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 1 and 16 damage. The chance of this occurring decreases as a player's Firemaking level increases; however, even at level 99, it is still possible.

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 and fully charged Crystal bows. In addition, its ammunition, Hand cannon shot, has the highest Ranged Strength bonus of any other ammunition. The highest hit yet documented is 98. 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. Due to the ammunitions strength and the speed of the hand cannon, its practically the ranged equivalent to the godsword. Both weapons have the same speed. The cannon is quite a bit less accurate, which is solved with ranged boosting armour normally, but the cannon is a tiny bit stronger (it surpasses the godsword's max hit by 3-4). The major differences is the cannon blows up and its special isn't that useful but this is also balanced with the price of the cannon + cannon shots being A LOT cheaper.

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.
 * 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.
 * The Hand cannon, along with the Fixed device, the Cannon from Mobilising Armies, the Dwarf multicannon, and the crossbow, are the closest things to guns in RuneScape.