Avancarga Indigenous Gun

The weapons traditionally used by Africans, even today, are weapons equivalent to the weapons of avancarga. In the past, they used flint or spark shotguns in which the hammer that ground the piece of flint when it hit the gunpowder with the gunpowder, its ignition communicated with the gunpowder load of the inside causing the shot. The most used shotguns in recent times, with a single barrel, are piston guns in which the piston or fulminant placed in a small bump that communicates with the barrel's anima produces ignition when beaten by the hammer. These weapons are loaded through the mouth, hence their name of “vancarga” weapons or front load.

These shotguns are manufactured by the blacksmith, with any hollow iron tube that seems resistant to him and he makes the mechanisms and carves the butt. Sometimes he makes it even the same hunter. They use black powder that they make themselves with coal, saltpetre and sulfur. The pistons made of small capsules of lamb skin left to dry and filled with the phosphorus of the European matches. For bullets or lead posts in times not too far away they used even empty toothpaste or bitumen tubes that they could get or any piece of lead from pipes, which they can get together. If they can't get lead, calibrate an arrow based on the diameter of the shotgun anima. Weapons that resist very few pressure bars and are often overloaded by their users, which produces numerous bursts and accidents well known to doctors in the savannah and jungle.

Guns, much rarer than shotguns, are manufactured with the same procedure and are mainly commissioned by kings and bosses. They're prestigious weapons.