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hawk_chucker Junior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 73	Handgonne Mar 7^th, 2009 at 1:34pm Anyone else here get into Black Powder and Handgonnes? I really love all firearms and own a ton, but really get off on Gonnes.
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: Handgonne Reply #1 - Mar 7^th, 2009 at 8:03pm i know nothing about guns, but my friend has a gun and he might be willing to tell
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hawk_chucker Junior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 73	Re: Handgonne Reply #2 - Mar 7^th, 2009 at 8:06pm Well actually they cant be called guns. Basically they are barells on a stick.
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: Handgonne Reply #3 - Mar 7^th, 2009 at 8:25pm o, to the Wikipedia then...dun dunnna-na-naaaaa
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ElliotB Junior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! And Loving It! Posts: 56 Gender:	Re: Handgonne Reply #4 - Mar 8^th, 2009 at 3:07am xxkid123 wrote on Mar 7^th, 2009 at 8:03pm: i know nothing about guns Then why post?
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: Handgonne Reply #5 - Mar 8^th, 2009 at 11:12am be casue my friend is a gun fan/owner, he would know, just trying to be helpful!?!?!? ah well
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Handgonne Reply #6 - Mar 10^th, 2009 at 1:34pm Quote: i know nothing about guns Then why post? Now now kiddies - play nice So what is a gonne then apart from an archaic spelling of gun ?
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: Handgonne Reply #7 - Mar 10^th, 2009 at 4:40pm * slash kick punch- growl... wait, did anyone say to play nice?
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southpaw Descens Offline Posts: 161 Gender:	Re: Handgonne Reply #8 - Mar 11^th, 2009 at 12:39pm http://www.handgonne.com/gonnes.html I think that a gonne was in essence the primitive beginnings of a gun...
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Nakki Junior Member Offline We sling in Finland too Posts: 94 Finland, Espoo Gender:	Re: Handgonne Reply #9 - Mar 11^th, 2009 at 5:06pm I got interested in handgonnes few years ago and I did do some research. I also found a pretty good site that explains quite a lot: http://www.musketeer.ch/blackpowder/handgonne.html There are also very good illustrations and instructions how to make those things.
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Handgonne Reply #10 - Mar 12^th, 2009 at 8:23am Oh wow - love the webpage with the nutter and the gonnes. It's just a small unmounted cannon ! Also very interesting is his reasoning for homemade powder performing better than modern nitro powder. As someone who's made his fair share of black powder over the years - it makes perfect sense. Nice links - thanks (4)
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Reply #11 - Mar 13^th, 2009 at 11:56am

In a museum I have seen a combinaton war hammer/"gonne". I was all in one piece. The grip was the barrel, and a rod shaft connected it to the hammer head.

I find it hard to understand why people prefered "gonnes" to slings, but a loud bang, a ball of fire, smoke, a singing sound in the ears afterwards, and a deadly lead ball flying in the general direction you aim may have made people feel they got what they paid for

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hawk_chucker Junior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 73	Re: Handgonne Reply #12 - Mar 13^th, 2009 at 5:40pm People preferred the Gonne over the sling because a sling canot penetrate armor like the gonne can. Plus it is easier to train people to use the Gonne.
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Handgonne Reply #13 - Mar 14^th, 2009 at 3:01am As a blackpowder fan for some time, I am quite familiar with the cannon-on-a-stick you call a gonne. I had in my collection an original of Swiss manufacture that I bought in Abercrombie&Fitch when they really sold adventure gear and had a very very fine gun shop on the premises.
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kuggur slingdog Ex Member	Re: Handgonne Reply #14 - Mar 14^th, 2009 at 1:44pm Haha, that´s a real cool hobby, making and firing a canon-on-a-stick!
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