"Photo of Grasshopper Gun on legs?" Topic
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| Schogun | 14 Nov 2009 3:22 p.m. PST |
I can find pix of the gun on a wheeled carriage, but not on a tripod or four legs as mentioned by many sources. |
| rmaker | 14 Nov 2009 3:42 p.m. PST |
Those sources are wrong. The legged carriage, like so many "historical" oddities, was a product of the WPA era National Park Service. The NPS produced a stand to display a gun tube. A WPA History Project writer saw it and assumed it was a real gun carriage. And once the error was in print, other writers could (and did) find it and copy it. After all, there it was, in a US Government publication. Must be true, mustn't it? |
| Steven H Smith | 14 Nov 2009 4:08 p.m. PST |
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| Maxshadow | 14 Nov 2009 4:27 p.m. PST |
ROFL I can picture that thing flipping backwards in an alarming manner if fired! :oP |
 John the OFM  | 14 Nov 2009 4:33 p.m. PST |
I wondered about that too, until I was straightened out.
A grasshopper gun is just a 3pdr on a light WHEELED carriage. link |
| Steven H Smith | 14 Nov 2009 4:40 p.m. PST |
Did I mention the bag of rocks/sand hung underneath? These are a type of mountain gun carriage. |
aecurtis  | 14 Nov 2009 7:06 p.m. PST |
And in the c.17th, the Scots used frame guns, light pieces mounted on legged carriages, mostly in fortifications. See also the early c.19th references to the term "grasshopper" or the Dutch equivalent "sprinkhaan" applied to Asian jingals and the like, here: link Allen |
| 21eRegt | 14 Nov 2009 8:58 p.m. PST |
Since the gun pictured in the link is from my unit, I can state that while at the Musee d'Armee in 1995 I saw that exact same gun and carriage in one of the hallways that lead to the central area. So whatever else, that carriage did and presumably should still exist. I'll make the leap that they wouldn't put something on display that was the product of the NPS. Oh, and it does recoil about 3' on dry, level ground. |
| summerfield | 18 Nov 2009 11:29 a.m. PST |
Dear Sir
I am surprised that it only recoiled 3 foot. The AnXI Mountain Guns recoiled at least 8 foot. Stephen |
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