Has any one built a cannon?

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Ok, so too much boredom has gotten the better of me, if you’ve happen to have built a cannon could you please pm me I have a few question I’d like to ask, thanks I guess

I have access to a lathe and operator and lots of pressure pipe do to the trades I’m in for making a chamber thanks
 
If you want something that is easy to work with. Size it to handle golf balls - works a charm with light BP loads and will drive a ball about 800 meters across a lake.
Bonus it is Lead free and has low carbon emissions.
 
I sent you a pm.

Turned several from bar stock ranging in size from 2.5 inch bore and 4 feet long to smaller swivel guns. Always were popular with people for some reason. Have done any for a few years.

I didn’t use pressure pipe tho, the big one started as a 6 inch diameter chunk of 1018 hot rolled.
 
The couple I saw were miniature versions sized for 50 cal I believe. Makes it easy to find supplies, and you wouldnt have to worry about bore size or joules (ie: the oic bull..)
 
A 10 bore-ish smooth bore with a vented breach and BP will be under the 10000 joules limit.

Be an interesting size for a small breech loader as well
 
hickstick_10 said:
A 10 bore-ish smooth bore with a vented breach and BP will be under the 10000 joules limit.

Be an interesting size for a small breech loader as well
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Fuse, touch hole or flint-lock, it's OK; put a lock mechanism on it that uses a cap, and it's a firearm.

I built a few many years ago (when I was a teen) using seamless pressure pipe inside other pipe. All used touch-holes; they varied from 50 cal up to two inch. One 1" bore fired a wheel nut right through both doors with the windows rolled down on an old deselect Plymouth sedan. Same cannon put a 5/16 x 6 carriage bolt through the trunk lid on that same car, sideways (it keyholed). It is still beyond me why our parents let us play with this stuff. LOL. Great fun.
 
Meroh said:
Fuse, touch hole or flint-lock, it's OK; put a lock mechanism on it that uses a cap, and it's a firearm.

I built a few many years ago (when I was a teen) using seamless pressure pipe inside other pipe. All used touch-holes; they varied from 50 cal up to two inch. One 1" bore fired a wheel nut right through both doors with the windows rolled down on an old deselect Plymouth sedan. Same cannon put a 5/16 x 6 carriage bolt through the trunk lid on that same car, sideways (it keyholed). It is still beyond me why our parents let us play with this stuff. LOL. Great fun.
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I have built & owned repica cannons for the last 10 yrs or so from desk top size 50 cal cohorn mortars to 2 5/8" full sized field cannon replicas so have taken a very close look at the OIC of may 1st and believe your statement, after May 1st, is outdated and wrong.
in the OIC, Blair created a new "prohib firearms" classification that does not exclude the firing methods you list...we used to fall to your description as "allowed methods" but until that OIC is adjudicated with a written verdict, the "literal definition & reading of the document" leave us, actually in a situation where any piece of pipe in our possession is a prohibited "devise". Devise being the word that, unfortunately catches every tube in existence in either the 20mm or 10,000 j and often both.
 
fingers284 said:
I have built & owned repica cannons for the last 10 yrs or so from desk top size 50 cal cohorn mortars to 2 5/8" full sized field cannon replicas so have taken a very close look at the OIC of may 1st and believe your statement, after May 1st, is outdated and wrong.
in the OIC, Blair created a new "prohib firearms" classification that does not exclude the firing methods you list...we used to fall to your description as "allowed methods" but until that OIC is adjudicated with a written verdict, the "literal definition & reading of the document" leave us, actually in a situation where any piece of pipe in our possession is a prohibited "devise". Devise being the word that, unfortunately catches every tube in existence in either the 20mm or 10,000 j and often both.
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yes I tend to agree if its over 20mm its prohibited, I have built many cannons form half inch to 2 inch, the best enjoyment is one that I cast a 1 inch lead ball for, barrel was 2 1/2 steel, fir fun tried rifling it using a scrap reamer, cylindrical grind it and simply press it thro the barrel, worked great

for cannons over 3/4 I bore right thro the barrel, thread the end and screw a plug into it, this way I can clean easily by removing the plug
 
