Starting Cannon

[Impaler]

For what it's worth, a working smoothbore cannon is not exactly hard to make. I made one out of water pipe, aged about 11 or 12. It fired steel slugs[1] through wooden boards quite nicely.

Being well aware of the possibility of a breech explosion, it was fired electrically from inside a sturdy wooden shed a short distance away.

Pete

Excellent, we used copper pipe and the weed kliier mix and did have a couple of explosions, nothing like being in a ditch when a bomb goes off harmlessly. Then I joined the Army.