wall gun

[thewho66]

what is a wall gun and what was its intended usage. I see that MIke Brooks had made one but until I looked on his site I have never heard of one.

John

 

[CoyoteJoe]

Wall guns were generally very large and heavy guns meant to be fired from the walls of a fort. Generally of large caliber, long of barrel, and too heavy to be handled like a conventional firearm, they were used when the enemy was out of range of most rifles. Today it would be a Barett .50 caliber or maybe a 20mm.

 

[bioprof]

The Rifle Shoppe has a set of parts to build a wall gun. The parts alone will set you back over a Grand though. Not very practical unless you're hunting T. rex.

 

[rabjr]

Wanna see Roy shootin one?
http://roystroh.com/

 

[RC]

Wanna see Roy shootin one?
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that's our Roy! :haha: :thumbsup: ! :haha:

 

[thewho66]

Well now I know, were they general issue to troops in forts, or in other words did the british military have them made similar to the bess.

 

[Many Klatch]

The wall guns were used to take out Artillery crews. The artillery could shoot from beyond the range of most long guns in a fort, but the wall gun could still reach out and touch them. Some friends of mine made one and shot it at a range. I think it was a 1 inch bore (not sure about that) but I do remember that they loaded it with 350 grains of powder and shot it at 200 yards, the ball buried itself 18" in the ground.

Imagine a 1" lead ball with that kind of power hitting anywhere near a cannon at 200 or 300 yards. The flak alone might disable part of the gun crew.

Many Klatch

 

[Roy]

its pretty impresive what a 1/4 lb of lead will do...

It then ripped the stand from the ground and carried it a good distance :haha: Pretty healthy dent considering what it hit.

 

[RC]

:redface: :rotf: is/was that considered bench shootin or... :haha: yikes!did ya find the ball???

 

[Roy]

uh... post shootin?? No didn't even try lookin for the ball.

 

[RC]

uh... post shootin?? No didn't even try lookin for the ball.

well golly! how hard could it be to find a 1/4 lb. of lead? bet it were flat too, you probably stepped on it! be neat to see it... :shocked2: ....post? :rotf:

 

[Roy]

considering the stand was something like 10' away from where it was in the ground I didn't bother... Shooting just a touch to the left. :haha:

 

[RC]

considering the stand was something like 10' away from where it was in the ground I didn't bother... Shooting just a touch to the left. :haha:

move the post right???

 

[Roy]

:haha: something like that.... :slap:

 

[RC]

:haha: something like that.... :slap:

good thing it weren't shootin low! :shocked2: raisin the post? oh my! :shocked2:

 

[Many Klatch]

Roy, what caliber was your 1/4 pound ball?

Many Klatch

 

[Roy]

1" :thumbsup:

 

[Many Klatch]

Kewl!! :thumbsup:

 

[RC]

Some friends of mine made one and shot it at a range.
Many Klatch

Many K, that the one Bruce had?? shot at the N'eastern too.?

 

[Roy]

I have built two of those beasts, I need to get proper pics of them for the site... Takes a lot of effort to load and shoot. Shoot it about 10x and ya think that you have done something in the day :haha: We did find that shooting that much powder that we needed to use a wad over the powder, if not you would have a flaming patch down range somewhere.