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  1. TobJohn

    New Matchlock

    From what I’ve seen in museums and talking to Armin, mid 16th century to beginning of the 17th century seems to be the time period, so what everyone is saying lines up.
  2. TobJohn

    New Matchlock

    Heres an example Armin Koenig made, copying an original in the Graz arsenal: https://www.engerisser.de/Bewaffnung/weapons/Caliver.html He has made a couple other matchlocks with automatic pan covers and when I asked him about them, his theory was that they were meant to look more expensive and...
  3. TobJohn

    New Matchlock

    Nice!
  4. TobJohn

    Wheellock paddle butt carbine build

    it would be naked without it
  5. TobJohn

    New Matchlock

    Very nice! Are you going to put it on a gun?
  6. TobJohn

    Wheellock paddle butt carbine build

    That's the lodgewood one right? I've attached a folder of images of original paddle butt carbine I put together a while ago, incase something inside might be interesting or helpful. They are all from online, but here is a photo I took of the Royal Armouries’s example. The shape of the butt...
  7. TobJohn

    Wheellock paddle butt carbine build

    Nice! Do you have a specific existing example you are having it based off of?
  8. TobJohn

    New to Muzzleloaders!

    Welcome from Virginia! I also joined this forum just after discovering muzzleloaders and not owning other guns and it’s been an amazing and helpful community!
  9. TobJohn

    Earliest rifled artillery?

    And then just a *little* bit of slave labor and war crimes. Mauser and Krupp really were arming the entire world from the late 1800s-ww2
  10. TobJohn

    Earliest rifled artillery?

    And Spotsylvania is a fun field trip idea!
  11. TobJohn

    Earliest rifled artillery?

    eureka!
  12. TobJohn

    Earliest rifled artillery?

    Does anyone know the earliest example or record of a rifled cannon? Rifled firearms existed since the 16th, and possible 15th century, but I cannot find a rifled cannon from before the 19th century. Other "modern" artillery features, like breechloading, existed in that time, so it is a little...
  13. TobJohn

    Perhaps of interest, some matchlocks & period accessories

    The tube sights seem to have also fallen out of use in the 17th century, at least based off of surviving examples
  14. TobJohn

    Perhaps of interest, some matchlocks & period accessories

    I’m not 100% sure, but I’m pretty sure the crossbow, with aperture sights, postdates them on matchlocks. In the 16th century, there seems to be a greater emphasis on aimed fire, which fits the matchlocks role of a supporting arm to the pike. The Royal Armouries has a video on an arquebus in...
  15. TobJohn

    Perhaps of interest, some matchlocks & period accessories

    Fishtail stocks seem to have a wide variety of geometry, from having the buttplate completely perpendicular to the rest of the gun, to pretty aggressively angled. I wonder how much of it is purely an aesthetic choice. By the time the fishtail became widespread, armor had fallen out of use for...
  16. TobJohn

    Perhaps of interest, some matchlocks & period accessories

    Congrats and thanks for the photos! Could you show a picture of the muzzle?
  17. TobJohn

    Roanoke Colony Firearms

    I thought I had a pdf of the book saved, but I cannot find it. "Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783", by Harold Leslie Peterson, claims that in 1677, Plymouth colony banned the use of matchlocks for the militia. For Jamestown, this National Parks article lists that only 47 out of...
  18. TobJohn

    Roanoke Colony Firearms

    In Europe, they would usually have 1 soldier out of every “x” amount with a lit match during marches and the such, so they could somewhat quickly ready themselves for combat. While skirmishing was always a common role for arquebusiers/musketeers, formation fighting was probably less of a problem...
  19. TobJohn

    Here's some mischief

    My handgonne took 4 weeks of “shipping this week”, which seems to be their best case scenario
  20. TobJohn

    Halberd/handgonne combo?

    Isn’t that a wheellock? It seems the combo weapon trend was mostly applied to them.
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