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Old 5th December 2013, 09:10 PM   #13
Marcus den toom
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Dudley Pope's Guns has a picture on page 34 with the cannonbal inside the breechblock.
Complete (beeing a powder load plus ball) breechplugs would be more efficient.
Both methods would most likely work fine.
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