The balls did not really get much guidance from those short barrels.
In the case of the latter piece, the ball literally could be seen sticking almost out of the muzzle.
The only explanation that seems to make any sense is that these gonnes were only employed at short distance and for firing into a mass of people, or - less probable - that they were aimed in a parabola to hit a city with what may have been incendiary gun arrows.
Michael
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