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sictransitgloriamvndi · 1 month

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ketchuplaser · 2 years

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Inktober 22 - Day 7 - Trip

Deksha pulled his arms tight against his chest, trying to trap what warmth he could. He regreted not bringing his oil skins along, but who knew this chilly rain would have come?

Some seer maybe. He had heard tales of weather witches that could predict what was coming with uncanny accuracy.

Oh well, at least he had enough water-proofing to wrap the action of his rifle and keep his powder dry.

Pulling the trigger trips the hammer

#ketchup laser #kl draws #inktober #inktober2022 #trip #deksha #post apocalypse #post apocalyptic #apocalypse #apocalyptic #flintlock rifle

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bookloversofbath · 1 year

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Military Small Arms of the 20th Century: A Comprehensive Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Small-calibre Firearms :: Ian V. Hogg & John Weeks

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experimentjr · 5 months

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ÁSTRIÐR IS DONE!!! THE GUNNER VALKYRIE!!!

Known as the "White Wolf", Ástriðr is a master hunter and a lover of the hunt. She can use her surroundings at her advantage to simply vanish and able to hunt her prey before they can even notice they were being hunted.

When among the living, she was already a master hunter that lived alone in the woods, but didn't just stopped at loving the hunt; she also loved to deisgn and create new weapons and traps for her hunting, and it was when she found about gunpowder that her ideas could finally leave the paper. She created a gun hundreds of years before the supposedly first gun was ever made, and with a flintlock design and power only guns from 1700 and up could reach. She was unstoppable and when she decided you were her prey, there wasn't a thing that could protect you from her.

Before she died though, she burned all her blueprints and ideas with her house, her weapon and her, but managed to be taken by the valkyries (as she died technically due to battling) and her weapon came with her. She now has a special eye, able to see further than any human and her weapon got an upgrade on power and resistance, she also is part of a very selected group that she shares her other weapons with and between all the valkyries, she's the only one that uses such an odd bow with lead arrows.

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nationsandcannons · 1 year

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Flintlock Firearm Rules (v4)

Latest version of the Nations & Cannons black powder rules, with stats for 18th century flintlocks from muskets to dueling pistols, including new equipment options for players in a historical campaign to customize their loadout.

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handfulsofhistory · 11 months

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A "Kentucky rifles", which most likely was made in Pennsylvania

#rifle #Flintlock

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chiropteracupola · 1 year

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no, they'll never catch me! no, they cannot catch me now!

[collaboration with @dxppercxdxver again again again]

#em draws stuff #flintlock fortress #team fortress 2 #this was. not the thing I was planning to draw next.#but I did that thing again where I got very very sad via 'the bagman's gambit' by the decemberists and I had to make an image that fit #it's the sort of song that'll give you all manner of feelings about deserters and turncoats and spies #so here is a bit of samuel backstory! for he has also had rather a case of the Interesting Past #this isn't my best likeness of him but it's a good Snarl so I'm well satisfied!#got a little aesthetic help from watching sharpe's rifles when it came to the powder burn and the queue movement I'll admit...#took this drawing out to the scifi society which is always fun because I can borrow people's eyes to see what I should fix in the coloring #and on account of this I am extra extra pleased with how it turned out!

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sergeantsporks · 2 years

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That one anon: Flapjack turning into a gun. Me, an intellectual, Hunter turning into a gun because he's also made of Palistrom Wood.

NO

#hunter turns into an ancient flintlock rifle bc old puritan bones. flapjack into a pistol bc smol #toh #asks

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petalsinfall · 6 months

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flintlock rifle with a twisted barrel and heart shaped bore (1765)

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smokeys-house · 8 months

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That last post reminds me, I was at a sports store the other day and they had miniature cannon kits. Like actual black powder miniatures that shoot tiny cannonballs

#smokey talks #they also had a make ur own flintlock pistol&rifle kits #god how i wanted them all #those were more like 'assemble' ur own tho bc they include all the parts u just stain the grip and assemble it urself #still. v cheap way to get functional flintlock firearms #did u know they make modern 'tactical' looking black powder rifles?

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museum-of-artifacts · 17 days

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A flintlock rifle with a twisted barrel and heart shaped bore from 1765, formerly owned by George IV, now part of the Royal Collection Trust

More: https://bio.link/museumofartifacts

#history #museum #artifacts #ancient #art #roman #rome #germany #gold #italy

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beautifulbadlandsnd · 2 years

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How to Rendezvous with Trappers and Traders at Fort Union This Weekend

During the Fort Union Rendezvous, and historical re-enactments, the front porch is a popular place to mingle. This Weekend This weekend, June 17-19, 2022 is the biggest event at Fort Union. It’s the Fort Union Rendezvous. Trappers and traders from all over Canada and the US descend on the historic site, much like they did in 1830. Fort Union Trading Post was not a military post, it was a private…

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#beautifulbadlands #ndlegendary #NorthDakota #outwest #rendezvous #Sidney #watfordcity #Williston #American Fur Trading Company #BeNDLegendary #buckskinners #families #flintlock rifles #Fort Union #Fort Union Trading Post #John Astor #ThingsToDoNorthDakota

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ketchuplaser · 6 months

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29 - Massive

Solomon crouched and listened.

