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Those are trunnions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunnion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunnion What they’re doing on a hand cannon beats me. They’re pr

Those are trunnions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunnion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunnion What they’re doing on a hand cannon beats me. They’re probably either decorative, meant for transport, or the blacksmiths making them just got used to making rings on cannons and kept doing it when scaled down.

rcme 3y ago
Those don’t look the same? Trunnions look like they’re a separate cylinder perpendicular to the barrel. These things go around the barrel.
- akiselev 3y ago
  Ah I was under the mistaken impression that the term applied to the rings too