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Originally Posted by M ELEY
Keep in mind, Dana, that these rampart guns were more than flintlocks, but true monsters! They put them on a swivel on purpose to pack a wallop without disabling the shooter's arm!
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I've seem them Mark. I even have one. This yoke doesn't seem big enough to accommodate what I would normally think of as a swivel gun, but I do believe it was from a French shipwreck dating from 1781 or 1782.
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Originally Posted by dana_w
It seems almost too small to be for something like a deck gun. Any ideas?
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