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>>I was wondering if anyone knew what pistols and >>longarms would be "correct" for the pirate era in the >>Caribbean location? The time span would be 1560-1730. >>I know pirates used a wide variety of pistols and long >>arms. Just wondered what the main ones were. >> >>Dep > >During that period, common guns were matchlock, >snaphaunce, miquelet, wheellock and doglock (with >early non-dog flintlocks just coming into use). I >can't say for sure what was most common among pirates >themselves, but with the possible exception of the >very complex wheellock I think they all would have >seen a fair amount of use. Not to say wheellocks >weren't used, but I'd imagine they'd tend to prefer >simpler mechanisms in a situation like theirs where >guns suffered a lot of abuse and spare parts would >likely be scarce.

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