The prangi fired even smaller projectiles weighed at about 150 g. The eynek weighed only 22.7 kg on average and fired projectiles of 461 g in weight, smaller than the one on Wikipedia. There's no mention of the sacma's caliber, but they weight about 35.6 kg and was usually used to fire grapeshots, not a single projectile. Wikipedia described it as having "a caliber between 3 inches (76 mm) to 9 inches (230 mm) and fired a projectile weighing 4.25 pounds (1.92 kg)" and "equipped with a type of tripod". Since I don't have any other clue, I tried to see if the description from Wikipedia matches the description of one of the guns from Guns for the Sultan. Meanwhile, Wikipedia had an article about the abus (or obus) gun, but the sources listed were an Osprey book, which I didn't have access to, and some web pages which didn't mention their sources. The book listed a variety of early era light guns such as the sacma, eynek, prangi, and sakaloz, but no mention of "Abus" at all. So first I took a look at Guns for the Sultan and found.nothing.
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