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Oh, BTW -

By The Armorer on November 18, 2004 | | Comments (8)

Anybody wanna take a stab at identifying the weapon two posts down? Just for fun.

Just in case you need a hint.

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By Montieth on November 18, 2004 5:02 PM
Some kind of early Brass Rifled cannon. Can't tell if it's breech loading or not (quite likely).
 
By mikeatSE on November 18, 2004 7:04 PM
At first,I was thinking along the same lines as Montieth,but,I bet the pic is misleading as to the size.I'll go with something smaller than a cannon.
 
By Alex on November 18, 2004 7:13 PM
Clearly it's an aircraft carrier.
 
By arditi on November 18, 2004 7:45 PM
..the main gun on a T62?
 
By Montieth on November 18, 2004 11:02 PM
The edge of the rifling where it meets the crown is very brassy. Plus it's green tinted and very deep in rifling. That seems to indicate the use of Black Powder as a propellant as opposed to shallower rifling for newer powders. Plus, the crown is very wide.
 
By Samuel Tai on November 19, 2004 12:23 AM
If the pic is life size, this would indicate a 140mm, or 5-1/2" rifled gun of some type. There appear to be ~20 lands and ~20 grooves. Maybe these aren't conventional riflings, but ridges for a some kind of early sabot? I think we can rule out Civil War Parrott guns, since the sabots maxed out at 9 lands & grooves.
 
By MunDane on November 19, 2004 1:15 PM
Rifled bronze... with an aiming post? From the wear on the munzzle end..this was a working gun. But civil war stuff tended to have a lot fewer grooves...(exception 3" Parrot CSA) So I am going to bet this came from either the Crimean war and some Turkish piece from that war (because they are less exspensive than the English pieces) Possibly russian because they were behind the times...so to speak.
 
By John of Argghhh! on November 19, 2004 1:43 PM
Keep going, fellas. Yer bouncing all around it.