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Welcome from, Virginia, USA! You should check the Shooting Accessories or Accoutrements section of the forum for advice.

Yeah … he already has 1 to 2 strikes from that Toradar dissection …

Dear Billy. Very well put, we might just get through to' hacksaw Rick' failing which its thunder bolts ! . Regards Rudyard

Sooooo glad I got mine from TRS, as they no longer sell them.

What does MLRS stand for? I try throwing in words like missile, launched, rocket, muzzle loaded, system etc. Just curious. Will...

Multiple Launch Rocket System. Definitely anachronistic for me to use it in the context, but I was making a comparison with how some of...

The only possible reasons I can think of are more power, faster reloading, no need for physical strength or cocking/drawing mechanisms...

Stone and then lead bullets were also probably faaaaarrrrrr easier logistically. Don’t need any skilled labor to make them. An armor...

REF: Posts # 28 and 29 above. While there is obvious evidence that they at least experimented using arrows with gonnes, it does appear...

I have heard all about it, now I'm hooked, will never waist a ball in my hand handgonne again. A photo of one just about to get touched...

Good point. Slings were certainly a familiar item and had used lead bullets for centuries, but it doesn’t seem like they had much...

Period experiments shooting arrows from a gonne seem to be a natural progression from the crossbow. Rick

I agree it is a good reference , My ones hard cover you can never have too good a library .certainly paid me having one and that one...

We used them in Vietnam at the time they were called "Lazy dogs".

The Chinese and Koreans used them as some of the first MLRS system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huo_Che...