Only shot it once, 75-caliber, with serpentine, pan, and pan cover. Can't decide whether to hang it up on the wall or sell it ...
Or maybe … just keep for the ‘collection’?
Or maybe … just keep for the ‘collection’?
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Combo hand gonne matchlock & boarding axe
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Being an axe, you only have to shoot it once... before just using the other end
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As a gun/axe combo, this is the best looking one I've seen. Very cool.
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It just doesn’t seem too practical of a weapon to be used in the mayhem of close quarter combat… keeping the thing lit while swinging it about in a maddening frenzy must have been ever so challenging for the nice man.
Plus, think of the fire hazard of that thing presented with its burning wick on a wooden ship or in a crowd.
Geez
Plus, think of the fire hazard of that thing presented with its burning wick on a wooden ship or in a crowd.
Geez
Considering galleys were powered by human misery, I don’t think safety was a high priority yet.It just doesn’t seem too practical of a weapon to be used in the mayhem of close quarter combat… keeping the thing lit while swinging it about in a maddening frenzy must have been ever so challenging for the nice man.
Plus, think of the fire hazard of that thing presented with its burning wick on a wooden ship or in a crowd.
Geez
How much sir?
Flint, is that a more recent mod to a plain jane handgonne or is it in the condition as made way back in the day? If it's original, from what period of time? That seems like a mod that could easily be done. Very interesting to me.
where the heck did you get that contraption ?????Only shot it once, 75-caliber, with serpentine, pan, and pan cover. Can't decide whether to hang it up on the wall or sell it ...
Or maybe … just keep for the ‘collection’?
In PRACTICAL use, one would shoot FIRST & then start swinging AFTERWARDS …It just doesn’t seem too practical of a weapon to be used in the mayhem of close quarter combat… keeping the thing lit while swinging it about in a maddening frenzy must have been ever so challenging for the nice man.
Plus, think of the fire hazard of that thing presented with its burning wick on a wooden ship or in a crowd.
Geez
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If you hang it on the wall, a bit of authentic looking match cord will add to the display. IMO
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