Capandball + matchlock @the Battle of Mohács

[TFoley]

 

[Billy-by-gosh]

Really enjoyed this! A long video, but such fascinating scientific and historic details about the arquebus; and also its historic use in the early 1500s in the southeastern part of Europe by both the defenders and the Ottoman invaders at that time.

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

Interesting they used grass as wadding back then.

Also, patched round balls some 500 years ago. Something the “internet experts” say was never done until the development of rifles!!

 

[TFoley]

Interesting they used grass as wadding back then. Also, patched round balls some 500 years ago. Something the “internet experts” say was never done until the development of rifles!!

Internet 'experts' can often be both very imaginative and inventive in the same sentence.

 

[cynthialee]

well a lot of naysayers just can't see beyond their beliefs or what was told them when they were just learning

Far easier to dismiss anything that doesn't fit your notions than to accept new data. Someone eventually will say with self appointed authority "certainly this is an anomaly and shouldn't be taken as a thing that was done commonly, so we should reject it out of hand for period portrayal."

Here we have a PRB from 500+ years back....certainly that 1 gun wasn't the first with the loading style. You don't try something new when you are planning an assault. You go with what you know works and save experiments for less pressing times.