Some vintage history.....

[pmclaine]

So Massachusetts will soon change its state flag because it's "Racis".

The reason it's racis is because everyone is too dumb to understand history.

So a flag that a bunch of dudes died under to fight racism has to go.

Found this on YouTube.



Only watched the first thirty seconds and was immediately assaulted by wokeism and a guy that closes both eyes to shoot his musket but why be critical......there may be some interesting info in there.

Thing is it brings me to other links that may actually be of value.

King Philips War was actually a pretty wild dust up with lots of brutal violence, forbidden sexual undercurrents, and the beginnings of "long range" patrolling and small unit irregular tactics.

It did have an impact on the psyche of the pre-colonists and it would come to bear fruit 100 years later.

Forgotten history......that deserves to be remembered.

 

[pmclaine]

Wow, mid way through a pretty good defense of the Second Amendment in a practical sort of way.......

 

[sirhrmechanic]

They WANT history destroyed. Post-modernism and "History is Bunk" is a pillar of communism where you worship the state and the moment.

Longing for the past or planning for the future makes for people who are not pliable into a servile slave-state... whether they recognize their slavery or not. The last thing the 'elites' want is memories that once upon a time, a miserable and downtrodden people rose up, killed the elites, and created new forms of society and governance.

Oh and if you are against it... you are racist. The great word used to cow anyone and make them accept the destruction of their society. Marx and Engels laid it all out 125 years ago... ish.

Sirhr

 

[pmclaine]

Just finished it. Better than I thought. Dudes did a good job and I think represented a fair telling of the story with an emphasis on native tactics expectedly so.

Not the worst thing you could spend thirty minutes watching.

Look up Benjamin Church he was SF before there was SF. I'm sure Rogers of Rogers Rangers read up on him.

 

[pmclaine]

Going down a rabbit hole of King Philips War videos...



Fuck the Sudbury sword swallower that defends Elizabeth Warrens "Indian heritage".

 

[USMCSGT0331]

I have an original one of those muskets; fishtail stock, grasping trigger, everything! Mine was made by Peter Peck in the 1570's and it's the only military rifle know to have been made by him!

Here's a screenshot from the video you posted:

Here's my 1570's Peter Peck built musket:

The rear peep sight has a carving of a bearded man's face!

This photo is to show the size of this musket and other handgonnes compared to an original USMC M40. I figure that all of you guys know how large an M40 is, so it should be easy to approximate the size of the musket when it's right next to the M40.

Here's a link to a thread the rifle's previous owner posted about a decade ago. This gentleman was the world's premier expert in studying amd collecting the world's earliest firearms. When he passed away, the world lost and incredible source of knowledge amd history. He was a prolific poster on the Viking Sword forum and I can't even imagine all the information he knew about, but didn't have time to post or share with anyone. If any of you want to learn more about the early history of firearms, please do some reading over on this forum. That's how I got into collecting archaic firearms (my oldest 2 handgonnes date to the 1370's and are the oldest European firearms that can be found outside of a museum collection).
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18212&highlight=peter+peck

If anyone is interested, I could do a thread on the archaic firearms in my collection. Just let me know what you guys want to see from my collection and I'll take some photos and post some information.

 

[buffalowinter]

If I didn't have shooting glasses, I would close my eyes when shooting a musket too. Afterall, it's a smooth bore weapon most effectively used in volley fire. I would guess that most people closed their eyes when shooting a musket or else there would be al ot of one eyed people walking around.

 

[Modoc]

If I didn't have shooting glasses, I would close my eyes when shooting a musket too. Afterall, it's a smooth bore weapon most effectively used in volley fire. I would guess that most people closed their eyes when shooting a musket or else there would be al ot of one eyed people walking around.

And I thought that shooting a flinter (rock lock) was bad enough.

 

[USMCSGT0331]

If I didn't have shooting glasses, I would close my eyes when shooting a musket too. Afterall, it's a smooth bore weapon most effectively used in volley fire. I would guess that most people closed their eyes when shooting a musket or else there would be al ot of one eyed people walking around.

Actually, if you look at the photos of my 1570's musket, there's a small eye shield that's standing vertical and attached to the flash pan post. That was literally put there to help shield the shooters eye when he's looking though the peep sight. However, judging from how much shit that comes out of an old musket when it's fired, I'm fairly certain that the tiny eye shield on that musket doesn't do fuck all to help save the shooter's eye, lol. I'd close my eyes too

 

[pmclaine]

Still exploring my King Philips War interest.

Here is a very good video from a man that participated in a book about it. The vid has many modern day images of historical places.



Despite living in the AO my entire life we never learned any of this.

Per capita it was described as the most costly war fought in the New World. Remember these casualty counts are in relation to small populations.

The war though not taught seems to infest the culture here but until you learn about the war you don’t realize it.

The place names, the persons, the symbols.

When I was in high school a classmate was from Lancaster and he said something about his town having been attacked by Indians and I envisioned a Hollywood scene in the desert southwest.

I never understood why the Mass Pike toll road used a Pilgrim hat with an arrow through it for their logo…..weren’t the Indians the Pilgrims buddies. That logo disappeared along time ago due to PC.

Unless this stuff gets remembered it will be gone.

I’ve toured some of these places not much remains. I’d love to tour one of the few surviving reinforced garrison houses. Listen for the description of how the bricked between the studs and behind the plaster to create musket proof cover.

 

[fpgt72]

That matchlock is really interesting, when you think everything for that rifle was specific for that rifle, every screw every everything. If you needed it you made it. For guys like me looking to hobby in the "machining" world it is just so cool.....and they are doing it without a lathe or mill....just wow.

And I like that channel as well, the bow tie guy with the hats is really good. History that deserves to be remembered.

https://www.youtube.com/@TheHistoryGuyChannel