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  1. TobJohn

    Dare I post the link?

    A friend of mine had one of those prop Springfield cadet rifles in the late 90s or early 2000s! I was so jealous.
  2. TobJohn

    A rococo carved and sterling silver adorned Germanic Jaeger

    Flint, do you have a sufficiently fancy hunting dog to go with it?
  3. TobJohn

    French Wheellocks

    Or their workshop got burned down, like in Suhl. I’m certainly happy I live here and now!
  4. TobJohn

    French Wheellocks

    That could be possible, but one claim I’ve seen about Germanic wheellock pistols losing decoration in the 1600s is due to a supply and demand issue, where it was too time consuming and impractical to supply decorated pistols for the massive army expansion and attrition before and during the 30...
  5. TobJohn

    French Wheellocks

    I looked at the online collection page for the massive wheellock, and there is all sorts of funkiness going on. It uses a Turkish barrel, which is particularly strange. I am aware of the practice for Austrian sporting guns after the second ottoman siege of Vienna, but not on a 16th or early 17th...
  6. TobJohn

    Caucasian Miquelet "Cossack" Pistol & Locks

    The bottom revolver is one of the coolest pistols I’ve ever seen. I love the blending of styles!
  7. TobJohn

    Dare I post the link?

    Seconded, preferably in your classic style of display on the red cloth, Rick! Would be a neat juxtaposition.
  8. TobJohn

    Getting ready to shoot a matchlock as a newbie

    explanation in my comment from another thread: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/pre-flintlocks-in-english-museums.181264/#post-2634441 The museum knows it’s wrong
  9. TobJohn

    Pre-flintlocks in English Museums

    The museum page for the gun acknowledges that it’s wrong and theorizes that the gun is a mishmash of replacement parts, such as a new lock and barrel, which would explain a lot. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_WB-10 Props for them for acknowledging and recording it, but...
  10. TobJohn

    Pre-flintlocks in English Museums

    Yes they do, they are from Michael’s deep dive on petronels. They show how two triggers should work on a petronel, opposed to whatever the heck is going on with the British Museum petronel
  11. TobJohn

    French Wheellocks

    looking into this again, I’m honestly not sure if French pistols were sporting or military arms. They all seem to come as a classic military pair of pistols and vaguely resemble the shape of the other military wheellock pistols in the later part of the 30 years war. I’m skeptical of their...
  12. TobJohn

    Pre-flintlocks in English Museums

    I posted in another thread, but here is an unusually massive French wheellock musket, in the V&A: The unsuitable lighting for photography is more apparent here.
  13. TobJohn

    Pre-flintlocks in English Museums

    The trigger bar is almost certainly installed wrong, or as Flint62Smoothie theorizes, an improperly sized and installed replacement. Petronels with two triggers, for an additional snapping serpentine, do have them underneath the bar, so those do function as you pointed out. I don’t see any...
  14. TobJohn

    Pre-flintlocks in English Museums

    Victoria and Albert Museum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum
  15. TobJohn

    Pre-flintlocks in English Museums

    Here are some miscellaneous photos from the V&A and British Museum If you are ever worried about buying an incomplete antique, even the V&A has a Tanegashima missing a lock! A very compact wheellock carbine Unfortunately, in their 17th century Europe exhibit, The V&A had really bad...
  16. TobJohn

    French Wheellocks

    The V&A has an unusual massive French wheellock musket, with an archetypically dainty and slim French carbine below it.
  17. TobJohn

    Getting ready to shoot a matchlock as a newbie

    An “innovative” way to use a petronel trigger, courtesy of the British Museum
  18. TobJohn

    Traditional M/L Guns from India

    Baby Torador at the V&A
  19. TobJohn

    Dare I post the link?

    It’s never too late to be a 7 year old!
  20. TobJohn

    Japanese Matchlock Myths

    Heck yeah, welcome to the matchlock brotherhood!
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