Turkish flintlock pistol nicely decorated

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Originally Posted by trenchwarfare

I have a question... What's the point of a dummy ram rod? I had one of these once, and thought it a tourista replica, because of having a carved rod. That would make loading, problematic. Unless they carried a complete loading kit.

I am not sure why they bothered to make it look like Ottoman pistols actually had a ram rod (suma or haribi), from what I understand the shorter firearms such as pistols and blunderbuss would have a metal ram rod that could be carried so as not to become lost easily, such as when on horseback.

[trenchwarfare]

Makes sense. Guess they hadn't come up with the captive rammer, as in most western cavalry muzzle loaders.