This is the final part of a short series showing you how to clean a flintlock musket - in this case, a Pedersoli replica of a French Napoleonic Charleville An IX model. The first two posts were Cleaning

This is part 2 in a short series of three posts - you can find the first part at Cleaning A Napoleonic Charleville Musket - Part 1 - Terminology In the first part, I went over a terminology of the musket

I just spent a day after a re-enactment event cleaning my Charleville musket, so I thought "Hey, let's make a post about it !". The next question was "Where ?" Hive doesn't have any

Destroying The Musket Argument

전쟁터야 패션쇼야? 18세기나 19세기 유럽을 배경으로 한 영화를 보면 가장 눈에 띄는 것 중 하나가 군인들의 복장이다. 화려한 단색으로 구성된 제복은 각 나라마다 대표색을 입혀 어디서나 눈에 확 들어오는 것이 특징이다. 길이가 긴 모자에 위에는 보통 깃털을 달고 화려한 견장까지 마치 파티장에 초대받은 신사의 복장같다. 흔히 은폐와 엄폐를 목적으로 위장색 도료를

I did all the lifting and drilling. He did all the watching. This was a month long project, as it was put on delay for quite a while because we didn't have the correct drill bit type. We had a wood drill

I've always been an avid reader. Growing up, there was nothing more appealing than a good book to whisk me away on some grand adventure. When I was a young boy of eight or nine, my favorite reading subject