Civil War Artillery with full military loads

Once a year we head to Camp Grayling Michigan National Guard Base for the Historic Artillery Match. Live-fire at targets 4' X 6' at 1000 and 1200 yards distance (2/3-3/4 mile). Here are a few short clips of our 10-pounder Parrott Rifle firing at those targets. Notice the recoil. We had to sand bag the gun to stop it from rolling off the raised berm that the National Guard prepared for the shoot. The last shot in the clip shows a 100x zoom of the target at 1000 yards as the bullet drops in and punches the target. We ended up with 6 or 7 hits on the board out of 10 fired.
Other info: the gun on its carriage weighs 2250 lbs. Load is 1 lb 1F GOEX black powder with a 10 lb Zinc bullet-shaped projectile (known as a "bolt") with a brass cup on the base that expands on firing to lock into the rifling and impart stabilizing spin to the projectile.

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