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  1. M

    Who's responsible for all this?

    What Robin said. Look to Bert S. Hall for your latest and best guess. Both his own book and a forward to Partington's History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder offer probable answers.
  2. M

    How many of you have Pre-Flintlock rifles?

    :RO: Rabbitears, Good eye. The stock outline is in fact from a pattern in a "How to" book, probably the one you have. So is the lock, though we modified it a lot. I was overseas at the time and the base library had just such a book so we did some tracing. Also helps to be an ordnance shop...
  3. M

    Pistol clip.

    Quite common on martial pistols. Here's one on a 1830's miquelet percussion pistol. Hope this helps.
  4. M

    How many of you have Pre-Flintlock rifles?

    As a matter of fact, I do have a .50 rifled wheellock carbine that I butchered together a few years ago. Cherry stock and steel furniture including a saddle ring. Shoots better than I can hold and the ignition is FAST, even though I use those crumbly pyrites you so detest. Good enough for the...
  5. M

    Teflon Ticking Patches

    :results: Daryl, damp would be the term I would use to describe how my patches ended up-not too moist and definitely not too dry. My exhaustive test for the right amount of lube was if I squeezed a white stuff dampened patch between thumb and flipping finger, no moist Teflon should squeeze out...
  6. M

    Teflon Ticking Patches

    :agree: Teflon is a step forward. A couple of decades ago, I was on active duty when the chemist that developed Breakfree paid a visit to my ordnance shop to see if Breakfree would be any good on weapons. The claim was it was a cleaner, lubricant, and preservative all in one. Humph, I scoffed...
  7. M

    The round ball

    Italian historian Pierino Beli in his report on the siege of Lucca by the Florentines in 1430 wrote of the use of hand cannons, described thusly, "a sort of club, about three feet in length, to which they had fastened iron pipes... which threw small iron balls by force of fire." Italics mine. So...
  8. M

    Jus' wonderin'...

    Teleoceras, and/or Italy. Some think an enterprising Brescian locksmith got hired on in Ripoll with his better mousetrap. Whatever, it's the Spanish who took it to heart and developed it.
  9. M

    Jus' wonderin'...

    Tele, that 1580 figure is the latest date. I'm thinking some tinkering was going on in Ripoll much earlier, say the 1540's. The world was desperate for something that didn't burn their fingers or make grenades out of themselves.
  10. M

    Jus' wonderin'...

    Greetings all, Not even the "experts" can agree on the origin of the miquelet lock. It's a cow pasture. Opinions, theirs and mine,are on the link. Had to make it just to keep track of the different views on the matter. Happy hunting. heh ..some differences of opinion..
  11. M

    Books about early firearms and gunpowder history *DELETED* *DELETED*

    Excellent choices. I have all but the Kelly, Childs, and Parker books. Look at author sources in most of the books listed and you will probably find the name Guilmartin. Ex-USAF pilot cum history prof, a most interesting scholar. For some freebies, go to his site. I did, supported the ink tank...
  12. M

    Spanish Guns

    Just a few minutes actually. Just seeing the link was the hardest part. Used a micro-torch, ground down a 31/2 percent nichol welding rod like a pencil point, held my breath and welded the link. Looked like poo, but worked just fine. I can still feel that gut wrenching ker thunk when it broke...
  13. M

    Spanish Guns

    Tele, what musketman said. I have engraved that proverb on many a powder horn; I am so taken with it. The translation I am familiar with is "All your skill is to no avail, if an Angel urinates in the touch hole". I always took it to mean no matter how skilled, how careful, how expensive and...
  14. M

    Spanish Guns

    Naw, that was you, Tele, mouthing this little Teutonic ditty: "Alle Kunst ist umsunst, wenn ein Engel auf das Z
  15. M

    Spanish Guns

    What Teleceres said. The musket as we recognize it appeared a few decades after the Columbus voyages. I seem to recall reading that Columbus relied on the traditional crossbow and hand cannon size swivel guns, albeit, a few serpentine arquebuses were probably aboard as well. The musket...
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