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I am pretty sure you could build a musket from bronze. Afaik the early cannons where made of it. Sourcing of the ingredients for black powder might have been h
by chopin 5y ago
I am pretty sure you could build a musket from bronze. Afaik the early cannons where made of it.
Sourcing of the ingredients for black powder might have been harder.
- ghaff 5y agoCannons were cast however and musket barrels aren't. It's unclear you could make the barrels thick/strong enough to be useful. (At some point, you end up with something probably less useful than a refined bow design.) In general, with these scenarios, another variable is do you just wake up in another time or do you have time to prepare, maybe have reference books/artifacts, figure out what you can do given technology and material availability, maybe learn the language, etc.
- xyzzyz 5y agoYes, you very much could build an effective firearm using bronze or brass. Brass barrels were quite commonly used historically. They are less suitable for modern, high pressure propellants, but for black powder firearms, they’ll work just fine.