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Originally Posted by HorseSoldier
Agreed, though for settlements with some engineering know how but without the wherewithal to build a cannon foundry, it wouldn't be beyond the realm of the possible to have something like a de-mil'ed 105mm gun converted to a lower pressure black powder breech or muzzle loader. (Of course, putting a 12 pounder Napoleon back in service would probably be even easier . . .)
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Maybe its me....but shooting anything through a demilled barrel just seems like a bad idea...
So, and I blame this on my love of watching weird TV shows at odd hours, if you take some heavy gauge steel pipe, get a welder to weld a plate in place at one end...and then heat shrink a slightler larger pipe around the closed off end and have the welder run a thick bead around the pipe again...then drill a touch hole...load with large charge of black powder...then prime the gunner with several shots of moonshine and have him light it off....then you have a homemade cannon.
Or, you can import your 12pdr from Italy and make sure your reenactment battery is ready for post WWIII...
