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  1. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Just thought,if you skip back to page 5 of this thread you'll see a pic which I posted showing the detail of the lock inletting, from this it's also pretty evident that it was never intended to be anything other than it is,flintlocks are a completely different thing mechanically speaking,the...
  2. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Hi Raedwald, welcome to the party :) . I agree with what you say about the possibility of there being matchlock pistols in Europe. I mean when you think logically someone in Europe (and it's a big place) must have thought at some time that it was a good idea,obviously as these things go, it...
  3. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Just a thought, a couple of people have mentioned the trigger so I've been looking around trying to find things similar. Again I think it's a question of ergonomics,what works in that particular stock/lock combination,rear curving triggers which you see a lot in early matchlocks appear to me to...
  4. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Funny you should mention that. I've also got that problem, dodgy batteries, so I've bought a new camera! Supposed to be arriving today and it's a proper thing with whopping telephoto lens,viewfinder,fourteen megawotsits AND it runs on AA batteries. £74 eBay (well Argos actually). Sorted! And...
  5. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    You missed your cue, you were supposed to put your best wild eyed Jack Nicholson face on and shout "Proof! You want proof!? You can't handle the proof!" :cursing: Got to keep this thing going somehow if I wanna hit three thousand. Where's Alden when you need him? :idunno:
  6. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Which is why I'm here.. looking for someone who knows. It's easy enough to find opinions, I've got some of my own, but I don't know whether they're right or not,what I want is proof,Go ahead,shoot. :hatsoff:
  7. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Yes,running on empty now,only know so much matchspeak,already suffered half of one posting mysteriously disappearing due to running off at the mouth or running off of the subject (at least I think that's what happened). Have a rest, that's the thing to do until I've got something constructive...
  8. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    I think you take my attempts at humour too literally,besides I already went through that phase with the 'New Romantics' in the 80's when I had hair and a pointy guitar. I looked pretty stupid.....but so did everybody else so I claim peer pressure as my defense. Anyway Zonie will be having a fit...
  9. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    I am definitely going to get me a pair of those trousers.
  10. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    and the dudes in the mediaeval photo... Not one of 'em under fifty...those guys really knew how to plan for their retirement! :grin:
  11. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Hmm, yeah! smoothbore too,... double whammy! :slap:
  12. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    I had to cheat , Mathew 5:5, you're 100% right,beatitudes,sermon on the mount. Not quite sure what potted plants have to do with it though :haha: Can I borrow Ben? My brain needs testing too. :grin:
  13. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Landsknecht in safety glasses,...... whatever happened to macho? I'm not a religious person but I do remember a bible passage which for some reason stuck in my brain ever since I was a child, it ends "and the meek shall inherit the earth" not sure where it's from but a quick google should...
  14. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Yay!!! Two thousand hits! Somebody must be finding this interesting. :thumbsup:
  15. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Yep I agree wholeheartedly with those sentiments,I've got an old TR4A that I spent two years restoring that I regularly give a good thrash round these parts,it's got scratches and stone chips and the chrome isn't the best but I kept it that way so I can enjoy it. I never show it, the whole...
  16. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Forty two. :confused: Bye the bye,... Those rauchespfieffen, if the old schoolboy Deutche is still up to scratch they were lucky they weren't fitted with filters ,it actually translates as smoking pipe! rauchen (to smoke) pfieffen (pipe, but you could go with piepen). It's no wonder the poor...
  17. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    :haha: Brilliant! Wouldn't the world be simpler if people did what they ought to instead of what they liked? I've been checking the App Store to see if they've got a radio carbon dating app for the iPhone,no joy there either. :idunno:
  18. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Just looking at the photo of the three matchlock muskets at the armoury and thinking about what you said about the stocks. The first lock looks a lot more comfortable in the earlier style stock. It seems,looking at the other two,as though stock design has advanced before lock design which would...
  19. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Right at this moment I'd settle for Durs Egg signing it before he was born, at least it'd be a signature that'd prove something. It's such an anomaly that it only makes sense if it's genuine (in the chronological sense). Even if it is a total one off built by a privateer gunsmith, if it was...
  20. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Yes I know, I'm being a little unkind and venting my frustration at my own experience really, I think what I find irksome is 'sweeping generality' and judging things in isolation without taking evolution into consideration. After all, artefacts can't speak and we don't have time machines so open...
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