Shooting the 3-Barrel Rapid-Fire Pole Cannon

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John, Ed, and Phil shoot an archaic 3-barreled pole cannon. It works better than expected.

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[oxode]

Yeah, that were real men, firing this polegun with firecaps, . . . centuries before they've been invented.

Do this dorks have any clue of history?

[cannonmn]

@oxode In reading comments such as this, I'm somewhat amazed at the number of people who have no clue that firearms were converted and updated to newly-invented systems continuously. I think this is largely the fault of sources such as History Channel which only want to show the exciting stuff and skip all the important details, like conversions. Conversions were done all through the history of firearms and sometimes one firearm would see three different systems before the basic gun wore out.

[kalasnikoch]

"...back in the old days, when wars was fought by real men..."

soooo, what kind of men is fighting wars now?

[LTrakinat]

@kalasnikoch i think he mean stupidly brave men marching in a line to their doom lol

[petersupermann]

@kalasnikoch rednecks that want to shoot for free.

[LEWALL1]

@oxode In the Middle East, the first use of the hand cannon is argued to be during the 1260 Battle of Ain Jalut between the Mamluks and Mongols. Chinese soldiers fighting under the Mongols appear to have used hand cannon in Manchurian battles during 1288, a date deduced from archaeological findings at battle sites. So 15th century is very plausible.

From: The Nordic Africa Institute website, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus

[thefirstdidgit]

huh, didn't realise the 15th century defences were made of cardboard....

[seekurlimit]

@kalasnikoch ,i think half of them are safe in a bunker shooting rockets at the enemy.

or flying over citys with airplanes and atom bombs.

[nighthawkra1]

I'm sure he didnt mean it that way

[slobinhood]

Wars are still fought by "Real Men"

[Yozakura5391]

That was pretty cool.

[DR1ZERO]

@FishBoneWins I believe he ment that today wars are fought for greed of a few hundreds who detain power and mostly with technology rather than hand/arm/body strenght. AND I AGREE WITH HIM. Any soldier who think that he is fighting for his country nowadays is really dumb and stupid or has been brain washed.

[alquiora]

I wouldn't touch that with a ten-foot pole ... lol