How far does a 6 pound cannon recoil?

Answer 1

It depends on the friction.... If fired from a four wheeled carriage that is horizontally secured (ie. kickback is not causing the barrel to point up in the air several feet after a shot, lubed up smooth wheels and a fairly flat and hard smooth surface and assuming the trajectory is not straight up but rather fairly outwards you're looking at at least a yard or roughly 3 feet minimum of kickback and up to 6. However, If you only have two wheels on it like a majority of 6 pound cannons in existance, it depends on if a tripod with a hard point hitch that stakes directly into the ground? Is it a four wheeled carriage in which case low angle shooting can be trusted not to cause "kick back" upwards as much and more of the force will come backwards.... You could design a system of resistance or shock absorption that could dramatically lower said kickback. You could implement a crossbow looking support that would rely on increasing pressure from ropes to slow the cannon's backfire more quickly (this would require the hitch system and also on carriage sliding feature which is much less easy to repeatably use as the hitch can literally break out of the ground over many shots. If you are just firing the thing once, try using two deepwall screws (mountain climber type) and screwing them into the window or portal it is being fired through, you could then go back and forth betweent he two screws with nylon or stretchable high durability rope and youd have strong kickback resistance for several minutes of shooting.