My mortars and thunder mugs have arrived

[Arizona_Mike]

I have received a golf ball and soda can mortar and a large and small thunder mug. Any ideas for commercial or hand made tools. I've got pipe cleaners. Swabs, rams, worms . . . anything else? Do I need a pick for cleaning?

Mike

 

[BullSlinger]

Great Mike, how about a pic or two?

 

[zimmerstutzen]

My first cannon was an old cast iron signal cannon used for sail boat races in the Great Lakes. 75 caliber. It came with an ancient ram rod made from a shift lever from an old "three on the tree" automobile. I used a bronze plumbing coupling attached to a narrow piece of iron pipe as a cleaning jag, After I threaded the two, I spun it with an electric drill and used a file to shape the bronze into a jag.

 

[whosyrdaddy]

A four foot length of half inch copper pipe with a funnel taped to the end makes loading powder into the chamber much easier.
A baby bottle brush makes a quick job of cleaning said chamber.

 

[Iggy]

I use to have a coehorn that shot beer cans full of cement a couple of hundred yards, and a 1/3 scale cannon of the type used on Old Ironsides. It fired a 35mm film can full of cement or a 1/2 pound lead wadcutter. The WC would go through a pickup body at a hundred yards.

I made my own implements. Pipe cleaner is important for the flash hole. Bottle brushes, etc.

Great fun.

 

[justashooter in pa]

here's one i built awhile back:

http://www.weaponsguild.com/forum/index.php?topic=35870.0