Ethnographic Arms & Armour
 

Go Back   Ethnographic Arms & Armour > Discussion Forums > European Armoury

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
Old 9th July 2017, 11:15 AM   #1
Andi
Member
 
Andi's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Halstenbek, Germany
Posts: 202
Default Shooting reconstructed medieval Bombards

Last week I had the opportunity to to attend the shooting of a reconstructed medieval bombard of the fellow reenactment society Albrechts Bössor from Sweden at Middelaldercentret Nyköbing in Denmark. Especially the 1.000 g Load was the loudest bang I heard in my life so far - despite wearing ear protectors. The bombard weights about 300 kg and was reconstructed after an original from the city of Cologne.

Bombard with 500 g powder load
https://youtu.be/G8fvueTCaOE

And the same with a 1000 g powder load
https://youtu.be/mdkmpPWpT68
Attached Images
 
Andi is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 9th July 2017, 03:33 PM   #2
Kmaddock
Member
 
Kmaddock's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Ireland
Posts: 532
Default

V good.
What happened that all the renactors were laughing when the 1 kg was fired off.
Cheers
Ken
Kmaddock is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 9th July 2017, 09:13 PM   #3
Philip
Member
 
Philip's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: California
Posts: 1,036
Default

Bravo! I'd like to see video of some live fire showing the effect of these cannonballs on their targets. Would be interested in some details of the actual processes used in making this copy.

By the way, is that the base of a trébuchet that I see off in the corner in the left side of the frame? Years ago, a UK friend alerted me to a bunch of guys in England who built and shot full-sized ones. They managed to hurl small refrigerators, and dead pigs a respectable distance and were planning to lob a spinet piano from an especially large machine they were building.

I hope that this sport catches on. Imagine a Turkish, with a good-sized reproduction of one of Mehmet the Conqueror's bombards, setting it off the shadow of the Theodosian walls that still stretch across the landward side of Istanbul.
Philip is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10th July 2017, 08:13 AM   #4
Andi
Member
 
Andi's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Halstenbek, Germany
Posts: 202
Default

It was the first time after that the bombard was shot with 1 kg of gunpowder and the 9th shot of the piece so far. The noise of the bang exceeds all expectations of the participants and that was the reason for the laughs.
We were shooting next to the trebuchets of the Middelaldercentret Nyköbing.
Andi is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 12:17 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Posts are regarded as being copyrighted by their authors and the act of posting material is deemed to be a granting of an irrevocable nonexclusive license for display here.