Come and Take It! The Gonzalez Cannon

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Originally Posted by midelburgo

... I understand that a gun with the characteristics of the first gun with servers in Fernando post, will fall in the mentioned table under "cerbatana"...

The caption in the previously posted example clearly define it as an esmeril. Perhaps the author was wrong ... or not. Maybe not so easy to figure out which is which among the universe of early gun variations. On the other hand, cerbatana, in Portuguese zarabatana, is basically a blowgun; go figure.
Easier to take into account is the difference in size betweeen a 1/4 pound shot and a six pound... for what matters.


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