About the Cannon

The Homemade cannon (Mortar since no wheels were added.) was made by Fred in a do it yourself manner (all from scrap) It was beautiful and rugged by ShooterSolutions' the Industrial better than Heavy Duty Manganese Parkerizing left over from from the Rusted FN Fal Kit restored but functional to US Civilian Specs:

I built it using nothing but scrap parts around the shop. The barrel was turned from solid 3" round stock, and there is no breech plug. The rails are just heavy wall square tubing, and the elevation screw is from a large truck air brake pod. The whole idea was to make it cheap, and that I accomplished. When I finished it, I had planned on painting it black, but the thought came to me to try your parkerizing solution. I was delighted with the results! After all, this was a hodge-podge creation with many different metals, and it came out superb! I also wanted to be able to shoot it from my portable shooting bench, and it works very well, with a sandbag behind it!! I have shot this many times, and it has blown itself off the bench twice from recoil, (thus the sandbag!) and the finish is still great. Your park solution is pretty darned tough.

Fred