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Robert Baden-Powell, Warrington Baden-Powell, George Baden-Powell, Frank Baden-Powell and Baden Baden-Powell. All notable in different ways.

Thank you for that. What a fascinating book and the technical details from page 56 onwards shows the quality of the processes adapted to local iron ore etc. and were on a par, if not exceeding , the common firearms of Europe. Undoubtedly some were poorly made as were some European firearms but...

Do be aware that folk are careless in using ‘dram’ and ‘drachms’. These are very different units. There are 27 grains to a dram but 60 grains to a drachm. It does not help that people for centuries have used the terms interchangeably. A 2 1/2 dram charge is 68 grains but if you use a 2 1/2...

Colonel Peter Hawker was the purchaser of many guns from the best London gunsmiths of his day and routinely ordered them as new to come with an added high carbon steel sole. Probably soldered on but quite possibly riveted in some cases. Many, many years ago I recall an old time London gunsmith...

And in many cases it allows them to use better steels than their prices could merit otherwise. Many western steels are also made of scrap from such sources. Indian steel was often superior to European steel until the 19th century and places like Jaipur have been formal armouries for centuries...

Tighten your seatbelt waksupi! I asked about titanium for soling a frizzen not so long ago and from the reaction you would think that I was advocating selling one’s firstborn for medical experiments. However, if you have any experience of soling a frizzen with titanium I, for one, would like to...

Seems a little extravagant for a Gabrovnik who can make a Yorkshireman look like a wild spender. To guide the puzzled, there is a joke that asks why people from Gabrovo have cats with no tails? So that they do not have to open the door for as long when they come inside during the winter. I...

The Memsahib too thinks I am funny. Possibly in a different way……….

Also sounds like period Albania.

https://indianhistorycollective.com/tag/armour/ Sets the origins, development and use in the whole geographical context; Balkans to China.

There are better illustrations on: https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5189/page/n359/mode/2up

Indeed it was done but in refilling breech loading cartridges ie .303” with a filed smooth used bullet and primer refilled with red match heads and ground glass. NO DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME! Definitely not for use in matchlocks. Not only are you making smokeless nitro powder but the aged stuff is...

Baden Henry Powell in his 1872 Volume 2 of the 'Handbook of the Economic Products of the Punjab' (Hand-book of the economic products of the Punjab, with a combined index and glossary of technical vernacular words .. : Baden-Powell, B. H. (Baden Henry), 1841-1901 : Free Download, Borrow, and...

One should note the rear sight on the Colt conversion. It is the same as the Russian Luttich rifle (Belgian made copy of the British Brunswick Rifle). When Colt bid to sell converted muskets to the Russians they insisted on him using their sight design and that is what we see here when Colt had...

If it is the sort of tea they use in America then the river is the best place for it. The worst thing about visiting the USA is being deprived of strong builders tea. The sort that can solve all ills. Legs shot off? Have a brew and you will feel better. Dying of the Lurgi? A good mug of tea will...

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The military Brunswick Rifle was used in service with the belted ball wrapped in a cotton patch and sewn shut. It continued in use for nigh on forty years with the same method so, yes, it did and does work.

I was shown the same way in France by a competitive musket shooter. I recall Bill used, er, personal intimate, gel. I got a mistaken reputation when I bought seven large tubes of the stuff to try in a sale at the pharmacy…. Re Bill’s 125 grain (and my 8 gram) charge and the 65 grain loads, it...

Barud, I am not qualified to argue against Rumi being Anatolian but I would have expected it to be more Balkan. ie Roman associated with the Eastern Roman Empire. My grandfather was born on what was then Eastern Rumelia ie southern Bulgaria. But then, from the Mughal point of view Anatolia is...