#great guns
The Packer Shuffle
Cody Heiman Has The Moves In Camp. Let’s Hope That He Keeps The Moves In Season!
Bring It On, Baby!
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Shoulder That Load!️♂️
Just Be Careful You Don’t Cable Burn The Family Jewels!!!
Woof, Baby!
Atthe big VGJunk site today: a quick look at Great Guns, an arcade target shooter where the wizards are rubbish, the cavemen are nude and the lifecycle of a clown is explained. Read all about it here!
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Tompion and a felt purse with a slow match, both recovered from the wreck of HMS Invincible (1758) in: Heart of Oak, by James P. McGuane
In times of war cannon were often kept loaded and shotted at all times. The tight- fitting wooden plug ( the tompion) sealed up the muzzle and kept out rain, spray and damp.
The felt purse contains a coil of slow match which could be cut to lenght as needed. It was usually a cotton twine impregnated with sulfur and resin. A section of slow match would be held at the end of a wooden rod, called a linstock, and lighted to provide a slow burning ember to ignite the charge on the great guns.
