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Radovan Geist wrote: |
In the meanwhile, another arquebuse has been nearly finished. I have not taken any progress pictures this time, as the work has been more or less the same as on the first one (same lock mechanism), with only some alterations to details and design. |
Jean Thibodeau wrote: |
Ah, that is interesting with the butt stock in the petronel style popular with the French. A very attractive arquebuse. :D :cool:
Let us know how it shoots, assuming that you also do shoot with it. With a tight fitting ball and patch these smooth bores where not as inaccurate as many believe and could hit a man sized target at 100 to maybe 150 meters from what I have been told by Gordon Frye who has a lot of experience shooting muskets.( Gordon is a member here although he hasn't posted anything recently and is a good friend of mine ). The 18th century muskets with no sights and very loose ball with lots of windage where optimized for mass volley fire and quick reloading, in the late 15th,16th and mid 17th centuries they still tried to get good accuracy out of each musket or archebuse. At more than 150 meters the rainbow like trajectory does make accurate shooting difficult if range is not accurately estimated and compensated for I think. Below 75 meters a tight fitting ball/musket combination can be very accurate and deadly and if one shoots ball and buck the odds of making a hit are quite high I think. |
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All the stocks of their harquebuzes I would haue them to be crooked (as we call them) and of good forme, and not straight stocks, because that being crooked and com∣passed stocks they doo more readily counterpoise the fore end of their peeces, and more readilie fall into leuell when they are in skirmish, and haue no leisure to take any sight from point at blanke, but from the fore ends of their pee∣ces, then straight stockes doe: Besides that considering the lightnesse of their peeces they may aswell and as rea∣dilie without rests at any time take their sights from point at blanke with crooked stockes of good forme as if they were straight. The Cockes, or serpentines I would haue to be of conuenient compasse and able to receiue any con∣uenient match, and that the feathers and springs that doo belong vnto them should be of so hard and good temper, that they shoulde cause the •ockes or serpentines to fall and rise so strong and quicke, as by their strong falling with the matches into the pannes, they may make the fire to sparcle, thereby in an instant to make the powder to take fire. |