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Re: Neat Schenkl
« Reply #15 on: December 26, 2017, 10:06:13 PM »
I don't know why I was thinking this. I really do need to memorize the size charts but for some reason at the beginning of this thread I envisioned the 6 pounder shenkyl being small somewhat like a baby mullane.
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Re: Neat Schenkl
« Reply #16 on: December 26, 2017, 11:41:46 PM »
It is not a 6-lber Schenkl but a Schenkl made for a rifled 6-lber.   It probably weighs about 10 pounds or so. The reference to the 6-lber is before the cannon was rifled when it shot a 3.67-inch round ball which the solid version was  a 6 pound solid shot.  When rifled the projectile became elongated and the weight increased some.
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Re: Neat Schenkl
« Reply #17 on: December 27, 2017, 08:06:49 PM »
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Re: Neat Schenkl
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2018, 04:17:25 PM »
Just to add to the breadth of this conversation, I have a 3.67-inch bolt of the same pattern as Carl's, which came out of one of the northern Virginia battlefields. It had been fired and hit something hard tasking a chunk out of the nose.

As to the use of the iron Schenkl fuses, I found parts of one on the Antietam battlefield, down by Burnside's Bridge. Since the only rifled shell fragments I found were from 3.4-inch Schenkls fired by the Union Naval Battery there, I assumed those were the shells they came from.

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Re: Neat Schenkl
« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2018, 10:19:15 PM »
Jack:  Great info!  Thanks.
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