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  1. Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!rsg1.er.usgs.gov!news.cs.indiana.edu!mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu
  3. From: "Michael Squires" <mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu>
  4. Subject: Re: Primitive FireArms
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.090110.28831@news.cs.indiana.edu>
  6. Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
  7. References: <724389963.F00001@ocitor.fidonet> <7861@monmouth.edu>
  8. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:01:04 -0500
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  11. In article <7861@monmouth.edu> c1741@moncol.monmouth.edu (MICHAEL CARSON) writes:
  12. >
  13. >    I believe that matchlocks preceeded wheellocks.  Somethings tells me
  14. >that cannon preceeded handguns, also.
  15.  
  16. Early 16th century cannon are hard to tell from early 19th century cannon,
  17. if you look at bronze naval weapons.
  18.  
  19. There is also some evidence that the flintlock was invented before 1600.
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  23. Mike Squires (mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu)     812 855 3974 (w) 812 333 6564 (h)
  24. mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu          546 N Park Ridge Rd., Bloomington, IN 47408
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