These look like fun guns to master.
I looked at a club butt match lock yesterday at the CLA show. Kinda got a hankering
I looked at a club butt match lock yesterday at the CLA show. Kinda got a hankering
That’s the plan! My only previous shooting experience is skeet and a matchlock once, so it will be a good test to see how hard it actually is to learn matchlock shooting.These look like fun guns to master.
I looked at a club butt match lock yesterday at the CLA show. Kinda got a hankering
I knew hand cut special file makers & Brass founders . who did my yellow brass gun mounts .I was some times there in a pour and it was a smoke filled little 'Dantes inferno' of smoke . they wore a Jesse James like face mask & shut the Georgian windows lest a squall come up as they poured It gave us a headache the 'Ague' you could call it .
Yes bit like having Malaria not much fun but thede done it years in the old Cornish Place Dixon Factory the river Don flows past it was reckoned many a muffed up item got chucked into the Don Old Jack Toyne was still makeing snuff & pill boxes but nothing like the flat out days .I knew old Milo Dixon he showed me there samples rooms I still bought stuff when they moved to Heeley but it didn't last .I tried to get the ' Courtship & Children' flask recreated as a limited offering been very pertainant at that time it wasnt cast it was electro formed . I Teed it all up but had to go work in a Museum in Calgary & without me it fizzled out perhaps not so bad considering the later difficulties .Mick Marsh tops ,die chaser in town been a good seller I thought well known flask but few if any more made .Same with' A'hunting we will go' flask I've only seen such electro formed flask's as parts the owner now dead .I borrowed from Dixon s& copied their 'Maroon Book' which was the shop floor costings book but I let Ian Ford have my info he & De Witt Bailey had an excellent flask book printed Ime mentioned but never bought one .Their ‘ague’ was poisoning from the zinc fumes as some of the zinc in the molten brass sublimed into the air I would imagine.
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Art of arquebusiers with petronels almost always shows them with morions or cabasset helmets. Maybe the lack of shoulder or cheek stock helps when using them with the bulky cheek straps and wide brims on these helmets?Since the petronel has both front and rear sights, it was designed to be aimed versus just pointed. So it would appear that the way John is holding in the photo was the only way to get a sight picture. So maybe the way John is holding/aiming it was the way it was done ? Especially if you include wearing a breastplate. Possibly the extra wood on the butt stock was to also act as a bit of counter weight to balance the gun while aiming ? Also, "style" seemed to be important during this period.
Rick
That's sort of what I was also thinking. Holding the petronel in the way of your photo seems the only way to get a sight picture while wearing a breastplate and helmet. Starting to make a little more sense now.Art of arquebusiers with petronels almost always shows them with morions or cabasset helmets. Maybe the lack of shoulder or cheek stock helps when using them with the bulky cheek straps and wide brims on these helmets?
Art of arquebusiers before and musketeers after rarely depict them with helmets, so that could further reinforce why petronels were ubiquitous for 30 years and then completely disappeared.That's sort of what I was also thinking. Holding the petronel in the way of your photo seems the only way to get a sight picture while wearing a breastplate and helmet. Starting to make a little more sense now.
That's sort of what I was also thinking. Holding the petronel in the way of your photo seems the only way to get a sight picture while wearing a breastplate and helmet. Starting to make a little more sense now.
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