Rossi Rifleman

akuser47 wrote:It looks like a an artillery gun 105 mm? As the rifling an such plus the ability to open the breech in the way the pics look.

5" Mk 38 naval gun on Battleship Iowa. We fire blanks from this mounts (Mt 56) 2 guns on special occasions. This was the first chance to clean it since a month ago...

Nice much bigger than I was thinking. Donhuff does some stuff like this as well. Sounds like fun.

It's a blast....

jamesgpobog wrote:

akuser47 wrote:It looks like a an artillery gun 105 mm? As the rifling an such plus the ability to open the breech in the way the pics look.

5" Mk 38 naval gun on Battleship Iowa. We fire blanks from this mounts (Mt 56) 2 guns on special occasions. This was the first chance to clean it since a month ago...

do these guns fire black powder loads, or do they use modern smokeless powder?

Zippidydoodah wrote:

jamesgpobog wrote:

akuser47 wrote:It looks like a an artillery gun 105 mm? As the rifling an such plus the ability to open the breech in the way the pics look.

5" Mk 38 naval gun on Battleship Iowa. We fire blanks from this mounts (Mt 56) 2 guns on special occasions. This was the first chance to clean it since a month ago...

do these guns fire black powder loads, or do they use modern smokeless powder?

There was actually a Senior Chief Gunner's Mate around and I asked him that question. He told me the 5" round id fired with modern smokeless powder. The steel case and powder weighs 27 pounds, the projectile 55.

We use 1.5 pounds of cannon or FF for our shots.

Here's a cool vid a guest made. I'm in a few scenes, "How did they do that?", and "There's no crying in the Navy."


http://youtu.be/oKbkY3qKxNQ

That is a very nice video .. I really enjoyed it.

JD