PISCATAWAY-- The linstock touches down on the small pile of black powder. First a flash from the cannon vent hole, a split second later, boom! A column of fire as long as 40 feet long explodes ...

75 caliber miniature black powder cannon build. What starts as a 3″ diameter actuator from a front end loader ends up as a beautiful replica of a full-sized cannon, along with a half-filled ...

Dominic Terlisner of Beggs stood ready when the cannon was fired Saturday afternoon at Fort Gibson Historic site. “I knew they were going to shoot it, so I covered my ears before,” Dominic said.

Gunpowder makers in the 14th and 15th centuries used black powder brought to Europe ... tested the craft gunpowder in a replica cannon. They found that early gunpowder took a lot of experimentatio ...

75 caliber miniature black powder cannon build. What starts as a 3″ diameter actuator from a front end loader ends up as a beautiful replica of a full-sized cannon, along with a half-filled ...