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    Default Canon Muzzle Loading

    Basil Mills shows us how to fire his muzzle loading canon that was used in frontier wars. Please share.

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    Thanks for posting, any idea what shot/ball that would have originally been used with?

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    A variety of options AFAIK.

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    Default Re: Canon Muzzle Loading

    IIRC they might even go as far as chiseling stone ball if they ran out of actual shot?

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    Possibly. AFAIK shards of metal in a leather hide wasn't uncommon. A crude form of canister or grape.

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    Default Re: Canon Muzzle Loading

    What a character!

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    Default Re: Canon Muzzle Loading

    Basil..ja..hell of a character as you say.

    Also involved in training horses for movies,stunt rider and one of those old school frontier farmer descendents.

    The video is taken at the Adelaide Gun Club,we shoot a yearly 4 gun shoot there and the hospitallity offered by this mad bunch of farmers has led to much shenanigans happening in the clubhouse pictured in the background.

    It is one of those venues where a sleep over is compulsory.A hundred yards from where the demo.took place is a little wooden house...at last years shoot there were about a dozen of us that crashed there.

    Good people.

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