Got a call by a voice eminating from the clouds and it seems the presidential salute 3" M-5 gun is not well. Can you guys take a look at it?
Youbetcha! Field trip to D.C.? Scuse me there Mr. Big Scary Secret Service guy, gotta scope out Barry's equipment. Hey, what's for lunch?
Im not sure whats going on here...but 3" guns and lunch are both fun topics, so I give it a stamp of approval.
carry on sir
You know when I brag about my 3" gun my wife is not impressed, but you guys brag about THAT guys like there's never been one before.
Hypocrites!
Quasi, it's the magic of the Magician and not the size of the wand, that pulls the rabbit out of the hat.
It's not the displcement of the vessel, but the motion of the ocean? Don't Navy ships tend to have larger bore weapons than that?
Navy ships are also full of seamen,
mistanfo wrote: Don't Navy ships tend to have larger bore weapons than that?
Army, not Navy.
Started production in 1941, modified to use a 105mm breech mech assembly and carriage, used extensively in the Pacific, out of service in 1960.
I get a trip to the attic this afternoon to look for blueprints.
Sometimes I like my job. 
not fare, the plane I work on doesn't even have a gun...
Barry has ten of them.
http://www.army.mil/oldguard/core/specplt/psb.htm
I love me some big guns, but these things just don't look right when they don't recoil on firing. I guess not enough momentum.
spitfirebill wrote: these things just don't look right when they don't recoil on firing. ....
You need bigger charges!
For real GrassRoots entertainment try to find a local artillery club. You know how we spend endless hours for naught in the garage working on a dream that will never roll? These guys do the same thing with cannon, mostly muzzle loaders.
I went to one in Vermont in a big open field. Woodchucks line up at one end with their cannon, all trucked in on car trailers or whatever, launch balls of steel down range trying to hit a target. I try to imagine doing this while other farmers and woodchucks are at the other end of the field trying to blow my head off.
I grew up under the false notion that a round fired through the air would hit the ground, explode and kill the enemy. It actually skips across the ground several times taking out a troop or two along the way.
Google around and bring a lunch, lotsa intellectual and sensory information there.
Dan
914Driver wrote: Barry has ten of them. http://www.army.mil/oldguard/core/specplt/psb.htm
it may not have any guns, but it can still make some big holes
914Driver wrote:mistanfo wrote: Don't Navy ships tend to have larger bore weapons than that?Army, not Navy. Started production in 1941, modified to use a 105mm breech mech assembly and carriage, used extensively in the Pacific, out of service in 1960. I get a trip to the attic this afternoon to look for blueprints. Sometimes I like my job.
2.0dohc wrote:914Driver wrote: Barry has ten of them. http://www.army.mil/oldguard/core/specplt/psb.htmit may not have any guns, but it can still make some big holes
47 holes in three seconds... coming up... err down!
914Driver wrote: ...I grew up under the false notion that a round fired through the air would hit the ground, explode and kill the enemy. It actually skips across the ground several times taking out a troop or two along the way....
They did also have exploding cannon balls. There had a timer (earlier ones I think had a fuse) so they would try to time them to explode over the heads of the troops. I know they had them in the civil war (bad timers was part of the reason for the Souths "issues" at Gettysburg), not sure about revolutionary war, but I think they might have used fused balls then in some situations (bombardments etc.)
The best was "Grape Shot", a soup can filled with little lead balls = one big shotgun.
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