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From a well-known builder of museum replicas who has often posted his beautiful work here.
Movie courtesy of cabandball -
Movie courtesy of cabandball -
I can see an advantage, from the flint not slamming into a frizzen ,jarring your aim. But a matchlock can do the same for cheaper.
Oh yes, the grocery store has one of those little ponies that kids ride on for a dollar....I’ll try THAT.
I’m so old, I remember when we could ride the grocery pony for a quarter!Oh yes, the grocery store has one of those little ponies that kids ride on for a dollar....I’ll try THAT.
Guns and bicycles don’t mix.
Yup, .53cal ball over 43gr of whatever - certainly a man-stopper. To see them in [movie] action, watch the closing scenes of the historical movie 'Alatriste' [Viggo Mortensen] and the tertio formation at the Battle of Rocrois. I defy any of you to watch this part of the movie without a slight misting-up of the screen.
Amazingly, these beautiful anachronisms - even though they replicate arms from four hundred years ago, are treated here in UK exactly the same way as though they were a modern firearm. I guess the authorities have serious concerns that a person who has just paid out $15-20K for a a pair of single-shot pistols must be on the point of high-tailing it down to the local corner store to hold it up....
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