Hand cannon

The hand cannon is a two-handed Ranged weapon released with the Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf quest on 9 September 2009. It requires a Ranged level of 75, a Firemaking level of 61, and the completion of the Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf quest to wield. The hand cannon and hand cannon shot are dropped by Cannoneers. It cannot be lent.

The hand cannon has a chance of blowing up with each use. When it explodes, the player wielding it is dealt between 10 and 160 damage. The chance of this occurring decreases as a player's Firemaking level increases; however, even at level 99, it can still explode. By using the hand cannon's special attack, the risk of blowing up is even higher. If the hand cannon blows up, the cannon disappears and another must be obtained, either as a drop, through trading with other players, or through the Grand Exchange.

The hand cannon is one of the deadliest ranged weapons to date. It matches the rune crossbow's ranged bonus, but is exceeded by the dark bow and fully charged crystal bows. In addition, its ammunition, hand cannon shot, has higher Ranged Strength bonus than any other ammunition. The highest hit yet documented is 600. Its special attack, Aimed Shot, has increased accuracy and takes up half the special attack bar, but takes longer to fire and increases the chance of the Hand cannon blowing up. Also, if used on the rapid attack style it can be used instantly for a second attack after the special is used, making it nearly a cheaper version of the Dark bow. Due to the ammunition's strength and the speed of the hand cannon, it's practically the ranged equivalent to the godsword. Both weapons have the same speed, if the hand cannon is set to the "rapid" mode. However, the cannon is quite a bit less accurate, but this can be overcome with Ranged boosting armour.

Trivia

 * The Hand cannon (along with Dorgeshuun and Zanik's crossbows) is one of the few ranged weapons whose ammunition can be seen reloading.
 * On 12 September 2009 a bug was discovered with the hand cannon special attack that enabled multiple users to simultaneously attack a single target in a single-combat zone, but this was fixed 13 September 2009. Millions of coins were lost during the hours this bug was at large. Nearly all of these bug exploiters are now banned.
 * If a player fires the Hand cannon, then quickly switches to another weapon, you will perform the reloading animation while holding the other weapon instead of the Hand cannon.
 * If a player is in a crowded area and is not moving, the cannon will be held in the right hand and a ramrod will be wielded in the left (the ramrod is the device seen when reloading the cannon).
 * The hand cannon, along with the fixed device, the Dwarf multicannon, and the crossbow, are the closest things to guns in RuneScape that players can use.
 * For some reason, the metal used in its construction (presumably steel) is tinted blue, even though the chaos dwarves utilise the colour red.
 * The Hand Cannon actually is one of the most used welfare ranged weapons because of its high ranged bonus and chances of hitting high even with an armour like adamant and a black dragonhide body. It can be seen used by twins too since they use the special attack on rapid fire (which then hits 2 times) adding 2 more hits and turning it in 4, which has a very good chance of killing the target easily.
 * You need at least 30 or 31 Defence to use the Hand Cannon because of the quests you need to be able to wear and use it. Therefore, this weapon is unaccessible to Pures which have 1 defence.