[modeleng] Re: new website
- From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:57:45 -0600
Chris,
I sold my 6 pounder cannon 35 years ago, but still have a 1/2 scale 24
pounder Coehorn mortar that will fling a concrete filled beer can a pretty
good distance. Uses a bout a 12 shotgun shell full of black powder and
makes a heckuva noise. I take it out in the back yard and fire it towards
an old stock pond behind the house so I don't have to go out and pick up the
projectiles. They go about as high in the air as they travel down range.
Jesse in Troy, TN USA
> About a 1:4 scale model, ie 3inch to the foot... still a handy enough
> caliber I'd have thought.... A 12 pounder is about a 72mm barrel bore
> (rough estimate seeing as a 6-pounder is 57mm), which brings a model in
> at around 18mm, so you'd be able to run shotgun cartridges in it, if you
> derate the cartidges a bit (lets face it a flash, a bang and something
> flies out of the end and hits a target 30 feet away is plenty from that
> sort of thing surely) you should have no trouble... My dad's favourite
> shotgun weighed less than six pounds so 17 lbs of brass should be able
> to handle a half charge without any trouble at all.....
> Chrisc
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