r/canadaguns • u/Spread-Hour • Apr 29 '26

Shooting Masterstrike this, fucker!

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u/DougMacRay617 Apr 30 '26

Wtf even is this magician gat?

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u/Spread-Hour Apr 30 '26

15th century handgonne. (Handgun in modern English, although 'gun' and 'cannon' were used interchangeably so most people call it a handcannon)

They were used between 1288 (earliest example of a handcannon) and the very early 1500s.

There was a slow evolution from the pipe on a stick, nailing a piece of metal to the pipe on a stick (cradled in wood!), to a longer pipe in a stock that you put on your shoulder and rest on an aiming fork, to eventually us having hand-held shoulder fired matchlocks. Although this evolution happened slowly and in patches. For example, some gonnes had stocks but were ignited by hand, and some didnt have stocks but had serpentine triggers. In China handgonnes were even used amongst 'modern' matchlock muskets! Some flintlocks even!!