He could hear movement, and knew there was something big coming by, massive even.

The matted hair and pungent odor confirmed what he feared. An ogre.

Solomon said a quick prayer of thanks that he was downwind from the mighty mutant.

#ketchup laser #kl draws #post apocalypse #post apocalyptic #inktober #inktober 2023 #solomon #massive #flintlock rifle #ogre #mutant #hunter

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bookloversofbath · 1 year

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Remington :: K. D. Kirkland

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trans-girl-nausicaa · 15 days

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Gee I wonder how common private gun ownership was right before the Russian revolution? Oh wait it was actually common and civilians could easily buy firearms. Here’s a print ad from the time:

Historically, many revolutions and civil wars involved the use of privately owned firearms. A really common pattern that you see going back hundreds of years is that at the outbreak of conflicts, civilians would form militias, arm themselves with whatever they could get their hands on, storm government armories, and then steal everything not nailed down.

During the Yugoslav civil war, the UN enacted an arms embargo on all sides of the war from Sept 1991 through the end of the war. The VRS split off from the JNA, so they just took those weapons with them. However, the ARBiH had to acquire weapons from a lot of different sources, such as:

Stolen from JNA barracks

Stolen from Yugoslav police

Taken out of museums (Yes, really. They were literally using vintage captured MG42s from WWII)

Handmade (!) (Yes, really. I saw handmade guns that were used in the war on display in a museum in Sarajevo)

Smuggled in by Pakistani Intelligence Services (Specifically anti-tank missiles)

Picture: A group of ARBiH soldiers at the Old Bridge in Mostar, June 1992. The man on the far right is carrying a Winchester Model 70 (captured from a Serb, who purchased it in Montana)

Picture: Two ARBiH soldiers, the one on the right is carrying an MG42.

Another conflict (or, more accurately, long series of conflicts) that we can also look to is the American Indian Wars. Native American combatants used a variety of weapons, but the weapons that they prized most highly were contemporary repeating rifles. Famously, repeating rifles such as the Henry lever-action rifle were contributing factors to the victory of Lakota and Cheyenne forces at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. (Native Americans had been purchasing guns for hunting and combat for over a hundred years at that point. One of the earliest accounts of such a purchase was in 1750 where French traders traded flintlock muskets for horses from Wichitas and Comanches.)

Picture: The Apache military leader Geronimo, on right, accompanied by three younger warriors, 1886.

Let’s take another, ongoing example: The Myanmar civil war (2021- present, as of April 2024).

Fighters in the coalition of anti-junta forces use a wide variety of small arms, but most relevant for this post is the manufacturing and use of the FGC-9, a 9mm carbine compatible with Glock magazines.

(Side note: FGC stands for Fuck Gun Control.)

The FGC-9 design uses a combination of 3D-printed parts and easily-manufactured pressure-bearing metal parts.

Picture: a People’s Defense Force soldier carrying an FGC-9.

If you genuinely believe that there will be a revolution or civil war in your country in the future, then logically it is 100% reasonable to buy and train with guns right now.

If you genuinely believe that there will be a revolution or civil war in your country in the future, it makes absolutely no sense to hand-wave that away with “one day when the exact right circumstances emerge for a proletarian mass movement to Do Revolution, only then will we acquire even one single firearm. I’m just going to assume there won’t be massive obstacles such as arms embargoes, government crackdowns, or supply-chain issues that could completely stymie our ability to do that.”

If you genuinely believe that there will be a revolution or civil war in your country in the future wouldn’t it be better for the people on your side to already have some level of training & skill with firearms?

If you live in a country where the right wing has spent decades buying guns and salivating over the idea of starting a civil war and killing left-wingers and minorities, do you think it is a good idea to discourage left-wingers and minorities from buying guns?

#guns #gun control

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nationsandcannons · 1 year

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The Amusette: a Flintlock Anti-Materiel Rifle

Therefore I decided to draw these guests into an ambuscade. On 20th, several hours before daybreak, I put an amusette behind a false hedge which I had fashioned from bushes, placing it so that the barn could be pierced easily. I sent Lieutenant Trautvetter with twelve jagers to a small hollow on this side of the river across from the parsonage borders to keep hidden until the Americans were dislodged from the barn by the fire of the amusette. Then they were to rise and accompany the piece with sharp rifle fire. All went well. As soon as day broke, the riflemen began their harassing with their long rifles. After the third cannon gunshot, the barn became silent and the enemy left it, whereupon he fell in jagers’ fire. Since the road ran up along the river, which was not over one hundred paces wide, the jagers had the best possible range, and every jager killed or wounded his man.

Source: Diary of Hessian Captain Johann Ewald, April 20th, 1777

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