Homemade Guns that will make you Cry

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 12/13/2019 | C Cocole

[IronJack]

I knew Quaker guns were deloyed at the siege of Vicksburg, but I didn’t know they actually used them.

Necessity is the mother of invention!

[crz]

I would NOT, want to be around those GD things when they touched them off.

12 pounders? Screw that!

[crz]

Thanks GD it! Now I will spend a portion of my time-which I should be using for my old farts nap, doing some research on these things.

Good info here; https://www.historynet.com/logs-mortars-natural-killers.htm

[ExGeeEye]

There's a cannon in a museum in Nuremberg. The barrel is an iron pipe inside a split and hollowed log, secured with iron bands.

I don't know that it was ever fired.

[Paal Gulli]

The mere mention of the name American Shooting Urinal makes me cry.

[treetopsandroofs]

Cool, thanks!