Shooting the 7 CM Spanish Mountain Rifle

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John, Ed, Taylor, Michelle, Dustin, and Sir Geoff shoot the 7 CM weapon, made in Seville, Spain in 1869.

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  • You obviously have to use C grade powder and not the F grade. Do Goex (when they get over their last explosion) make this grade or do you get it imported. I should imagine FG powder would blow your cannon to whence it came.

  • @nicksynnz I don't know what grade "C" means, sorry. In the US, all black powders are designated by the letter "F" and a number which indicates the degree of fineness of granulation. From coarsest to finest are: 1. "Cannon" 2. FG 3. FFG 4. FFFG 5. FFFFG. No. 5, FFFFG, is only used for priming flintlock weapons. Those are all potassium nitrate-based black powders. Sodium nitrate-based are only used for blasting rock and fireworks launching, and have grades like "2FA."

  • Hello, mi friends.

    My curiosity is killing me. How did you get this cannon?.

    In Spain, neither in dreamings you´d have a weapon like that.

  • This barrel was the property of a military veteran's organization, and a friend of mine bought it from them. He then traded it to me for another cannon I had that he wanted more than the Spanish one. That was about 25 years ago.

    I don't think Spain made many of these very light mountain rifles, this is the only one of this size I've seen. I've seen many of the heavier 8 cm bronze mountain rifles. That model usually has Queen Isabella II cypher on the breech.

  • I'm not quite sure how exactly it works. A historic collectors license?

  • >I'm not quite sure how exactly it works. A historic collectors license?

    Here's how it works, you load it with the proper charge of black powder, put a projectile in it, aim, insert primer, connect lanyard, pull lanyard sharply. Boom!

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  • @cannonmn F grade is firearms grade and much finer. C grade is Cannon grade powder with grains 2mm to 15mm in diameter for the larger cannons. Larger guns with bores greater than 17cm needed larger grains and was called P grains or pebble grains which were cubed, each side being 16mm, the P2 powder had sides of 38mm. Prism powder had hexagonal shaped grains. From what you are saying it seems that these cannon powders I mentioned are no longer available, at least from Goex and you use 1f.

  • Wow ¿You can buy that in the USA? ¿And use that?

    I would like to have one, but the Guardia Civil would take me to jail. :-(

    I have to visit the USA : D

  • You can't see if you hit the target with all the smoke. Stand becide it.

  • THE HUNS ARE DEFEATED i just had to say it been watching other videos

  • you guys know how to have fun

  • Amazing piece of artillery. that's a groovy barrel!

    Your videos are making my subwoofer happy.. that loud, deep BOOM is delicious!

    Video quality is good.. may i expect you to shift to HD someday?

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