Good question, maybe one's for lighting the fuse on the
charge and the other for firing the charge...??
Even then, I always thought the fuse on the charge was
lit by firing? Top photo shows the charge is already lit
before firing?! This is not the way I would do it.
Where did you find the pic? If the fuse in the charge goes
off prematurely, this could be interesting(for a mortician).
Were they drawn by the same artist? Could the artist have
mis-interpreted his inspiration? ::
Now that I think about it, it must be insurance. When I
fired a blank from my cannon, the blowback from the touch
hole chared half the cigarette on one side. If I were in
battle, and I had to fire 7-8 rounds a minute, I'd go through
a pack of butts in ten minutes! Cigarettes were not made
to handle two foot high white hot flashes from the breech.
They are ment to kill you, just not like this! :youcrazy:
We got to check the net. There must be artifacts like that
in a museum somewhere.
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