Canon barrel

Helleri · 7th December 2018, 04:06 PM

It's not the fact that it can still swivel if well balanced at virtually any size. It's that when you touch-off one that's too large, no bar is going to prevent that thing from kicking back on you and actually sending the round god knows where. Larger and longer barrels equate to either more charge capacity or more gas compression. There is no outguessing for this either. So it all comes as recoil. The bigger the gun, the more it takes to keep it under control while discharging. There's an upper limit on what a man can manage in this respect.

fernando · 7th December 2018, 05:42 PM

Reasoning considered. Still, gas compression wasn't properly these things middle name

; and certainly all factors raised were pondered by then ... more or less an incidental victim

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Not to speak of the linstock and other devices that would enable the gunner to hold still the cannon and light the fuse at a safe distance

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7th December 2018, 05:42 PM	#2
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	Reasoning considered. Still, gas compression wasn't properly these things middle name ; and certainly all factors raised were pondered by then ... more or less an incidental victim. Not to speak of the linstock and other devices that would enable the gunner to hold still the cannon and light the fuse at a safe distance .

7th December 2018, 04:06 PM	#1
Helleri Member Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Chino, CA. Posts: 219	It's not the fact that it can still swivel if well balanced at virtually any size. It's that when you touch-off one that's too large, no bar is going to prevent that thing from kicking back on you and actually sending the round god knows where. Larger and longer barrels equate to either more charge capacity or more gas compression. There is no outguessing for this either. So it all comes as recoil. The bigger the gun, the more it takes to keep it under control while discharging. There's an upper limit on what a man can manage in this respect.