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One FReeper, who gave me a very good response when I asked why pilgrims starved when I figured there were many animals around, said the guns they had were not rifles and not good for hunting.
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I don’t know if he was right or wrong on that point, but he made many other valid ones, so i am not knocking him.
This doesn’t make sense to me. The earliest wheel locks are figured to be 1500 or so, not earlier than 1495. The first pilgrims were 1492.
The pilgrims were much more likely to have a few matchlock guns, which were popular at the time.
Got into a discussion the other day about the longbow and the smooth bore rifles. To this day, I cant figure out why the heck the Brits switched from the longbow to the smooth bores when they had way more firepower, and most likely better accuracy, with the longbow. I.E at Crecy, they figured the longbowmen fired in excess of 90,000 arrows a minute at the French.
I wonder if during WW1, at certain areas where the lines were close if they would have used longbows if they couldnt have sent those arrows into the German trenches what the result would have been. Keep in mind that a rifle shoots horizontal while the longbow arrows would have come down on them.
Second thanksgiving. First was held in St Augustine Fl
Very cool! Thanks for posting!
Awesome, thanks for posting
Glad the NRA has it. The idiots in Massachusetts would have put a trigger lock on it like they did with the Committee of Safety Musket in their legislature.
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True about the wheel-lock, although there were other kinds of firearms, too.
Tenuously related but already in the thread, I see some of the recirculating Internet canards about Plymouth Colony—propaganda written by jealous descendants of much more recent U.S. arrivals. It would do many of you well to read for yourselves instead of trusting the myths we’ve seen in propaganda essays (claims that our English ancestors were commies, etc.).
The founding families of our American culture were truly great, and they did prevail in establishing our culture. Otherwise, we’d be speaking Spanish or Italian instead of English, and we’d be as far towards cultural devolution as our European allies.
Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony)