And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Cast from longitudinal wrought iron staves reinforced with hoops of iron heated and shrunk on, exactly like a wooden barrel. Which is why we call the projectile tube of a gun, the “ barrel”.
I've been a good boy. I have the shop tools necessary. I think it's time to drop the hammer, so to speak, and have a chat with the lads at Dixie Gun Works, with a view to providing self with something similar.
With the proviso that it's mainly a proof-of-concept test before embarking on the quest for a working 12-pdr Napoleon, with limber wagon.
Early firearms included a handheld version very similar to that, small barrel on a stick.
ReplyDeleteyou don't need a license for medieval siege weapons...just saying
ReplyDeleteCast from longitudinal wrought iron staves reinforced with hoops of iron heated and shrunk on, exactly like a wooden barrel. Which is why we call the projectile tube of a gun, the “ barrel”.
ReplyDeleteNow that is a shot-gun.
ReplyDeleteI've been a good boy.
I have the shop tools necessary.
I think it's time to drop the hammer, so to speak, and have a chat with the lads at Dixie Gun Works, with a view to providing self with something similar.
With the proviso that it's mainly a proof-of-concept test before embarking on the quest for a working 12-pdr Napoleon, with limber wagon.