@imperiumiv Actualy if i remember right i think that rifle have been around since the 15th or 16th century. Just they took alot longer too load so large armies prefered the musket for mass vollys. Rifles would be used by smaller groups of speacalized soilders. Atleast untill the invention of the mini ball which made it easier too load. Atleast i think.
'"what kind of shells does it take?" ha ha that is a good one. this is not a flintlock but a snaphaunce or miqulet lock the difference is that the frizzen or part that the flint strikes is not also the cover over the flashpan they are two separate pieces. This gun is most likely from the 19th century and it is arabic... NOT made in Spain and NOT from the 17th century... the guys in this vid are most likely used to seeing Mossbergs....
Not a flintlock, that is a snaphaunce which is a flintlock predecessor, the period certainly is 17th century but not Spanish, although the stock shape has a strong influence from spanish models is more arabian than spanish.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that barrel does not look like it is rifled, and it looks like it is a smoothbore musket. Beautiful gun by the way, I love the ornate stock.
Dramaalipasha, it wouldn't be made in the 1850s because the percussion action was out, and hardly any flintlock guns, besides sporting guns were made after that.
Muslim firearms were quite elegant. They used some old fashioned locks well into the very early 1900s. Guns like these were used in raiding and pillaging that characterized the nomadic warfare of North Africa. Once old surplused single-shot breechloaders could be bought the Arabs and Berbers became somewhat more unified. Lawrance of Arabia probably fought alongside Arabs who were using these. Beautiful, though.
The Chinese 3 barrel pole gun is better for rate of fire but probably not as accurate.
aa3gunner 2 weeks ago in playlist 1630 weapons europe
That musket doesn´t look spanish at all. It is muslim manufacture.Turkish or Moroccan maybe.
Alegredesconocido 3 weeks ago
are you certain is an actual rifle? I thought rifles did not appear until the 18th century. I figure it is a smoothbore musket, not a rifled musket.
imperiumiv 2 months ago
@imperiumiv Actualy if i remember right i think that rifle have been around since the 15th or 16th century. Just they took alot longer too load so large armies prefered the musket for mass vollys. Rifles would be used by smaller groups of speacalized soilders. Atleast untill the invention of the mini ball which made it easier too load. Atleast i think.
TheHansisHere 4 weeks ago
imagine how it is to load the bullet down the barrel of that gun!
MrOlekul 4 months ago
This fire weapon is from north africa (Morocco) not from Spain. The spanish name for it is "espingarda" and it was used by mors and cabila people.
talateo 5 months ago
'"what kind of shells does it take?" ha ha that is a good one. this is not a flintlock but a snaphaunce or miqulet lock the difference is that the frizzen or part that the flint strikes is not also the cover over the flashpan they are two separate pieces. This gun is most likely from the 19th century and it is arabic... NOT made in Spain and NOT from the 17th century... the guys in this vid are most likely used to seeing Mossbergs....
1overthehillsfaraway 5 months ago
Not a flintlock, that is a snaphaunce which is a flintlock predecessor, the period certainly is 17th century but not Spanish, although the stock shape has a strong influence from spanish models is more arabian than spanish.
miltonSF 6 months ago
god that's ugly....and i guess, made by an even uglier Arab.
sudaneseareshit 7 months ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that barrel does not look like it is rifled, and it looks like it is a smoothbore musket. Beautiful gun by the way, I love the ornate stock.
tawesd 7 months ago
Dramaalipasha, it wouldn't be made in the 1850s because the percussion action was out, and hardly any flintlock guns, besides sporting guns were made after that.
Monkeymarcuz 8 months ago
I always see rifles like that when they have movies about arabs from the 1800s. lol
RalphyGreene 10 months ago
would definitely agree its of arabic origin. used in muslim africa, middle east, usually referred to as a miqulet
berhorst59 1 year ago
Muslim firearms were quite elegant. They used some old fashioned locks well into the very early 1900s. Guns like these were used in raiding and pillaging that characterized the nomadic warfare of North Africa. Once old surplused single-shot breechloaders could be bought the Arabs and Berbers became somewhat more unified. Lawrance of Arabia probably fought alongside Arabs who were using these. Beautiful, though.
din0man 1 year ago
This is a "Taouzilt" musket from the Moroccan Sous mountains. It has a Snaphaunce lock and was most probably manufactured around 1850.
(See Elgood and Tirri)
Harris
DramaAliPasha 2 years ago
seems like you know what you're talking about!
I was gonna say something like musketeers rifle or something lol
condorlegion89 2 years ago
Does not look like a flintlock, rather a Snaphaunce lock.
ftorresgamez 2 years ago
She a bit beat up but i would have been made for someone real important,
i doubt you will get one the same.
she looks a real nice gun. cheers
sirhc141 2 years ago