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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 415526, member: 25"]I take your point about offical swivel gun procedure, but if I were a captain who found a handy swivel gun, I'd just mount the thing, load it with powder, wad, balls and wad and be ready to use it. The Bureau of Ordnance might not approve, but they are an ocean away and the pirates are just over the horizon.</p><p>Your tests were somewhat casual, you do not mention range or dipersion at that range, but If I were the gunner, I'd want as loose a pattern as possible, there is no point hitting one man 6 times, when you might have hit six men once.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 415526, member: 25"]I take your point about offical swivel gun procedure, but if I were a captain who found a handy swivel gun, I'd just mount the thing, load it with powder, wad, balls and wad and be ready to use it. The Bureau of Ordnance might not approve, but they are an ocean away and the pirates are just over the horizon. Your tests were somewhat casual, you do not mention range or dipersion at that range, but If I were the gunner, I'd want as loose a pattern as possible, there is no point hitting one man 6 times, when you might have hit six men once.[/QUOTE]
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