[justshutupandtakeit]

Cannons were not made by the local blacksmith. What an absurd statement. Cannons were made by foundaries for governmental entities including militias. They were very costly and poorly made ones blew and killed their crews more than the enemy.

Cannons were cast or bored and blacksmiths could do neither.
I suppose a fool could have had a blacksmith try it

[Dead Corpse]

Your ignorance of metalworking from around 1700-present is duely noted.

[SauronOfMordor]

Cannons were not made by the local blacksmith. What an absurd statement. Cannons were made by foundaries for governmental entities including militias. They were very costly and poorly made ones blew and killed their crews more than the enemy.

For large artillery pieces, that may be true. However, it is documented that private individuals had and used smaller cannons. For example:

The American Kennel Club recognized the Chesapeake Bay retriever as an individual retriever breed in 1878. But its history is older and deeply enmeshed with that of the Bay region during the 19th century. James Michener's Chesapeake describes a period when there were so many migratory birds surrounding the Bay that they were often shot using small cannon mounted on boats; literally scores would fall from the sky at a time. Hunters required dogs that would first retrieve the wounded and then return to for the dead. The Chesapeake Bay retriever unerringly recalled where each bird fell and usually retrieved them all efficiently.