Shooting the Hotchkiss 2-Pounder Mountain Gun

John, Ed, and friends shoot the 2-pounder Hotchkiss breechloading mountain gun. The rifled weapon is capable of throwing its deadly shells as far as two miles away. The gun is first tried on close-up targets then at longer range. It achieves fair accuracy but a better projectile design is needed for good accuracy. The gun did not eject empty cartridge cases during the video due to a broken part.

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[cannonmn]

No permits needed for cannons made before 1899. They normally sell for about the price of a pretty good make of new car.

[JSLegoMaster]

Well at that time most cannons were still reloaded from the front, roll in the ball and blackpoder in the tube and it took long time but according to most soucres the first frtillery piece that was reloaded from bedind liek this was the mle.1897 but now this? Whats this system called and when was it introdiuced?

[cannonmn]

@JSLegoMaster This is the horizontal sliding wedge system. Krupp stole the idea from Broadwell in the 1850's or 60's. See an early Broadwell gun firing in one of our videos "Firing the rare Broadwell Mountain gun" (they don't allow links in these coments)

[MackinacIs]

Where do you find 130 year old black powder?

[cannonmn]

@MackinacIs We unloaded some old 1-pounder Hotchkiss ammo.

[copperblazer1]

Great cannon, have you thought about producing cannister shot for it?

[cannonmn]

Thanks, we have some live original stuff which we want to shoot once we get a personnel-type target array constructed. These rounds are expensive collector items and we sure don't want to waste it without a way to see exactly what it does.

[zoofergee]

love the cannon what does it take to buy one like this i would just like some sort of breech loaded cannon someday is there any special permets neede to own one?

[partsproduction]

If this design was prior to 1898 I'd love to find drawings of it, I have a 30MM barrel to make into a cannon, it's a barrel from a Warthog.

[ArcaneKarma]

I bet 2 people can run that into position fast. Well, as long as the don't have to go up a steep hill.

[JSLegoMaster]

And btw. the reloading stytem is very easy, in with the cartrige, close lock fire, i mean max rate of fire must b e like 15S/min

[idgewe]

thats a beautiful old cannon .

[druisteen1]

i can see one in france ?

[druisteen1]

you know if i can see onne in the invalide muséum at paris ?

[wanttosee8]

Used also during the Philippine-American War 1899-1913. From the "Memories of 2 Wars, Cuba and the Philippines "

[druisteen]

if i cann have that in france ....

[SirOneoneselfandone]

a propah cannon

[disturbedone5009]

This thing is awesome. If I could afford it I would own one.

It is surprisingly accurate too.

[piutesteve]

Thats a beautiful gun and a great video. It looked to me that you had about an inch of empty case space between the top of your powder and the bottom of your bullet. It was my understanding that was no no with black powder. I know black powder cartridge shooters claim that it's the equivilant of a barrel obstruction. I shoot a 3" Whitworth rifle and I shoot heavy expencive loads just to fill the case. What are your thoughts on this? See videos by ( piutesteve) let me know. Thanks Steve

[EktomorfFanAxion]

nice one, 5 stars!

[dillongipson111]

worth 40 grand

[Classicalguy12]

@crazycuntryboy2 Lol I know...it was a joke. :P. And wow thats a lot.