After the May 1st OIC, I wrote a polite letter to Bill Blair, asking if the OIC applied to deemed and prescribed antiques. These are the two classes of antique firearms. I did not get a reply. I suspect that this was something they did not consider. I would like to see a formal ruling on the issue.
There are any number of antique firearms that exceed the 20mm bore diameter.
 
tiriaq said:
After the May 1st OIC, I wrote a polite letter to Bill Blair, asking if the OIC applied to deemed and prescribed antiques. These are the two classes of antique firearms. I did not get a reply. I suspect that this was something they did not consider. I would like to see a formal ruling on the issue.
There are any number of antique firearms that exceed the 20mm bore diameter.
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I wrote one as well, with a cc to Trudeau. 2 or 3 months later I got a reply from Trudeau saying that Blair would answer it but I am not holding my breath. It is not just cannons but also large bore antique shotguns and rifles and blunderbusses, 25 mm flare guns, some line throwing guns use a 25 mm blank to propel the weighted line. Even out here many of the black powder rendezvous have candy cannons that shoot 1 - 1 1/2 lbs of candy out for the kids to pick up. I also find it strange that there have been two requests for tenders to administer the buy back of the prohibited guns in which the first responders were all rejected and the second request apparently had no offers. It makes me think there must be something legally fuzzy about the actual prohibition

cheers mooncoon
 
Brad243 said:
The couple I saw were miniature versions sized for 50 cal I believe. Makes it easy to find supplies, and you wouldnt have to worry about bore size or joules (ie: the oic bull..)
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I have had a barrel for yrs, just never got the carriage done "yet", PC110001.jpg
Don't know if I will get it done.
.50" bore , Think it is a Wilson built barrel
 

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marshall said:
I have had a barrel for yrs, just never got the carriage done "yet", View attachment 442165
Don't know if I will get it done.
.50" bore , Think it is a Wilson built barrel
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Sorry to burst your bubble but that thing will qualify under the OIC as a pro-hib....you might envision firing it with a SENSIBLE load of BP and be well under the joules limit but the OIC does not specify that any tester be "SENSIBLE". Fill that entire tube with BP and just spud the ball in the end and it might even reach the threshold...it certainly will with a load of smokeless for propellant...Nowhere in the OIC does it say that testing must be safe or within regularly used standards...again "devise & capable" are the unlimited usage parameters that are allowed by the document.
 
marshall said:
I have had a barrel for yrs, just never got the carriage done "yet", View attachment 442165
Don't know if I will get it done.
.50" bore , Think it is a Wilson built barrel
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back in the 80's in high school shop class our year end project could be crafted on the lathe or in the foundry. The foundry group got to choose between a grenade or a budda bust and the lathe one of the choices was a cannon just like what you have pictured. Not sure whatever happened to the one i made but that was '85
Friend of ours had a decent size cannon he would fire off on new years with just wadding and no shot. Loads of fun LOL

I wonder if the idiot Blair banned potato and tennis ball guns too?
I'm keepin mine bill LOL
 
fingers284 said:
Sorry to burst your bubble but that thing will qualify under the OIC as a pro-hib....you might envision firing it with a SENSIBLE load of BP and be well under the joules limit but the OIC does not specify that any tester be "SENSIBLE". Fill that entire tube with BP and just spud the ball in the end and it might even reach the threshold...it certainly will with a load of smokeless for propellant...Nowhere in the OIC does it say that testing must be safe or within regularly used standards...again "devise & capable" are the unlimited usage parameters that are allowed by the document.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're not going to get to the velocity needed even with a barrel full of BP. Smokeless in a vented muzzle loader, won't even touch that.

Using your rational every muzzle loader is now a prohib. The OIC is far reaching I agree with you but this is a little far fetched for muzzle energy.
 
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