Chinese Pole Cannon

[cdustin82]

and metal fabricators are replica builders,because this dude who says HE BUILT THIS!!did not!!guess who did?I did...you shouldn't take credit for other peoples craftsmanship.yes it was your idea,but what did you do ?paint it,and screw in the igniters.you should change the intro message to:this is the only Chinese pole cannon replica that i paid to have made in pensacola....ya DOUCHE!!!

[aa3gunner]

The Chinese are the true inventors of firearms, rockets, explosives, and cannons.

[Dan31Dare]

Sorry but the music ruined this. Would have prefered to hear the cannon. No offence

[stevenscottoddballz]

DARN! I would have liked to have heard the cannon itself, instead of the "music" you had on.

[glk001]

The first precission cap was invented by a Scotsman around 1805, but prefected and put into wide use during 1830's to 1840's...Obviously there were no precussion caps during the 15th century...Nice project though...

[Fantafaust]

@onaitsabes21 Quick question: would you say that it was fired by lighting a line, like one would expect of a "typical" cannon, or a firework? I know you said you modified it to accept percussion caps.

[onaitsabes21]

@Fantafaust I think thats possible that most pole cannons were done by lit fuse, but the original design had some sort of percussion cap... maybe similar to todays musket design... Not sure though...

[pyrosimple]

I don't understand what did they put in the percussion caps in the 14th century... And if they had such explosive, why did muskets with percussion caps appear only in the 18th century?

[onaitsabes21]

@pyrosimple Not Sure, I'm still trying to figure that out myself...

[googly1825]

@pyrosimple yeah, I know chinese were far ahead with first having and applying black powder, but the antique I saw tested had what appeared to be the sameif not just about exact design. My guess is they might have used some kind of flint or something.

[aapch1]

@pyrosimple percussion caps only existed in the early 19th century....this would be a boar gun, used through europe and china until 20th century to kill boars.... the real early chinese ones used incense to be fired

[Pyroguy92]

@Madmachine73 What did I say?

[lcddg]

what's the song is it metallica's song that i'm hearing?

[pspfan68]

yep fuel by metallica

[Pyroguy92]

well the chinese made it long ago...

[Pyroguy92]

silly Asians... :D

[eurasianchica]

lol i'm sure it wont be so silly if you got shot with one

[howardb42006]

that's bad ass-awesome vid....

[jamestelfer]

What is the rate of fire?

[onaitsabes21]

3 per... hmm as fast as you can load black powder...haha

[GunOwnerDan]

Very nice! I wish I could order one from you for my collection. Recently I found some very old Chinese pole cannons on ebay, two 9 shot and one 3 shot. One 9 shot is about .25 caliber and the other is about .35 caliber. The 3 barrel is about 65 caliber. All use fuse and still work fine when I fire noise loads but I'm affraid of firing any kind of projectiles because of a heavy layer of rust and pitting. The guy I got them from says they are 150 years old but they seem to be older than that.

[onaitsabes21]

Yeah Most of this cannon is galvanized, cause Black Powder is so corrosive... This one is nice cause i made it to accept the percussion caps. Also the real one that I created this one from is .45 cal approx., but i decided to make it a whole 100 cal... It shoots nice with not much of a kick! I'll let you know if I start to make another one soon!

[Three3turn]

Maybe you can produce a Chinese musket. If you can, that would be awesome.

[karatedude43]

dude if you can, can you show me how to make that?

[onaitsabes21]

Yeah no prob! Write a message to me.

[crazycuntryboy2]

kick ass!