[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***As someone has already pointed out on this thread, rifling hadn't been invented yet, and any competent gun writer oughta know that. ***

The book THE AGE OF FIREARMS by HELD disproves this. I am right now looking at a photo in the book of ...

“Fig 101.Wheellock RIFLE of the Tshinke type developed in the north German provinces between circa 1585and 1610.”

On page 64 is another wheelock RIFLE made between 1610 and 1632.

At that time Guns were considered to have a devil ride the bullet as you could hear the devil scream when the bullet went past you, and the woulds were exceedingly deadly.

Rifling was in use as far back as the 1520. Accuracy was so good that the Necromancer Moretius (Herman Moritz) said the spinning of the ball caused the devil to be thrown off.

Everyone who talks guns should have a copy of THE AGE OF FIREARMS by Robert Held. It is chock full of interesting tidbits of gun lore.

[OKSooner]

Well cool. You learn something every day.

[OKSooner]

Well cool. You learn something every day.

[Big Red Badger]

Age of Firearms,

Held.

got it ,
Thanks