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Re: Hughes Breech loading Cannon

I believe this is the gun I saw at the Mansfield Ohio Show. The jacket runs from the trunnion band to the muzzle. I know that the Williams gun binds up during rapid fire due to heat expansion, so the water jacket on the is gun makes sense.

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