The 10-pounder Parrott rifle, Model 1861 was a muzzle-loading rifled cannon made of wrought iron-reinforced cast iron. One of a line of Parrott rifles, the 10-pounder was capable of firing shell, shrapnel shell (case shot), canister shot, or solid shot.

The Ordnance BL 10 pounder mountain gun [3] was developed as a BL successor to the RML 2.5 inch screw gun which was outclassed in the Second Boer War. This breech-loading gun was an improvement on the 2.5 inches (63.5 mm) muzzle-loading screw gun but still lacked any recoil absorber or recuperator mechanism.

The breaching power of the 10-inch 300-pounder Parrott rifled gun, now about to be used against the brick walls of Fort Sumter, will best be understood by comparing it with the ordinary 24-pounder siege gun, which was the largest gun used for breaching during the Italian War.

Mar 12, 2019 · The "10-pounder Parrott Rifle" featured a 2.9" bore firing a 10lb elongated projectile made exclusively for this gun. It sported an iron barrel with the typical muzzle swell encountered on competing designs.

2.9″ Parrott Rifle – 10 Pounder – Full Scale $ 5,789.00 Original price was: $5,789.00. $ 5,663.00 Current price is: $5,663.00. The Parrott Rifle was a type of muzzle-loading rifled artillery weapon used extensively in the American Civil War.

The 10 pdr. Parrott Rifle is mounted on the standard US Army Number 1 Carriage already in service with the 6 pounder M1841 Gun. It has simple worm screw elevation and the piece is traversed by moving the entire carriage at the trail with a lever.

Aug 12, 2024 · Model 1861 10-Pound Parrott Rifle with Limber Marker. Inscription. In the fall of 1860 Major Thomas J. Jackson, VMI instructor of Artillery Tactics, was given the task of field-testing a new rifled cannon invented by Captain Robert Parrott.

Aug 9, 2017 · The 150-pounder required a 20-pound charge. Although rejected by his own government, British captain Theophilus Alexander Blakely found the Confederacy a ready buyer of his muzzleloaded rifled cannons during the Civil War.

Mar 29, 2025 · The most common rifled field artillery piece in Civil War service generally, the 10-pdr. Parrott was made of cast iron with wrought iron breech reenforcement. It was an accurate and reliable weapon.

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