• Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        Trees, heads ¯\(‘-’)/¯ Won’t make much difference with a lead ball burried in your face

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            9 months ago

            Pretty sure the head is the stock and the handle is the barrel.

            /edit: based on the other picture, perhaps not. Either way seems like a pretty poor design really.

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        9 months ago

        Oh, got it. Assumed the whole length was a barrel.

        Shit, with the barrel that short I think the hatchet is the better bet

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    9 months ago

    It looks a bit fancy but it was common for muskets to be used as clubs when they’d been fired and there was no time to reload. I guess bayonets are the modern variant of this idea.

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      9 months ago

      I’m no expert on this corner of history, so take this for what it’s worth, but military issued axe guns, and guns with bayonets existed at the overlapping times.

      If I recall correctly, bayonets were an outgrowth of pike and shot warfare, where eventually the duties of the pike were taken over by the bayonet in infantry use in open field warfare.

      Axe guns were used by cavalry, which makes sense as a short and swingable weapon; axe guns were issued to naval troops as boarding weapons, which makes sensible for the close quarter combat compared to a bayonet on a musket.

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    9 months ago

    I saw a ton of these in Prague castle. Gun-axes, gun-swords, gun-knives. Also a child sized suit of armor.