Tower Battery Ft. Lamar Garrison

[Gettmore]

 

[JOHN42768]

Talk about spit and polish. That cannon would blind you.

 

[Rusk County Avengers]

Someone appreciates the big bucks spent on that gun! Keeping them polished like that is harder than one would think, and they stand out from a distance when that polished.

I don't know why, but me personally I like a little tarnish on those guns.
EDIT: Is it me or does that gun look a little small?

 

[drezac]

I hope that's not an original tube polished like that - it can cause damage if polished too much.

 

[CW Watch & Sword Guy]

If a polished barrel like that catches the sun just right, it's a huge, "Hey, I'm over here. Aim at this." sign.

 

[byron ed]

Too pretty to fire, apparently. Nary a speck of cannon puke and nearly pristine sponges.

 

[byron ed]

I hope that's not an original tube polished like that - it can cause damage if polished too much.

Yeah, it is the case that some units limit how much they polish their original tubes because those are actual artifacts (meaning some of the surface marks were acquired during the actual war so not to wear them off with polish).

This gun appears to be a spankin' new reproduction, freshly painted carriage included. In which case go ahead and polish the dickens out of the tube if that's what"torques yer tube"! To do so challenges no functionality at all; there's no metallurgical reaction of any great consequence to a new gun.

 

[byron ed]

If a polished barrel like that catches the sun just right, it's a huge, "Hey, I'm over here. Aim at this." sign.

...which is only relevant before opening fire, afterwhich the smoke gives away the position anyway, and "bigly."

 

[CW Watch & Sword Guy]

...which is only relevant before opening fire, afterwhich the smoke gives away the position anyway, and "bigly."

True enough.

 

[UCVRelics]

Is it me or does that gun look a little small?

Its a 12lb howitzer.

Way to pretty for my taste. Its hard to see the front of the tube but it doesn't have a sleeve in it I doubt they fire it. @Gettmore did they fire this piece?

When I build my 6lb howitzer I work very hard to give them the been there done that look.

 

[mofederal]

I don't think I have ever seen a tube polished so bright.

 

[drezac]

It looks like a 6-pdr field gun.

 

[Gettmore]

I did not see this piece fired.

 

[Rusk County Avengers]

Looking at the piece, with its size compared to the Infantry in the background, and the muskets stacked this gun looks half-scale in size to me, but it could just be the picture playing tricks on my eyes.

 

[UCVRelics]

It looks like a 6-pdr field gun.

You are correct, it is a field gun. I have mountain howitzer on the brain.

 

[NH Civil War Gal]

What does it mean "to have a sleeve in the gun?"

 

[unionblue]

It looks like a 6-pdr field gun.

Don't you boys at the Ohio Statehouse Battery keep your pieces with a high polish?

 

[byron ed]

What does it mean "to have a sleeve in the gun?"

A steel internal sleeve is insurance that the gun won't burst. It reinforces the barrel internally for its length, and can be rifled or not. Most, if not all, modern reproductions are sleeved for that reason. It's detectable on the muzzle face, one sign that the piece is likely a repro. You'll see a bi-metallic border there, easier to see on some tubes than others.

bs answer is that Artillerists are known to "wear their heart on their sleeve," which in the case of some battles gone bad was literally true.

 

[byron ed]

Don't you boys at the Ohio Statehouse Battery keep your pieces with a high polish?

I think that refers to their bald heads.

 

[unionblue]

I think that refers to their bald heads.

Ouch!

Got a thing about redlegs?