Hi Michael, thanks a lot for your coments.
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Originally Posted by Matchlock
Sorry to have to destroy a possible myth but Rainer Daehnhardt's gun is far from being European and/or early 16th century.
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As you will notice, i have quoted that the gun is from the Malabar (Southwest India) and not from Europe.
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Originally Posted by Matchlock
The barrel is clearly Indian, 18th/19th centuries, the stock is a crude modern reproduction missing only the tiniest touch of original German style...
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If you say so i will have no doubt ... but i don't think he ever said it is of German style either.
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Originally Posted by Matchlock
Mind: hooks were never parts of the stocks but only of the iron barrels!
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So i must assume this stock shape never existed ?
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Originally Posted by Matchlock
Otherwise they would have made no sense at all.
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Sorry for my ignorance, but i don't understand; what is the difference between the hook being placed in the stock or in the barrel ? doesn't it prevent the firing impact (kick back) in both cases ?
Sorry Michael, but these are all doubts from a layman like me. I am not worried about this specimen being a mith, nor about Daehnhardt's sincerity; i don't like helping to build gurus. But i need to be sure to myself that this thing is a fake ... to the extent that i can tell it in his face when i see him.
Thanks again
Fernando