Capt. Sterling

Hard to admit to siring someone who is older... Besides all my billions... **choke, choke** go to my legitimate child...

Oh I know where this is going now...

Right then the education system in this country just scares me... history especially... they teach all the little kids the so called basics, which, nine times out of ten, are wrong...when you call them on it, they say not to worry, when they get to high school and college they will learn it correctly... HUH??? Why not teach them correctly from day one??? Softward pirates... must be sailing on the seas of cyberspace... ugh.

ah we have invitations as well... much rather invest in the real deal...

Is there actually supposed to be a picture... nothing is showing my laptop

ROTDLMAO!!!!

Tis all the inbreeding...

I was going to avoid this thread as there is little positive about it until I read Kate's post...then I saw red. Damnation but I am forced to agree... I DETEST drama unless tis in a skit/scenario... why can't people just do their jobs and get on with their lives without having to stir up all the trouble...if you don't get something JUST ASK.. without having to go behind everyone's back sheesh...

Well someone has to look out for those two!

The snaphaunce lock appeared in Europe in the mid-16th century and was the earliest form of flintlock firearms ignition system. It was later differentiated from the ‘true’ flintlock by firearms scholars for whom the ‘true’ and original snaphaunce lock had a steel separate from the pan cover and a cock incapable of the half-cock safety position. The pan cover either slid open automatically upon the trigger being pulled or had to be slid open manually first. Snaphaunce locks seem to have been invented by the Dutch, who gave them the name snaphaan, meaning ‘snapping hen’. They likened the flint-bearing hammer to a cock bird (Hahn in German, Haan in Dutch) and Haan, when translated into English as ‘cock’, came to mean the hammer, which struck the steel with its flint to ignite the primary charge. Differing styles of snaphaunce developed in the Low Countries, in Britain, Spain, Italy, and North Africa. As a system it remained popular in Spain, the Balkans, and North Africa into the 19th century, where it was the ignition system principally found on miquelet muskets. Bibliography * Blair, Claude (gen. ed.), Pollard's History of Firearms (London, 1983) Snaphauncethe precursor to the 18th-century flintlock, the snaphaunce is a mechanism whereby a flint held in a cock was struck against a steel battery that was separate from the pan cover. This example has the typical S-shaped cock, which is still grasping a fragment of the flint. The large ornamental "button" at the end of the flashpan (center of the exterior view) appeared on most snaphaunce locks. The battery would have been anchored toward the right end of the plate (exterior view) but is missing here. This type of gun-lock, in various sizes, is found on many Virginia 17th-century sites. Commonwealth of Virginia websites Virginia Department of Historic Resources a couple of repros And a spanish snaphaunce go here to see the rest of her...snaphaunce

The Snaphaunce locks were developed in mid to late 1500’s being much simpler to make than the wheellock. The pan cover was still a separate sliding piece as on wheellocks and the sear arrangement is basically the same. The frizzen could be left forward as a kind of safety on guns with out the sear locks. Large powerful mainsprings make these large locks very fast dependable sparkers. The Dutch, French, and English were the main users of these types of locks. Many of these guns were sent over to America in the early 1600’s as they were better suited for our needs of defense and hunting than matchlocks. George Moller has found that 1000 Snaphaunce muskets were sent to the Virginia Colony in 1702, so they were used quite late. Many Snaphaunce locks were fitted to matchlock muskets to update them. One Snaphaunce is listed on a raid to the new world in 1584, where a soldiers snaplock pistol dropped from his belt and went off upon hitting the ground and killing him. From The Rifle Shoppe

**Launches said log book in the quartermaster's general direction as hard as possible**

Even if we gave the log book away, no one would ever believe it...

**Long, drawn out sigh** Thank ye Mr. Bottles fer that report Right then, one less member of my crewe who needs to concern themselves with body oder...

Relax, since when do I listen to my father? Besides too busy researching and creating a log book... The Archangel... or The Travels of JC Sterling, Cousin Robbin & Houndogge... OR HOW NOT TO STEER A BOAT!!

Thank ye Brig. You and yours were missed. My dad says I can now retire... snigger

Well thank ye very much William, if I had the cash I would commission ye to do the portrait, but alas...

Well if the museum has plenty of water, although down in VA, drought could pose a problem especially in August. Let's look in to some of the camping showers as Callenish has stated, but just see if the shower itself can be purchased as we can always put the canvas together from cheap drop cloths from Lowes or Home Depot. Then we can even make the shower area fit in more and look less intrusive to the pc camp. Some of the shower bags only cost about five bucks in my neck of the woods... certainly for that price, it would be worth experimenting with one. So all this fuss? Why? Pern needs to keep his long locks clean and flowing in the breeze?

Hmmm the museum staff told us October 26th, not that one day would make that much of a difference.

Thanks Maddogge for posting these

Thanks for the pictures

Aye as a matter of fact, crewe will be there next weekend as well and over the summer for a number of events.

Dutch doesn't even smell bad... Mr. Merriweather smells worse.... but I do think the fellow is worried more about the ladies...

Oi if a shower a day doesn't help Maddogge and I can go four days without one, I fail to see the problem... look at it like an immersion event...

Ah yes, makes sense now