My New Bronze 3 Pounder!

[Youngblood]

My new Gillmor Ordnance full size, full bored 3 pounder bronze gun (2.91 inch)
I got the balls from Paulson Bros 2.85 inch. They make them for their 32 pounder grape shot loads.
This is the Congrieve model Verbruggen type. I could not afford a proper field carriage at this time so i had Mr Gillmor make a navy carriage for it. I love it!

 

[Youngblood]

 

[JeffG]

Beautiful!!

 

[MAPMFF]

What a looker! Congratulations!!

 

[Captndan]

Beautiful but no sights?

 

[Commodore Swab]

Barrel weight?

 

[TDM]

Outstanding! It’s beautiful! Congratulations.

 

[Youngblood]

Just a guess on weight but about
225-250lbs or so.
42 inches tip to tip.
Gun metal bronze 88-10-2.
No sights.

 

[Commodore Swab]

Just a guess on weight but about
225-250lbs or so.
42 inches tip to tip.
Gun metal bronze 88-10-2.
No sights.

I've done some work with cannons, typically using silicone bronze to retain features.
Here is a small one I've been working on, finished weight hopefully will be sub 200

 

[MAPMFF]

Beautiful but no sights?

Most 18thC pieces did not have sights per say. Gunners would use levels to mark the "gun metal line" on the top/center of the base ring and on the muzzle swell and use those to "aim" Sometimes these notches would be cut directly into the gun.

 

[Phil Coffins]

How’s it shoot?

 

[Youngblood]

I just got it a couple days ago. I have not shot it yet. Aint got any implements but i have everything else. I took a mop handle and stuck a paint roller on the end, its kinda lose in the bore but kinda works.

 

[Codger Craig Wilcox]

Way back when I was young, I was a member of an NSSA group. I was 15, and the group was "The Landing Party off the USS Constellation", a sister ship of the USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides".
We all shot 1861 Springfields, got pretty good with one - no tremors in a teen!
One of the members worked at Anacostia, and with their equipment, but his time, made a replica of a 6-pounder Naval Cannon. He used a section of barrel from a 3" 50 cal naval gun, mounted on the regular Navy carriage.
We fired it at several of the area target shoots (Washington, DC), using about 1 lb of powder and a cement-filled beer can. They were steel back then, and we used some sort of heavy cloth as a patch. Targets were at 1,000 yards, and sometimes we even hit one!

 

[muskethunter1109]

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Incredible! Very jealous!

 

[Codger Craig Wilcox]

BEAUTIFUL! And you sure did a polish job on that chunk of brass!!

 

[Youngblood]

Thank you, however i did not polish that gun, that is as it came.