I have long suspected the under-reporting is correct. For one thing, am I correct in thinking that to be hit by canister is to be hit with musket ball, and...
Cannister is considerably larger than a musket ball. I'm not sure you could really mistake someone being hit by cannister and someone being hit by a musket...
Don, I don't know that cannister is measured by "caliber". Caliber is the inside diameter of the barrel of the weapon that the projectile is being fired from....
... Immediately after I posted, I remembered Google. An answer they supplied is: Canister is .69 caliber (not calibeer, not to be confused with Corona!) Don...
... sure ... hit ... that ... Corona!) ... Here is a web site that details hunting deer with Mountain howitzers: http://www.buckstix.com/howitzer.htm Although...
Canister balls were about the size of a modern golf ball. At least, the one I have is that size. JFE...
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DPowell334@...
May 2, 2005 2:29 pm
.69 caliber was the size of the M1842 smoothbore ball. Typically, smoothbores were larger caliber than the rifles that replaced them. Euro smoothbores ranged...
That sounds about right. Of course mine are well rusted but they do approach the golf ball size. My model 1812 is .69 caliber and there is no way this beauty...
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DPowell334@...
May 2, 2005 3:09 pm
In a message dated 5/2/2005 10:05:52 AM Central Standard Time, ... Cannister ranged up from .69. 27 ball round you are thinking of was 1.0 Caliber, or one inch...
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banbruner@...
May 2, 2005 3:39 pm
If this discussion is not limited to field artillery I woud submit the fall of Forts Pulaski and Macon for consideration as a seminal moment in the contest ...
There are two web site that I refer concerning artillery. http://www.civilwarartillery.com/ http://www.aeragon.com/ The first is specific to the civil war, the...
Thanks Dave. I thought there might have had to been different sizes of these things. I know the ones that I have are a lot bigger than .69 caliber. I am,...
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keeno2@...
May 2, 2005 4:54 pm
Read somewhere that cased shot was rarely used by land forces. It was either shot, shell, or canister. Might have to take that back. The 1863 CS Ordnance ...
You are probably right about case shot not being used that much. Since it was a fused shot, and fuses were not that reliable to begin with, it was of little...
You are correct General. I need to. Right now I only have Coates and Thomas's "An Introduction to Civil War Small Arms", Coggins "Arms and Equipment of the...
Eyeballing a canister ball with a minnie I'd say it was about 1" in diameter and the minnie a tad larger than 1/2" making the impact of the canister 4 times...
I've been following along with this discussion and wanted to get all the info absorbed before jumping in. All field artillery batteries had a limber equipped...
In a message dated 5/2/2005 3:45:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jblake47@... writes: "Canister"; shot larger than 1.0 caliber were really grape shot used ...
Canister on a 6pdr was 27 -1" diameter steel balls. Canister on a 12pdr was 27- 1&1/2 inch diameter steel balls. Grape shot was 2 inch diameter steel balls....
you may be correct, of course, but generally speaking the Austrian muskets were of .54 calibre [Lorenz M1854]... the Austrians wanted to replace them [with .58...
I have a private, unconfirmed theory that "grape" was truly almost never used in the ACW... Cased shot & spherical case shot are other terms for a Shrapnel...
I'll state here that the term "minnie ball" often confuses folks... present company excepted I'm sure.... not that you used that term, either... but my point...
In a message dated 5/2/2005 4:33:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, carlw4514@... writes: I have a private, unconfirmed theory that "grape" was truly almost...
one piece of evidence, wayne, is such things as the table of fire from Hogg's book that I just uploaded into Photos. Canister is only mentioned in the text,...
you can read the text if you use the larger option in the table of fire posted in Photos, but here it is: "Use SHOT at masses of troops, and to batter, from...
I think we are arguing semantics here. The type of projectile is defined differently by different branches of the services and with varying alterations served...
