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. 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, fully charged crystal bows, chaotic crossbow, and magic longbow (sighted). In addition, its ammunition, hand cannon shot, has higher Ranged Strength bonus than any other ammunition. The highest hit yet documented is 821. 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.

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.
 * 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 modern weapons 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.
 * 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 inaccessible to Pures which have 1 defence.
 * It is currently possible to use a super defence potion to boost defence from 22 to 30 to wear the gold helmet during Between a Rock.... This makes it possible to achieve a hand cannon at level 27 Defence.
 * Many players complain about the explosion rate being too high. During a test a player with level 89 firemaking had 2 hand cannons explode under 100 shots, thus making it potentially very costly to replace. There have been instances, however, where players with less than 70 firemaking will have a hand cannon last for nearly 400 shots.
 * Glitching the hand cannon can show a close up of the ramrod. Ramrod 2.png