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    Japanese Matchlock Pistols and Rifles/Muskets

    I startet shooting muzzle loaders and i have a different percussion Pistols, a Flintlock Pistol and an percussion Musket. That's enough for the beginning most people will say, but i'm very curios about japanese matchlock Pistols and Muskets. Does somebody know, where to get stuff like this? I...
  2. Jay Templin

    Matchlock hunting?!?

    Fellers been arguing at work for years about whether or not a matchlock is suitable for hunting critters that have noses, with the majority opinion being that burning match smells too strongly to allow deer to come close enough to shoot. I got one already this season, so with the pressure off, I...
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    1750s Toradar - Damascus Steel Barrel?

    Anyone collecting matchlocks, please? A couple of years ago I got this Indian beauty from a closing military museum near Hull. The barrel seems Damascus steel - I did not have it tested in a lab, but there are a few characteristics of such steel that make me think it is what I suspect... If...
  4. ILoveMuzzleloading

    George Moller's 17th Century French Matchlock Musket

    Today we're taking a look at one of the oldest muzzleloaders, and ignition technologies for muzzleloaders ever built. There's really not much older than the matchlock. This French example of a matchlock represents everything known about matchlock muskets from the 1600s and even farther back...
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