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Making a 14th century Hand Gonne

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Last Fall I taught a day-long workshop on “Primitive Black Powder Firearms” for the Liberal Gun Club‘s Annual Meeting in Las Vegas. In addition to my own black powder guns, I borrowed a couple of items from friends to help fill out the historical selection, including this very nice reproduction of a 14th century .62 cal cast bronze hand gonne:

[The entire post with LOTS of pics and info on making this historic reproduction gun can be found here.]

Jim Downey