If the Musketeers were from a time that championed "the musket", (pic related) then what would the accurate MODERN EQUIVALENT be? - This might be the perfect time to coin a new one, which would be swell. No fuckery plz. Im being for cereal this time guys. ...srsly u gys. Go.
>>65551618the riflemen?
>>65551634Dont think youre quite getting the spirit of the question mate.
>>65551634FPBS
>>65551618No clue, but you'd be a cockateer.
>>65551618>Vietnam, Japan, Korea, and China continue using old matchlock system till c. 1900Why didn't they update wheellock, miquelet lock/flintlock, and tubelock/percussion action?
>>65551634its rifleteer duh
>>65551670Then what's the answer you fucking whorseson? What "clever" term have you come up with that led you to create this retarded thread? KYS
>>65552013They can't locally replicate some of the more clockworky old firearms since they cant into the metallurgy for springs.That said: Chinks & Viets did fiddle around with imported flintlocks from India & Europe in the 1600s-1700s but they remained toys for aristocrats & rich people. Japan did not for some reason until the Black Ship Incident.
>>65552013To be fair, many European armies had to be forced to drop the flintlock in favor of the percussion cap.
>>65552013Springs are one of those weirdly esoteric technologies that if you don't already understand how they're made, you can't replicate them through reverse engineering, no matter how closely you study a finished example.
>>65552420As I understand it the elastic properties of a spring come from how the metal is tempered rather than how it's shaped so you can copy how a spring looks as much as you like but it wont perform the same unless you actually make it out of the exact same type of metal as the original, which many cultures lacked the knowledge or capability to do.
>>655517254PBP
>>65552413It is reliable, but making it from mercury is poisonous.
