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| I forgot to add we have a competition, match and flint, shooting clay's, and match won two out of the last three, James
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| You say you won two of the last three?Very nice!!
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| What IS a matchlock,anyway?....Ok,on reading the last few posts again,I see what you're sayin,James,but I still don't know what a matchlock is?
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| A matchlock is basically the first ever hand held gun, imagine your flintlock rife, but instead of a flint to fire it you have a length of burning string which you place in a serpentine you then open the pan which is covering your touch hole which has priming powder in it , aim pull the trigger the burning match gos into the pan and, if your lucky , it gos bang
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| Once you are used to it, and it dos take some getting used to, getting the match just right in the cock , and judging just when to open the pan a matchlock is as quick , no hang fire, as a modern gun
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| Oh geez,this is embarrassing....of course I knew what a matchlock is...An arquebus is one...I don't know how I could have forgotten....I'm gonna go hide now,maybe sit on my rocking chair and mumble at my wife.....geez.....
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| On a range they are good fun but walking in the woods , with a lighted match, not sure when you are going to get a shot, not so much fun
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| I'd also be a little scared of my powder horn wrapped around my shoulder getting close to that hot wick! |
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| Is it safe for me to come out yet?Maybe if I just stand here quietly,and drool?.....Yes,I've always wondered how anyone could hunt with one...
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| In the 1640,s you carried, your charges in small bottles on a bandoleer across your chest,I was wearing one of these and I fired a shot, and,I still do not know how it happened, but all 12 charges went off, one after an other,luckily, I was wearing a good thick leather coat ,so no real damage was done,it certainly made me jump!!
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| ??!!!!!!
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| When you think about it,its one of the things the old ones had to endure , , it certainly concentrates the mind wonderfully, and these people certainly walked the woods with a matchlock, complete with burning match,
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