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20th June 2012, 01:50 PM
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Brilliant, Gene, Thanks a lot! I rembered posting in it and was searching for that but did not succeed!  Best, m Last edited by Matchlock; 20th June 2012 at 02:36 PM. |
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20th June 2012, 02:24 PM
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You're welcome Michael.
All the best Gene |
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20th June 2012, 02:40 PM
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Like the guy who originally posted this I am wondering about the use of the blunderbuss-like mouthed opening of the bolt housing, which also seems to have been equiped with a sort of bead foresight ?!
Any thoughts? |
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20th June 2012, 04:53 PM
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Resembling a cable thrower device ?
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20th June 2012, 05:15 PM
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Good idea, 'Nando,
I too gathered something like that with my rusted French; it does not seem to make much sense to me though - aiming for throwing a cable from such a short 'barrel'? Wouldn't it unfurl anyway in the air?! Best, Michl |
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20th June 2012, 06:10 PM
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If my humble french doesn't betray me
The 'barrel' would be the 'deposit/drum' for the rope hank; the orifice to tie the end of the rope.
Such was the suggestion given by the original person; that this could be a fishing crossbow. The interpreation of the member quoted in the (here) posted images is a bit 'distorted'. I have lurked into this forum; several members giving wings to their imagination, like suggesting an incendiary crossbow, boar hunting crossbow and so on. One of them even made a draft on how it should have worked. The idea of a fishing crossbow with a rope (string) seems to be the more consensual (to them). . |
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20th June 2012, 07:55 PM
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Wow, 'Nando,
What a fascinating interpretation! Thank you so much for enlightening my dense mind! I am not ashamed to admit that I did not include that option. On the other hand, I know nothing on fishing. I remember seeing records on the employment of incendiary arrows with matchlock muskets as late as the second half of the 16th c. though, the illustration of ca. 1570-80 probably of Spanish origin (attached) - a combination of devices which classic weaponry tends to confine to the earliest days of European firearms. Well, you left me baffled if not flabbergasted.  Best, Michl |
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