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  1. TobJohn

    16th Century ‘Tinder’ Snapping Matchlock Arquebus & Tinder Sticks

    One of the Michael Tromner threads was about how matchcord was originally much larger (which means it’s not exaggerated in the tapestry) but then there is the obvious question of why they didn’t just make smaller cord. I’ve only shot my matchlock with slow match but some of the others said the...
  2. TobJohn

    16th Century ‘Tinder’ Snapping Matchlock Arquebus & Tinder Sticks

    The arquebusiers would have the slow match wrapped around their arm, shown in the Bernard Van Orley Pavia tapestries, so they could grab new tinder from their loading pouch and then conveniently light it. Obviously not the safest, but would speed up the process.
  3. TobJohn

    Ottoman Guns

    Thank you for provide an update and more information on the green material. Very interesting mystery!
  4. TobJohn

    Matchlocks at Jamestown

    New video from Jamestown, discussing the influence of the musket, in particular its advantages over a longbow
  5. TobJohn

    Traditional M/L Guns from India

    It might have been in the chat. Hopefully he can post it again.
  6. TobJohn

    Traditional M/L Guns from India

    @cyten posted a photo somewhere of Caucasian soldiers recruited to fight in ww1, still wearing their chainmail! It seems so incredibly labor intensive to make, which makes its continued use particularly strange. The only benefit i can think of is that it’s much more accommodating for difference...
  7. TobJohn

    Traditional M/L Guns from India

    The last image is interesting. Some sources claim that guns ended the use of chainmail in Europe (but not other armor types!). However, it’s does not look like India, the ottomans, and the rest of the near east considered that a problem.
  8. TobJohn

    16th Century ‘Tinder’ Snapping Matchlock Arquebus & Tinder Sticks

    Copy cat! lol! https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/snap-matchlock-with-capandball.187793/
  9. TobJohn

    East meets west. Peter Hofkircher C 1525

    Not only did they keep Goa until modern times, they only lost it because India invaded it in 1961. An interesting example of a Cold War conflict between a “non aligned” state and a NATO state.
  10. TobJohn

    Snap Matchlock with CapandBall

  11. TobJohn

    Ottoman Guns

    Looks more like a tarnished copper or something similar, based off the color of the other pieces around them
  12. TobJohn

    Hi from Czechia!

    Welcome from, Virginia, USA! You should check the Shooting Accessories or Accoutrements section of the forum for advice.
  13. TobJohn

    Arrows?

    Multiple Launch Rocket System. Definitely anachronistic for me to use it in the context, but I was making a comparison with how some of the most modern artillery has clear roots in the earliest artillery.
  14. TobJohn

    Arrows?

    Stone and then lead bullets were also probably faaaaarrrrrr easier logistically. Don’t need any skilled labor to make them. An armor piercing bullet, at that time, could just be lead poured into a rudimentary mold, opposed an armor piercing bolt which needed someone able to make hardened steel...
  15. TobJohn

    Arrows?

    Good point. Slings were certainly a familiar item and had used lead bullets for centuries, but it doesn’t seem like they had much influence in the period handgonnes were developed.
  16. TobJohn

    Arrows?

    The Chinese and Koreans used them as some of the first MLRS system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huo_Che https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwacha
  17. TobJohn

    A day late posting, Sp00ky matchlock at the Royal Armouries!

  18. TobJohn

    Early and ORNATE Dutch 75-cal Snaphaunce

    His collection has been at various auctions since his passing.
  19. TobJohn

    Early and ORNATE Dutch 75-cal Snaphaunce

    I really like his work. He does justice to the “maximalist” style of decoration of the past, at least to the reasonable level of anyone that values their time. People quick to judge it should remember that artistic tastes were very different in this period.
  20. TobJohn

    My, my … now THOSE are bigguns!

    Ive read that them, and the earlier doppelhaken, were somewhat analogous to modern anti material rifles, due to their longer ranger and better ability to damage what they hit. Siege warfare was often trench warfare, so having something that could punch through barricades or harass artillery...
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