From the Fort in St Augua

[Siringo]

This looks like an large size Bess. 1 inch bore and gun alone weighs 47 pounds. Park ranger said it was used for long range sniping. Any one have accurate information on something like this.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Our unit has a Long Range Musket. Its a smoothbore.

The placard has the simple description.

Impressive piece of artillery.

It is crew served.

Used a 1" diameter ball and a lot of powder. We have have shot it with ball. Mostly this Rifle Shoppe replica fires blanks.

'Nuff said.

 

[Siringo]

Thanks for the info. I guessing the 1.5 oz is weight. So 656 grains of powder and a 1600 grain roundball. Any idea on muzzle velocity?

 

[Grenadier1758]

I have no knowledge of the muzzle velocity.

 

[YJake]

Wall gun, without the wall. The recoil is enough to dislocate a shoulder if fired normally.

-Jake

 

[oldwood]

Would be fun to fire this musket across a body of water just to watch the big ball skip out of sight. I did this with a small cal. squirrel rifle on a totally dead calm and empty section of the Monongehela River in S.W. Pa. . The balls instantly skipped out of sight. Experimental fun........oldwood

 

[Cattywompuss]

That's pretty awesome!

 

[hanshi]

YIKES!