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Old 17th December 2022, 12:48 PM   #11
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no bolster, drum, or nipple visible and the frizzen still intact.
One of the early options was a tube containing fulminate that was stuck in the vent. The Hapsburg Empire went a long way down that road as it looked like an easy conversion from Flintlocks. Read all about it here.https://capandball.com/the-story-of-...nition-system/
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