What is the purpose of throwing a large fleece or fur over the vent on a muzzleloading cannon? I can only think it is to cover the vent but it seems to be much larger than needed. Is it only for the vent or does it serve a multiple purpose?
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Cannon loading procedure
- Thread starter Flintlock Whiskey
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Most of the time old guns fired cloth bags of powder. And the vent on a cannon is pretty big.
While in a musket paper cartridges are blown out with the shot, and most or all the paper is in-front of the powder , the cloth bags were intact till pricked before fire.
Bits of smoldering bag could be left in the bore and blown in to the touch hole.
The fleece stopped air from fanning the ember.
Where we think of pre osha as anything goes they were pretty safety conscious. But for ease of use the fleece gave way to the thumb stahl pretty early
While in a musket paper cartridges are blown out with the shot, and most or all the paper is in-front of the powder , the cloth bags were intact till pricked before fire.
Bits of smoldering bag could be left in the bore and blown in to the touch hole.
The fleece stopped air from fanning the ember.
Where we think of pre osha as anything goes they were pretty safety conscious. But for ease of use the fleece gave way to the thumb stahl pretty early
