seeing an article about making your own replica cannon in a prior issue

htt ps://www.backwoodsmanmag.com/
 
Facebook has a cannon and mortar group with someone who works at a foundry in the US makes cannons posting regularly.
Dixie Gun works used to have some ages ago I believe. Loyalist Arms supplies historical arms for movies and might be able to point you in the right direction.
 
Try South Bend Replicas. they make quite a few cannon barrel models. Carriages are a different thing though. You may have to source your carriage from somewhere else. I have a 3 lb. Verburggen on a navel carriage from them that's the real deal. Just need to make a Grasshopper carriage a la War of 1812 to really get that authentic look.
 
vagrantviking said:
Facebook has a cannon and mortar group with someone who works at a foundry in the US makes cannons posting regularly.
Dixie Gun works used to have some ages ago I believe. Loyalist Arms supplies historical arms for movies and might be able to point you in the right direction.
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I believe it is possible to order a cannon from Loyalist Arms, although I can’t say from experience unfortunately
 
Denisb said:
Try South Bend Replicas. they make quite a few cannon barrel models. Carriages are a different thing though. You may have to source your carriage from somewhere else. I have a 3 lb. Verburggen on a navel carriage from them that's the real deal. Just need to make a Grasshopper carriage a la War of 1812 to really get that authentic look.
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Thank you for your help
 
vagrantviking said:
Facebook has a cannon and mortar group with someone who works at a foundry in the US makes cannons posting regularly.
Dixie Gun works used to have some ages ago I believe. Loyalist Arms supplies historical arms for movies and might be able to point you in the right direction.
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Thank you for your help
 
Wilf Black said:
Thank you. Thank for your note. No I regret the name of Edson doesn't ring a bell. The 9 pounder would be neat to see
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Wilf was a friend of Edson's. The cannon is now with le Detachment Matross. They have a website and can be contacted.

The cannon I had was once in a town park. It had sat in dry storage for decades. The chamber was pinned with two big diagonal bolts with big square nuts, and the bore plugged. To reactivate it would have needed a level of machine tools and equipment I simply don't have. Secondly, it would need to be X-Rayed for cracks and weakness. Third, it would need to be line bored or heavily honed to a smooth surface and sleeved. The projectiles on the 9-Pdr have oval shaped lugs that engage coarse rifling grooves. Then build a carriage. Then move everything around. Oh yeah, and the friggin' tube weighs 900 lbs without anything more attached. So, I let someone else manage those problems and sold it.
 
I remember your Father showing me that canon at your Grandmother's place years ago.
 
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JP said:
I remember your Father showing me that canon at your Grandmother's place year ago.
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He was proud of them. But reality had to be faced. I still have the little one. The best identification I've found is a very similar cannon in Tacoma, Washington (!). When it comes out of storage in the spring, the staff have promised to take more photos.
 
Wilf Black said:
Does anyone know who has, deals with, or produces 9 pounder muzzle loading cannons

Either the original article or the replica

Any ideas or insight would be appreciated
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Here ya go ... http://cannonsplus.com/ Spoke to the guy quite some time ago - he tuned up a lock for me ... apparently they make all kinds of reproductions for parks, movies, historic forts etc.

so if you don't see what you are looking forward on the site - ask.

Also - from speaking with him, the construction of the firing ones was to cast them around a high pressure seamless tube... so pretty solid!
 
sean69 said:
Here ya go ... http://cannonsplus.com/ Spoke to the guy quite some time ago - he tuned up a lock for me ... apparently they make all kinds of reproductions for parks, movies, historic forts etc.

so if you don't see what you are looking forward on the site - ask.

Also - from speaking with him, the construction of the firing ones was to cast them around a high pressure seamless tube... so pretty solid!
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Thank you for note. The people from historical twist put me in touch with Les earlier this week but appreciate the thought. Enclosed is the link to historical twist for those other who are interested. Its pretty extensive and I didn't even know they existed before then after a friend in Toronto put me in touch with them

https://historicaltwist.com/
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
He was proud of them. But reality had to be faced. I still have the little one. The best identification I've found is a very similar cannon in Tacoma, Washington (!). When it comes out of storage in the spring, the staff have promised to take more photos.
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The ones in the basement of the garage?
- Making a carriage for them was one of the project we never got to tackle...

On the upside, thanks to Edson I did get to meet some friendly folks shooting home-made artillery at the Derby-Line fish & game club :pirate:
- That was one of those weird-memorable days at the range with Edson.

At the Montreal gun shows, there used to be a guy bringing civil-war replica cannon for sale.
 
sillymike said:
The ones in the basement of the garage?

Yes. When that house was sold, the cannons moved to his house. There they sat for years, and I had to deal with them.

- Making a carriage for them was one of the projects we never got to tackle...

On the upside, thanks to Edson I did get to meet some friendly folks shooting home-made artillery at the Derby-Line fish & game club :pirate:

- That was one of those weird-memorable days at the range with Edson.

I'm sure that is an understatement!

At the Montreal gun shows, there used to be a guy bringing a civil-war replica cannon for sale.
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These cannons have history and they have to be respected. That is why I sold the 9-Pdr to guys who have a genuine interest and the skills to make it capable of firing blanks. And they seem to have a patron willing to fund it.
 
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