Loyalist Arms Japanese Matchlock

[ajbennettnc]

Just saw this while daydreaming about various muskets. Anybody got one yet?

https://www.loyalistarms.ca/japanesematchlockcarbine.html

 

[ArmorerRoy]

That is a good price.

 

[ajbennettnc]

I know! Mighty tempting. I really like that they're offering a non-western muzzleloader. I teach high school World History and am wanting to get one someday to make videos for my students with, so that hopefully they get an understanding that almost every culture has developed its own creative take on firearms and made them their own cultural artform as much as they have a weapon.

 

[rickystl]

Just saw this while daydreaming about various muskets. Anybody got one yet?

https://www.loyalistarms.ca/japanesematchlockcarbine.html

That's interesting. The old Mirouku replicas no longer made can bring bring at or near $1,000.00 today. And they, like most of the originals were very mussel heavy, especially for cheek holding. So this India made copy with a shorter barrel and .69 caliber should be much lighter in weight. Should generate some interest.

Rick

 

[rickystl]

I know! Mighty tempting. I really like that they're offering a non-western muzzleloader. I teach high school World History and am wanting to get one someday to make videos for my students with, so that hopefully they get an understanding that almost every culture has developed its own creative take on firearms and made them their own cultural artform as much as they have a weapon.

Wish you were my history teacher back then. LOL

There is physical evidence that people decorated their gun stocks as far back as the late 14th century.

Rick

 

[TobJohn]

almost every culture has developed its own creative take on firearms and made them their own cultural artform as much as they have a weapon.

I could get too political about it, but firearms as art and cultural artifacts is one of the best arguments when trying to convince anti gun folks or the gun curious. How important guns have been in sport for 500+ years is another one.

In renaissance Europe, the people wearing the newest fashion, commissioning the newest art, and buying the most advanced and fanciest guns were all the same, so the aesthetic trends were deeply entwined.

I’m sure it was the same in Japan and the near east, but that I know very little about.

 

[rickystl]

During the Renaissance and later, the rapier (sword) was as much part of a "gentleman's" dress code as it was a weapon for personal protection.

 

[TobJohn]

During the Renaissance and later, the rapier (sword) was as much part of a "gentleman's" dress code as it was a weapon for personal protection.

I believe the smaller swords of the 17th and 18th century were developed because they were more important as a fashion accessory/symbol of class than as a weapon of war