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Thread #68178 Message #1147570
Posted By: Rapparee
27-Mar-04 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Building a Flintlock Jaeger
Subject: RE: BS: Building a Flintlock Jaeger
No, he has two cannons, named "Ed" for my grandfather (the biggest one) and "Marie" for Ed's sister (the smaller one.) He shot the smaller one -- Ed's bore is about 3.5 inches. He fired Marie at New Year's.
I don't know how common full sized ACW, etc. cannons are, but I've seen them. There are even cannon shoots here where a gun crew in full ACW uniform and does the whole battlefield drill, shooting as accurately and quickly as possible -- the ones I've seen use containers of concrete for instead of real shot, though. Of course, there's a whole hill for a backstop!
The largest shotgun in regular use in the US is 10 gauge (10 bore). The largest I have is a side-by-side double 12. Hunting, especially waterfowl hunting, with shotguns in the UK and the US differs -- I'd call a shotgun with a 2" bore a "punt gun", as was used by market hunters a hundred years ago.
On the other hand, when I visited Culloden and took in the sound-and-light show there I notices that one of the members of the British forces was using a percussion lock rifle when all the other people were using flintlocks. I guess that the Brits were ahead of the US back them, too, huh?