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bobblehead

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Glad people liked the Vementry post.

There are 2 other WW1 guns on Shetland, on the Isle of Bressay. These are a lot easier to get to as Bressay is populated and has a regular ferry service from Lerwick.

We didnt get to the gun at Bard Head but we made it to the Northern gun at Scone Hill, Aith.

Thats all from me, Happy Xmas

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Magazine

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Gallows for hauling up ammunition and supplies

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Another amazing gun. It's interesting to see that the actual gun barrel and breech mechanism have rusted far less than the lower quality steel used on the other parts.
 
The actual Interrupted Thread breech mechanism has long gone - removed and sent for scrap the day the Shetland guns were decommissioned. A major contributor to the longevity of large bore ordnance is the fact that the barrel blank went through a prolonged forging process, to give the outer shape, prior to the boring/rifling process. The forging reduced and compacted the grain size and thus reduced the pitting associated with the rusting process, and this along with the high metal spec for ordnance steels gives a much slower rusting process.
 

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