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…a heavy musket was like an RPG. It didn’t give a guarantee of a win, but required armor to get so heavy as to be physically nonviable and prohibitively expensive.
A real musketeer would have had a sword or a knife, wooden cases for pre-rolled paper cartridges (“Twelve Apostles”), and some sort of a helmet and body armor. However, even a peasant wench could have been trained to handle a musket or an arquebus well enough to pose a deadly threat to an armored knight, something that the same peasant with a spear or a poleax would not have been able to do nearly as effectively.
Using the forked rest as a melee weapon is definitely a desperation move. It’s better to have numerous friends with pikes nearby. Having armor would also be a big plus.
This rifle would pretty much guarantee a tag out to 400 yards. With a little bit of effort, 600 isn’t out of question. Yet the journey to the repeating rifle started with the matchlock musket.
First time on the range, both did amazingly well out to 50 yards.
Their mother, during her first range time, did even better — out to 100 yards with a .22 rimfire!
Project Appleseed has long been the go-to for rifle marksmanship training. They are now gradually phasing in handgun marksmanship training.
Rifle instruction remains top-notch.
Historic education is addressed through lectures and reenactors.
The training benefits young and old, newbie and pro.
High Tower conversion stock for 45ACP Hi-point carbine. Kaw Valley Precision linear compensator reduces noise and flash to the user.
This entire photoshoot was done with a single lens, Sony GM 70-200/2.8. At 24MP, the sharpness difference between it and the primes is negligible, while the flexibility of almost 3x zoom and image stabilization proved extremely useful. It was also good to be able to get closer cropping without me falling into the pool on the way to the model.
My friend Miggy made me aware of an interesting development: a court rules the members of the least socialist of the German political parties may not own guns. A friend who is a member of that party commented:
Long story: biased judge who obviously hates afd issued a verdict that violates several laws and ignores other court verdicts of higher laws. I know the affected couple: the guy is retired gsg9. He was a collector, target shooter and hunter. His wife was a collector and target shooter. They will sue to the next court. I haven’t read his verdict but read one issued by the same judge against another afd guy. You can’t deem a person unreliable only because he or she is a member of group x. German gun law states that each case has to be looked into individually. Party member x said xenophobic things, member y didn’t: person x might be unreliable, while person y will be ok. This judge just ignored that. Its called “sippenhaft” or collective punishment. Its the same shit the nazis and communists did.
Your brother did bad stuff? Tough luck, we will punish you too, because you are related. Basic foundation of law states that you can only be held reliable for your OWN actions.
These people didn’t do anything wrong or criminal, their only crime is “thought crime” or party membership. Hopefully, this verdict will, get revoked by a higher court. Other, higher courts decided correctly that you can’t be held accountable in collective guilt fashion. I guess the next higher court will rule the same, but it costs a lot of money, and the people still have to give up their property. The affected couple probably has a financial loss of 100.000€.
He clarified that the decision affects only the couple in question rather than all members of afd, but the precedent is not good.
I met Layla through helping VCDL in 2009. It took her until 2024 to stop by with family in tow.