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This is a thread for members to show-n-tell new blackpowder arms. Please not more than one a month. Pics are the main point so don't forget 'em.
May 2012
All guns are, at their heart, a tube on a stick. This bronze "hande gonne" is a new replica of the Tannenburg Gun, the oldest definitively-dated gun in Western civilization. In 1399 the town's castle the gun was named for in present-day Germany was knocked down on top of the arm (it was at the bottom of a well). See the pics of the original at the Nuremburg Museum.
This exacting foot-long replica (see pics), and so labeled, from Germany has quite-close dimesions to the original (see pics -- 1" = 25.4mm). There's an efficiency-promoting smaller diameter powder chamber behind the main bore which is .66 caliber. The original bore tapered up to .70. It is serial-numbered and proof-marked for 28 grain blackpowder as well as 1.8 grain smokeless powder charges.
The other gun (see pic) is The Rifle Shoppe approximation of the Tannenburg Gun of .62 in brass which I've had for a long time. It is one honkin' heavy tube!
These arms would have been ignited at the time with a red-hot wire wisk from a brazier. As I explain in demos, it wasn't long till people learned that barrels of gunpowder with little scoops and open fires didn't go well together...
May 2012
All guns are, at their heart, a tube on a stick. This bronze "hande gonne" is a new replica of the Tannenburg Gun, the oldest definitively-dated gun in Western civilization. In 1399 the town's castle the gun was named for in present-day Germany was knocked down on top of the arm (it was at the bottom of a well). See the pics of the original at the Nuremburg Museum.
This exacting foot-long replica (see pics), and so labeled, from Germany has quite-close dimesions to the original (see pics -- 1" = 25.4mm). There's an efficiency-promoting smaller diameter powder chamber behind the main bore which is .66 caliber. The original bore tapered up to .70. It is serial-numbered and proof-marked for 28 grain blackpowder as well as 1.8 grain smokeless powder charges.
The other gun (see pic) is The Rifle Shoppe approximation of the Tannenburg Gun of .62 in brass which I've had for a long time. It is one honkin' heavy tube!
These arms would have been ignited at the time with a red-hot wire wisk from a brazier. As I explain in demos, it wasn't long till people learned that barrels of gunpowder with little scoops and open fires didn't go well together...
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